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One of my main responsibilities is managing Microsoft Consultants to work with our customers and partners in our beta/TAP programs. With both consulting and support involved each group gains product familiarity early and helps prepare their organization
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In my role I am on a distribution group with our Most Valuable Professional's ( MVP ), which allows us to gain valuable insight into trends with deployment problems, questions or documentation items as well they share input on future product plans to
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I never claim to know everything about certificates but I do feel I know a fair amount. In working with a customer issue we had some questions on whether the certificate would be trusted by the PIC partners given the intermediate authorities. When asking
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This question came from our MVP's regarding the ability to prevent attendees from marking up the presentation. The presenter can do this in the following dialog. In the Attendees panel, select Permissions -
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I found this posting from Dmitry with an OCS 2007 PowerShell solution and thought I would pass it on - if you have other solutions please comment with links. Since Dmitry's post does a really good job of showing the UI, I won't repeat it here. PowerGUI
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Check out the latest marketing video for VoIP as you are video. It is 15 minutes long and includes the Sklar brothers of Cheap Seats fame (or at least where I first learned of them)' http://preview.microsoft.com/video/videoDetails.aspx?video=17648162-1372-4eef-af74-a7362978bc09
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This post comes courtesy of an MVP and partner in our voice program, John Lamb with Modality Systems ( www.modalitysystems.com ) Tom-LCSKID: Many partners and customers are reporting problems using the script used for configuring the Update Server. We,
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The post below comes courtesy of one of the partners in our voice program. I took the liberty of modifying the format of his email alias to reduce spam. He provided permission to include the details of his auto signature. I am also retaining the use of
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Partners and customers deploying Office Communications Server 2007 with enterprise voice still require a media gateway for a supported configuration. The definitive place to determine supported vendors, models and the qualification level (direct sip via
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I had a partner ask the question of the differences between the 2 clients and I didn't know, so you can thank Henry for finding it. From the link , look to the left navigation for these other items - Getting Started Overview What's new for corporate accounts
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So the fact that I am going to Interact 2008 (Interact '08) didn't really get you interested, maybe an invite from our Corporate VP of Unified Communications Group Gurdeep Singh Pall will. http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/03/14/124.aspx
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For those of you that had to put a lot of thought into the Make it Real customer scenario question during Voice Ignite, you will be glad to know that a tool now exists to help you with that initial estimate of servers required for a deployment. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06793661-cd69-4490-bb4b-e97dd271209d&displaylang=en
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I think given all that will come from our presentation on the topic that a series will likely result. The right place to start on this subject is the Migrating to Office Communications Server 2007 document. I would like to call out that the
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Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit In-depth technical information and tools for administering Communications Server 2007—from those who know the technology best Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring,
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AudioCodes has published the instructions for a demo setup along with the necessary ini file for use with the device. I use the AudioCodes MP-114 in my personal lab and will document its configuration in the next deploy series posting (planned for second
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