The Three UC Amigos
Three Microsoft UC technology specialists covering U.S. Education
Some great new Lync 2010 content available
The Lync product team came out with my favorite protocol style of poster for Lync Server 2010....
Author: markga Date: 11/19/2010
New F5 load balancer deployment guide available for Lync Server 2010
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 requires either full hardware load balancers to be leveraged for a...
Author: markga Date: 11/15/2010
Can I upgrade from Lync Server 2010 180 day RTM Evaluation bits to Lync Server 2010 RTM production bits?
FYI – the Lync Server 2010 180-day evaluation bits are slated to be available on November 17th...
Author: markga Date: 11/12/2010
In-band provisioning
One of my customers recently asked me about group policies and Office Communicator. With Lync 2010...
Author: GregK Date: 11/10/2010
Should I deploy Lync Server 2010 On Prem or wait for Lync Online?
With our upcoming Office365 cloud service, Lync Online will be a part of the offering. I have...
Author: markga Date: 11/09/2010
New Exchange 2010 Sp1 Visio Shapes available
Grab the shapes here.
Author: markga Date: 11/08/2010
New Exchange 2010 Architecture Poster
In case you missed this post by the product team they have posted an updated architecture poster...
Author: markga Date: 11/07/2010
Lync Launch: Nov 17th 2010 at 11AM EDT
Are your employees as connected, collaborative, and productive as they could be? Find out at the...
Author: bill hagen Date: 11/03/2010
What can I do now to prepare for Lync Server 2010?
With the RTM release of Lync Server 2010, I have been asked by several education customers what they...
Author: markga Date: 11/03/2010
Lync Server 2010 Released To Manufacturing!
Great news the product has RTMed and should be available for download soon from your licensing site....
Author: markga Date: 10/28/2010
Lync 2010 Licensing
Lync Server 2010 Licensing ON PREMISE LICENSING: Lync Server 2010 on-premises is licensed in the...
Author: bill hagen Date: 10/12/2010
Lync DNS Load Balancing and Server Draining
Updated info for this post can now be found in teched. Please disregard this blog entry. Please...
Author: GregK Date: 10/12/2010
Windows Phone 7 email, calendaring
There is a lot of buzz about the new Windows Phone 7 launched today. It is officially available Nov....
Author: markga Date: 10/11/2010
Mac Communicator 2011 Deployment Guide released
Mac Office 2011 general availability is slated for the end of the month. With this release comes the...
Author: markga Date: 10/07/2010
I recorded a session in Lync….
I was presenting to a customer the other day and the question came up as to where the content...
Author: GregK Date: 09/30/2010
Lync Training and end of Sept News!!
DID YOU KNOW: • Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Release Candidate (formerly known as Communications...
Author: bill hagen Date: 09/29/2010
Partner Solutions Built on Lync Server 2010
Solutions based on Microsoft® Lync With Lync 2010, Microsoft and our partners provide a...
Author: bill hagen Date: 09/27/2010
snom phones to be listed on compatibility list for OCS 2007 R2 and with the upcoming Lync Server 2010
This is great news as we add a great SIP phone partner to our Microsoft ‘Other compatible IP Phone’...
Author: markga Date: 09/23/2010
What are the top Lync Server 2010 features I need to know about?
This release of Lync is not just a minor upgrade from OCS 2007 R2. It has some awesome new...
Author: markga Date: 09/19/2010
How do I enable the new Internet Calendar Sharing (.ICS) with Exchange 2010 Sp1?
This was a question asked by a university in North Carolina. (Screenshots courtesy of the...
Author: markga Date: 09/02/2010
New OCS 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 6 available
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 OCS_2007R2_CU6 968802 MS download OCS2009-dbupgrade...
Author: markga Date: 09/01/2010
Exchange 2010 SP1 is here!!!!
Lots of improvements around archiving and discovery, faster OWA, upgraded mobility, and several...
Author: GregK Date: 08/25/2010
Do I use Forefront TMG or Forefront UAG for reverse proxy publishing for Exchange 2010?
