{"id":236,"date":"2011-10-20T17:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kiwibees.net\/?p=236"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T05:43:31","slug":"lync-on-premise-lync-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Lync On-Premises vs Lync Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A common question about Lync Online (and the other Office 365 products too, but this post is Lync-centric) is<em> &#8220;how is this different from the on-premises solution?&#8221;<\/em> And there is a comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/community.office365.com\/en-us\/w\/lync\/480.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">feature comparison available at the Office 365 Community site<\/a>, but usually the next question I get is <em>&#8220;yeah yeah, but what does that really mean for me?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a shortlist of the more pertinant features that you <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> get with Lync Online.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PSTN calling (incoming or outgoing)<\/li>\n<li>PBX integration<\/li>\n<li>Advanced call handling (hold, redirection, park)<\/li>\n<li>IP Phone support (USB only)<\/li>\n<li>Analog line support (eg. fax)<\/li>\n<li>Response groups (ie. Direct inbound call to a recipient group)<\/li>\n<li>Persistent group chat<\/li>\n<li>Skill search from SharePoint (either on-premise or online)<\/li>\n<li>Client-side recording<\/li>\n<li>Dial-in conferencing<\/li>\n<li>Interop with on-premise video conferencing systems (eg. Polycom suites)<\/li>\n<li>QoS<\/li>\n<li>Quality of Experience Reporting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This usually leads to a question like, <em>&#8220;ok, so what <strong>do <\/strong>they have in common then?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So for completeness, here&#8217;s some of the more popular things you can do with <strong>both <\/strong>versions of the product.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PC-to-PC audio\/video<\/li>\n<li>Address book search<\/li>\n<li>IMPresence<\/li>\n<li>Office application integration (click-to-chat)<\/li>\n<li>Federation with Lync Online, Lync On-Premise, and OCS On-Premise<\/li>\n<li>Application\/Desktop\/Whiteboard\/Presentation sharing<\/li>\n<li>Online Meetings<\/li>\n<li>Guest attendees (via rich client and web client)<\/li>\n<li>Roundtable support<\/li>\n<li>Meeting lobby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope that&#8217;s helpful. \u00a0Might add SharePoint Online and Exchange Online comparisons too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common question about Lync Online (and the other Office 365 products too, but this post is Lync-centric) is &#8220;how is this different from the on-premises solution?&#8221; And there is a comprehensive feature comparison available at the Office 365 Community site, but usually the next question I get is &#8220;yeah yeah, but what does that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,23,7],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-services","category-lync","category-office-365","tag-lync-online","comment-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingerninja.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}