The Three UC Amigos
Three Microsoft UC technology specialists covering U.S. Education
How can I delegate the UM administration to my telco team?
I had an Ivy league university ask about this. There is a way to do this documented below:...
Author: markga Date: 10/04/2008
Mediation Server and Erlang
One of the best ways to estimate the number of channels needed to handle your call workload is to...
Author: GregK Date: 10/03/2008
Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008 AD
I had another question today on AD requirements with Windows 2008. The customer has some AD servers...
Author: GregK Date: 09/29/2008
SCP is good for me
Customer today asked me about Outlook 2007 clients. They are planning on doing there schema...
Author: GregK Date: 09/29/2008
Federation in Higher Education
Previously I posted information about Federating across Universities for collaboration. One of my...
Author: GregK Date: 09/26/2008
What is Exchange Server’s market share?
I had this question asked by a large Midwestern university medical center with regards to health...
Author: markga Date: 09/25/2008
Unified Communications overview in Education webcast available
I got a chance to do a Tuesday Tech talk on Unified Communications for Education and they recorded...
Author: markga Date: 09/24/2008
How do I get OCS presence to work inside of SharePoint?
This is was from a Midwestern university which asked a question around how does MOSS and OCS work...
Author: markga Date: 09/23/2008
I want to deploy Exchange Server 2007 on Hyper-V. What works?
I found this useful TechNote on support boundaries for Exchange 2007 running on Hyper-V:...
Author: markga Date: 09/22/2008
Customer asks "How can I ensure that messages in an archive are tamper-proof?"
I believe the real question is how can I prevent my organizations messages from being tampered. The...
Author: GregK Date: 09/17/2008
Create an Interactive Whiteboard for $55 vs. $2000+
I thought this was pretty amazing to watch with some very simple items you can have an amazing...
Author: markga Date: 09/12/2008
We trust each other don't we part II: Can I share Free/Busy information between two Exchange 2007 organizations?
Here is some additional information to supplement Greg's post. I had the same question this week...
Author: markga Date: 09/10/2008
We trust each other don't we?
The Dean of XYZ on Main Campus needs to be able to setup meetings with the Dean from XYZ at the...
Author: GregK Date: 09/08/2008
Spam from your own Domain
One of my HiED customers asked me the other day about SPAM coming from within campus going to the...
Author: GregK Date: 09/05/2008
How does faxing work with Exchange unified messaging?
I had this question from a university in the rocky mountain range. With Exchange Server 2007...
Author: markga Date: 09/05/2008
Populate?
A customer asked me yesterday about pre-staging clients with contacts. They were looking to add...
Author: GregK Date: 09/03/2008
What type of bandwidth does OCS web conferencing use?
I had this question from a large school district down in Florida and the answer is it depends on...
Author: markga Date: 09/02/2008
Federation with Microsoft and with Education Institutions
How do you build a community? Federate! In OCS 2007 you have the ability to federate with other...
Author: GregK Date: 08/28/2008
Voicemail - Do I retain it?
What are your message record retention policies? Some customers I've worked with are very hesitant...
Author: GregK Date: 08/28/2008
How can I speed up the Exchange Management Shell launch?
Have you noticed it takes quite a long time to open up the Exchange command shell? I timed it and it...
Author: markga Date: 08/26/2008
Is there a way to separate OCS server administration between pools in the same domain? Can't we all just get along Part II
I had this question today from a large University in the Midwest and after some digging I found the...
Author: markga Date: 08/26/2008
Can't we all just get along? Part I
Scenario 1: Delegating Setup (Installation and Activation) Mark and I run into this problem in HiED...
Author: GregK Date: 08/26/2008
What if I have external users?
This is where the real value of OCS is. I can invite users outside my organization (Visiting Staff,...
Author: GregK Date: 08/25/2008
Is there a way to get Office Communicator inside of Outlook?
I had a few SameTime/Notes schools who were switching to Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 ask me if there...
Author: markga Date: 08/15/2008
Schema changes and OCS
I have a customer that's asked about OCS Global settings and whether to install in the system...
Author: GregK Date: 08/14/2008
Emergency Notification
I found out something new today. If you are PIC (Public IM Connector) enabled in OCS you get a great...
Author: GregK Date: 08/05/2008
ISAP errors on Exchange 2007
I just reinstalled Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 in Hyper-V and I was coming across an error with...
Author: GregK Date: 08/01/2008
Lots of new gateways for OCS 2007
I was checking on a PBX model/version with a customer when I found that we increased the...
Author: GregK Date: 07/31/2008
UC Phones
What phones work with OCS 2007? Here’s a quick list with partner contact info:...
Author: GregK Date: 07/25/2008
GroupWise Migration
This is an older topic but one that I’ve run across recently with education customers. I’m planning...
Author: GregK Date: 07/25/2008
Quarterly Customer Roundtable
All – we had a very good call yesterday with our customers on Unified Communications. The goal of...
Author: GregK Date: 07/23/2008
Bricks layer backups
I hate to even say it. Customers still ask for it but alot of implementations are still done via...
Author: GregK Date: 07/15/2008
SCC and Geographic Clustering
I received some questions on Single Copy Clustering for Exchange 2007 that I wanted to share with...
Author: GregK Date: 07/15/2008
The New Site is Up!
In education we have a very small team to support our customers. Your team consist of Bill Hagen,...
Author: GregK Date: 07/15/2008