I get asked this quite a quite a bit and I couldn’t find a consistent answer. My colleague, Steve...
Author: markga Date: 08/16/2010
Education Cloud Computing Video
This is new and pretty simple video of our education cloud vision but it clearly lays out our...
Author: markga Date: 07/25/2010
How did MS IT deploy Exchange 2010?
I get asked this quite a bit for a reference architecture. We just published our MS IT...
Author: markga Date: 07/16/2010
What are some of the top changes coming to the next release of BPOS (Online Services) for education?
I have been asked this by several education customers evaluating our cloud solution so I put...
Author: markga Date: 07/15/2010
iOS4 iPhone/iPod touch patch needed for using ActiveSync against Exchange server
If you missed the note and you have iOS4 (new iPhone or new iPod Touch running the iOS4) users...
Author: markga Date: 07/09/2010
Cisco Call Manager integration with Exchange 2010
The config notes for CuCM direct SIP integration with Exchange 2010 UM were posted last week. You...
Author: GregK Date: 07/06/2010
Exchange 2010 DAG questions
Some questions I received from a large university in the Chicago area: How many nodes can I...
Author: markga Date: 07/06/2010
Is there a SCW template for OCS 2007 R2?
This was a question asked by a university in New Mexico. I searched high and low for one but...
Author: markga Date: 07/01/2010
Networking considerations for CS “14”
I attended a great session from TechEd on Network Considerations given by Neil Deason. In it...
Author: GregK Date: 06/28/2010
RCC and CS 14
Jamie Stark recently posted that RCC will be included in the CS 14 release not only for existing...
Author: GregK Date: 06/28/2010
Grab Exchange Server 2010 SP1 beta and check out the the new OWA enhancements
There are a lot of new features coming with Exchange SP1. Today I will provide a quick look into the...
Author: markga Date: 06/24/2010
How do you setup an Exchange 2010 Transport Rule to find number patterns like social security number?
I was asked this by a university in Phoenix. Here is what I found from our Exchange product team:...
Author: markga Date: 06/09/2010
How does E-911 work with the upcoming Communications Server 14?
With all the openness (watch the video showing the new CS14 clients and new Silverlight conferencing...
Author: markga Date: 06/07/2010
Where can I get some end-user CBT training for OCS R2 and Exchange UM?
I get asked this one quite a bit by my customers deploying OCS and Exchange UM to their faculty and...
Author: markga Date: 06/01/2010
University of Arizona adopts 18,000 seats of our cloud Email, Calendaring, and Collaboration offering
I have been working with U of A on this for a bit of time and it was nice to see they decided to...
Author: markga Date: 05/28/2010
How do I federate OCS IM with Live@edu, Windows Live, or AOL?
I was asked this by a university in Missouri. Here is the process: Prerequisites you...
Author: markga Date: 05/13/2010
Can I really use JBOD storage with Exchange 2010?
I just did an Exchange 2010 architectural design session for a university in Ohio and this was a key...
Author: markga Date: 05/06/2010
Enabling OCS integration with Exchange 2010 – IM
I was in Maryland this week and one of my customers wanted to know how to integrate OCS with...
Author: GregK Date: 04/22/2010
How does Federated Calendar sharing work in Exchange 2010?
I was asked this by a university in the Midwest with 18 unique Exchange organizations. They wanted...
Author: markga Date: 04/22/2010
Communications Server Conference this summer June 15-16th in Boulder, CO
If you are looking to get a deeper dive on Microsoft’s UC stack, Tom Cross has put together a unique...
Author: markga Date: 04/16/2010
New Exchange 2010 installation guide templates
I get asked if we have any step by step Exchange 2010 deployment templates/documents quite often....
Author: markga Date: 04/15/2010
Support for Windows 2008 R2
So testing is complete and we now support Windows 2008 R2 for deployment with OCS 2007 R2. There are...
Author: GregK Date: 04/12/2010
Office Closure and Exchange Unified Messaging
A common question that I get with Academic customer in implementation of Unified Messaging is around...
Author: GregK Date: 04/12/2010