Microsoft released as a pre-configured set of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 VHD's, v1.0
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
[EAT CROW-UC] THE GODS THEY BE CRAZY. MS$ TO ACQUIRE SKYPE FOR $8bn
"...this is really smart UCC play for microsoft. Remember SKYPE + LYNC + CLOUD+ NOKIA+WIN MOBILE 7 = Instant ecosystem and instant million+ user base! Now the hard part begins...execution..." - K. Preddie
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According to the Wall Street Journal and AllThingsD, Microsoft will announce its acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion later this morning morning at 8 am ET.
This will be the biggest acquisition Microsoft has ever made.
It's also one of the craziest -- Microsoft already has products that offer the same functionality, and apart from Skype's brand and some slightly different peer-to-peer technology, Microsoft would be getting almost nothing new out of the deal.
Well, it would be acquiring some customers -- at about $1,000 a pop.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-15-biggest-acquisitions-so-far-2011-5#ixzz1LvgT0Gu0
Thursday, May 5, 2011
TUTORIAL ON LYNC 2010 Part 1 - Design a Site and Create a Topology
Courtesy NEXTHOP
This video helps get you started using the Lync Server Planning Tool to design sites and create your topology.
Check it out. Lync Server Planning Tool: Part 1 - Design a Site and Create a Topology.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2011/05/04/lync-server-planning-tool-part-1-design-a-site-and-create-a-topology.aspx
This video helps get you started using the Lync Server Planning Tool to design sites and create your topology.
Check it out. Lync Server Planning Tool: Part 1 - Design a Site and Create a Topology.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2011/05/04/lync-server-planning-tool-part-1-design-a-site-and-create-a-topology.aspx
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Why the VCE exec believes quality will beat price in the cloud marketplace
File Michael Capellas under the category of Private/Public cloud converts.
.....That 100 per cent probability figure was one that Capellas touched on multiple times throughout his speech, where he called cloud “not a buzzword” but the culmination of seven to ten years of developments that are “impossible to reverse” at this point.
Just like IP networks led the way with price performance, the abundance of x86-based servers, particularly in blade server formats, have changed the way people think of scale when it comes to computing power, Capellas argued. The movement from scale up to scale out is complete, and today, x86 blade servers represent one in five x86-based systems built.
And unsurprisingly, given Capellas’ position across the Cisco/EMC/VMware joint venture, he predicted that “best of breed” will be the dominant model when it comes to building clouds, differentiated from both the larger public cloud plays of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, and the single vendor stacks Capellas said were offered by infrastructure rivals including HP, IBM and Oracle.
“You will see these stacks become more virtual, more vertical and we will deliver those stacks more and more with the ability to go turnkey on those stacks,” he said. “We intend to be the innovator and the pioneer.”
Capellas’ other cloud prognostications include:
Expect to see development cloud projects in the next six months, driving the same kind of momentum around business app that the mobile app stores have driven in the consumer space;
Cloud will drive the converged infrastructure market to $50 billion (U.S.) within three years;
Private cloud will lead, taking up to 80 per cent of the cloud market;
Virtual infrastructure will continue the “flight to quality;” with better quality beating out the cheapest components due to the mission critical nature of the cloud;
Cloud-based applications will drive productivity gains to the tune of 50 per cent or better; Applications built on and around the cloud will lead to a “fundamental shift in application development” unlike anything the market has seen in the last decade; and True cloud standards will emerge.
FULL STORY:
http://www.channelbuzz.ca/2011/03/capellas-to-partners-the-cloud-has-already-won-1346/
.....That 100 per cent probability figure was one that Capellas touched on multiple times throughout his speech, where he called cloud “not a buzzword” but the culmination of seven to ten years of developments that are “impossible to reverse” at this point.
Just like IP networks led the way with price performance, the abundance of x86-based servers, particularly in blade server formats, have changed the way people think of scale when it comes to computing power, Capellas argued. The movement from scale up to scale out is complete, and today, x86 blade servers represent one in five x86-based systems built.
And unsurprisingly, given Capellas’ position across the Cisco/EMC/VMware joint venture, he predicted that “best of breed” will be the dominant model when it comes to building clouds, differentiated from both the larger public cloud plays of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, and the single vendor stacks Capellas said were offered by infrastructure rivals including HP, IBM and Oracle.
“You will see these stacks become more virtual, more vertical and we will deliver those stacks more and more with the ability to go turnkey on those stacks,” he said. “We intend to be the innovator and the pioneer.”
Capellas’ other cloud prognostications include:
Expect to see development cloud projects in the next six months, driving the same kind of momentum around business app that the mobile app stores have driven in the consumer space;
Cloud will drive the converged infrastructure market to $50 billion (U.S.) within three years;
Private cloud will lead, taking up to 80 per cent of the cloud market;
Virtual infrastructure will continue the “flight to quality;” with better quality beating out the cheapest components due to the mission critical nature of the cloud;
Cloud-based applications will drive productivity gains to the tune of 50 per cent or better; Applications built on and around the cloud will lead to a “fundamental shift in application development” unlike anything the market has seen in the last decade; and True cloud standards will emerge.
FULL STORY:
http://www.channelbuzz.ca/2011/03/capellas-to-partners-the-cloud-has-already-won-1346/
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
INSTALLATION OF MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF UCUPDATES.EXE
VIDEO : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EiHnSKoJ1Y
By default an installation of Lync Server does not contain any pre-installed or pre-approved updates, this must be performed manually by an administrator. This is basically the same process as was used in Office Communications Server except that now there are multiple update packages, which on the surface appear to be identical.
Previously the only supported devices that used the Office Communicator Phone Edition client were the Microsoft reference-design “Tanjay” family of devices: the Polycom CX700 and LG-Nortel IP8540. Both phones were identical and used the exact same software so a single installation package was distributed and updated on a regular basis.....
FULL STORY BY JEFF SCHERTZ:
http://blog.schertz.name/2011/01/updating-lync-phone-edition-devices/
By default an installation of Lync Server does not contain any pre-installed or pre-approved updates, this must be performed manually by an administrator. This is basically the same process as was used in Office Communications Server except that now there are multiple update packages, which on the surface appear to be identical.
Previously the only supported devices that used the Office Communicator Phone Edition client were the Microsoft reference-design “Tanjay” family of devices: the Polycom CX700 and LG-Nortel IP8540. Both phones were identical and used the exact same software so a single installation package was distributed and updated on a regular basis.....
FULL STORY BY JEFF SCHERTZ:
http://blog.schertz.name/2011/01/updating-lync-phone-edition-devices/
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