I was at a client setting up a brand-spanking new Lync 2013 deployment on Windows 2012.  I was setting up two pools in two datacenters. The...

Since the move to use authentication in the Lync Dialing Rule Optimizer, I've been busy working behind the scenes to prepare the back-en...

Location-based routing is a relatively new addition to Lync 2013.  It wasn't part of the initial release, but the first cumulative updat...

Ever since its inception, the Lync Dialing Rule Optimizer has been totally free for use by anyone. I've always just assumed that people...

Introduction A few long-asked for features in the Lync Dialing Rule Optimizer are the ability to modify the rule naming convention used f...

A question came up on the Lync Technet forums about how to make Lync 2013 take an inbound PSTN call to a specific Lync number and turn aroun...

Here are some links to posts made this week by other Lync bloggers that you may find interesting: Jeff Schertz on understanding Lync 2013...

So, along with probably a bazillion other people, I installed the July 2013 client update for Lync 2013 (CU2) to see all the new awesomeness...

I haven't come across anything noting this, but beware of installing Office Web App Server 2013 on anything other than the standard C:\P...

No matter how well you discuss it with other stakeholders in advance, how many times you show it in design documents, and how many change re...