Why lync server 2010

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Microsoft Lync. The test were successful and all required tests were passed. With the announcement of Lync previously known in the beta circles as Lync 15 , many are interested in what's new. However in a nutshell, Lync doesn't re-invent the wheel when compared to Lync Lync builds on the features introduced in Lync in a way that makes Lynca compelling upgrade. The following is a rundown of the new main features:. There has been significant role consolidation in Lync because now you no longer have a separate server role for monitoring and archiving.

Directors are now an optional role. The Director role is no longer "recommended" but optional; Microsoft says you can "safely exclude the Director with confidence that the Front End Servers will provide the same services in their place. There is a new server role for Persistent Chat, formerly known as group chat. Persistent Chat will be discussed in more detail to follow. Lync introduced the concept of a backup registrar. When a user's home pool becomes unavailable, the client can automatically register with a pre-defined backup pool.

This maintains basic voice availability, but the client loses conferencing capabilities, and the user's contact list is unavailable. In Lync , users maintain nearly all functionality in the event of a failed pool. Additionally every server maintains multiple copies of the user database, so there is almost no reduction in service availability, "almost" because Response Groups are still not highly available something that was sorely missed in Lync So should a failure occur on a home pool that hosts Response Groups, those response groups will not be available.

Additionally Lync supports SQL mirroring on the back-end databases. This can reduce hardware costs typically associated with the older clustering options in SQL such as separate shared storage. A little more on high availability and resilience will be discussed under Load Balancing to follow.

I admit to being stumped. The other day I received an email from a consultant. They were asked to create a means by. The Polycom CX phone ships with version You can still use this phone with Lync Server and , by installing the latest version of.