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I have a UX1000 SBA made by Sonus in the Edinburgh Microsoft Technology Centre. I’ve long been a fan of gateway’s and more over SBC’s in a Lync topology, they aren’t needed but add that extra layer of redundancy and isolation into a voice deployment. Therefore I was interested to read that Sonus have collaborated to put together the resource below.

CIO PLAYBOOK: MAXIMIZING ROI FOR LYNC ENTERPRISE VOICE

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CIO Magazine and Sonus developed a playbook to navigate through the decision points of updating enterprise communications infrastructure to its optimal level. Learn how Session Border Controllers (SBCs) and Lync Enterprise Voice can reduce capital and operational expenditures while improving network availability.

Download a complimentary copy of this informative resource today.

 

Also in the news,

SONUS NAMED IN 2013 INFORMATION WEEK 500 LIST OF TOP TECHNOLOGY INNOVATORS

Sonus received the award in recognition of its 2013 companywide UC deployment, featuring Lync with Enterprise Voice and SBCs. Since implementing the solution in early 2013, Sonus has enhanced collaboration across its worldwide operations. Sonus has realized significant cost savings as a result of network consolidation and internally hosting audio/videoconferencing applications, even as conferencing minutes within the company increased. This is Sonus’ second consecutive appearance on the list. View the press release.

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The sizing information for Exchange 2013 was released much earlier this year, but as I have just been asked for it I thought that I might as well copy the guidance into a blog for future re-use!

– Use Exchange 2013 pre-requisites to determine what software is required for an Exchange 2013 on-prem implementation

– Consider co-locating CAS and MBX – CAS is now a very light stateless proxy with almost all load on the mbx server. See blog posts below

-  If you want to size properly I suggest a read of this blog and then use the calculator from here

 

Of course if you choose Exchange Online you don’t need to worry about any of the above – Microsoft do that for you!!

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The idea behind this post is that it’s a ‘sticky’ post that I’ll continually update with URLs to Microsoft documentation, articles and code related to Lync, and also some third-party sites where I (personally) think they are useful. This isn’t a list of blogs, and I would visit Dr Rez’s blog roll for such a list.

 

MICROSOFT Resources

Documentation

Mobility Service and Mobile Device Specific

Tools & Resources

TCO & Reports

Cumulative Updates for Lync

CU3 is the July 2011 update release

CU3 for Lync Server 2010 KB Article

CU3 for Lync 2010 KB Article

CU3 for Lync Server 2010 Group Chat

CU3 for Devices

Description of the CU3 for Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Aastra 6721ip and Aastra 6725ip: July 2011

Description of the CU3 for Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Polycom CX700 and LG-Nortel IP Phone 8540: July 2011

Description of the cumulative update for Lync 2010 Phone Edition for Polycom CX500, Polycom CX600, and Polycom CX3000: July 2011

See HERE and HERE for Cumulative Update 4 (CU4)

 

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I think that this document has been eagerly awaited and the document providing

“Lync Security Guide provides guidelines for assessing and managing security risks to your Lync Server 2010 deployment.”

 

Download now from Microsoft.com Downloads Centre

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