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Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:17 PM

Sharepoint and Web 2.0

I'm pleased that more and more people are coming round to the idea of Sharepoint Wikis and blogs, so the release of our web 2.0 "addon " (great marketing term eh?) is a really great idea for anyone who needs to interact with their customers. This community
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Monday, July 30, 2007 5:18 PM

Office Communications Server 2007 RTM

As James and Arthur have noticed, last week, we've released Office Communications Server to manufacturing now (RTM) so it'll soon be generally available. Check out the new Office Communicator blog site for updated info (and Johann's blog for all the pictures!).
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 5 Comments
Friday, July 27, 2007 7:00 PM

Jazzing up my CV...

I've been thinking about updating my CV (resume) after all the aggravation and annoyance I've had this week trying to help someone with a problem. I'm obviously not as patient as I'd hoped I was. Perhaps I need a fresh challenge? I've been in the evangelist
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 26, 2007 8:29 PM

OCS 2007 videos on IT's showtime

***Long blog post - lots of photos*** As we're deep in planning for the Unified Communications unplugged tour in October and November, the email about UC sessions landed in my Inbox at an appropriate time really. We filmed several sessions recently on
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 8 Comments
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 9:38 PM

Live messenger expressions

I haven't blogged about Live Messenger for a while, but I got a mail the other week showing all of the new stuff that was available, so I had a play around today and saw quite a few bits of new addons that I hadn't tried before. I can play games like
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:39 PM

The missing folder in Outlook Express

I've been having fun and games for the past few days from someone who mailed me on Friday. Louise has discovered that one of her folders was missing from Outlook Express and has entirely blamed us for the loss of her folder. I explained that Outlook Express
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 13 Comments
Monday, July 23, 2007 6:28 PM

Virtual Earth screensaver

Simon mailed me to remind me about a couple of Live Earth features I'd been ignoring for a while. I'd talked about the Outlook addin before and whinged about the fact that it was only available in the US. Well nothings changed there (see below) Outlook
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Friday, July 20, 2007 6:30 PM

Virtual Labs for Office Communications Server 2007

Cristin, who works in the OCS Online media team at corp has alerted me to the new set of virtual labs that we've produced for Office Communications Server 2007. Very timely indeed as I'm still wading through loads of emails since I alerted people to the
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 19, 2007 3:33 PM

VOIP and Skype

I've had quite a few mails since my article for the TechNet newsletter went out yesterday (and blog post earlier today). There's obviously lots of interest about VOIP as I've had various mails ranging from how to set up a PBX, questions for information
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:38 AM

VOIP is on its way

I’ve been playing with Office Communicator 2007 for a while now and have been impressed by all of the extra functionality that the new Instant messaging client brings. We talk a lot about extra productivity in our new products, but I’ve really noticed
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 10:55 AM

Messaging and Mobility User group meetings

Here's some information about Nathan's next meetings for the messaging and mobility user group. In August there are two events, the first in London covering Windows Mobile Business Applications in one half and an Introduction to Office Communication Server
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:58 AM

TechNet events - need your input...

So what topics would you like us to show you at our TechNet events? I've created a voting panel so you can decide. I have 3 event spaces to fill, so I thought I'd gauge popularity of the topics so you decide, and George and I will schedule these in...
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:35 PM

Finally seeing sense about the iPhone

I've been staggered by the hype around the iPhone and the hysteria around it's launch in the US with queues of people waiting for days and day to buy one. I've been scouring the newswires with interest to see what people will think about the iPhone in
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 1:08 PM

Live Search for Windows mobile

I'm impressed with all of the positive reviews about Live Search for Windows Mobile. News.com and MP reviews are impressed too. I wanted to have a play with it before I blogged about it (unlike Jason who blogged as soon as the news was announced...).
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:11 PM

Unified Communication Webcasts for August

Momentum Webcast: A Sneak Peek at Microsoft Unified Communications (Level 100) Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Bob Clancy, Mid-Market Solutions Advisor, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032345915&Culture=en-U
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:09 PM

