The 6th 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, Serkan Varoglu, Michael Van Horenbeeck and Mahmoud Magdy.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

• Lync day added to MEC
• Mac Lync 2011 Update
• New Microsoft Logo
• Lync Synthetic Tests
• Exchange Update Rollups
• Exchange DR Design
• Exchange 2013 Migration Requirements
• Exchange 2010 Data Protection & Compliance
• Microsoft MVP Program

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

The 5th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Exchange and Lync Server.

This episode is hosted by Steve Goodman, who’s joined by Johan Veldhuis, Justin Morris, Ståle Hansen and me.

Topics discussed in this episode are Outlook.com versus Exchange Online, DirSync Filtering, Multi-Site Active/Active DAGs, EWS publishing, (Future of) TMG, and Logging in Lync 2013.

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

The 4rd episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Exchange and Lync Server.

This monster 2 hour episode is split in a Lync and an Exchange part. The episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who’s joined by Johan Veldhuis and Tom Arbuthnot for Lync and Dave Stork, Michael Van Horenbeeck, Johan Veldhuis, Serkan Varoglu, John Cook, Mahmoud Magdy and yours truly for Exchange. Special guests for Lync are Elan Shudnow and Kevin Peters.

Besides discussing top stories, this episode focuses largely on the recently released Exchange 2013 Preview and Lync 2013 Preview.

Exchange topics discussed in this episode are Licensing update for Multi-Mailbox Search, ActiveSync device issue, Outlook 2013 issue, No more MAPI/RPC, Reduction in Server Roles, Exchange Admin Center/EAC and Cmdlet Extension Agents.

Some of the Lync topics discussed are multiparty & HD video, VDI Support with Voice and Video, Less server roles, Director role, Co-location of Archiving and Monitoring, Persistent Chat, Skype Federation. Unified Contact Store, Logitech BCC950 and the Kuando BusyLight.

You can get the Exchange part of the podcast here and the Lync part here. You can subscribe using iTunes here or Zune here.

The 3rd episode of The UC Architects is here. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Exchange and Lync Server.

This episode is hosted by Steve Goodman, who’s joined by Mahmound Magdy, Tom Arbuthnot, Justin Morris and Ståle Hansen.

Topics discussed in this episode are:

• Live@EDU/Office365;
• Upcoming certificate changes that affect Exchange and Lync;
• Windows 8 and Windows 2012 impact on Unified Communications;
• Questions from Facebook, including merging/migrating two Lync organizations;
• Tools for troubleshooting Lync

You can get the podcast here.

Today, the 2nd episode of The UC Architects saw daylight. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Exchange and Lync Server. This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who’s joined by Tom Arbuthnot, Johan Veldhuis, John A Cook and Andrew Price.

In this episode, discussed are topics like Lync CU6, Lync and wildcard certificates, Exchange Mailbox Corruption and Poison Mailboxes. as well as some tips and upcoming events.

You can get the podcast through here.