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I thought this was pretty amazing to watch with some very simple items you can have an amazing smartboard for any surface. I love gadgets so I am taking this project on. I figured it may be an interesting way to kick off a demo of OCS/Exchange with schools
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I had this question from a university in the rocky mountain range. With Exchange Server 2007 unified messaging, the UM server can directly detect a fax tone using the T.38 FOIP (Fax Over IP) standard and route inbound faxes to an extension. It does
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I had this question from a large school district down in Florida and the answer is it depends on what aspects of the OCS conference you are using. Here is a bandwidth breakout of the conference scenarios: Application Sharing bandwidth: Peak Bandwidth
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Have you noticed it takes quite a long time to open up the Exchange command shell? I timed it and it takes anywhere from 20 to 30 seconds to launch. I found a way to knock this down to 2-3 seconds. This script updates the GAC with some of the Exchange
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I had this question today from a large University in the Midwest and after some digging I found the answer to this is yes: Here are the steps to do this: 1) Create two Universal security admin groups in ADUC such as OCSserverPool1group and OCSserverPool2group
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I had a few SameTime/Notes schools who were switching to Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 ask me if there was a way to embed Office Communicator client inside of Outlook? The answer is yes. There sample add-on available here along with source. Here is what
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I just came across this very nice testing tool called the "Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer" that was created and hosted by Microsoft for customers and schools to use to validate your ActiveSync, SMTP, Autodiscover, Outlook Anywhere configurations
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I just had a school that deployed a single label domain in Active Directory (e.g no .com or .edu for their domain namespace) ask me this question. I searched around but I couldn't find anything in the OCS supportability document. The answer from the OCS
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Just a quick note that I am changing my role into a pure Unified Communcations Technology Solution Professional in U.S. Education starting this week. I will also be helping customers with Live@edu and Exchange labs implementations, etc. Schools are asking
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The new upcoming iPhone 2.0 has GPS with Google maps support only. Should I get excited now? I guess so but just so you know certain Windows Mobile phones have had built-in GPS support for sometime now. You can search for a list here at pdadb.net which
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The Exchange product team is going to announce our preliminary strategy for Hyper-V and Exchange Server 2007 tomorrow at Tech-Ed. I posted my quick interpretation of what is coming. Here are some quick notes you can reference: 60-days post RTM of Hyper-V
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Here is another common question I get from schools. What options do I have to connect to Office Communications Server 2007 from a client perspective? Office Communicator Client 2007 The first client option is the Office Communicator Client that is available
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I seem to be getting this question a lot from schools as to what is the value of running Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008. I have compiled a list from sources and I also have added my own personal thoughts: Higher reliability With self healing NTFS
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For my new role, I needed to build out a Hyper-V server in order to demo MOSS, Exchange 2007 and OCS for education customers. I am new to Hyper-V so I documented a few things I have learned along the way. Sample Hyper-V demo server The first thing I needed
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I have been using our mobile phones since the beta days and I have to say this Windows Mobile 6 Professional (PPC) phone is certainly one of the best I have owned. I wasn't sure about the white to start but I like it now and I can always 'skin' it later.
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