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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 9:02 AM

Looking for OCS 2007 R2 voice training for your telecom staff?

If you are looking for some voice specific training for your telecom team for OCS R2 there is an unique offering over at www.OCSforum.com .  Tom Cross, the CEO of OCSForum, has setup hosted sandbox labs to test your voice configurations as well as
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Monday, August 10, 2009 10:02 PM

Things to consider with non-certified OCS Voice Endpoints

This was something I came across for customers who are buying non-certified UC endpoints since this has been a popular direction in Education:   What does it mean to for a voice endpoint to be certified for OCS 2007? The OCS Voice endpoint needs
Posted by markga | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:32 PM

Download Free UC e-books from Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press 25th Anniversary "Free E-Book of the Month" Offers This will be our last month to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Press with a free e-book offer. This monthly offer can be found in the top right corner of this monthly
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Monday, May 18, 2009 7:41 AM

Do I need a director with OCS R2?

I was asked this from a school district in Southern California who was rolling out OCS R2 and enterprise voice for the all their faculty and staff. The answer depends on your OCS R2 architecture and whether your access is from internal or external networks. 
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:30 AM

OCS 2007 R2 Virtualization announcement

Today, we announce OCS 2007 R2 virtualization support for certain OCS 2007 R2 roles. This includes our own Hyper-V technology as well as other SVVP certified virtualization technologies. I know a lot of schools have been waiting for this since they want
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:32 PM

Can I make native voice calls through OCS on a Mac or non-PC platforms?

I get asked this quite a bit from schools as they want the ability to place/receive voice calls on the Mac or Linux using OCS R2. The answer is yes if you leverage the SmartSip technology from our partner Evangelyze. You can make and receive voice calls
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 8:39 AM

R2 Edge planning tool just released

This is a very nice tool as it will help layout your OCS R2 Edge environment: You can enter all your IP information via the wizard and it provides a nice Edge summary at the end:   Along with Firewall rules: Certificate needs: DNS needs: and how
Posted by markga | 2 Comments
Monday, April 13, 2009 10:59 AM

Right Sizing your Network for OCS R2

In order to understand bandwidth requirements for OCS it’s important to first model expected usage and right provisioning the network. You will also have to manage usage and grow in line with your business needs. Bottom line – Measure Well!!   Bandwidth
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Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:17 PM

What is Group Chat Server in OCS R2?

I have had quite a bit of interest in education with the new OCS R2 Group Chat Server functionality. We are just starting to use this internally and people are really liking this great new way of collaboration and idea sharing vs. traditional email threads,
Posted by markga | 14 Comments
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:20 PM

Licensing Change for OCS R2

When we launched OCS R2 in Feb. the licensing for the product changed. Let’s talk about the client license first. OCS Standard CAL now includes Group Chat. OCS Enterprise CAL now includes desktop sharing, dial-in conferencing, Team Call, Delegation, Response
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 6:13 PM

R2 Edge: What do I need from a Network perspective?

This was a question from a national vocational university. They wanted to know if they needed multiple NICs/VLANs and a Perimeter for OCS R2 Edge since they didn’t have one already. One or two NICS? The answer is two NICs are now required for OCS R2 Edge
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 8:20 AM

Promote your R2 rollout and give them some training

There are some nice banners, posters, stickers, etc to use for your rollout. There is also some nice end user leave behinds you can use: Grab the material here .   More R2 Communicator specific training here . More Live Meeting training here .  
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Friday, February 27, 2009 2:57 PM

Where should I store my OCS R2 global settings?

I got this question from a Colorado customer.  They were getting this pop when installing R2: The question they had was: Where should I store the OCS R2 global settings in the System or Configuration containers?   The answer is of course it
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Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:13 PM

More R2 whitepaper and article goodness

Since the launch we have had plenty of good R2 info coming in. Here is just sample:   ‘Time to Ebay the PBX’ NetworkWorld Podcast and article I also thought this was a great Podcast interview of Terry Gold, founder of Gold Systems , from Mitchell
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 5:46 PM

How do I get from OCS RTM (R1) to OCS R2?

Do I have to migrate server or client to R2 first? Migrate the servers first and then clients. The preferred server option is called a side by side migration. More on that below.   What server options do I have to migrate to R2? You have two options:
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