Lync Online: Guided Walkthrough for Troubleshooting Communication Between Lync Online Users and Their Federated Contacts - NextHop - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Are you looking for help to set up communication between Lync online users and their federated contacts? This guided walkthrough—based on analysis of Microsoft Support cases—walks you through the essential steps.

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Yammer, SharePoint and SkyDrive

got this from my Redmond Report Newsletter.

Microsoft today said its $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer has resulted in record growth for the cloud-based provider of enterprise social networking. At the same time, Yammer's key rival NewsGator plans to extend the reach of its enterprise social networking platform beyond SharePoint.

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/06/25/microsoft-paying-a-billion-to-buy-yammer.aspx

 

In a vague news release announcing the growth of Yammer, Microsoft disclosed that sales quadrupled last quarter and the total user base grew to seven million. During the quarter, 290 new customers added Yammer including GlaxoSmithKline, SABMiller and TGI Fridays, among others.

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2013/02/20/yammer-quadruples-sales.aspx

 

Since the deal closed last year and Yammer was folded into the Office Division, Microsoft has said little about how it will integrate Yammer into SharePoint. What Microsoft has revealed is that it will integrate Yammer with SkyDrive Pro, the cloud-based storage Microsoft is offering with SharePoint 2013 and Office 365. Yammer will also give SharePoint users the ability to preview and edit SharePoint files from their Yammer news feeds via Office Web Apps.

 

These two features, slated for release this summer, will make it easier for users to find and share information in the Yammer interface. While Microsoft hasn't said how and when it will more tightly integrate Yammer into SharePoint, NewsGator does not see it as a threat. NewsGator has a large installed base of large enterprise customers (many with tens of thousands of employees) and the company will start to become less focused on SharePoint as its primary platform, as reported by Computerworld last week...

 

Continue reading:

http://redmondmag.com/Blogs/The-Schwartz-Report/2013/02/NewsGator-Looks-Beyond-SharePoint.aspx

Two new versions of Wireshark

Two new versions of Wireshark were just released.  Both are security updates:

 

Wireshark 1.8.3:  http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-announce/201210/msg00000.html

Wireshark 1.6.11:  http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-announce/201210/msg00001.html

TMG Services Stopping Unexpectedly - Forefront TMG (ISA Server) Product Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

TMG Services Stopping Unexpectedly - Forefront TMG (ISA Server) Product Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: TMG Services Stopping Unexpectedly

i have seen this issue occuring at one of my TMG installation.
Hopefully this fix helps. Would like to still know the root cause.

Hands-On Labs - BUILD | September 13 - 16, 2011 | Anaheim Convention Center

This is the next big thing: Metro Style Apps in HTML5 and Windows 8 platform .
Hands-On Labs - BUILD September 13 - 16, 2011 Anaheim Convention Center: Hands-On Labs

Is TMG 2010 blocking google.com for a malware threat ?

Refer this thread.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Forefrontedgegeneral/thread/e8eb8300-ecdd-4b23-b6df-f6ac0a67a226

it has to do with the Malware signatures downloaded from MS. This has been fixed as i write this.

Lync Device Advisor

The Lync Device Advisor is ran by Unify Square's UC Adoption Team. Watch video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIb0sRHW5XA&context=C3bec87dADOEgsToPDskIsBvbKVB3gVNJfriBKESj9

More about the Lync Device Advisor:

http://lyncdeviceadvisor.com/about/

Microsoft is celebrating 20 years of Microsoft Certificartion with Free EXAMS offer

Here read more:
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/20yrs20ways.aspx?WT.mc_id=20_MSL_B2L_toLandpage
http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2012/01/31/celebrating-20-years-of-microsoft-certification.aspx

Very useful side to figure out dial tones for countries around the world

A collegue of mine informed me about http://www.3amsystems.com/wireline/tone-search.htm

Very useful site.

Microsoft's Lync Mobility Deployment Guide updated

Microsoft's Lync Mobility Deployment guide was updated to fix the document's errors.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh690016.aspx

MS11-099: Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer: December 13, 2011

this one fixes the issues with EMC in Exchange 2010 not closing (Article 2624899: You cannot close the EMC window on a computer that has Internet Explorer 9 installed)

Lync gets people talking - Unified Communications Group Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Lync gets people talking - Unified Communications Group Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: Lync gets people talking

Coming Soon: PST Capture Tool - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

This is truly a valuable tool. I already have clients who have to manage .pst all over the network in PCs belonging to users.

SANS: 20 Critical Security Controls

SANS: 20 Critical Security Controls: "20 Critical Security Controls"

Microsoft TMG needs a restart after installing Root Chain certificate

After installing a root certificate from Entrust and the Root Chain on Microsoft TMG, i was still getting the "CA Untrusted" error when connection over Outlook Web App frome the internet. Talking to the Entrust support folks, said they required a restart especially if a Root Chain cert is installed.

A restart of the TMG and all started working with Outlook Web App.

UC experience: Cisco vs Microsoft « IT based Communications

UC experience: Cisco vs Microsoft « IT based Communications: "UC experience: Cisco vs Microsoft"

Remember: An UC business case is all about end-user experience and productivity. CUCIlync should be carefully evaluated like any other scenario, but in this particular case if something goes wrong you might get a bad impression about the whole solution (ex: a customer might get the ideia that the “lync videocall” is failing).

The real disadvantage is see here is the idea that VPN is required from Cisco perspective for remote connectivity where else a Lync client on remote just need an internet connection to establish connection with the Lync environment using TLS.

Lync Network Monitor Parsers

Colleague of mine found this on the MS download site and i find it truly useful.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=22440

Download details: Microsoft Lync 2010 Training Download Package

This zipped file contains all of the available training and user education resources for Microsoft Lync 2010. The included Lync Training Plans workbook helps you choose the resources that will work best for your users.

Download details: Microsoft Lync 2010 Training Download Package: "Microsoft Lync 2010 Training Download Package"

Announcing Enhanced Hardware Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010 - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

Announcing Enhanced Hardware Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010 - Exchange Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs: "Announcing Enhanced Hardware Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010"

: Producer for PowerPoint

Use Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides, and images, then preview and publish a rich media presentation virtually anywhere for viewing in a Web browser.