Evaluate Microsoft's Unified Communications and Collaboration Solution today [ VHD Test Drive ]

Interested in Unified Comminication ? you can evaluate Microsoft's Unified Communications and Collaboration Solution today!

Microsoft Lync Server 2010 combined with Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Unified Messaging and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 delivers a fresh, intuitive user experience that brings together the different ways people communicate and collaborate in a single user interface. This unified experience facilitates rapid user adoption, while the ability to support a full range of communications from a single platform reduces both capital and operational costs.

Download this fully configured virtual machine set of the latest release to evaluate Microsoft Lync Server 2010, and discover the full power of the Microsoft Business Productivity Platform. This VHD set enables real-time communications and collaboration using presence, instant messaging, enterprise voice and video, conferencing and application sharing, as well as features like Unified Messaging and Skill Search powered by Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SharePoint Server.

System requirements

Supported operating systems: Hyper-V Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
 

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V is required to use this virtual machine. In addition to the system requirements for Windows Server 2008 R2 as described in the release notes, a 64-bit system with hardware-assisted virtualization enabled and data execution prevention (DEP) is required.

It is also recommended to ensure that you have a clean install of x64 edition of Windows Server 2008 R2 to be able to use the Hyper-V technology.

 

Prerequisites, installation steps, OS recommendations, and known issues of Hyper-V can be found here.

 VHDs and evaluation instructions can be found here