Well, it turns out I was right to theorize that Lync was the new name for OCS 2007. But wasn't the new name supposed to be Microsoft MCS? Then Microsoft just got fancy and changed the 'i' to a 'y' in Lync. After reading the description of the downloads last week, I wrote, 'I'll be damned if that doesn't sound exactly like the feature-set of OCS/MCS or whatever the heck the new name will be called.' Certainly the name made sense, since I thought it was a combination of 'link' with a 'c' for communications. When I saw something called Microsoft Lync on Twitter I was intrigued. For example, run: New-CsMeetingConfiguration -Identity site:Redmond -LogoURL '' -HelpURL '' -LegalURL '' -CustomFooterText 'Communications may be monitored or recorded.Last week I wrote an article titled ' Microsoft Lync 2010 - New Product? Or New OCS Name?' based off of a couple new downloads on Microsoft's site I found via Twitter. Run the New-CsMeetingConfiguration or Set-CsMeetingConfiguration cmdlet to create or configure the meeting invitation options. Start the Lync Server Management Shell: Click Start, click All Programs, click Microsoft Lync Server 2013, and then click Lync Server Management Shell. To Customize the Meeting Invitation by using Lync Server Management Shell In the Custom footer text field, type footer text, up to 2 KB. In the Legal text field, type the URL to the legal text or disclaimer that you want to include in meeting invitations. In the Help URL field, type the URL to your organization’s help or support site. In the Logo URL field, type the URL for your organization’s logo image. In the resulting list of services, click the pool you want, and then click OK. In the Select a Service search field, type all or part of the name of the pool service for which you want to define meeting join settings. To create a pool-level policy, click Pool configuration. In the resulting list of sites, click the site you want, and then click OK. In the Select a Site search field, type all or part of the name of the site for which you want to define meeting join settings. To create a site-level policy, click Site configuration. On the Meeting Configuration page, click New, and then do one of the following: In the left navigation bar, click Conferencing and then click Meeting Configuration.

For details about the different methods you can use to start Lync Server Control Panel, see Open Lync Server 2013 administrative tools. Open a browser window, and then enter the Admin URL to open the Lync Server Control Panel. To Customize the Meeting Invitation by using Lync Server Control Panelįrom a user account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group (or has equivalent user rights), or assigned to the CsServerAdministrator or CsAdministrator role, log on to any computer that is in the network in which you deployed Lync Server 2013. You can configure these options by using either Lync Server Control Panel or Lync Server Management Shell. The maximum length of text that can be added is 2 KB. The maximum URL length is 1 KB.Ĭustom footer text Add text that will be rendered as a custom footer in the invitation. If meeting invitations will be sent to people external to your organization, the URL should be publicly available. Legal disclaimer text Add a URL for legal text or a disclaimer that will be displayed in all meeting invitations. Although Lync Server 2013 stores the URL with no size restrictions on the image, for best results, the maximum size of the image should be 30 pixels high by 188 pixels wide.Ī Custom Help or Support Link Add a URL for your organization’s help or support team website. The supported image formats are GIF and JPG. If meeting invitations will be sent to people external to your organization, the image should be located at a publicly available URL. Your organization’s logo Add your organization’s logo to meeting invitations by using the Logo URL option. You can customize meeting invitations sent by the Online Meeting Add-in for Lync 2013 by including the following optional items in the body of the meeting invitation:

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