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What better way to start off 2012 than with the exciting announcement of the immediate general availability* of the Lync Voice Call Analyzer (Community Edition) tool!

Over the Christmas 2011 and right past the New Year 2012 period, I have been extremely busy working on the final touches of Lync VCA (CE) besides intensive testing Lync for Mobile / CU4 . This project was undertaken in my spare private time with a real personal need to determine how much (air) audio/voice minutes I have spent communicating via Lync 2010 at any given period of time and with whom.

I hope you find it to be a useful tool that you will keep using on a regular basis as well, much like generating your own ad-hoc statements for your handy, mobile or cell phone usage.

Detail information about Lync VCA from setup, download to step by step guide can be found here. Feedback, comments and suggestions are most welcome!

* GA / RTM

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News flash! The all new graphical version of Lync Voice Call Analyzer (Community Edition) is almost ready to roll off the production floor. Incorporating several of your feedback and by popular demand*, a number of new and improved features have been introduced e.g. CDR reporting. Best of all, it “just-works” where even a regular end-user will feel right at home with the intuitive interface.

You are invited to participate and test out the Windows GUI version of the beta preview. It takes only a couple of minutes and you are ready to (rock-and) roll. This is scheduled to run for the next fortnight or so. Just sign-in and post your request to this blog with your details today!

* based on the initial command-line interface (CLI) /console version

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Update (2 Dec 2011) - See related blog post for the Windows graphical version Beta Preview.
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Have you ever wondered how much (Lync voice) time you actually used or logged today, this week or last month? Questions like … did I make more Lync calls or chalk up excessive voice minutes in international, long-distance PSTN phone calls? How much time did I spend talking to someone (or so-and-so) over a period of time? What is the average number of participants in the Lync conversations or telephone conference calls that I take part in? Where can I find a useful tool to generate an executive report to capture such information in an easy to use data file format to help justify Return of Investment (ROI)? … may constantly pop up from end-users and management alike.

If you ever asked one or more questions/requirements along similar lines as described above, then Lync Voice Call Analyzer (Community Edition), a C# .NET client-side application that I developed during my own personal spare time, may just be the answer for you!

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