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Microsoft Lync Video App for Apple iOS, Android: Interested?

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http://www.thevarguy.com – How can partners profit from Microsoft Lync and Apple iPads? Perhaps Damaka‘s Xavy app can help. The app extends Microsoft Lync collaboration, video and presence capabilities out to Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Google Android tablets and smart phones. Plus, Damaka is now a Microsoft Partner Network member. Here’s why partners should care. Lync has been Microsoft’s fastest-growing business server application. Tablets are everywhere. Savvy partners should connect the dots between those to rends. Opportunity Ahead? That’s where the Xavy client for iPad enters the picture. (IT news)

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While Windows 8 and Office 2013 get all the hype, it’s time for Microsoft partners to focus on Lync — the unified communications platform. Lync was the big winner in Microsoft’s latest earnings results. It’s available on-premises and within the Office 365 cloud. Some hosting providers also offer Lync. And what about Microsoft VARs?

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has extended its 2012 Solutions Incentive Program (SIP) for partners by roughly six months. Current incentives were set to expire June 30, 2012. But the current SIP program has been extended to run through Dec. 31, 2012. Microsoft continues to inspire partners to promote management and virtualization solutions, application platforms, Windows and Lync.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) will tout Skype integration at this week’s Lync Conference 2013 in San Diego, Calif. Lync is Microsoft’s fastest-growing server application, and it also has big implications across the company’s IP PBX, Office 365, Skype and Yammer social enterprise strategies. Skype Division President Tony Bates is scheduled to speak.

We're looking into the new Lync server from Microsoft and I'd like to get to the basics.

One of the vague questions for me is regarding external calls. How does Lync connect you to an external call? Is this done via some kind of connection between the Lync server and a PBX? And, is that the only way you can make use of Lync?

Regards, Jacques

I am a complete beginner concercing Microsoft Lync and PBX systems, so please bear with me.

I have set up a Lync standard server which is running fine. We can chat/audio & video conference on our internal network.

Microsoft apparently is buying Yammer, the corporate social media platform, for $1.2 billion. If true, the move could help Microsoft connect with a new generation of software developers. But Yammer’s focus also raises integration questions involving Microsoft SharePoint, Lync, Skype and more.

BitTitan Inc. has launched UserActivation for Office 365. If it works as advertised, the tool may help channel partners migrate customers to Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) cloud services — including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online and more. The VAR Guy wonders if Windows Small Business Server (SBS) partners will be among the first users to try this new migration tool.

Microsoft just announced that it is bringing its Lync messenger to the Windows Store and the new Windows 8 user interface. In addition, the company also just launched a new version of its free OneNote note-taking app for Windows 8. The Lync app will be available in the Windows Store next week.

Pop quiz for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, Surface Pro and Surface RT initiatives: What is the fastest path to potential success? The VAR Guy’s answer: Instead of attacking the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and iPad markets, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should muster all of its mobile forces against Google Android. Immediately.