For some unknown reason Microsoft saw fit to make audio in RDP Sessions unidirectional by default. This impacts remote Lync testing. However, there is a way to overcome this limitation, at least when the remote machine is sitting on a Hyper-V host.
First make sure that your RDP client has Local Resources / Remote Audio set to have both Remote audio playback and Remote audio recording as Play/Record from this computer.
On the remote Windows 7/8 computer, open Registry Editor and change the fDisableAudioCapture setting under \\HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\WinStations\RDP-Tcp to 0 (zero).
Now we can fully utilize audio in the remote Lync session,
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