Alyson Behr has more than 15 years of experience writing about technology and has been a contributing editor for leading product-testing labs. Want a flexible, enterprise-ready unified messaging ...

Lync 2010 Mobile is a free download, and installs quickly. If you've set up Lync's autodiscovery DNS records correctly you'll log in with your existing Lync username and password (which will be your ...

In reviewing the list of schema additions added by Lync Server 2010 and comparing them to the additions by OCS 2007 R2 it appeared that Lync’s additions were a superset of OCS. I have a few live Lync ...

The Office 365 services and the Office Web Apps aren't the only parts of Office getting regular updates under Microsoft's new 'continuous development' approach: there are new tools coming to Office ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft updated its Lync collaboration software for Windows 8.1, a relatively minor update that still makes one wonder why Lync and Microsoft’s Skype aren’t a single product. Upgrading ...

Tommy Peterson is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology and is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. There are many unified communications ...

Lastly, you no longer have to schedule a Lync Meeting and send an invitation to all the participants in advance. It’s now possible to simply start a conversation with a group of people whenever you ...

The deployment process can make or break your experience with any given technology solution; the tougher ones may even deter you from rolling out a solution. Nearly every admin has scraped through a ...

Those 3,000 needed unified communications, but most of the rest didn’t, leading the organization to install Lync for some but not all. In a company with 90% knowledge workers and 10% information ...