Microsoft Lync 2010 Server Released to manufacturing
Microsoft Announced yesterday that Microsoft Lync 2010 server has been released to manufacturing and the
worldwide launch event on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 details are here!
Register Snom m9 with lync server 2010
Although snom m9 is not a certified Lync device (yet?) I thought it would be a good opportunity to try it and share the registration steps.
Snom m9 Firmware upgrade
When I got the snom phones they required a firmware upgrade before they could be used with OCS/Lync so make sure to download the latest snom m9 firmware and load it to your phone, details are here
Configure phone security settings not to validate certificates
Public Beta of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Kown as CS14) is now available!
we are happy to announce that CS14 archived Release Candidate Status. The new Release Microsoft Lync Server 2010 is an important milestone of our Voice and Conferencing Investments of the UCC Stack.”
“With the 2010 release, we will use Lync as the ‘family’ brand and within each of our communications products”:

Public Beta is available for download here
OCS 2007 R2 Clients cannot connect to Lync Server due to authentication Service incompatibility
After migrating to Lync 2010 server some of my client users where not able to log in using OCS 2007 R2 clients due an incompatibility in the Authentication Service version.
I have checked the OCS 2007 R2 client logs, by browsing to %userprofile%\tracing\Communicator-uccapi-0.uccapilog and noticed the following error
010/08/2010|11:51:55.781 E0C:14A8 INFO :: SIP/2.0 401 Unauthorized