The Three UC Amigos

Exchange 2010 Federation Part III

gkatz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:17:45 GMT

Federated Sharing offers two ways to share information with recipients in external organizations (Outlook Live/Exchange Online): 1) Organization relationships and 2) Sharing policies. Organization Relationships You can select between the following...(read more)

Exchange 2010 Federation Part II

gkatz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:59:06 GMT

OK. Now we have a cert. Prerequisites The domain used for establishing a federation trust should be resolvable from the Internet. This requires that the domain be registered with a domain registrar, and the DNS zone for the domain be hosted on a DNS server...(read more)

Exchange 2010 Federation Part I

gkatz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:42:35 GMT

So we must be talking about Identity Management. Nope. In this case we are talking about federating calendars between on-premises and cloud services such as Outlook Live and Exchange Online (when our back-end moves to Exchange 2010). This can also be...(read more)

Get some free Exchange 2010 training and chapters while it lasts

markga — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:09:29 GMT

Now that we have RTMed Exchange 2010 – where can I get some training? Well, if you act now you can use the free Exchange Server 2010 e-Learning Clinics for a limited time: Clinic 6899: Exploring Features of Exchange Server 2010 (two hours) Clinic 6900:...(read more)

Exchange 2010 RTM. Woohoooo!!!!

gkatz — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:52:13 GMT

General Availability early Nov. http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Enough said. I’m excited....(read more)

Da Dump

gkatz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:03:15 GMT

Introduction The Dumpster. In Exchange 2010 we introduce the new Dumpster 2.0. This is a completely different Dumpster than what we’ve had in the past. An end user can do a soft delete or a hard delete on a message. The soft delete is when the...(read more)

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

markga — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:02:52 GMT

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...(read more)

Does OCS R2 provide ACD functionality?

markga — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:28:49 GMT

I was asked this by a university in Colorado: The answer is not directly out of the box however there is a feature in OCS 2007 R2 that provides a subset of ACD features (mostly departmental ACD features) called a Response Group Service. ...(read more)

Federate with Google Talk and Jabber and even AOL without a PIC license

markga — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:31:27 GMT

A lot of schools have been asking me when our XMPP gateway was coming out and it finally hit the web today. The XMPP Gateway federation interoperability has been tested between OCS 2007 R2 as well as OCS 2007 and Jabber XCP Server 5.4 and the current...(read more)

What does Exchange Online and Office Communications Online look like?

markga — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:23:03 GMT

I have had many school districts and universities ask for demos and overview of our cloud offerings for Exchange and OCS. Here are some screen shots I put together of the BPOS offering: What is BPOS? BPOS is Microsoft Online’s Business Productivity...(read more)

What can I be doing now to prepare for Exchange Server 2010?

markga — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:16:08 GMT

I was asked this by a school district in Washington State which had Exchange 2003/2007 already deployed. Here are a few ideas I came up with for them: Step 1: Clean up Exchange, Active Directory, and DNS Run Exchange Best Practice Analyzer...(read more)

New Outlook for Mac coming in next release of Mac Office

markga — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:08:03 GMT

Looks like the Mac Business unit is busy improving the Exchange email clients for the Mac. First they released the new Entourage EWS update and next they will be releasing a brand new Outlook for Mac in the next major release of Mac Office: Outlook...(read more)

Where can I grab some OCS 2007 R2 Deployment and Administration Guides?

markga — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:01:21 GMT

This is a pretty common question I get from customers. Here are some great R2 guides/documents in Word format or all the 38 R2 guides/documents listed below combined into ONE CHM format file (great for quick R2 reference searches). Very useful...(read more)

There is an app for it

gkatz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:14:23 GMT

Mark found this the other day. I’ve got screenshots now. If you have CWA installed all you need to do is download and install the client. From a company called Modality Systems. Check more here . I have some customers testing now. They are able...(read more)

Exchange 2010 Release Candidate available for evaluation download

markga — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:43:40 GMT

The RC milestone has been reached and made available for your evaluation as of today. Please download here and kick the tires in a non-production setting. Some HW prerequisites for the evaluation (Beta specs not updated for RC as of yet): ...(read more)