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OCS 2007 R2 Hardware and OS requirements
64-bit only As you know, R2 is moving to a 64-bit only platform to achieve greater scalability. 32-bit versions of OCS 2007 R2 will no longer be supported in production. This lines up with Exchange...
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Hardware sizing for Exchange Server 2010
I get asked this quite a bit by my education customers. How can I get a good estimate for sizing my Mailbox Server, Hub Transport, Client Access Server and Storage? The latest and greatest Mailbox...
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What are the preliminary beta CS14 hardware specs?
“Frontend” (FE) Spec •CPU 8 cores (Dual Quad-Core) 2.00 GHz+ •12 gigabytes (GB) RAM •Attached storage (hard disk drive 10,000 rpm+, 72GB+) •Applicable to other roles (Edge, Monitoring/Archiving) •2...
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The official Lync Server 2010 Planning Tool shipped today
A lot of my customers have been asking when this was coming since they wanted to begin planning for their virtualized and physical Lync server deployments. This tool has quite a few improvements over...
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How do I size and stress test my Lync servers?
This is a question I get a lot from my customers. In addition to using the new Lync Server 2010 Planning Tool, we just shipped a few tools to help you with the sizing of your Lync servers whether...
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OCS 2007 R2 Hardware and OS requirements
64-bit only As you know, R2 is moving to a 64-bit only platform to achieve greater scalability. 32-bit versions of OCS 2007 R2 will no longer be supported in production. This lines up with Exchange...
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Hardware sizing for Exchange Server 2010
I get asked this quite a bit by my education customers. How can I get a good estimate for sizing my Mailbox Server, Hub Transport, Client Access Server and Storage? The latest and greatest Mailbox...
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What are the preliminary beta CS14 hardware specs?
“Frontend” (FE) Spec •CPU 8 cores (Dual Quad-Core) 2.00 GHz+ •12 gigabytes (GB) RAM •Attached storage (hard disk drive 10,000 rpm+, 72GB+) •Applicable to other roles (Edge, Monitoring/Archiving) •2...
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The official Lync Server 2010 Planning Tool shipped today
A lot of my customers have been asking when this was coming since they wanted to begin planning for their virtualized and physical Lync server deployments. This tool has quite a few improvements over...
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How do I size and stress test my Lync servers?
This is a question I get a lot from my customers. In addition to using the new Lync Server 2010 Planning Tool, we just shipped a few tools to help you with the sizing of your Lync servers whether...
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UM and hypervisor-based clustering now supported when virtualizing Exchange 2010
Some great news announced by the product team today: The Unified Messaging server role is now supported in a virtualized environment. Combining Exchange 2010 high availability solutions (database...
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Lync for Windows Phone 7.x and new Mango Outlook Mobile features
Updated 5-24-11 with new Mango information At TechEd 2011 this week, we demoed the beta of Lync Mobile for Windows Phone 7.x and Outlook Mobile in the upcoming Windows Phone “Mango” release. The...
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Lync Server 2010 Resource Kit New and Updated Chapters available
Some outstanding Lync Server deep details in the Lync Server 2010 Res Kit with new content updates available this month. I would recommend you download these chapters and become familiar with them if...
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Video Solutions for Lync
Just as we have defined certification and testing for UC with PBXs, SIP providers, e911, and Gateways we are doing the same with Video interoperability. The new website for this is here. The video...
View ArticleNEW-Lync Adoption and Training Kits !!!
Lync Adoption and Training Downloads Microsoft Lync 2010 Adoption and Training Kit The Microsoft Lync 2010 Adoption and Training Kit provides a one-stop shop for resources for IT pros, project...
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Updates to Lync 2010 Resource Kit
Two new chapters have been posted to the Kit. One on Direct SIP and the other on Exchange Unified Messaging integration. Direct Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) provides SIP trunking between an IP-PBX...
View Article8 Lync Tools you can use!!!
8 Lync Tools you can use for free, my favorite tool is the Conversation Translator which is a great usage case scenario for English as a Second language in schools or other business that need to...
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Want some deeper dive video based training on the upcoming Office 365 cloud...
Some excellent Office 365 video jump start training delivered by the products teams covering Lync Online, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office 365: • Office 365 Jump Start (01): Microsoft...
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Update for Communicator for Mac 2011 13.1.2 just released
This fixes some hangs and other issues. Grab it here.
View ArticleTwo UC Amigos moving to a new Cloud blog
In case you haven’t noticed, the posts here have slowed down a bit. This is due to Greg and I have moved to the Office 365 for Education team this year. Bill has two new Amigos that can help...
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