I like to try and keep up with developments with the other products and had a little smile when I saw these two new features pop up in the Domino 8 Beta. Firstly they have included "message recall" and secondly they have included "address type-ahead"...

So this was one of my top ten Exchange 2007 features. I promised to explain more about it so here it is Before this was implemented I guess a lot of users suffered similar hardships to me. Namely I would be happily working away from the corporate network...

If you want to impress your friends and colleagues or just have a reference poster for Exchange 2007 - there is a great poster available here It covers everything in Exchange 2007 and is great to print out and put on the wall. So the next time someone...

Firstly when I started writing this I did not think it would be so long - it is only now that I have finished it I realised - Anyway hopefully it will be of use - In Part one I installed 2007 and got UM working with my Audiocodes box, fine but I now want...

I have not posted for a while - since RTM of OCS things have been very busy. Lots of people ask me what I am running in my demo environment. Well I run all my servers on one laptop in VPC. The laptop I run on has 2Gb of Ram and running the servers in...

I have been fortunate enough to help out on this tour and suggest everyone tries and get to one. There is a wealth of Microsoft Employees involved with more technical experience that you can shake a stick at, including Ewan Dalton, Brett Johnson Eileen...

The New Year is with us and there is loads happening in the world of UC. I had a great break and only returned to work on the 7th ( hence the delay in getting to my blog). Some of the things that have come to my attention during my break This blog entry...

I have been a bit slow to get these announcements on my blog - but hopefully this post will cover most of the latest announcements Hopefully you have already seen the Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program site . It outlines the vendors...

Yesterday the UC team were in Manchester running the Public Sector Unplugged event. (Last one in London next week) It turned out to be a great event - well attended with an interactive audience who were keen to learn more about UC. The last session was...

There has been a bit of a lull in my blogging, for a number of reasons, I have been very busy seeing Partners and Customers (that is for the benefit of my manager:-)) I have been beaten by other bloggers about topics I wanted to blog about and I don't...

I don't really talk a lot about Mobile and the way it integrates with Exchange 2007. I simply take it for granted that I can triage my email on my device. But every now and again when out at events etc I realise lots of people are not doing this - so...

On Monday of this week I was put on the OCS2007 pilot - I have been using Presence and IM but this gave me the full Voice and Video experience also. It is absolutely awesome and I can honestly say that I have not picked up a conventional desktop phone...

While looking for a holiday this weekend I stumbled across this story on the EnjoyFrance website. I obviously did a bit of digging to check if others had reported it and it does seem to be true http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2192598...

I am currently at TechReady in Seattle. It is a opportunity to get to know some new people and learn about some new technology. I had a pre training day in UC today and found out about this tool . It has been available for sometime but I had never come...

As I posted earlier I am writing a series of posts on how I set up my UC demo environment, In this post I am going to talk about how I set up UM - this is a pretty basic setup but for me being very new to the whole telephony arena it was a good learning...

I learnt some great things at TechReady - here is one of them You have probably read that in OCS 2007 we can have enhanced presence. What does this mean - well depending on the Organisation you work in there maybe states of presence that are more relevant...

I have been reading Mike's blog about Google and I urge you all to read it if you are contemplating using their apps. It is a good read and very well balanced. The links at the bottom really give you an understanding of what is really is on offer from...

Ok part 2 with the top 5 - Part 1 is here 5 Powershell After years of using GUIs to carry out my daily tasks I must admit I was a bit sceptical about going back to a shell to administer Exchange. My main concerns were born from the days in support where...

Check out Bill's CEO Summit keynote . This is an enlightening video that explains what he sees are the technologies that will shape the future of business. Not surprisingly UC is covered in great detail, with the great Paul Duffy running a great demo...

Just checking out the latest gadgets and came across this It is worlds first touch panel phone - I would love to get my hands on one to check out what it is like. Runs Mobile 6 Professional Communicator Mobile on this would be brilliant More details here...

This is the kind of email that I like to get, basically Bri at the GTSC sent this out. It has everything in it humour and great info. It was entitled "The Grandmother of all Exchange 2007 CCR installation documents" Read and understand how to set up CCR...

Ok this is not another blog entry on UC or convergence of networks but rather a more fundamental way of connecting. I have a little story to tell and I recommend you read it and take note. Basically I was a sitting at my desk on a tuesday afternoon and...

So yesterday the snow falls all over the country and lots of us cannot get into work. Employees that cannot get in will be using OWA and RPC/HTTP sending the "I'll be working from home today...." emails and downloading all their mails and using availabilty...

So what is this all about - well if you have ever had issues with British Summer Time and the extra week in October that skews all your calendar appointments then this is about to kick off in the US. Daylight saving time (DST) will be extended in the...

Just a quick mention of this for any budding innovators out there. Microsoft is running DesignIT for the second year, basically it is an opportunity for the creatives among you to tackle a scenario using IT as the solution. Check out the site and get...