Welcome to the NextHop Community!

Welcome to the Microsoft Lync Server coordinated ecosystem of blogs, microblogs, and other key community resources. From this portal, you will find links to targeted blogs, contributor bios, forums, community events, UC Blog Roll, MVP community, and other Microsoft communities—all in one place. We hope you will find this portal convenient and easy to use. Bookmark it and come back often!

NextHop Community Blogs

	The NextHop Blog is a rapid-response channel that provides pertinent, short-format, technical articles between major releases of Lync Server. Articles will help you ramp up, solve specific problems, and learn from experts on the product team and in the field.

	The DrRez Blog is a technical reference hub for deep dive, under-the-hood articles on Lync Server from Microsoft experts, Resource Kit authors, and the UC blogging community. The DrRez blog also hosts Resource Kit chapters and Resource Kit Tools articles.

	Whether you're new to Windows PowerShell, Lync Server, or simply Lync Server's version of PowerShell, the Lync PowerShell Blog is the place to get started.

	The Lync Team Blog brings you articles with an end-user perspective, providing valuable tips and tricks from product team engineers and senior executives that will enable you to get the most out of these collaborative tools.

	The UC Team Blog is a great resource for current issues and events on Microsoft Unified Communications. Posts include, but are not limited to, special events and announcements, communications trends, and executive thoughts.

	The Lync Developer Center features developer documentation, SDKs, code samples, and other resources for developing Lync solutions, including Unified Communications solutions.

Forums

Participate in forums to get up-to-date advice from and share opinions with members of the Lync Server community.

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UC Blog Roll

This comprehensive, actively managed portal is your one-stop source for blog highlights and links to over 100 of the very best Lync Server and Unified Communications blogs.

If a link to your blog belongs on UC Blog Roll, contact us at NextHop@microsoft.com.

NextHop Contributors

On the NextHop Contributors page find information on our cross-blog contributors--a broad spectrum of Lync Server experts, spanning multiple Microsoft teams (Product Development, User Assistance, Customer Support, Consulting Services, Partner Services, and Masters Certified Trainers), as well as our external partner groups (Most Valuable Professionals, Microsoft Partners, and respected bloggers).

MVP Community

The Microsoft Lync Server Most Valuable Professional (MVP) directory contains information on featured MVPs. MVPs make exceptional contributions to technical communities, sharing their passion, knowledge, and know-how. Because MVPs hear the opinions and needs of many others in the technical community, they are well-placed to share highly focused feedback with Microsoft.