Combining Lync and Exchange
It’s natural to wonder what benefits you gain from combining Lync and Exchange. Although email is almost universally considered a core requirement for businesses of all sizes, the same cannot yet be said for IM/P, conferencing, and Enterprise Voice services.
What Lync provides
Lync 2013 is a pretty rich communications platform. In fact, about the only communications modality it doesn’t support is email. A fully realized Lync deployment with all major features enabled delivers a variety of communications methods, which Microsoft often calls modalities:
Instant messaging and presence for two or more parties. Microsoft refers to multiparty IM conversations as conferences.
Enterprise Voice services that enable Lync to replace ...
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