It turns out that most of the Google hits out there were for previous versions of Microsoft Messenger for the Mac whereas I use Office 2011. This weekend I did a bit of research to see what I could do. Indeed the opposite is usually the norm: I only start the VM when I need to use those couple of apps I only have in their Windows versions. Unfortunately, I don’t as a matter of course start up the VM in the morning and have it running constantly. Last week while I was in the offices in Glendale we set up the Lync Communicator program in my VM and very nice it was too. So I have a virtual machine set up and use VMWare Fusion to serve it up. I haven’t abandoned Windows completely of course: I still need a way to use Visual Studio for a start, and Windows Live Writer is still the best way to publish blog posts.
#LYNC FOR MAC 2011 LOGIN PRO#
Including this 13” MacBook Pro I now use for my day-to-day work. It’s all fine and good if you have Windows PCs across the company, but we have - shock, horror - a few Macs.
Over the past couple of weeks or so, we’ve been evaluating Microsoft Lync 2010 (previously known as Office Communications Server or some such). With staff all over the world, sometimes it’s hard to keep in touch. We at DevExpress are trying to find a better way to communicate. Unless you fall into the small section of the population who fit under that SEO-friendly title I wouldn’t bother continuing to read. If this saves someone some time, it’ll all be to the good you wouldn’t believe how much time I wasted this morning on getting it to work.
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