This post describes an update to the Facebook provider for the Outlook Social Connector and the related policy settings that are available for Administrators.

Outlook 2010 includes a feature called the Outlook Social Connector which can show social updates for the people your users email with, directly in Outlook. Earlier this year, the Outlook team made an update to enable continued access to Facebook information as Facebook has moved to a new authentication model called OAuth. While making this change the transport has also been updated to use SSL to better secure the information transmitted between Facebook and Outlook.

Read more at source: Updated Facebook Provider for Outlook Social Connector and Group Policy settings

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Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Autodiscover Service–not to be confused with Exchange Autodiscover Service–is a new Lync Server service introduced in the Lync Mobility feature update that was released in Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2010: November 2011

Read more at source: Lync Server 2010 - Mobility Deep Dive – Autodiscover Service

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It was released a several videos about Lync Server covering a lot of topics do deploy and manage the product. Check the videos released:

Deploying Lync Jump Start (01): Features and Architecture of Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (02a): Deploying Microsoft Lync Server 2010 | Part 1

Deploying Lync Jump Start (02b): Deploying Microsoft Lync Server 2010 | Part 2

Deploying Lync Jump Start (03): Configuring Users and Rights for Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (04a): External User Access Microsoft Lync Server 2010 | Part 1

Deploying Lync Jump Start (04b): External User Access Microsoft Lync Server 2010 | Part 2

Deploying Lync Jump Start (05a): Configuring Basic Enterprise Voice Functionality Microsoft Lync Server 2010 | Part 1

Deploying Lync Jump Start (05b): Configuring Basic Enterprise Voice Functionality Microsoft Lync Server 2010 | Part 2

Deploying Lync Jump Start (6a): Extending Enterprise Voice Functionality Microsoft Lync Server 2010 | Part 1

Deploying Lync Jump Start (6b): Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1/Unified Messaging Integration | Part 2

Deploying Lync Jump Start (7a): Implementing Response Groups in Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (7b): Real-world IVR Scenarios with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (8): Conferencing with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (9): Monitoring Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (10): Compliance and Archiving with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (11): High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (12): Call Admission Control with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Deploying Lync Jump Start (13): Deploying & Configuring Enhanced 9-1-1 with Microsoft Lync Server 2010

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If you still have OCS 2007 R2 around in your environment and also Lync Mobile clients deployed. This new release will help to address some known issues, as follows:

There is a new update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The April update resolves an issue when Microsoft push notification messages are not delivered to Lync mobile clients, along with multiple previously documented issues. See Description of the update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2: April 2012 for a complete description.

Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/archive/2012/04...2.aspx

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Exchange Team released a new Rollup Update, as follows:

• Rollup Update for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2: Released- Update Rollup 2 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2
• Rollup Update for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3: Released- Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 3

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Schedule View is a horizontal layout for the Outlook calendar that shows you many calendars at the same time. If you and your co-workers share calendars, this feature makes it much easier to schedule meetings with each other.

Read more at source: Schedule View in Outlook 2010

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We’ve made several bug fixes based on community feedback.

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version!

A blog post explaining the calculator is here and or you can download the calculator directly.

Read more at source: Released- v18.9 of the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator

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This session covers everything you need to know about how Microsoft Lync works with the Enterprise Network. Learn all about new features like Call Admission Control and how the Lync media stack interacts with policy across the wide area network, improvements in Quality of Service tagging with DSCP and VLAN support, how partners are bringing optimized network solutions to market for Lync, and understanding bandwidth planning and requirements for enterprise deployments.

Watch the video at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/edge/Hh921998(M...uery=1

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In this session you will see how easy it is to use the power of PowerShell to create scripts and manage your Exchange environment, if it’s an on premises deployment, or an Exchange Online deployment.

Watch it at: Using the Power of PowerShell to Manage Your Exchange On Premises and Exchange Online Environmen

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Do you use SCOM 2007 or SCOM 2007 R2 to monitor your environment? Are you planning to upgrade to SCOM 2012? if yes this tool will help you size your future solution.

Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/04...l.aspx

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