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The successor to Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft Lync Server 2010, has been Released To Manufacturing (RTM)! A worldwide launch event with live broadcast is scheduled on Wed 17 Nov 2010.

General Availability (GA) of the product is the next milestone where partners and customers globally will have access to the final bits although no firm date has been communicated yet.

Tune in to the launch and more information here and here.

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Communications Server ‘14′, Microsoft Lync

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Swiss IT Pro User Group monthly event Tue 2 Nov 2010 (Zurich)
Special Interest Group - PowerShell Script Club by PowerShell MVP Marc van Orsouw.

Registration and more information of this free event here.

Swiss IT Pro User Group event Tue 2 Nov 2010 (Geneva)
Special Interest Group - Swiss PASS (SQL Server) User Group Meeting / Presentation by SQL Server MVP Christian Robert, David Barbarin and guest Sébastion Madar.

Registration and more information of this free event here.

Technorati tags: PowerShell, Community/User Groups, Events, SQL Server

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Update (29 Sep 2011)
Update Digest: Lync Server 2010, Lync for Mac 2011 and OCS / MOC 2007 R2 (Aug/Sep 2011) — link

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To be able to join an online Lync “live” meeting session as a corporate user (with authenticated account) or external guest participant (as unauthenticated or anonymous), an attendee can choose to use one of the following conferencing client options:

• Lync 2010 client software
• Communicator for Mac*
• Lync 2010 Attendee (Admin Level Install or User Level Install)
• Microsoft Lync Web App (OCS Reach client)

For the browser-based option, whether on Windows or Macintosh platforms regardless of the Intel/AMD processor architecture (x64 or x86 bit), only 32-bit browsers are supported. This is because at the present moment, the mandatory Silverlight 4 web plug-in is available in 32-bit only (standalone download link).

Similar to the familiar Live Meeting 2007 client, the Lync Web App enables rich meeting-centric experience and collaboration from instant messaging (IM one-to-many chat), desktop and program sharing, phone-based audio, PowerPoint presentation, whiteboard, polling to file distribution. Because it is a free, lightweight version of the full Lync 2010 client, enterprise features such as contact list search, scheduling meetings, individual IM, contact presence or peer-to-peer A/V are not available.

* Apple Macintosh users with accounts home on Lync Server 2010 in the enterprise now have a new dedicated Communicator for Mac client. Communicator for Mac is delivered as part of Office 2011 and available to Microsoft volume licensing customers only. Messenger 5, 6 and 7 for Mac is required to connect to Office Communications Server / R2 or Windows Live in cloud computing.

References:
- Lync Web App Features (link)
- Lync 2010 Attendee Help and How-To (link)
- Lync 2010 Compatibility (link)
- Lync Client Comparison Tables (link)
- Lync Client Software Support (link)
- Deploying Lync 2010 and the Online Meeting Add-in for Lync 2010 (link)

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Communications Server ‘14′, Microsoft Lync

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