The Microsoft Lync First Look Clinic (FLC) provides an introduction to the new features of Lync. It focuses on new technical considerations of Lync in the Enterprise. This clinic highlights the new features and functionality changes through demonstrations of common Lync scenarios for end users. The clinic is targeted for those who are responsible for evaluating, deploying and managing Enterprise Telephony and Communications or Enterprise Unified Messaging. At the end of the session, the audience will have a better appreciation of the new end user scenarios and technical considerations changes for deploying Lync in the Enterprise.
NOTE: This course was developed on early beta software and therefore steps may be different depending on the version of the software being used for a particular clinic. The features and procedures demonstrated may change in the final release of Lync 2013.
Target Audience:
This course is intended for people who want to learn about new features in Microsoft Lync 2013 that have been added since Microsoft Lync 2010. This course is not comprehensive training on Lync 2013. Students should already have a foundational knowledge and skill of Microsoft Lync 2010.
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course, students must have:
Explain how the Lync software development kit (SDK) facilitates easy integration
Discuss line of business and third-party applications
Understand Lync extensibility from examples of Lync integration used by independent software vendors (ISVs)
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Describe the new features and functionality in Lync
Describe how Lync enables connections across computers, the web, and your personal devices
Explain the new enhancements to voice and video functionality in Lync, including multi-view video and other lifelike video improvements
Explain the new features for meeting collaboration, including the functionality of Office Web App Server and Lync Web App
Describe how to take advantage of Lync technology with mobile devices, web conferencing tools, and hosted services
Explain how you use Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Describe the new changes in Lync in the Brick Model, Monitoring, Lync Storage Service, and VDI
Describe the new topology changes in Lync and how the different topology scenarios apply
Explain the new OS and processor support changes
Describe the new Disaster Recover and High Availability in Lync and the geographic pool disbursement and front-end pooling
Describe the new functionality and advantages of the conferencing features including Web Apps Server and multi-view video
Explain the new features available for the external user and their impact on mobility, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing support, and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
Describe the new Persistent Chat server features and how they consolidate and simplify the user experience.
Describe the additional new conferencing changes and how they impact scheduling, online, joining, management, and audio/visual changes in Lync
Explain how the Lync software development kit (SDK) facilitates easy integration
Discuss line of business and third-party applications
Understand Lync extensibility from examples of Lync integration used by independent software vendors (ISVs)
Module 1: Introduction to the New Microsoft Lync Features and Functionality
This module summarizes what is new in Microsoft Lync, a rich client application that provides Instant Messaging (IM), Presence, Enterprise Voice, collaboration, and meeting capabilities through a single interface. In this module, you will learn about new features and functionality of Lync, including presence, contacts, IM, the Conversation Window, voice and video, and conferencing and collaboration.
Lessons
Communicate and Connect
Video and Voice
Collaboration and Meetings
Availability Across Multiple Devices
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Plug-in
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the new features and functionality in Lync
Describe how Lync enables connections across computers, the web, and your personal devices
Explain the new enhancements to voice and video functionality in Lync, including multi-view video and other lifelike video improvements
Explain the new features for meeting collaboration, including the functionality of Office Web App Server and Lync Web App
Describe how to take advantage of Lync technology with mobile devices, web conferencing tools, and hosted services
Explain how you use Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Module 2: Microsoft Lync 2013 Architecture and Deployment Changes
This module introduces the new architecture and deployment changes in Microsoft Lync. At a glance, it covers the Brick Module, Disaster Recovery, monitoring improvements, Lync Storage Service, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and some of what makes Lync a robust server/client environment.
Lessons
Microsoft Lync At a Glance
Topology Changes
Operating System and Processor Support Changes
New Disaster Recovery and High Availability Features
New Conferencing Features
New Features for External User Access
New Archiving Features
New Persistent Chat Server Features
New Conferencing Changes
Enterprise Voice Changes
Deployment Considerations
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the new changes in Lync in the Brick Model, Monitoring, Lync Storage Service, and VDI
Describe the new topology changes in Lync and how the different topology scenarios apply
Explain the new OS and processor support changes
Describe the new Disaster Recover and High Availability in Lync and the geographic pool disbursement and front-end pooling
Describe the new functionality and advantages of the conferencing features including Web Apps Server and multi-view video
Explain the new features available for the external user and their impact on mobility, Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addressing support, and Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
Describe the new Persistent Chat server features and how they consolidate and simplify the user experience.
Describe the additional new conferencing changes and how they impact scheduling, online, joining, management, and audio/visual changes in Lync
Module 3: Integration and Extensibility in Microsoft Lync
This module discusses the advantages of integrating Lync with other Office and line of business (LOB) applications. It will take a closer look at how Lync makes integration virtually effortless and the advantages to LOB and third party applications when Lync is integrated. In additions, this module will also highlight three examples of independent software vendors (ISVs) who use Lync integration for their enterprise products.
Lessons
Integrate Microsoft Lync into Line of Business Applications
Integrate Microsoft Lync with Office 2013
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain how the Lync software development kit (SDK) facilitates easy integration
Discuss line of business and third-party applications
Understand Lync extensibility from examples of Lync integration used by independent software vendors (ISVs)