| Feature |
Lync Server 2013 Hosting Pack |
| Presence |
|
| 1 to 1 and multi-party IM/Presence |
Yes |
| Contacts list |
Yes |
| Address Book Service Web Query service |
Yes |
| Distribution List Expansion protocol
(DLX) |
Yes |
| Instant Messaging (IM) |
|
| Point-to-point IM |
Yes |
| Multiparty/Group IM |
Yes |
| Persistent Chat |
No |
| PC to PC audio/video dial out calling |
Yes |
| File transfer |
Yes |
| Mobile VoIP to PC audio |
Yes |
| Click to communicate from Office apps |
Yes |
| Interactive contact card in Office 2010
and Office 2013 |
Yes |
| Lync skill search in SharePoint Server
(on-premises) |
Yes |
| Lync skill search in SharePoint Online |
No |
| Privacy mode |
No |
| Client Support |
|
| Lync Client 2010 and Lync Client 2013 |
Yes |
| Web app for joining scheduled meetings |
Yes |
| Rich attendee client (joining meetings) |
Yes |
| Mac attendee client |
Yes |
| CWA (2007 R2) |
No |
| OC 2007 R2 |
No |
| Lync phone edition (Lync-based IP phones) |
No |
| Support expected in a future release |
| Lync Attendant client (receptionist rich client) |
Yes |
| Lync Server 2010 version |
| Communicator Mobile (Windows Phone 6.x) |
No |
| Lync Mobile |
Yes |
| Lync desktop client |
Yes |
| Mac Messenger |
Yes |
| Attendee (meeting only) |
Yes |
| Lync Mobile clients |
Yes |
| (for Android, Windows Phone,
iPhone) |
(If provisioned) |
| Conferencing and Online Meetings |
|
| Meeting attendee capacity |
250 |
| Point-to-point audio/video |
Yes |
| Video conferencing over IP |
Yes |
| Audio conferencing over IP only |
Yes |
| Meeting recording |
Yes |
| Registration |
No |
| Public Events page |
No |
| Customer branding |
No |
| Customer invitations |
No |
| Managed Q&A |
No |
| Virtual breakout rooms |
No |
| Easy Assist |
No |
| Desktop sharing |
Yes |
| Application sharing |
Yes |
| White boarding and annotation |
Yes |
| Office document upload |
No |
| PowerPoint upload |
Yes |
| Polling |
Yes |
| Unauthenticated in Web App (reach) |
Yes |
| Unauthenticated attendee (rich client) |
Yes |
| Scheduled conferences using Outlook
plugin |
Yes |
| Round table support |
Yes |
| Lobby |
Yes |
| Integration with select partners for
PSTN audio conferencing (ACP) |
Yes |
| Provisioning for approved ACP partners
for Office 365 customers |
No |
| Scheduling an online meeting in OWA |
Yes |
| Client side recording and playback |
Yes |
| Cloud side recording and playback |
No |
| Authenticated experience in Web app
(reach) |
No |
| Generate a link to a scheduled meeting
via web page |
Yes |
| PSTN audio conferencing in MCUs |
Yes |
| via audio conferencing provider |
| 1:1 Chat |
Yes |
| Backstage/Content Preview for
Presenters |
Yes |
| Mute / Unmute all attendees |
Yes |
| Mute / Unmute individual attendees |
Yes |
| In-meeting Attendee Permission Controls |
Yes |
| Interoperability with on-premises video conferencing systems |
Yes |
| via 3rd
party |
| Multimedia, JPEG, Text Page, Web Page, |
Yes |
| Screen snapshot (Desktop
Annotation) |
| PSTN dial-out from scheduled meetings |
Yes |
| via audio conferencing provider |
| Ad-hoc audio dial-out conferencing |
Yes |
| VoIP via SIP Trunk |
| “Meet now” audio dial-out conferencing |
Yes |
| via audio conferencing provider |
| Scheduled audio dial-out conferencing |
Yes |
| via audio conferencing provider |
| Sharing |
|
| Point-to-point/multiparty data
conference (white boarding) |
Yes |
| Point-to-point/multiparty file share |
Yes |
