Quite a lot of stuff Microsoft is using as their reference materials is available online. For example, the Lync Server 2010 Reference Architectural images that are used for example in the HELP files are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=13791 And the Microsoft … Continue reading →

Microsoft is shifting focus on Load Balancing solutions. During TechEd 2010 in Berlin it was announced that Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) is no longer recommended (but still supported) and that the recommendation will be to use a hardware load … Continue reading →

When you are designing a new Lync Server 2010 environment then it’s good to know that Microsoft has tools for this available. There’s a “Lync Server 2010, Planning tool” which will guide you through the configuration and design and will … Continue reading →

I already blogged earlier about the multi tenant hosting possibilities in Exchange 2010 SP1 when using the /hosting switch during installation. This provides a true multi-tenant Exchange 2010 environment but lacks quite an amount of functionality, like Public Folders, the … Continue reading →

Attached the September 2011 Unified Communications Technical Rollup. It contains information regarding Microsoft Exchange, OCS/Lync, Outlook, Forefront and other Microsoft UC related techologies, newsletters, knowledgebase articles, new downloads, webcasts etc.