Legacy Phone for Conferencing

Another scenario that can be attractive to organizations not looking to fully implement Enterprise Voice features or replace existing handsets is to leverage the conferencing features of Lync Server with their existing investments. This allows an organization to migrate away from a legacy or hosted conferencing system without changing the fundamental way users function. Organizations can save a significant amount of monthly fees for hosted conferencing services just by switching to Lync Server 2013 as the dial-in conferencing solution with existing handsets.

Users in this scenario have full access to the rich conference-scheduling controls within Outlook and Lync, but instead of using a Lync endpoint to participate ...

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