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OCS R2 on TechNet Virtual Conference

Brettjo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:58:58 GMT

So some of you may or not be aware of this but I filmed an OCSR2 Session for the TechNet Virtual Conference.

I have only just had the balls to actually watch the final product myself and I’m pretty chuffed. So if you you want a quick 30min video and demo off the web on OCS R2 then go here:

http://vepexp.microsoft.com/govirtual

OCS R2 Evaluation Time Bomb issue

Brettjo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:03:47 GMT

If you have downloaded OCS R2 Eval you may want to add the following hotfixes that address the premature time bombing issue:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=535637af-d92f-41b1-bf0c-54a526a88247 (MOC 2007 R2 Eval)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=67A3DE72-7DBD-4E0B-92A5-29D0B46009A7&displaylang=en (OCS 2007 R2 Eval)

Updated June OCS MOC and Server Updates

Brettjo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:01:44 GMT

After a heavy time at Le Mans, here are some important updates to be aware of:

972042 Description of the Communicator 2007 R2 hotfix rollup package: June 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;972042

972041 Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2: June, 2009

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;972041

White Paper: Determining the Scalability of Combined Client Access and Hub Transport Server Roles in Exchange 2007

Brettjo — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:55:04 GMT

This has been in the works for a while – something new to read on co-located CAS \ HT roles in Exchange 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd901772.aspx

Office Communications Server 2007 R2: Virtual Labs

Brettjo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:28:52 GMT

There are a whole bunch of Virtual Labs available for OCS R2 – they all allow you to save your work so they don’t time bomb..! ;)

· Deploying and Configuring Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition

· Installing and Configuring Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Communicator Web Access

· Installing and Using Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Server

· Configuring and Using Conferencing in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

· Installing and Using Office Communicator 2007 R2 and the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant

· Configuring Office Communications Server 2007 R2 for Remote Access

· Using the Management and Troubleshooting Tools in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

· Installing and Configuring a Mediation Server and Configuring Response Groups

· Configuring and Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging

Next MMMUG Meetings

Brettjo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:59:54 GMT

Nathan has asked me to publicise the following events:

Irish Windows User Group Event: Introducing Exchange 2010

On June 12th we will be running a session on Exchange 2010, also known as Exchange 14. The speaker, Nathan Winters, is an Exchange MVP, consultant and author with huge experience and a growing international reputation. As you can see from the session agenda, the world of email has evolved into a world of communications and collaboration, introducing many new technologies and offering new ways to access existing technologies with solutions for the major corporates and the small businesses. This will be an interesting session that will explain what's happening now and in the near future.

Live Webcast

We will be using LiveMeeting to share this presentation live to the world! You can sign in here using this code: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=46G74S&role=attend

For more info see the link below:

http://ws-ugi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9507B6AA3D63258!415.entry

MMMUG July 2009

Here are the details of our July 2009 MMMUG meeting.

This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria.

This month we are going to do something slightly different. We are going to take a look at Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. To keep things on an Exchange related note, we will also be looking at PowerShell v2 and the Remote PowerShell functionality in Exchange 2010.

The meeting will be held on Thursday 30th July.

For more info and to sign up see the link below:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/28259.aspx

Bing

Brettjo — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:38:53 GMT

Something to keep an eye on…. www.bing.com

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6380613.ece

UK TechNet Virtual Conference

Brettjo — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:30:25 GMT

In case you haven’t seen this, we’ll be running a Virtual Conference on the 19th June and I’ll be delivering a overview session on Office Communications Server R2

Click on the illustration below to go and register

Other details:

We’re pleased to announce the launch of the very first TechNet Virtual Conference taking place on 19 June 2009.
You told us that time and budget pressures make attending in person events difficult – so to help both you and the environment we decided to take the TechNet Conference virtual. Now you and your colleagues can join us to get a flavour of some key Microsoft technologies from the comfort of your own desks.
The Technology sessions, selected by the readers of the UK TechNet Flash, feature key products including:

•	Windows 7 – Deployment and Management
•	Windows Server 2008 R2 - 10 things to make life easier for IT Pros
•	An overview of Office Communications Server R2 and voice capabilities
•	The trials and tribulations of SharePoint implementation

We are also really pleased to announce an exclusive Keynote featuring Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Technical Fellow specialising in the Windows platform.
And that’s not the only difference this year. In addition to Microsoft technology news and product overviews from the experts, the TechNet Virtual Conference will also feature a second auditorium focused on IT Management, including:

•	How IT will change over the next 10 years and why you should care - an exclusive session delivered at TechEd EMEA
•	Growing the Business and Managing Costs at Microsoft – An Insider’s View, presented by Asif Jinnah, IT Manager, Microsoft UK

MMMUG and Exchange 2010

Brettjo — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:37:30 GMT

Nathan asked me to publish this for him:

As you will no doubt have heard, Exchange 2010 was launched to the public on the 15^th of April. This of course means that there is now a huge amount of new features and functionality to learn. So, to help you get started MMMUG will be running a series of events over the next few months covering many of the key areas.

