If you are in the early stages of planning the deployment of the Lync 2010 client in your organization, the following top 10 points provide some basic starting points and references to common questions and issues.
The Lync 2010 Installation is an Executable; not an MSI. Previous versions of the UC client (aka Communicator) were *.msi files. The Lync 2010 client is shipped as an executable. There were some advantages to going the executable route including the ability to better handle the removal of any previous client (e.g. Communicator), better handling or pre-requisites, and the ability to repair the client at a later date if it needs to. There is . . . → Read More: Top 10 Facts when Planning a Lync 2010 Client Deployment