The "Inside" Perspective on Skype for Business Server 2015/2019, MS Teams, Lync Server, & Unified Communications
I’ve blogged about Skype for Business all this time, and almost never touched on keyboard shortcuts! Shame on me. As with most tech learning, this came up out of necessity. I wanted to learn two things in particular…shortcuts to: Accept
It’s finally here! Microsoft has at last released the new Mac client for Skype for Business. (Okay, it was released on October 26. But I was on vacation.) As soon as I saw the announcement, I grabbed a copy and
I covered training in the past, for Lync Server, a few times. The latest post is: 7 Questions from a Lync Training Session But I haven’t posted about training for Skype for Business use. Until now. I intend this post
A tweet on Tuesday led me to an interesting NoJitter article:Â The Death of Presence – NoJitter It’s a thought-provoking read. The author asks a potent question – “How valuable is Presence, really?” The article talks about a new technology
Sometimes, Lync is annoying. You’re working away, accomplishing something, and then…DING! Incoming IM. DING! They typed again. DING! Oh, meeting request. DING! I’ll be the first to celebrate Lync’s benefits. But now and then, it makes me want to “DING”
Today on the Lync Insider, I’m reviewing a third-party add-on for Lync 2013. This is a client-focused add-on called the “Lync Custom Status” tool, or LCS for short. It was made by Mike Hudson at MikeSel.info. The tool allows a
For today’s post, I browsed through a series of plugins on GitHub. I was struck by the variety of purposes behind the plugins…and what they might hold for the future of Lync Server. But first, let me take a step
Some exciting new releases in the Lync world! We have two training/education resources for Lync Server 2013, released this week. Both are new versions of previous training aids, issued for Lync Server 2010. They’re great for training, mapping out your
I’d almost given up on finding time to blog this week. But fear not, Lync Insider readers, I do have something useful to share with you (quickly) today! At the TechRepublic Data Center blog, John Joyner recently posted this: Evaluating
The other day I came across this article: Microsoft pushes into crowded Unified Communications market – ComputerWorld It says that Lync Server 2013 is pushing into an already-crowded Unified Communications market. And that it doesn’t really stand out from its