If you’re interested in exploring, upgrading, or fine-tuning your telecommunications offerings, check out this new workshop we’ve got touring the US.
Microsoft's Unified Communications (UC) Voice Ignite is a 5-day technical workshop for IT, Networking, and Telecommunication professionals. This workshop is based on Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging (UM) and Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2.
Over the course of this workshop, you will build on your previous experience with Microsoft's UC products and learn how to successfully design and deploy Microsoft voice solutions for your customers through presentations based on experience, Labs, a Make It Real group project, and a Make It Right lab.
The UC Voice Ignite Workshop reviews many of the features and capabilities that are built into Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2, including:
- Rich Presence
- Instant Messaging
- Audio/Video/Dial-In Conferencing
- Response Groups and Enterprise Voice
Acting as an OCS Administrator, attendees will deploy an OCS Voice environment beginning post-server installation, through to enabling users and clients, and including the configuration of some advanced features, such as edge servers, gateways, and dialing plans. Primary attendee focus will be to perform Telephony Integration, creating a "single click for all media Enterprise Voice Solution, as well as exploring new Voice Workloads such as Response Groups and Outside Voice new to Release 2.
Who should attend?
The UC Voice Ignite workshop was created for technical professionals who are mobilizing to deliver Microsoft Voice over IP solutions to customers with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging (Exchange 2007 SP1 UM), and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (OCS 2007 R2).
Prerequisites:
· UM Power Up - 3 labs and 4 tutorials, all need to be completed to meet the pre-reqs. Allow about 5 hours (1 hour per tutorial, .5 hour per HOLO).
· OCS 2007 R2 Ignite - 9 labs and 9 tutorials, all need to be completed to meet the pre-reqs. Allow about 20 hours (1 hour per lab, 1+ hour per tutorial). Additional presentations to support the labs can be found here under Training.
· Recommended Pre-reading modules can be found at http://trainings.partner.microsoft.com
Course Summary Outline:
Day 1: UC Voice Architecture (UM/VoIP/Conf architect/deploy/troubleshoot)
Day 2: OCS VoIP (architect, deploy, troubleshoot)
Day 3: OCS and UM integration
Day 4: Make it Right - design, troubleshoot, correct
Day 5: Conferencing, Microsoft roadmap, Certificates of Achievement
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW.
If you’d like to dig into our offering a bit more, do check out the Office Communications Server page on the MPN site, as well as the learning packages available to you for free on the Learning Plan Tool.
As a side note, over here on the Partner Learning Blog, we are fierce devotees of OCS and we depend on the capabilities of the solution every day – seriously, it’s an awesome product and we encourage you to check it out if you haven’t already. My personal favorite feature is the ability to call or IM anyone in my contact list at any number from the convenience of my inbox, an open mail, or my IM buddy/contact list. There are so many great details in this integrated solution that makes work life so interconnected and easy!
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The Partner Training Team