The UC Architects Podcast S01E11


The 11th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who’s joined by Ståle Hansen, Johan Veldhuis, Dave Stork and yours truly. Special guests are Lync MCM Kevin Peters and Lync MVP Matt Landis.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

  • Lync 2010 Cumulative Update 7 (CU7, October 2012);
  • Lync VDI, SBA, SBC;
  • Availability of Wave 15 products for MSDN/TechNet and Volume license customers;
  • Microsoft Surface RT;
  • Building your own Exchange lab;
  • Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 exams.

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The UC Architects Podcast S01E10


The 10th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Steve Goodman, who’s joined by John Cook, Michael Van Horenbeek, Serkan Varoglu, Johan Veldhuis, Ståle Hansen and yours truly.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

  • Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, and Office RTM
  • Microsoft Surface RT
  • Lync Ignite
  • Exchange Ignite
  • iOS 6 Calendaring Issues
  • Exchange 2010 Datacenter Switchover Troubleshooter
  • Exchange 2013 Beta exams
  • Exchange Update Rollups re-released
  • Lync Profile Tool
  • TEC Europe

You can check the podcast including the links mentioned here. To subscribe to the podcast using iTunes check here, Zune here or RSS here.

The UC Architects Podcast S01E09


The 9th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who’s joined by John A. Cook, Justin Morris, Tom Arbuthnot and Dave Stork. Special Guest is Elan Shudnow.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

  • MVP awards
  • MEC roundup
  • Building a Lync lab
  • Max token size
  • Lync & Exchange exams
  • Elan’s Lync scripts
  • Matt Landis’ Tip: Instant Message Using Lync and Windows Speech Recognition

You can download the podcast here or subscribe to updates using iTunes here, Zune here or RSS here.

The UC Architects Podcast S01E08


The 8th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync Server, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Steve Goodman, who’s joined by Pat Richard, Serkan Varoglu, Johan Veldhuis and yours truly.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

  • Dropping of TMG and FPE
  • MEC
  • “Elite” days at MEC
  • Exchange 2013 Site Mailboxes
  • Exchange & Lync 2013 sessions from TechEd New Zealand/Australia
  • Office 365 rules quotas to be increased
  • Pat’s scripts

Note that the podcast was recorded pre-MEC.

You can download the podcast here or subscribe to updates using iTunes here, Zune here or RSS here.

The UC Architects Podcast S01E07


The 7th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync Server, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who’s joined by John Cook, Dave Stork, Michael Van Horenbeeck, Ståle Hansen and Tom Arbuthnot. Special guest is Randy Wintle (Lync).

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

  • Microsoft Lync Conference & MEC Lync content
  • Sonus acquisition of NET
  • Windows Server 2012
  • Nokia Lumia 820 & 920
  • Exchange HA/DR
  • Exchange address book policies
  • Exchange & Lync virtualization
  • Randy’s cool Lync 2013 logging script
  • Gartner results
  • Jabber
  • TechEd New Zealand

You can download the podcast here or subscribe to updates using iTunes here, Zune here or RSS here.