February 2009 - Posts
Interesting read this: http://www.gsk.com/mission-strategy/simplify-model-plans.htm “There are many different programmes and initiatives across GSK including a comprehensive programme to simplify and reduce costs in IT. Through an innovative partnership
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I cannot speak highly enough of DAS if you want to reduce cost and give your users larger mailboxes. For high availability replication you can use Exchange native replication technologies that ship with Exchange; CCR (Clustered Continuous Replication).
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TANDBERG PrecisionHD ™ USB Camera is optimized for 720p high definition with 30 frames per second enabling HD video over Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 http://www.tandberg.com/press_room/viewPressRelease.do?id=533
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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit Tools provides a set of deployment and technical reference information for Microsoft Office Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Grab them from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9E79A236-C0DF-4A72-ABA6-9A9602A93ED0&displaylang=e
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An interesting article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd440963.aspx
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The Microsoft Press Pass can be read here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/feb09/02-1220MLiveEduPR.mspx
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For those partners that are interested in Microsoft Unified Communication Training then the following course is for you: Course Title Duration Availability 44CO102 - Microsoft Unified Communications Voice Ignite UC Voice Ignite is a 5-day advanced technical
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It has been a long time coming, but the new Microsoft IT Cost Savings whitepaper has been released, outlining the savings we have made internally since deploying OCS 2007 (inc R2) “Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) used a business value
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The following tool has been released to convert Live Meeting recordings (service or server) to WMV http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101215971033.aspx
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… and can be downloaded from here: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fdf32585-c131-4832-8e27-67e70636c1e8&DisplayLang=en
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Been and interesting day for me and Google – sat at breakfast this morning before the E14 Airlift and read this article on how much personal data Google keeps and uses when using the G1 -- then Microsoft announces Google are the next company to license
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Robert Epstein was interviewed in this three minute video on CNBC – An interesting discussion and you can access it here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1023944618&play=1
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Mr Dalton figured it out yesterday: http://blogs.technet.com/ewan/archive/2009/02/06/custom-presence-states-in-ocs-revisited-again.aspx
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And you can download them all from here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd250572(office.13).aspx
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Just come across the following tool: http://www.codeplex.com/outlookclicktocall very useful :) “ Project Description This is an Internet Explorer add-on that allows for clickable links for Office Communicator contact names from websites to initiate a
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I promised Adrian (who runs the OCS Masters program in Redmond) that I would post this in my blog to draw your attention to the following program – please take a look here: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/12/29/341.aspx
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I received the following mail this morning and thought I would share - “The last few days have been very interesting in the UK. The heaviest snowfall in 18 years has lead to transportation shutting down, schools closing and business negatively impacted
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“Office Communications Server 2007 R2 delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most (like Office Outlook). You are able to deliver a variety
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If you want to download and evaluate OCS R2 then here are the links..! Let’s play :) OCS 2007 R2 Eval http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67a3de72-7dbd-4e0b-92a5-29d0b46009a7 OC 2007 R2 Eval http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=535637af-d92f-41b1-bf0c-54a526a88247
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As well as being the OCS R2 Launch later today, I participated in my first on-premise OCS R2 conference call – as well as the call being “free” (not using a billable conferencing bridge) the sound quality and general experience was simply awesome. Here’s
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As in previous years UK User Groups are coming together to put on a two day event on March 11 th and 12 th . The SharePoint User Group and the Microsoft Messaging and Mobility User Group will be hosting a unique event at the Unified Communications Expo
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