Kurt Shintaku's Blog

If you need guidance on setting up Lync 2013 or Exchange 2013, my co-worker, Microsoft Consultant & MTC Architect Dean Suzuki, has been blogging the build out of a complete Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 deployment on his blog.

Also as he gets customer questions, he’s been answering them and writing the response to the blog. Please send my any recurring Lync and/or Exchange questions/issues that you have to the comments on his blog.

Here are some of the articles that he’s written on Lync 2013 alone:

• Configuring TMG for accessing Office 365 Lync
• Lync 2013 on a Mac
• Finding Latest Versions of Lync and Exchange hotfixes
• Building a Lync 2013 Lab (Step 1 – Installing SQL Backend)
• Building a Lync 2013 Lab (Step 2 – Installing Lync 2013 Enterprise Edition Front End)
• Lync Skill Based Search and Basic Troubleshooting
• Building A Lync 2013 Standard Edition Server
• Building an Office Web Apps Server
• Lync 2013 Best Practices Analyzer
• Lync 2013 Logging Tool
• Integrating Lync 2013 and Exchange 2013 (Part 1)
• Integrating Lync 2013 with Exchange 2013 Unified Messaging (Part 2)
• Integrating Lync 2013 with Exchange 2013 Outlook Web App (OWA) (Part 3)
• Integrating Polycom Endpoints with Lync
• Lync 2013 Monitoring
• Building a Lync 2013 Persistent Chat Server
• Basic Persistent Chat Administration
• Adding a Second Lync Front End Server to a Pool (Step 3)
• Lync 2013 Site Resiliency (Step 4)
• Building a Lync Edge Infrastructure

Check out his blog here:

• BLOG: Dean Suzuki’s Blog Site
  http://deansuzuki.net