July 2007 - Posts

OCS 2007 RTMs
30 July 07 10:02 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

The title says it all really - Office Communications Server 2007 released to manufacturing on Friday. Mark posted about it then, so I guess it's official (though there's not much hoo-haa yet on Microsoft.com). It's getting pretty exciting with the use Read More...

Filed under: Unified Comms, OCS

Living the dream with Office Communicator 2007
25 July 07 03:06 PM | Ewan | 4 Comments   

I've been a long-time fan of instant messaging and pervasive "presence", especially the cultural changes it allows organisations to make in order to communicate and collaborate better. As a result, I've been really interested to see what's been happening Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, IM, Unified Comms, OCS

The business case for Exchange 2007 - part II
23 July 07 04:40 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

(This is a follow on to the previous post on measuring business impact , and the first post on the business case for Exchange 2007 , and are my own thoughts on the case for moving to Exchange 2007). It's part of a series of posts which I'm trying to keep Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Business

Lelouch's "C'etait un Rendezvous" gets mashed
20 July 07 07:44 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

Someone has taken the petrol-heads' classic film, a 9-minute dash through early morning Paris known simply as " Rendezvous ", and built a mash-up between Google Video and Google Maps, to show the route he was taking. Who needs another excuse to watch Read More...

Filed under: Random Stuff

BBC iPlayer kicks up a stink
12 July 07 05:00 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

It's been interesting reading various news articles about the fact that the soon-to-be-released BBC iPlayer application will initially be available only to Internet Explorer and Windows XP users. The Register reports that a group called the Open Source Read More...

Filed under: Consumer Tech, Vista

Exchange mailbox quotas and a 'paradox of thrift'
10 July 07 12:38 PM | Ewan | 3 Comments   

The study of economics throws up some fantastic names for concepts or economic models, some of which have become part of the standard lexicon, such as the Law of Diminishing Returns , or the concept of opportunity cost , which I've written about before Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Outlook, Business

How to handle URLs with spaces in Outlook, Word etc
03 July 07 03:59 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

I was talking to a customer earlier today who was envisioning frustrations around using click-to-dial type functionality within OCS, where they'll be copying & pasting phone numbers around. Now if the number is nicely formatted (and E.164 compliant Read More...

Filed under: Outlook, Office

Tags as long-running transactions
02 July 07 09:44 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

Tagging: Brett , John , Allister , Darren and Julius . When it comes to transaction processing, most systems think in terms of very short increments of time - eg taking money from an ATM, the whole transaction is done in a few seconds. Some may take longer Read More...

Filed under: Random Stuff