I spotted this on someone's blog today and wanted to share this with you :-) It appears that in order to communicate with a new younger generation of kids, Santa has had a meeting with the Windows Live Messenger guys at Microsoft and has signed up for Windows Live Messenger. As you can see, I had a quick...

Working at Microsoft, I rarely find myself running a machine with RTM software on it, but with the RTM of Exchange 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007, I have found myself running fully released code. I am glad to say I have now managed to fix this 'problem' and got myself onto the Office Communications...

A lot of the time I a recommending to IT Pros that they should go ahead and download a copy of Exchange 2007 in their 'spare time'. Although this sounds like a great idea in principal, I can imagine that not everyone wants to spend their evenings and weekend a) downloading Exchange 2007 and b) installing...

"A Tale of two meeting rooms" Hot of the heels of the first video, I am pleased to say we have another that concentrates more on Office Roundtable. Roundtable is a cracking device which enables people to video conference from a room of their choice rather than forcing people to go to a specific...

For those of you with an interest in either Speech Server or Office Communications Server (the next version of LCS), might like to know that Speech Server is being included as part of OCS and will discontinue as its own product. More information can be found at http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news...

I have an email in my inbox asking if LCS 2005 SP1 and SQL 2005 SP1 will 'work together' so I thought I might share the answer with the rest of the world at the same time :-) A number of people at Microsoft received some interesting news this week from Redmond telling us that we will now support LCS...

For those of your that subscribe via RSS to my blog you might notice an increase in the number of postings I do this week, the reason for this is that I was away last week at a training event in Seattle and therefore my blog has got a little behind. On with the first post then! If like me, you have...