Screenshots of the new OCS 14 (Lync) are released by Microsoft. ZDNet has a nice article about the new OCS version.

More screenshots of the new communicator client can be found here.

When you install the communicator client on a workgroup machine or when Kerberos authentication is not working you probably would like to have the option to save the password in the MOC client.
This option is available if you add the following Read more »

I had a weird issue which occured at the communicator client (R2). The OCS (Office Communication Server) is version 2007 R2.

When I logged in (internal), the client had an exclamation mark. The following 2 errors occured :

Cannot synchronize with the corporate address book. This may be because the proxy server setting in your web browser does not allow access to the address book. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator.

Communicator could not retrieve calendar or Out of Office information from Exchange Web Services. Communicator will automatically  continue to retry. If this problem persists, contact your  system administrator.

When I started troubleshooting the issue I also noticed that Read more »