| Point-to-point/multiparty desktop and
application sharing |
Yes |
| Point-to-point/multiparty Microsoft
PowerPoint® slide sharing |
Yes |
| Polling |
Yes |
| Integration |
|
| Microsoft Outlook integration for IM,
presence, calendar |
Yes |
| (with users on the same
hosting partner) |
| Microsoft SharePoint® integration for
IM, presence |
Yes |
| (with users on the same
hosting partner) |
| Public IM Connectivity and Federation |
|
| Inter-tenant federation |
Yes |
| Federation with Extensible Messaging
and Presence Protocol (XMPP) |
No |
| IM/P/A/V Federation with Office
Communications Server, |
Yes |
| Lync Server, Lync Online |
| IM/P/A/V with Windows Live Messenger /
Skype |
Yes |
| IM/P and voice with Skype |
Yes |
| Public IM connectivity and presence |
No |
| AOL®, Yahoo!®, Windows Live |
| IBM Sametime federation |
No |
| Calling features |
|
| Public switched telephone network
(PSTN) calling via Lync |
Yes |
| incoming and outgoing |
| Ad-hoc PSTN dial-out for meetings |
No |
| Call controls |
Yes |
| hold, transfer, forward,
simultaneous ring |
| Voice policies |
Yes |
| Access to Exchange Online voice mail |
No |
| Team call |
Yes |
| Delegation (boss-admin) for Voice |
No |
| Call park |
No |
| Outgoing DID manipulation |
No |
| E-911 |
No |
| Dial plans & Policies |
No |
| IP desk phone support |
Yes |
| Resilient Branch Office Appliance |
No |
| Call Admissions Control (CAC) |
No |
| Support for Analog devices (e.g. FAX) |
No |
| Response groups |
Yes |
| via 3rd
party |
| Private Line (secondary DID for execs) |
No |
| Direct connectivity with PBX via
gateways |
Yes |
| Direct SIP for audio with on-premises
IP-PBXs |
Yes |
| Direct SIP for signaling (presence
updates) with on-premises IP-PBX |
Yes |
| RCC (click-to-call) with on-premises
PBX |
No |
| Malicious call trace |
No |
| Unassigned Number |
No |
| Network QoS – DSCP |
No |
| Media path optimization |
No |
| Phone number management |
No |
| CDR & billing reporting |
Yes |
| Integration with call center solutions
(Aspect) |
Yes |
| Team call |
YES |
| Delegation |
Yes |
| Private line (secondary Direct Inward
Dialing (DID)) |
No |
| Call park |
No |
| Outgoing DID manipulation |
No |
| Voice features |
|
| Private dial plans |
No |
| Hosted Exchange Unified Messaging (UM)
for voice mail |
Yes |
| ACP Integration with select carriers |
Yes |
| 'Voice integration with select carriers |
Yes |
| Security and Archiving |
|
| IM & media encryption |
Yes |
| IM filtering |
Yes |
| Anti-malware scanning for meeting
content and file transfers |
Yes |
| IM archiving (server side) |
Yes |
| SharePoint and Exchange Co-existence |
|
| Presence Integration with Exchange/SP
on-premises |
Yes |
| Presence integration with Exchange/SP
online |
Yes |
| On-premise UM integration with Exchange
Online |
No |
| UM integration with Exchange
on-premises |
Yes |
| Hybrid with Lync Online |
|
| Server/cloud co-existence (split
domain) on user basis (some users on-premises, some users online) |
No |
| Splitting workloads (eg. Voice
on-premises, IM&P in the cloud) |
No |
| Administration and Manageability |
|
| Windows PowerShell support |
Yes |
| Lync Server Control Panel UI |
No |
| Feature Configurability Per User |
Yes |
| Attendee/User Reporting |
No |
| Reporting (CDR, QoE) |
Yes |
| Support for 3rd party applications |
|
| Client automation APIs (client side) |
Yes |
| Server side APIs |
Yes |
| Support |
|
| Tenant User support |
No |
| IT Support |
Yes |
