The Three UC Amigos
Three Microsoft UC technology specialists covering U.S. Education
What are my choices for Exchange Server in the cloud?
This was a question I was asked from a university in the Midwest who was interested in moving from...
Author: markga Date: 03/10/2009
Fewer Ports for A/V in OCS R2
One of the things we did in R2 is review the edge topology and made significant changes in...
Author: GregK Date: 03/03/2009
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:...
Author: markga Date: 02/27/2009
You asked for it
The next version of Exchange will support the OWA Premium experience in Firefox. For details check...
Author: GregK Date: 02/27/2009
OCS R2 Planning Tool is released
The Planning Tool is great for helping you with an initial design for OCS R2. The wizard will guide...
Author: GregK Date: 02/26/2009
Forefront for OCS
Forefront Security for OCS Beta 3 Now Available The Beta 3 for Forefront Security for Office...
Author: GregK Date: 02/26/2009
Want to make your Outlook 2007 client scream?
Install this February 2009 Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007: 1. Install the update – Download page...
Author: markga Date: 02/25/2009
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...
Author: markga Date: 02/20/2009
Exchange UM questions
These are a set of voicemail questions coming from a university in Chicago: Does a call made from...
Author: markga Date: 02/16/2009
Desktop Sharing
I think it’s important to point out that Desktop sharing can be done with Communicator Web Access...
Author: GregK Date: 02/06/2009
I lost my call didn’t I? Voice Quality in OCS R2
One of the many interesting things we’ve added to OCS R2 is the idea of resiliency. In OCS RTM...
Author: GregK Date: 02/06/2009
TTY Support
A common request for RFP is support for TTY. What is it? A TTY is a device that enables people who...
Author: GregK Date: 02/04/2009
Extending Schema for OCS R2
OCS R2 does introduce new schema classes and attributes to accommodate for some of the new roles. So...
Author: GregK Date: 02/01/2009
How many Ports?
Gateway sizing in OCS R2. When estimating the amount of ports on campus, use these guidelines:...
Author: GregK Date: 01/28/2009
Bye Bye WebDAV
Entourage has long been critized with it's access to exchange. I remember getting questions about...
Author: GregK Date: 01/21/2009
OCS 2007 R2 Hardware and OS requirements
64-bit only As you know, R2 is moving to a 64-bit only platform to achieve greater...
Author: markga Date: 01/16/2009
Exchange 14 video and info announced today
A video was published today by our Exchange team discussing our upcoming release of Exchange 14...
Author: markga Date: 01/14/2009
Speech Server Licensing
One of our customers today asked about licensing of OCS Speech Server. Speech Server is part of OCS...
Author: GregK Date: 01/13/2009
Disaster Recovery and OCS
I have a customer that is looking at a full site recovery with OCS. They have one Enterprise Pool in...
Author: GregK Date: 01/12/2009
Archiving with OCS
One of our customers asked me about view content of IM with OCS. Can this be done or do we need 3rd...
Author: GregK Date: 01/09/2009
Happy New Year!!! Back to OCS Deployment...How do I deploy OCS with Cisco Load Balancers?
One of my customers was looking for guidance. 'From the Cisco Guidance"...The Cisco ACE...
Author: GregK Date: 01/05/2009
What I can't Print? The message has been protected.
Yesterday I was with a customer and we were talking about using Rights Management Protection with...
Author: GregK Date: 12/16/2008
My school has Blackberry users, can they listen to Exchange voicemails?
Yes, however you have to change the default Exchange voicemail storage compression codec from WMA...
Author: markga Date: 12/15/2008
I want to render OWA inside of a SharePoint webpart without having to type credentials
Here is one solution I came up for a customer: 1) Add another web site to the Exchange CAS...
Author: markga Date: 12/12/2008
What is the Mac story on OCS?
This was a question from a Northeastern school district: Mac Messenger 7.0 Mac Messenger 7.0...
Author: markga Date: 12/04/2008
AOL isn't working?
So I've had PIC working for a long time and now AOL doesn't work. Nothing is wrong with MSN or...
Author: GregK Date: 12/02/2008
Can you tell me the differences between OCS LiveMeeting (on-prem) and LiveMeeting Service (cloud service)?
I get this question quite a bit from schools. I found a useful slide that covers the differences:...
Author: markga Date: 11/25/2008
Quick PodCast from VoiceCon
One of our partners Enabling Technologies was interviewed at VoiceCon by Blair Pleasant of...
Author: GregK Date: 11/20/2008
Some more R2 Goodness
Voicemail Integration. Some other great features involve the integration with OCS and Exchange 2007....
Author: GregK Date: 11/20/2008
What I like about OCS R2 thus far and some new R2 screenshots
I have been using the Office Communicator R2 beta builds internally for a few months and I have to...
Author: markga Date: 11/20/2008
IBM Sametime Federation with OCS 2007 announced to today
This is some good news on the IM interop front. Announced at VoiceCon today: IBM and Microsoft plan...
Author: markga Date: 11/13/2008
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 now supported on VMWARE
I get this question from schools around support for Exchange Server 2007 support on VMWARE and our...
Author: markga Date: 11/12/2008
I'll just use NTBackup
For years I've used NTBackup to backup Exchange database files. This is no longer possible in...
Author: GregK Date: 11/11/2008
Exchange UM - Cisco Update
Cisco Call Manager 4.x is now supported for integration with Exchange UM. That's right you can now...
Author: GregK Date: 11/10/2008
UC Amigos invade Educause – Come by and say hello
Come see us in the Microsoft Booth tomorrow morning for Q & A, etc. We have some cool things to...
Author: markga Date: 10/29/2008
Addendum to previous post: When an Outside Caller leaves a voicemail, I get ‘A message from an unrecognized number’ in Outlook Voice Access
In my previous post around this, I mentioned there is an Exchange 2007 Rollup3 needed to resolve...
Author: markga Date: 10/23/2008
OCS R2 - Keynote at VoiceCon Amsterdam
Author: GregK Date: 10/20/2008
Cached or not?
When planning for larger mailboxes a couple of areas need to be addressed. First where is the hit?...
Author: GregK Date: 10/20/2008
OCS 2007 Release 2 details announced today
We have been tight lipped about R2 for some time now and it has been hard as we have been wanting to...
Author: markga Date: 10/16/2008
Hear how K-12 School Districts saved up to $15,000 a month with OCS!!!
Webinar: Streamlining your communication and Collaboration. Agenda: Unified communications...
Author: bill hagen Date: 10/16/2008
Come Hear the UC Roadmap & Meet the 3 UC Amigos at Educause 2008!!!
Title of Meeting: UC Roundtable Gathering group meeting Meeting Overview: Meet with Microsoft to...
Author: bill hagen Date: 10/16/2008
How can I route out certain outbound domains to specific SMTP gateways?
I had a Rocky Mountain university ask how they could route specific internally defined SMTP domains...
Author: markga Date: 10/08/2008
Why does Exchange UM say unrecognized caller in OVA when name is resolved in the voicemail?
A question from a school in Utah: The scenario was their Outlook Voice Access (OVA) was not...
Author: markga Date: 10/08/2008