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Unified communications: Lync as your desk phone

Unified communications: Lync as your desk phone. Fernando Moreno Pascual – IT/OIS. Overview. What is Lync? Main collaboration tools: Availability Searching for CERN people Instant messaging Sharing information Lync as your desk phone benefits: Easier way of making calls

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Unified communications: Lync as your desk phone

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  1. Unified communications:Lync as your desk phone Fernando Moreno Pascual – IT/OIS

  2. Overview • What is Lync? • Main collaboration tools: • Availability • Searching for CERN people • Instant messaging • Sharing information • Lync as your desk phone benefits: • Easier way of making calls • Forwarding calls feature • Voice mailbox & Missed-calls • Connection from outside CERN • How to start using Lync as your desk phone? (2 steps) 1

  3. What is Lync? • Without using Lync: • Using Lync (available in CMF): • Availability • Instant Messaging • Share documents • Immediate call • … are supported!! 2

  4. Main collaboration tools:Availability Lync knows about the appointments that you have in your calendar and sets automatically your status accordingly. Examples: - You are on holidays, Lync will set “Out of office”. - You have a meeting, Lync will set “In a meeting”. - You have an appointment, Lync will set “Busy”. 3

  5. Main collaboration tools:Searching for CERN people • I need to call Telma Mantas… • With Lync we have direct access to: • Numbers of CERN phonebook. • Our contacts in Outlook. • As you see, calling a person is quite easy: type • the name and clicking one button. 4

  6. Main collaboration tools:Instant messaging • How to start a conversation with one person Double click • How to start a conversation with a group 5

  7. Main collaboration tools:Sharing information • What about sharing presentations, sending files… • What can we share? • Our desktop. • A program (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer…) • PowerPoint Presentation. • Whiteboard • Create a poll • We can send file/s to our contacts. 6

  8. Lync as your desk phone:Easy way of making calls • Tired of having to search for a number and type it manually? • With Lync you can call your contacts with a single click. • You can search for CERN people and call them in one click. • If you have an external number, just paste it and press “Call”. Really easy… 7

  9. Lync as your desk phone:Forwarding calls feature Setting up call forwarding in 2 clicks: • Other options are: • Forwarding to the voice mail. • To our delegates. • To any CERN number • More details in the demo… 8

  10. Lync as your desk phone:Voice mailbox & missed-calls • Lync is not running, or a person left a message on your voice mailbox: • Voice message forwarded to your inbox. • Missed incoming calls (busy, away, out of office…) • Notifications to your inbox about missed calls. • In the voice mail notification we have: • The information of the caller. • An audio file attached • A preview of the message • In the missed call notification we have: • All the information of the caller. • The time when the call was made. 9

  11. Lync as your desk phone:Demo Demo 10

  12. Connection from outside CERN What if you are away from your office but still want to be connected? Lync offers three useful functionalities: • Take your laptop: • Chat with your contacts using webmail (OWA) https://mmm.cern.ch/owa • Be connected by using your mobile phone. Lync is available for Android, Windows Phone, iPhone and iPad. 11

  13. How to start using Lync as your desk phone? • Detailed information in https://espace.cern.ch/mmmservices-help • Briefly, two simple steps: • EDH request to register. • Subscribe to e-group “lync-subscription” to be updated. Make sure you have your new phone prior to change (available at CERN Store): PLANTRONICS DSP 655 POLYCOM CX 300 12

  14. Summary With Lync, by default: • Availability • Instant messaging • Connect wherever you are with no roaming charges (WIFI) Registered for Lync as your desk phone? Then: • Easy way to make phone calls • Voice mail on your e-mail client • In addition: • Missed call/voice mail notifications • Easy access to call management • In case of problems, contact service-desk@cern.ch Old System 13

  15. Thank you for your attention Questions? 14

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