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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Johann's Unified Communications : mspress</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/mspress/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: mspress</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Download free OCS R2 e-books, but be quick!</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2009/06/24/download-free-ocs-r2-e-books-but-be-quick.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:01:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3258046</guid><dc:creator>jkruse</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/comments/3258046.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3258046</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3258046</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;For the next few days you can download free copies of some MS Press e-books on OCS 2007 R2.&amp;#160; Simply sign up for the Microsoft Press Book Connection Newsletter for notification of offers, register, and download the selection of the month.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Programming for Unified Communications with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2&lt;a href="http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urrs4gt63d"&gt;&lt;img title="ucebook1" border="0" alt="ucebook1" align="right" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/jeffa36/WindowsLiveWriter/FreeEBooksAvailableOfficeCommunicationsS_8B41/ucebook1_3.jpg" width="140" height="170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Step-by-step programming scenarios show you how to deliver high-quality VoIP, presence, click-to-communicate, and&amp;#160; contextual collaboration across the enterprise and across time zones. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urrs4gt63d"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to download &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit&lt;a href="http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urws8un4p7"&gt;&lt;img title="ocsresource" border="0" alt="ocsresource" align="right" src="http://blogs.technet.com/blogfiles/jeffa36/WindowsLiveWriter/FreeEBooksAvailableOfficeCommunicationsS_8B41/ocsresource_3.jpg" width="147" height="179" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Get the definitive resource for deploying, configuring, and supporting Office Communications Server 2007—now fully updated.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urws8un4p7"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to download &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3258046" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/ocs/default.aspx">ocs</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/dev/default.aspx">dev</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/download/default.aspx">download</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/reskit/default.aspx">reskit</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/r2/default.aspx">r2</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/mspress/default.aspx">mspress</category></item><item><title>RTM’d today: Programming for Unified Communications</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/2009/05/01/rtm-d-today-programming-for-unified-communications.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 02:41:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3233784</guid><dc:creator>jkruse</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/comments/3233784.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3233784</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3233784</wfw:comment><description>&lt;P&gt;Unified Communications is about much more than what you get out-of-the-box – it is a platform that you can use to build, extend and enhance your own applications &amp;amp; business processes.&amp;nbsp; Looking at UC as a platform is&amp;nbsp;about more than&amp;nbsp;cost-savings, it's about competitive advantage.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As a software &amp;amp; platform company this is one Microsoft’s key strengths versus our UC competitors who still think very much inside-the-box – in fact this is why Gartner has had Microsoft as the &lt;A href="http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article1/article1.html" mce_href="http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/vol6/article1/article1.html"&gt;leader in its UC Magic Quadrant&lt;/A&gt; for the last few years.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Microsoft Press have just RTMed a new book titled Programming for Unified Communications that explains how to use OCS R2 as a development platform, and to fully realise the benefits of UC.&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;More details at &lt;A title=http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/04/30/rtm-d-today-programming-for-unified-communications.aspx href="http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/04/30/rtm-d-today-programming-for-unified-communications.aspx" mce_href="http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/04/30/rtm-d-today-programming-for-unified-communications.aspx"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2009/04/30/rtm-d-today-programming-for-unified-communications.aspx&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3233784" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/uc/default.aspx">uc</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/dev/default.aspx">dev</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/gartner/default.aspx">gartner</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/analyst/default.aspx">analyst</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/book/default.aspx">book</category><category domain="http://blogs.technet.com/jkruse/archive/tags/mspress/default.aspx">mspress</category></item></channel></rss>