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OCS 2007 and Response Point

Posted Friday, April 20, 2007 8:51 AM by markdea
Last month Microsoft Research announced a product called Response Point and I quickly noted down some of my initial thoughts and linked to more information here . Since then a number of people, mainly channel partners, have asked me how this fits into Read More...
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Exceeding expectations

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:35 PM by markdea
About a week ago I popped into the Reading Audi garage to book an appointment to get my Audi looked at as I had been having problems with the back window. I booked it in for Tuesday (today) and my expectation was for them to pick up the car from work, Read More...
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Review of Office Communications Server 2007 on ZDNet - OCS in a 'nutshell'

Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:01 PM by markdea
One of the parts of my job I really enjoy doing is speaking to customer, partners and journolists about our Unified Communications and how its going to change the way in which people will communicate with each other in the future. The problem I am presented Read More...
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Office Communications Server 2007 Beta now live!

Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 6:32 PM by markdea
Finally the wait is over, we have now made public the betas for :- Office Communications Server 2007 beta and Office Communicator 2007 beta Office Communications Server 2007 Speech Server beta Documentation for Office Communications Server 2007 beta Go Read More...
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Microsoft Response Point

Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007 10:23 AM by markdea
One of the problems with most telephony systems is that small business don't want to spend their time configuring and repatching phones when someone moves from desk to desk. They have enough to worry about without having to become PBX technicians as well. Read More...
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The end of the phone ? - Part 2

Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 5:36 PM by markdea
I raised this question in a post a while back and after receiving a big box from Redmond today I thought now might be a good time to ask the question again :-) For those of you who have me on your IM list and had read my 'note', you would have noticed Read More...
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Are you a Tech-No?

Posted Friday, January 12, 2007 5:12 PM by markdea
Today I spent ten minutes reading an article on 'tech-no's', found here , and thought I would share it with you. Its actually a really interesting article and I wanted to bring it to your attention. Although technology can help you communicate faster, Read More...
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Unified Communications in a nut shell? - All you need is the 'Electric Wand'

Posted Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:47 PM by markdea
At times it can be quite hard to sum up Unified Communications and more importantly why its useful to have presence and instant messaging rather than using the tried and tested technologies of email and the phone. Darren Strange today pointed me in the Read More...
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Let Santa know your last minute present requests!

Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 10:20 AM by markdea
I spotted this on someone's blog today and wanted to share this with you :-) It appears that in order to communicate with a new younger generation of kids, Santa has had a meeting with the Windows Live Messenger guys at Microsoft and has signed up for Read More...
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The end of the phone?

Posted Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:54 AM by markdea
Is it really possible to live without a phone on your desk? Is that a little too far fetched? Well lets find out ! People ask me if such a thing is ever going to happen and for now I think its kind of hard to tell. As with a lot of stuff in Unified Communications, Read More...
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Exchange RTMs ... now its the beta for OCS 2007

Posted Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:21 PM by markdea
Working at Microsoft, I rarely find myself running a machine with RTM software on it, but with the RTM of Exchange 2007, Windows Vista and Office 2007, I have found myself running fully released code. I am glad to say I have now managed to fix this 'problem' Read More...
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The Devils Does Unified Communications - Part 2

Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 5:29 PM by markdea
"A Tale of two meeting rooms" Hot of the heels of the first video, I am pleased to say we have another that concentrates more on Office Roundtable. Roundtable is a cracking device which enables people to video conference from a room of their choice rather Read More...
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Finding a spare meeting room a Microsoft ... easier than you think ... for now!

Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 6:28 PM by markdea
First of all I would like you to know that I am giving away a little known Microsoft employee internal tip here .... hopefully not enough Microsoft employees read this blog for it to be a problem :-) Within Microsoft in the UK, we have a number of video Read More...
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The end of 'hold music' is nigh!

Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 8:06 PM by markdea
This week I experience problems with my XBOX, to cut a long story short I can't talk to people online and to be honest this is half the fun. Like most people, after doing a little investigation I phoned xbox live support and after 10 minutes or so of Read More...
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Partner Exchange-Vista-Office (EVO) site goes live!

Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:45 PM by markdea
One of the things I get asked from time to time is can a partner go if they want to find out more information on EVO ... especially the E part i.e. Exchange 2007. Up until now, the answer has been www.microsoft.com/exchange/ which although has lot of Read More...
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