Out of the Gutter: The Ken Lasko Story, Part 3, Part I

Part 3, Part I - Tech Support Hijinks In the spring of '94, I went to a local job fair to look for a summer job that was different than ...

Out of the Gutter: The Ken Lasko Story, Part 1

I've really gotten a kick out of reading people's IT backstories on their blogs, so I thought I'd add mine in.  This will be muc...

Lync Conference 2014 Content Online

If you weren't able to get to Las Vegas for Lync Conference 2014, you can now see all the content online at Microsoft's Channel 9 p...

Lync Conference 2014 Recap

Just got back from another amazing Lync Conference, this time at Aria in Las Vegas. It was great to see all my Lync buddies from around the ...

LiveID Authentication Coming to the Lync Dialing Rule Optimizer

Ever since its inception, the Lync Dialing Rule Optimizer has been totally free for use by anyone. I've always just assumed that people...

Lync 2013 is Code-Complete

For those who haven't heard through Twitter or other channels, Lync 2013 is code-complete , with a general availability target of first ...

Hardware Load Balancers in Lync

Over the past while, I've come across several Enterprise Edition Lync deployments done by other companies that utilized hardware load ba...

Going to MVP Summit

I got accepted into the Microsoft MVP program for Lync a few weeks ago, and have just booked passage to my very first MVP Summit in Seattle...

Lync and 3rd Party PBX Integration

I've been reading the comments over at VOIPNorm's blog post about Avaya ACE .  There's a lot to wade through there, but it got m...

Lync and Skype: What's Next?

As posted in many places on the net, Microsoft's acquisition of Skype is complete .  There has been a lot of speculation as to what this...

Ken's UC Blog Turns 1!

It was http://androidtabletgadgets.blogspot.com /2010/08/late-to-party.html">a year ago that I first dipped my toe into the blogo...

Dialing Rule Optimizer article on TechNet Blogs

Just noticed that Chris Norman of VOIPNorm fame, has published an article on TechNet Blogs about my Dialing Rule Optimizer .  Does this mea...

Lync Telephony - Corporate Interest is Running High

I'll be the first to admit that I've got a certain level of bias when it comes to Microsoft products. I'm pretty sure they insta...

Who says Microsoft doesn't have a sense of humour?

You know the default silhouette placeholder that Outlook 2010 and Lync 2010 shows you by default when there isn't a user picture?  You w...

Dialing Rule Optimizer and your Email Address

If you've used the Dialing Rule Optimizer to create localized dialing rules for your Audiocodes/Dialogic gateway or OCS/Lync, you may h...

First Impressions - CS14 Release Candidate

I installed the release candidate of CS14 in my "lab" yesterday.  My "lab" is a single Standard Edition server in our pr...

Dial-in Conferencing in Lync - A Foot in the Door

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 was the first version of OCS to offer PSTN (or dial-in) conferencing as part of the base product offeri...