Video: The Devil wears prada .. and does Unified Comms!

CRN's software application of the year for 2006 is ........ Exchange 2007! http://www.crn.com/sections/special/reports/poty06.jhtml?articleId=196603828&pgno=8&queryText = Oh, and Vista got OS of the year.

We recently announced the private beta of the next version of LCS, named Office Communications Server. From the press release... REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 11, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today opened a private beta of its new enterprise voice communications...

When I talk to customers about Live Communications Server (LCS) and Office Communicator (MOC), I often get asked the same questions. I've addressed most of these below but feel free to ask more by replying to this post - as more questions are asked...

There is some great information on how we design and run our internal Exchange 2007 infrastructure here at Microsoft on the IT Showcase website. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itshowcase/exchange.mspx This includes a podcast on How Microsoft IT...

It's the news we've all been waiting for - the dev team has signed off Exchange 2007, and it is now released to manufacturing! We already have over 120,000 mailboxes in production here at Microsoft (with over 30,000 using Exchange Unified Messaging...

A great whitepaper on the business benefits of Exchange Server 2007 can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/ex2007intro.mspx Today’s business requirements—such as security, disaster recovery, and mobility—are more extensive...

The Ready Summit tour wrapped up last week with our final event in Canberra (thankfully I didn't fall asleep during the UC session - find out why at the end of this post). Thousands of people attended and learnt about our latest technologies, and overall...

You Had Me At EHLO has a great article on CPU/RAM requirements and guidelines for Exchange 2007 ... http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/11/27/431644.aspx

On the Ready Summit tour of Australia I have been asked many questions, but undoubtedly the most common is ... " Do I have to put up with that North American accent in Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging? Can it please sound Australian? " I'm happy...

Are you passionate about communications? Keen to be part of the future of UC, VOIP and convergence? An expert in LCS and LiveMeeting? Want to work for Microsoft? Well - read on! We are currently looking for a RTC Technology Specialist to join our Unified...

Only a few spaces are left in our exciting 2-day Exchange 2007 training course . Topics to be covered include: What’s new in Exchange Server 2007 What’s different Installation & setup, management Role-based configuration Anti...

When you install Exchange 2007 for the first time, you need to extend the AD schema (usually by running setup.com /PrepareSchema , or just setup /ps if you’re lazy like me). Make sure you do this in the same AD site as the schema master, otherwise...

Welcome to another Microsoft-ee blog. In case you haven't guessed yet, my name is Johann Kruse. I'm a Technology Specialist in Unified Communications for Microsoft in Sydney Australia - which means I am the local technical guy for anything and everything...