It has RTM'd!
The Lync team of writers, both inside and out of the Microsoft, have completed the Lync 2010 Resource Kit. The ResKit (not to be confused with the Resource Kit Tools) breaks the content into multiple chapters which can be downloaded individually or as a single ZIP file; the download page is located here. I was lucky enough to help in the process, editing and reviewing many of the chapters (bolded below) so check out the FREE book downloading it today.
Address_Book_Service
Archiving_and_Monitoring
Client_Administration
Conferencing_and_Collaboration
Direct_SIP
Enhanced_Presence
Enterprise_Voice
Exchange_UM_Integration
Instant_Messaging
Interoperability_with_Asterisk_and_Skype
Interoperability_with_XMPP_Systems_Using_the _XMPP_Gateway
New_Features_Overview
Response_Group_Application
Remote_User_Access
Server_Administration
SharePoint_Integration
Technical_Overview
Troubleshooting_Basics
Troubleshooting_Specific_Workloads
Recently I was working with a client who was moving to a native Lync 2010 Enterprise Voice solution; a very exciting project and one that involved replacing an Avaya phone switch and the desktop phones with Lync and Polycom CX500, CX600, and CX3000 phones. In addition to the new phone hardware, there was a switch upgrade happening at the same time to provide PoE to all of the desks. Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches were purchased and used for the new desktop switching which also supported the LLDP-MEP option for VLAN segregation (rather than the DHCP scope options).
Everything appeared to be going great until the next day. We noticed that in the morning as soon as the user unlocked their workstation or touched the phone it would reboot. Not a great result especially since we were using the Ethernet pass-through switch port on the back of the CX600 phones for the user's computer.
As it turns out, the issue dealt with the power saving modes of the Aries Phones and a PoE/LLDP-MEP compatibility issue. There are three stages of power on the phones, full, idle, and sleep. When the phones were jumping from sleep to full (at workstation unlock or touching a key) they jump an additional 2w. The Cisco switches, because LLDP-MEP was being used, knew the devices were phones and in a prevention action saw the jump as a surge and killed power to the port (thus the reboot).
The solution was simple - disable LLDP-MEP on the Cisco switches globally and add the DHCP options to assign the voice VLAN. Once this was done the phones remained up and all was well.
Thanks to Dave Howe of Microsoft PSS and Jeff Schertz of Polycom for pointing us in the right direction.