Chapter 3. Feature Overview and Benefits of Microsoft Lync Server 2013

In This Chapter

• Presence

• Instant Messaging

• Web Conferencing

• Audio and Video Conferencing

• Dial-In Conferencing

• Enterprise Voice

• Remote Access

• Archiving

• Monitoring

Lync Server is a difficult product to summarize in a single phrase, but it can be considered a secure, flexible, and extensible collaboration platform. From many people’s perspective, it was simply considered Microsoft’s instant messaging (IM) product since its inception. However, Lync Server has transformed into a complete Unified Communications (UC) solution for business that encompasses presence, IM, web conferencing, audio/video (A/V) conferencing, and complete Voice over IP (VoIP) services. ...

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