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Outlook 2010 beta and E.164 number format updater
06 October 09 09:26 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

Well hello again; it’s been a while. Normal service should now infrequently resume. I thought I’d update the instructions of a previous post, after I was showing someone how to use my old “ Contacts updater ” application to make all their Outlook contact Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Outlook, Office, Unified Comms, OCS

Exchange 2010 beta & high availability strategies
15 April 09 10:45 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

Exchange 2010 beta released - significant changes to architecture of clustering and high availability make provisioning highly available servers simpler and less expensive. Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Unified Comms, Infrastructure, Systems Management

Outlook Thread Compressor download now available
11 April 09 02:34 PM | Ewan | 7 Comments   

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about Thread Compressor on here – it’s an add-in to Outlook which removes unnecessary emails, on the assumption that most people reply to mail and leave the original intact, so you could keep the last mail in each branch of Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Outlook, Office, Unified Comms, Win7

Bulk update Outlook Contacts' phone numbers to be E.164 compliant
30 November 07 09:10 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

Here's a quick & dirty tool I put together for Outlook to be able to update all the phone numbers of contacts to make them E.164 compliant. It relates back to a post a while back around the challenges of formatting numbers 'correctly', particularly Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Outlook, Office, Unified Comms, OCS

Careful what names you give to Outlook Contacts when using UM!
05 November 07 09:45 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   

This is a follow up to Friday's post about what happens if you have Exchange Unified Messaging set up to send you notifications on missed call alerts (and on voicemail), using caller-ID to reverse lookup against the personal contacts folder. Stephen Spence Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Humour, Outlook, Unified Comms

I learned a cool thing about Exchange UM today
02 November 07 03:22 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   

I've seen this behaviour in practice before, but I don't think it really clicked with me until Neil May from PostCTI (who was hosting our penultimate Exchange Unplugged event today) told me how pleased he was with it. This functionality concerns the "missed Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Outlook, Unified Comms

Voicemail sizes on Exchange 2007
01 November 07 06:45 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   

A question we get asked a lot is regarding the sizing of voice mail messages in Exchange 2007. If you're not familiar with the built-in voicemail capabilities, Exchange can function as a voice mail system (or Unified Messaging system, really - it's a Read More...

Filed under: Exchange, Unified Comms

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