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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...
Microsoft Roundtable transitions to Polycom
31 March 09 02:44 PM | Ewan | 4 Comments   
Microsoft & Polycom announced yesterday that the Microsoft Roundtable conferencing device (used with Live Meeting or OCS 2007 to present a 360° view of the room to participants joining from elsewhere), will be replaced. Polycom are taking over the Read More...
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Business continuity – it’s a people thing, not just a premises one
12 February 09 08:44 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
I had a really interesting discussion with a customer last week, when we were musing over the effects that the snow had on UK businesses. It was another example – like the floods which have hit parts of the country over the last few years – of a threat Read More...
Custom presence states in OCS – revisited again
06 February 09 09:15 AM | Ewan | 5 Comments   
I posted a while back about custom presence states ( here and here ). Well it turns out that a change made to an updated version of Communicator, requires (by default) that the custom state XML file is downloaded from a “secure” URL (so ruling out the Read More...
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When the weather outside is frightful…
04 February 09 09:21 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
… the UC technology is soooo delightful. OK, it’s cheesy as you can get, but very true. The weather forecast on Sunday night was for heavy snow, and sure enough we awoke on Monday to about 4-6 inches of fresh snow – something that many countries would Read More...
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Updated LifeCam software
19 December 08 08:22 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
It's not exactly "news", since the Microsoft LifeCam web-camera driver & software package was updated a few months ago, but I only picked up the latest version the other day and it brought a few smiles when playing with it today, during a call with Read More...
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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...
Microsoft launches "Online" hosted services
17 October 07 02:16 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
In an attempt to clarify the whole online software branding, with "Live" being consumer oriented and "Online" being aimed at businesses, Microsoft launched a new service recently, but that may have gone unnoticed (what with other launch events such as Read More...
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Gibson Guitars "Riffs on OCS" (boom, boom)
08 October 07 07:25 AM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
Information Week reported that Gibson, makers of the iconic Les Paul guitar (as used by just about everyone, maybe most famously Jimmy Page of Led Zep or Slash from Guns N Roses), are doing great stuff with Office Communication Server, and singing its Read More...
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Custom presence states in Communicator, reprise
03 October 07 11:37 AM | Ewan | 4 Comments   
A quick follow on to my post the other day about having custom presence states in Office Communicator 2007 - the Communicator Deployment Guide has a couple of minor errors which could frustrate you, as one commenter pointed out, and I've had comments Read More...
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Custom presence states in Office Communicator
27 September 07 11:22 AM | Ewan | 7 Comments   
I just discovered how to modify presence states in Office Communicator 2007: it's documented in the Office Communicator Deployment Guide (page 21, if you're interested), and allows for either the managed deployment of Communicator with additional corporate-set Read More...
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Identity & presence: the key to anyone's Unified Communications strategy
07 September 07 10:55 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
I spend a lot of time talking with customers about what Microsoft is doing with various new technologies, mostly involving or revolving around the Unified Communications stuff with OCS and Exchange. It's really interesting to see how many people just Read More...
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The Return of Exchange Unplugged
03 September 07 10:09 AM | Ewan | 3 Comments   
In late 2005, to prepare for Exchange 5.5 going out of support (and to help customers understand what was involved in moving up to Exchange 2003), we did a really well received tour of the country arranged around the theme of " Exchange Unplugged ". We Read More...
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Playing with Roundtable prototype
21 August 07 03:48 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
I've been looking forward to Roundtable coming out... it's a very interesting type of hybrid between a standard conference speakerphone and a series of web-cams, all tied together by plugging it into a PC and running the new LiveMeeting 2007 client software. Read More...
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OCS2007 trial edition now available
06 August 07 09:37 AM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
If you want to get your hands on trial software for the recently-released Office Communications Server 2007 and its client, Office Communicator 2007 , then you're in luck... OCS trial download (both Standard & Enterprise editions) Communicator trial Read More...
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Ewan Dalton:: Some hopefully sensible commentary around various technologies, starting with Exchange Server and other communications technologies but anything to do with software and electronics, basically... I've been at Microsoft for over 10 years so have a rich history of playing with stuff that's in development.

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