By the way, this was purchased by MSFT after Lync 2010 was released (originally a 3rd party product). It is built-in to Lync 2013 (called Persistent Chat there).
It comes in VERY handy. Although for "true" enterprise social media, you should take a look at Microsoft's release of Yammer, and how it integrates with Exchange and Lync. (Or NewsGator, if you want to consider non-Microsoft solutions.) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 7:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync Well, holy moly - look at that! Something that isn't in my Lync Server 2010 Unleashed book - why am I not surprised? Thanks very much - I'll definitely have a look at it.. Kurt On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh.... Lync Group Chat? > > http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12480 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff > Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 7:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Perhaps something to supplement Lync > > We've got Lync 2010 Standard installed and running internally with IM and > video conferencing. At some point we'll start to federate, but an engineering > manager wants more, because we've got staff in Redmond and Brisbane, and are > working with a firm in Toronto. > > Here's what he thinks he's looking for > > We communicate with [outside firm] in Cananda, devs upstairs and > marketing in the work cells downstairs, with individuals in Australia, > and need to be able to create permanent chat room (or their equivalent) > with joinable membership. These rooms need to enable synchronous > and asynchronous capabilities so those coming later can see the > thread of what has been said and add to it. Think of it as a Jabber > server. Lync does 1-1, not sure if it does many to many, and if it does > whether the participants have to be re-added for each interaction (not > good). This is a key collaboration tool that is needed. Right now we > rely on email and it is clunky: we have to remember to add or remove > people etc. Also, Jabber allows for private conversation within the chat > room. This will also help those who are sick and can't come in to > interact with the rest of the team. > > While Lync does do some of this, it doesn't seem to fit the rest of his > requirements, and I'm not sure what would. > > Does anyone have recommendations for what he wants? Bonus points if it > integrates with Lync, of course. > > Kurt > >