We start on Wednesday May 27^th with an overview of Exchange 2010. I will introduce things by taking a look at the future of email, Microsoft Style! Then Brett Johnson will dive deeper into a few of the key new areas.

To sign up for the event see the link below:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/forums/thread/28030.aspx

In the mean time, if you want to get started then check out my blog posts on Prerequisites, Installation and Certificates here:

Prereqs:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/blogs/nweb/archive/2009/04/15/27696.aspx

Install:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/blogs/nweb/archive/2009/04/15/27697.aspx

Certificates:

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/blogs/nweb/archive/2009/04/21/27774.aspx

Exchange 2007 PoC in a box

Brettjo — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:59:12 GMT

I came across this earlier which is pretty neat enabling non-Exchange customer to trial and test very easily…. Also include OCS R2 too. :)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4d1e4eca-0a59-4208-83d0-43b812bf0cd9

OCS R2 Communicator Mobile (CoMo)

Brettjo — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:04:05 GMT

Need to download it for your mobile device, whether it be a Windows Mobile or Java compliant..?

This is really easy to remember: http://GetComo.com and will support Nokia S40 and S60 platforms as well as Motorola RAZR v3xx series phones.

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OCS R2 Dev Technical briefing @ TVP for Partners

Brettjo — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:16:13 GMT

Announcing a free “Unified Communication & OCS 2007 R2 Technical Briefing” for Microsoft Partners, 22 May 2009

http://blogs.msdn.com/ukisvdev/archive/2009/04/17/announcing-a-free-unified-communication-ocs-2007-r2-technical-briefing-for-microsoft-partners-22-may-2009.aspx

The UK DPE team are pleased to announce a free one day technical briefing for partners focused on Unified Communications and Office Communications Server 2007 R2, focused on how this technology and platform can be used to build a new generation of communication enabled applications .

The briefings will include the following technologies and topics:

- Introduction to the OCS R2 Platform - Key features and architecture
- Building communication into your Line Of Business applications.
- Reducing communication friction – by building Communicator 2007 functionality into you application.
- Contextual Collaboration – enriching the communication quality by embedding application control into you dialog.
- Business Process Communication – the right decision made by the right person at the right time.
- Anywhere Information Access – access you Business Intelligence Data from anywhere.

The day will consist of lots of demos and lively discussion, with the aim of exploring these technologies at a high level - it’s all about the “art of the possible” rather than detailed code walkthroughs. The sessions audience size will be small to keep the conversation flowing, and these sessions are suitable for Technical Decision Makers, CTOs, Application Architects, Developers, etc.

For more information about this event and its format, please email ukdev@microsoft.com

For more information about Unified Communications and Office Communications Server 2007 R2, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/uc/default.mspx

To register for this event please visit http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=DB-A0-29-C3-DA-70-FF-51-CA-20-D8-16-29-5A-48-0C&Culture=en-GB and enter the Invitation Code 105D0A

OCS R2 Adoption and Training Kit

Brettjo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:22:43 GMT

If you haven’t seen this already this link offer some great resources

The OCS 2007 R2 TAP and RDP customers found this content quite valuable while deploying to their end users.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=eb18d016-64f7-4aae-b491-65636a186c1a#tm

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Exchange 2010 BETA 1

Brettjo — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:30:36 GMT

Hopefully you may have seen the initial announcement of Exchange 2010 from the Exchange Team Blog I have just got from holiday and pleased to see that I can now openly discuss Ex2010 – the first announcement of the Wave 14 family.

Also take a look at the following reviews:

Microsoft Exchange 2010 Beta Looks Solid from Core to Cloud and First look: Exchange 2010 beta shines

As well as the downloads (below) I’d encourage everyone to take a look through the Exchange 2010 dedicated Q&A forum at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/threads

The Exchange 2010 websites are:

Product Documentation:http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/default.aspx
Technical Documentation: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/exchange/2010/default.aspx

All of the product downloads are here:

· Exchange 2010 Beta - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7

· Exchange 2010 Beta UM Language Packs - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3fdf49db-cb84-4dfe-8b8b-b30178b1a514

· Exchange 2010 Beta Language Pack Bundle - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3c0314ab-daa5-457f-8c61-c51182c38187

· EWS Managed API Beta - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a8c9d043-c66c-4971-9459-8d1df1608c8b

How to test external Exchange connectivity

Brettjo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:04:47 GMT

This is the second tool I wanted to comment on… Wonderful tool for troublshooting.

https://www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com

Further details can be found here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/03/25/450908.aspx

The Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a web site for IT Administrators to validate and diagnose end-to-end Exchange scenarios. The site simulates multiple Exchange client access and inbound SMTP scenarios from outside the customer’s infrastructure and reports whether the test was successful. If the test fails, we tell the IT Admin exactly where in the process it failed as well as provide troubleshooting tips on resolving the issue. See the screenshot below.