Category Archives: Clients

Microsoft Lync Connectivity Analyzer

Microsoft has launched a new tool yesterday. This tool will help you to test both your internal and external network for the Lync Apps which are available via both the Windows Store and several other stores for mobile devices such … Continue reading

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Wildcard certificates and Lync Phone devices

One of the fixes which is included in CU6 for Phone devices is the support for wildcard certificates. Caution this is only for the support for Exchange and not for Lync. For Lync the following rules still apply. When a … Continue reading

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Microsoft releases update for Lync client

 Microsoft released another update at the end of February for Lync 2010. With this update Microsoft reintroduces Remote Call Control (RCC). This was announced earlier by Microsoft but till now it was not available. Using the RCC functionality users will … Continue reading

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Lync Mobile can’t sign in

Lync Mobile is available a while for Windows Phone 7, Android and IOS, On the internet several tutorials can be found how to make this features available. One of the best tutorials is the one from Lync MVP Jeff Schertz. … Continue reading

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Lync contact card is not updated

In the Lync client each contact has a so called contact card. On this contact card several contact methods are displayed: via e-mail via a business telephone number via a mobile number This are just a few examples of information which is displayed … Continue reading

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Lync May updates

In May Microsoft released software updates as wel as documentation updates for Lync. Compared to the software updates from April the amount of updates is not very much. The only software update released applies to the Lync client. In this … Continue reading

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Communicator 2011 – no phone icon

Microsoft has created a separate Lync client for Mac users. Before Lync users needed to connect to the OCS environment by using the default Messenger for Mac client which was limited in functionality. Microsoft expanded the available functionalities of Communicator 2011: … Continue reading

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Lync Presence status

Within Lync you are standard be able to set your Presence status. You can see the available list below the figure: But that is not all, as addition you can set several statuses such as a custom presence as appear … Continue reading

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How to reset your Lync phone

Several new phones from both Polycom and Aastra are available to use with Lync. Sometimes you will need to reset the phone to, for example, factory defaults or just a hard reset. But what’s the difference between the resets: hard … Continue reading

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Updating Lync clients

There are several clients provided by Microsoft to connect to your Lync environment. But how can you update all those clients? In this blog we will have a closer look at this process. Which clients To use all new functionality … Continue reading

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