Collaboration Webcasts for August

TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of Office Groove 2007 (Level 200) Wednesday, August 08, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Kevin Remde, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032345921&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 12:07 PM

Exchange Webcasts for August

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services (Level 200) Friday, August 24, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time Chris Avis, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032345600&Culture=en-US
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, July 16, 2007 7:26 PM

Reading my emails

So how do I get my team to read my emails? Threats? The word "bonus" in the title? Sally has a few interesting ideas, some of which I don't actually agree with, namely item 3: 3. Provide the Proper Data and Documents Make sure you give recipients all
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 1 Comments
Monday, July 16, 2007 6:52 PM

PowerShell Invaders

I’ve been dipping my toe in the waters of Powershell and feeling quite good about how my knowledge is growing. But now I’ve found this little game , I’ve realised just how little I know about PowerShell, and just how powerful this is. And there’s big
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Friday, July 13, 2007 5:47 PM

Exchange 2007 Deployment - Alphabetically

This is so simple, I wonder why I hadn't thought of it before! I've been writing my slides for TechEd NZ ( Dugie has a list of some of the sessions on offer). One of my slides is about the Order of Deployment: Install server roles in this order: C lient
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:29 PM

Planning for the TechNet year

We've been busy planning our events for next year. July and August are usually light on events as everyone tends to be on holidays and attendance drop off is terrible, so we're starting the year off in September again. This year, we're planning a bit
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 5:32 PM

Miniature Unified communications device

So am I bored with my CX200 already? Nope. This is my smaller, traveling version. I use this in the office and use my catalina at my home office. I can also listen to music and watch webcasts too. I can't do that with the catalina - yet. This fits into
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:41 PM

Podcasting on TechNet

So Chris who runs the Live meeting User group caught me the other week whilst we were drinking coffee at the Community day . He was podcasting the day and did a short interview with me which he published here . I've been thinking about running a series
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Monday, July 09, 2007 6:11 PM

Random things

Oh Heck, Another meme. This one was forwarded by Anna who I met last month. I really struggle with these as I feel that with my current job, that everyone knows everything that there is to now about me and there's nothing left that's remotely interesting
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Friday, July 06, 2007 12:56 PM

Unified Communications partners in IP PBX..

so We've signed up a fair few IP PBX partners in advance of the next wave of our Unified Communications products due out later this year. We talked about the lineup at Interop this year. Looking at the list of hardware partners I noticed that you can
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 2 Comments
Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:49 AM

Unified communications device

I've finally got one of these devices to play with. Here's the newsfactor story that announced things. James has been calling me from his phone recently and the quality is really good. Julian sounded like he was talking on skype the other day (loads of
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:36 PM

Computing futures - while you fly

This is a really good idea for those of us who are just too busy to watch documentaries or learn stuff in your day job. We've teamed up with British Airways and have created a 30 minute documentary on the future of computing. Starting in June, British
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007 4:54 PM

Preventing a virus

It's amazing how many people don't bother to follow all the steps to protect their PC. I get calls from my mother in law wondering why her PC has rebooted and the lights are "flashing". Aah, that's because Windows Update has asked for a reboot AND YOU
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 8:55 PM

The old girls network

Darryl from eWeek had an interesting and sympathetic take on my session at TechEd last month. I was interested in some of the comments though that followed the article and the variety of opinions. No, most of the panel were not from Microsoft. I chose
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:14 PM

3D web surfing

Wow, this is an interesting concept... 3-D Web Surfing from SpaceTime presents pages as floating slabs of the web that you can navigate around. It looks like Vista flip 3D but for web pages. Spacetime is only in beta at the moment (download it here by
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 3 Comments
Monday, July 02, 2007 1:44 PM

Exchange 2007 rollup update 3

Brett pointed me to the latest set of rollup updates for Exchange 2007. There are quite a few new KB articles too. This one particularly caught me out last week: Error message when you try to install Exchange Server 2007 : "The image file <path>\setup.exe
Posted by Eileen_Brown | 0 Comments
 
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