44SE065 seminar - Office 365 Technical Preview : What you need to know about the technical aspects of Office 365 March 28 th   9.00am  –  4.30pm Microsoft Reading, TVP, Chicago 1&2 Summary : Understand the technical capabilities of...

#Exchange 2010 and #HP deliver large low cost mailboxes with ease. Read more at http://bit.ly/fyxJck

This document outlines a series of best practice recommendations for running Lync Server 2010 in a virtualized environment. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2905FD33-E29C-4709-A012-E55EA8DB63E4&displaylang=en

In case you weren’t aware… The Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Lync Server environment. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=030548df...

IMGROUP and Microsoft partner to explain Office 365 and online messaging Launching in 2011, Microsoft Office 365 brings familiar Office desktop software and Office Web Apps together in the Cloud for the first time, combining Lync with Microsoft Online...

If your interested in understanding how to go about configuring single sign on using ADFSv2 have a look at this video Steve Plank did. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/archive/2011/01/24/video-screencast-complete-setup-details-for-federated-identity...

  Interesting read from Julia White: http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2011/01/23/don-t-be-the-last-company-on-notes.aspx

  This put a smile on my face: http://miercom.com/microsoft Miercom did some load testing with the Lync, and had the following to say about it: "Microsoft Lync Server 2010 passed an aggressive SIP Load Torture Test without dropping any calls...

  This guide gives an overview of what prospective buyers need to consider when evaluating their move to a cloud productivity solution. It outlines cloud-computing momentum, describes Microsoft’s cloud vision, provides a summary of “cloud principles...

I was forwarded this link earlier and thought it very useful to explain how you can communication enable business processes. Neat. http://cdn-smooth.ms-studiosmedia.com/events/Lync/en-us/CEBPdemo.wmv

  Best mail server Microsoft Exchange 2010 continues Redmond's longstanding market leadership in mail servers and related software. This release shows why the company's once-reviled product continues to be deployed widely in enterprises: it works...

The Exchange Team has just blogged about the capability of having your primary Exchange 2010 mailbox on-premises but with your personal archive in the cloud. It’s neat. I’ll expand on this topic a little more as and when Office 365 functionality becomes...

Content and Code are running an event on the 10th Feb : Office 365 Sneak Peak. If your interested details below: “Come and join us to see the soon to be released Office 365 in action and learn how your business can save time, money and free up valued...

  We now have a separate UC OIP page for Lync 2010 listing qualified Lync gateways, SBAs and IP-PBXs.  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg131938.aspx#tab=3

If your interested in why certain decisions were made around mailbox size, archiving, high availability and general interesting stuff about Exchange from customers from this years TechEd – take a look at the video’s and comments with Perry: http://msexchangeteam...

If your interested in new gadgets and what’s coming to the consumer over the next year or so from Microsoft, then Steve Ballmer will be presenting at CES tomorrow. Further details here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/ces/ Technorati Tags: CES...

  The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with Service Pack 1 takes the IT architect through a step-by-step process for successfully designing an Exchange Server 2010 infrastructure. Exchange Server 2010...

Gartner released their UCaaS Magic Quadrant for 2010 just before Christmas and you can take a look at the report placing Microsoft’s current BPOS offering front and centre, with a respectful nod to Office 365 that will be coming in 2011 Take a look here...

  BT today announced it has certified its converged communications platform, BT Onevoice, with the Microsoft Lync 2010 Office communications server. By combining BT’s global voice and video services with Lync, business customers will have a suite...

For many years I have been asked about archive support for Outlook 2007 – this is now available via the latest Outlook update and full details can be found her: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/12/20/457238.aspx

This is really neat. The Exchange Deployment Assistant has been updated to include the migration and configuration requirements to allow rich co-existence between your on-premises Exchange infrastructure and Office 365 – Exchange Online. Deployment Assistant...

Doesn’t time fly..! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/12/07/457141.aspx

This poster shows each workload in Microsoft Lync Server 2010 communications software, describing relationships, dependencies, flow of information, and certificate requirements http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad8ff3fb-014e...

Great to see a familiar face..! http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/office/servers/videogallery.aspx

The next generation of communication has landed Take a look: http://lync.microsoft.com/en-us/launch/Pages/launch.aspx