Harking back to my support days I was forever asking people to crank up diagnostic logging. In Exchange 2003 and earlier versions this was all controlled from the UI. In Exchange 2007 this is no longer the case and powershell needs to be used. This was...

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...

This is a very common question that I get asked, unfortunately there is not really an easy answer. To ensure that get the best out of your Exchange 2007 server you should have the following information to ensure you do not overload your mailbox servers...

I have been meaning to do this for a little while. I have finally managed to get some time to do it. Basically I have recorded two videos. The first is how to go about setting up a response group,  using rgscot to create the contact object and then...

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...

So far I have tried to highlight how to get OCS and UM working separately. But obviously if we can integrate these two products together the user experience just gets better. For instance you can:- Call Voicemail from Communicator See missed call notifications...

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...

The OCS Planning tool is available It is a great start to plan your OCS topology producing diagrams as below Download it now

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 was tasked with doing a UC demo by our illustrious leader at a recent group meeting. The brief was simple you have 5-10 minutes to blow them away. Not an easy task to achieve to an audience of about 250 who have mostly seen and are using Microsoft UC...

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...

If you haven't seen them before the following OCS API's are now available http://blogs.msdn.com/jcalev/archive/2007/05/07/introduction-to-the-ucma-api-part-1-api-overview.aspx They are detailed on Joe Calev's blog very well and it explains exactly what...

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"...

One of the great features within Exchange 2007 is that ability to do searches over multiple mailboxes. When I used to Administer Exchange systems I was asked many a time to find pieces of information that was buried in mailboxes. This was a long drawn...

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...

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...

I have just got back off the OCS ignite - it is a great piece of training and really gets anyone that needs to know this stuff up to speed quickly. I was lucky as I have been playing with the beta for sometime so I was familiar with a lot of the info...

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...

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 is know loads of great material off the UC site as well as Technet Here are some of the highlights Integrating Telephony with Office Communications Server 2007 white paper How to Build a Scalable and Available Unified Messaging System Plus if you...

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...

One of the questions that always gets levelled at me about Exchange 2007 not being really suitable for small business and that it really is an Enterprise product. Here are the reasons why Exchange 2007 should be used in small business. In my experience...

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...

A whole bunch of UC devices has been unveiled today - check out Mark's blog to see the devices. There is some videos on the way that will be posted on channel10. To me the ones I would love to have are They just looks funky, the Jabra has a 200 ft range...

This nifty tool has been brought to my attention - I have not been able to use it in anger yet but on the face of it, it seems great SCCP provides you with the tools and guidance to deploy efficiently, while planning for the future by allowing for "what...