We’ve recently announced the availability of brand new Lync awareness and end-user education materials , including posters, table tents, stickers, and multiple quick reference cards. These kinds of materials are typically leveraged in readiness & adoption engagements at customers to assist with the...

Microsoft Press announced that they are offering Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime by Katherine Murray, as a free eBook. You can read the full announcement at the Microsoft Press blog . Table of contents Part I Finding Your Place in the Cloud Chapter 1 What’s Happening...

Some great sessions on Office 365 from TechEd 2011 North America: Overview Microsoft Office 365: The Future of Productivity , Eron Kelly Microsoft SharePoint Online Overview , Mark Kashman Microsoft Lync 2010: In the Cloud , Ziv Fass Developer Collaboration in the Cloud with SharePoint: A New World of...

The “ VHD Test Drive - Lync Server 2010 ” download comes as a pre-configured set of VHD's and enables you to fully evaluate Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Microsoft Lync Server 2010 combined with Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Unified Messaging and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 delivers a fresh, intuitive...

A few weeks ago, Ian Hameroff announced on his Exchange Partner Marketing blog that the Unified Communication competency in the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) will split to become the Messaging competency and the Communications competency in October 2011. The Messaging competency is for solutions partners...

The Lync Training Download Package contains all of the available training and user education resources for Lync. The training strategy and resources that offer the best return on investment vary depending on the user profile and the product features deployed in your organization. The Lync Training Plans...

Microsoft IT used a business value framework developed by Forrester Research to more precisely measure the overall business impact and the return on investment of unified communications at Microsoft. The analysis showed that the UC solution was generating an ROI of 250 percent by enabling employees to...

Frederik Lefevre wrote a post on how he could easily create a Response Group Service queue monitoring application using queries on the databases used by Lync .

Ilse Van Criekinge , technology advisor on Microsoft Unified Communications, explains several customizations in Lync that can be applied via Lync Client Policies , including: appearing offline while signed in, custom presence states, warnings when starting an IM session, and many more.

The Microsoft Unified Communications Business Value Tool helps partners explore and accelerate opportunities within customer organizations. Partners canto use it to identify business objectives, demonstrate how unified communications solutions can help meet their customer’s objectives, and assess the...

These hands-on labs online (HOLOs) are provided at no charge to Microsoft partners, and provide IT Professionals with the essential information they need to setup, deploy, and configure Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This 300 level hands-on labs online course (including seven hands-on labs) will prepare...

The session recordings of TechEd Europe 2010 are now available online . Here are already the top 10 best rated sessions of TechEd Online, but you’ll find many more on the website: The Case of the Unexplained, 2010: Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich Useful Hacker Techniques: Which Part of Hackers...

Join us and explore Microsoft Lync 2010, the next generation of Communications Server Microsoft Lync Server 2010 ushers in a new connected user experience transforming every communication into an interaction that is more collaborative, engaging, and accessible from anywhere. Join us at one of the roadshow...

The Pro-Exchange user group gives the ability to the Belgian UC community to meet the Exchange product team . This is your chance to ask the questions you always wanted to ask or that never got answered.  Both Ross Smith IV and Greg Tailor will be at the event to answer all your questions and explain...

Resources: Download Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Announcement at the Microsoft Exchange Team blog What’s new in Exchange Server 2010 SP1? Release notes for Exchangse Server 2010 SP1

Even though it’s summer, the MSDN and TechNet teams are not relaxing on a sunny beach. Instead they are providing you some nice learning materials to sharpen your technical skills. And it doesn’t have to take a lot of your time; they start with info that can be digested in a few minutes already… The...

  After the LinkedIn for Outlook Social Connector , we have recently announced you can plug Facebook and Windows Live into Outlook via the Outlook Social Connector. Read more about the Facebook and Windows Live Outlook Social Connector at the Microsoft Office team blog. You can also download the...

Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Microsoft to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of collectively deploying Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Exchange 2010 and Communications Server 2007 R2 in their organizations. Download the report “Total Economic...

We’ve made the RTM version of the 2010 IW Demonstration & Evaluation Virtual Machines available. The download contains a two Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010. Virtual machine “a” contains the following...

Community Day is back with the Fourth Edition of the biggest community event in Belgium! No less than 14 Microsoft user groups combine their efforts to organize this unique knowledge-sharing and networking event . With so many new Microsoft product and technology releases, the content of this Community...

TechEd Europe announced on Twitter that the conference will be held in Berlin 8-12 November 2010 . Register before 5 July and save 500 EUR. Join the mailing list to get the latest news and get informed when registration opens. Technorati Tags: teched , teched europe , tee10 , berlin

Live webcast on 11 May 2010 at 18:30 CET. More info and registration . Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 introduces numerous advances in performance, scalability, and reliability, while lowering the total cost of ownership. In this webcast, you'll get information on the Exchange Server 2010 deployment within...

Microsoft’s Chief Information Officer Tony Scott talks about critical trends facing the IT industry in 2010, including cloud computing, virtualization, and the ongoing need to reduce costs and improve efficiency. More insights on how Microsoft Does IT at http://www.microsoft.com/itshowcase . You can...

The Official Microsoft Blog writes about two announcements on the social features of Office 2010 : The LinkedIn for Outlook Social Connector is available for download Additionally, we’re announcing new Outlook integrations with Facebook and MySpace . More info is available at the Official...

Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Steve Ballmer unveiled the phone designed for life in motion – Windows Phone 7 Series . Touted to deliver a fundamentally different approach to phone software, the latest Windows Phone boasts an unrivaled set of integrated experiences through Windows Phone Hubs. ...