> When I posted the question I had already spent about two hours reading and > not finding what I needed
When you posted the question? Your original post didn't have a question in it. Perhaps a few links to the various contradictory pieces of information you read would have allowed someone to comment and clear things up for you. Since you decided to respond to my email, I'll make the point that I asked a question. In your response, there's no answer to that question. The deployment (sorry, planning) guide that's linked is a whole 5 pages long, but I think it addresses your issue. I read it before posting, to validate that it answers your questions. I wish I could get those 5 minutes back. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014 1:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Lync Group Chat When I posted the question I had already spent about two hours reading and not finding what I needed. Within about 30 minutes of posting here and else where I found it is a separate client and separate app. I was hoping someone who knows Lync would offer to help; it's not that my time is more valuable but that i was getting nowhere on my own. And it turned out my questions were simple - for someone who knows Lync. I recall when I first started messing with Linux in the mid-90's: asking questions in Linux groups required two paragraphs of everything I had done to resolve my question on my own and even then some pompous Linux expert would chastise me for not doing enough. I remarked on the difference between the Linux community and the Windows community in a Windows group. As I recall it was an early incarnation of this very list. At one time my work address ended in Microsoft.com. I never, not once, dragged someone over the coals in public for not meeting my bar of expected knowledge and troubleshooting regimen. Silly me for thinking others would hold that same degree of wanting to help on a peer-to-peer list that was set up for the express purpose of helping others. It's not liked I demanded someone design a Lync infrastructure from the ground up while I go play golf. Trust me; after I posted I continued trying to answer my questions. The VP breathing down my neck called me four times this morning before lunch and he was making Steven's diatribe look like a lover's spat. Who here has never been in that position? One can assume a poster is too stupid or too lazy to do the legwork, which is what Steven did, or one can assume the person is using the list as one of several resources. At least one person has said he is scared to post his question on the issue he's facing. So before you respond stop and ask yourself what kind of list this is supposed to be and what you're doing to further that. One more,word and I'm done: Steven's response was Ill-mannered, unprofessional and uncouth. It solved nothing, engendered hurt feelings, derailed the list from it's purpose and reflected far more about him than me. I pity his employees; he obviously is the kind of manager who likes to show superiority by berating others in public. Issue closed as far as I'm concerned. > On Oct 13, 2014, at 18:23, "Ken Schaefer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you read the Group Chat deployment guide? > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398381(v=ocs.14).aspx > > Like Steven, I get the impression that you feel "your time is more valuable > than ours". That might not be the case, but it's the way it comes across in > your posts. > > Help us help you. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault > Sent: Tuesday, 14 October 2014 3:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Lync Group Chat > > Downloaded and installed on my machine. Logged-in and connected successfully. > Try to create a chat room and get "Your connection to the chat room server > was lost." Googling THAT gets me more webpages with instructions that aren't > making sense because I have not one clue about Lync; they may as well be in > Greek. > > ________________________________ >> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:30:45 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Lync Group Chat >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> Group chat in Lync 2010 is a separate DL, and requires a separate client. >> >> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2651 >> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12480 >> >> >> - WJR >> 🙈🙉🙊 >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Daniel Chenault >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Apologies for off-topic but I'm guessing there may be one or two Lync >> folks here. We're on Lync 2010. I've never touched Lync before and >> the person who set this up is long gone. As the Exchange guy it falls >> in my backyard. >> >> I've been looking for how to enable/setup persistent chat rooms in >> Lync. So far every webpage I hit is either "ZOMG it's great! It's >> wonderful! It does this... <blah blah" which helps not one bit or "in >> the client click Group Chat..." (there is no button in my Lync button >> for such) or "here's a screen shot. Do blah blah..." and the shot >> looks nothing like what I'm seeing. When I log on one of our Lync >> servers I don't see any UI; there's Deployment, Logging and the PS >> shell and that's it. The best info I've been able to find is that >> users have to be given the right to create such a room. >> >> *sigh* >
