Lync 2010 launched on November 17, marking an important milestone in our journey to bring together different silos of communication. Chris Capossela and Gurdeep Singh Pall unveiled the product in New York and we enjoyed hearing from Bill Gates and our...

It was just over a year ago that I had the privilege of launching Exchange 2010, standing on a stage in Berlin demoing some of the great new features in Exchange. My enthusiasm has only grown in the past year. Up to that point, I had already been on Exchange...

In this post I’d like to bring your attention to an amazing solution developed by our partner ICT Wortell in the Netherlands. The solution, called ikpraat.nl (“I Talk” in English), is a secure, virtual communications environment on the...

Hello. I’m Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President for the Unified Communications Group and I want to welcome you to the new UCG Team Blog. We’re glad that you have taken the time to come visit today and hope you will do so again in the future to...

This is just the first of a series of posts regarding performance of Live Communications Server. Performance is a complex topic, so I thought I would step back and describe some of the basic principles behind what we do in the product group to analyze...

If you like FREE and want to experiment with unified communications products in a virtual online environment, then you've come to the right place. Check out the newest Unfied Communications TechNet Virtual labs covering the following topics: deploying...

Today, Jeff Raikes announced some great news at the Financial Analyst Meeting that Communications Server 2007 and Communicator 2007 is code complete and will be released to manufacturing tomorrow, July 27 th . RTM is a significant milestone in our...

We have created two new Blogs for Office Communications Server and Office Communicator . These Blogs are by the respective teams within the Unified Communications Group. Please add them to your RSS or favorites. The URL's are http://www.communicationsserverteam...

We frequently talk about the communications industry being at a crossroads, and when I look at the lineup of keynote speakers at next week’s VoiceCon 2007 – all software companies – it’s apparent where we are headed. But what does it mean that voice...

At Interop Las Vegas 2007, Microsoft Corp and 9 leading IP-PBX vendors announced plans to provide interoperability between their respective communications solutions; this represents more than 80% of the global PBX installed base. These industry leaders...

Just over a year since OCS 2007 launched, R2 made its debut today. Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Division, hosted the launch event before a studio audience and thousands of Web participants from around the world. Several customers joined...

After being on the market for a year now, we continue to see widespread customer adoption of Microsoft’s unified communications platform. To highlight these customers, every month the Unified Communications blog will spotlight a specific industry and...

The Microsoft Unified Communications Group has a busy week ahead at VoiceCon Orlando. On the heels of our Office Communications Server 2007 R2 launch, momentum keeps building as our partners continue to benefit from Microsoft’s open partner ecosystem...

We just wrapped up VoiceCon Orlando 2009. It was another exciting year at the event – we participated in numerous customer panels and sessions, several partner announcements, and Gurdeep Singh Pall delivered a keynote that highlighted customers and partner...

The Register recently published an article on the messaging landscape entitled “The Messaging is the Medium: Survey results are in” . In an online research study looking at what messaging platform companies were running and how committed they were to...

Two years ago, most people had never heard of unified communications. Today, as the combination of cost savings and productivity improvements that UC solutions can deliver has become clear, adoption of UC technologies and approaches has moved to the top...

Great news from the Unified Communications Group and the Exchange Product Team. Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2 has been released as a commuity technology preview for subscribers of MSDN and TechNet Plus . To learn more about it, please check out the Exchange...

There is some exciting news coming out today around tools for transitioning from Lotus to Microsoft that I thought our readers might be interested in. You can find out more about this from a post on the Exchange Server Team Blog "You had me at EHLO.....

We are getting questions from developers about the RTC Client APIs ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775893.aspx ) and Windows Vista. Developers can use the RTC APIs to create messaging clients or utilities that work with Live Communications...

The Office Communications Server Public Beta has now been enhanced by product offerings from Unified Communications Group’s strategic gateway partners. After IT Pros download the Public Beta, they will be directed to the Strategic Hardware Partners Resource...

You know without getting all technical about this blog, I thought I’d just talk a little bit about “supported” load balancers for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005. Often the question from customers becomes, “Is my particular load balancer...

Some great news from the Unified Communications Group. Exchange is now offering a FREE trial of Exchange 2007. This free trial service enables enterprise customers to experience Microsoft ® Exchange Server 2007, the industry’s leading platform for...

In LCS2005 SP1, two new federation models were introduced; the ability to federate with the three big public IM providers AOL, MSN & Yahoo! and Enhanced federation by which peer enterprises are discovered via DNS SRV. Further, enhanced federation...

Some great news today as Tellme Networks has officially joined the Microsoft family. On May 3 rd , Microsoft announced that it has completed its acquisition of Tellme, the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of voice services for everyday life, including...

I’d like to share the story of how the Columbia National Police are using Microsoft Office Communications Server to improve police work and save money. The 150,000 police officers on the force work in a range of locations, from busy urban streets...