March, 2008

We've just released to the web the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), which enable administration of Windows Server 2008 from Vista SP1 clients. This is the list of Windows Server 2008 administration tools which are included in RSAT: Role Administration...

The next version of Microsoft Deployment (the old BDD), version 2008, has been released to the web.  This new release has plenty of stuff, including support for the following... Windows Vista Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate (32 and 64 bit) RTM...

The Windows Virtualization Product Team have announce the Release Candidate of Hyper-V.  Check out there post here... http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2008/03/19/hyper-v-release-candidate-is-here.aspx From the article updated features...

Today we announced at VoiceCon 2008 a new strategic alliance with Aspect Software to deliver a contact center solution built on OCS.  From the announcement... Under terms of the multi-year, global alliance, Aspect will integrate its .NET-based contact...

Corporate VP of Unified Communications Group Gurdeep Singh Pall has put out the invitation to attend Interact 2008 in San Diago, California, 8-10 of April. This event will be both a great chance to rub sholders with the who's-who of the UC world, and...

So a few people get nervous when you tell them your going to need a publicly routable IP when implementing the OCS A/V Edge role for external A/V Conferencing.  Then you tell them they'll need to open up 10,000 high ports, and you can see the blood...

Byron Spurlock , who had a hand in the writing of the Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit , has a pointer to some of the upcoming UC webcasts, check them out here... http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/unifiedcommunications.aspx?tab=webcasts...

Hot on the release of our Office Live Workspaces online services in the US, the beta of the service is now available for us here in Australia.  :) It only takes a couple of minutes to signup at http://workspace.office.live.com/ .  You can then...

APC have just put up a review of the performance improvements in Vista SP1.  You can check out the full article here... Vista SP1 up to 86% faster - http://apcmag.com/8373/vista_sp1_up_to_86_faster Some really interesting stats comparing RTM, RTM...