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• Zoos enhance efficiency, patron experience with Skype

  Zoos South Australia has enhanced operational efficiency, animal care and customer experience with new video-based collaboration tools.
  

• Microsoft donates $4m of software to World Vision Australia

  World Vision Australia has been given $4 million worth of Microsoft software including Office Professional Plus 2013, SharePoint, Lync and Dynamics customer relationship management (CRM) Online.

• Sydney Water ramps up mobility

  Sydney Water is boosting its mobility credentials with the rollout of Apple iPads and Windows 8 smartphones across most of its workforce.

• Cloud shift boosts CIO’s role

  GPT Group’s move to dump its on-premise hardware and shift it all to the cloud hasn’t threatened CIO Greg Baster’s job — it’s enhanced it.

• MTC Australia phases out desktop phones and PCs as part of cloud first strategy

  Not-for-profit employment/training provider MTC Australia has ditched 500 desktop phones in favour of voice over IP (VoIP) and is now phasing out its aging PC fleet.

• Law Firm CIO Makes the Case for Microsoft Lync

  Law firm Holland & Knight already had a who's who of best-of-breed communications products deployed when the firm's IT team decided it needed to replace the tangled mess of PBX systems that provided voice lines at its many offices. It chose to jettison them all in favor of an infrastructure built on Microsoft Lync Server 2013.

Whitepapers about lync

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  Unified communications, efficient IT: Microsoft Lync enterprise voice solution for 5,000 users with Dell PowerEdge R630

  Design and implement a comprehensive Microsoft Lync solution, including Enterprise Voice, with best practices in mind. The virtualised solution described in this paper accommodates up to 5,000 users and leverages Dell servers, wired/wireless networking and client devices, along with third-party gateways.