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Exchange UM: Advanced Customization of User Greetings
Most people know that Exchange 2010 gives you the ability to configure different rules based on caller ID (e.g. when my wife calls, play a certain greeting with different options to reach me). But the...
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I’ll just say it: Lync _is_ a PBX Replacement. And then some.
At the beginning of the year, PointBridge moved to a new office in Chicago. As part of the move, we moved all of our collaboration/communication to Lync 2010. We used to have an OCS R2 <–> Cisco...
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How Did Snowpocalypse Affect Your Productivity?
February 2nd, 2011 was a great day in weather punditry. A lot of the country was blanketed in snow; Chicago was no exception. Businesses and schools closed, people were sent home, weather commentators...
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Exchange 2010 UM and Cisco: What to do about G729?
Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging is a great voicemail solution, especially for anyone with SIP-compliant PBX like Cisco or Avaya. At PointBridge we’ve had good success migrating people off Cisco Unity...
View ArticleSkype + Lync – What a World it Would Be
As most people will have heard, Microsoft officially acquired Skype last week. There are precious few details about what the end-state is going to look like with Lync and Skype integrated; or even...
View ArticleLync Mobile – First Look
Sunday night at about 7pm Chicago time, I downloaded and installed the Lync Mobile client for Windows Phone 7. In a sad reflection on what passes for excitement in my life, I had been checking about a...
View ArticleLync on the Surface RT: It’s a Winner
Overview I’ll start off by mentioning that I’ve been using the Surface as my only computer now for the last 4 weeks. No laptop, no desktop. It’s my work computer, my home computer, my tablet and of...
View ArticleLync Paired Pools – Why it Matters
This is part 2 of a twelve post series. To see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the second day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: two paired pools! Introduction Lync 2010 was a breakout...
View ArticleLync: 5 Ways of Anywhere, Anytime Access
This is part 5 of a twelve post series. To see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the Fifth day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: 5 ways to access Lync! One of the major value propositions...
View ArticleLync Video: Infinite Possibilities
I hear from a lot of people that they don’t want to use video. Even though Lync makes it a snap to use, people have all sorts of arguments as to why they don’t want to use it. But the real cause, I...
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An Inspiring Day with Microsoft at the George Hull Centre
I have never been more proud to be a part of an organization than I have as part of the Perficient team at Microsoft’s 2016 Worldwide Partner Conference. On the first day, we sponsored and participated...
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