Exchange and UC
The latest news on Exchange 2007 and Unified Communications
OCS R2 Response Group
I have been meaning to do this for a little while. I have finally managed to get some time to do it....
Date: 03/25/2009
Using 3g for Communicator Video Calls
This is not the first time it has happened and I bit not the last. One part of my role is going to...
Date: 03/10/2009
The Time is Now - IT Strategies for Uncertain Economic times
I don't need to go into how tough things are out there. I talk to Microsoft Partners day in day out...
Date: 03/09/2009
What's New in R2
Everyone knows that R2 is just around the corner, but frustratingly unless you are a Microsoft...
Date: 12/12/2008
What a difference a year makes!!!
There has been a bit of a lull in my blogging, for a number of reasons, I have been very busy seeing...
Date: 11/27/2008
Performance Impact of High Item Counts and Restricted Views
This is a great article - during my days as a CPR engineer I spent many an hour understanding the...
Date: 06/06/2008
Upcoming OCS Webcasts
There is a durge of upcoming webcasts for OCS on the horizon Here are the links Live Webcasts...
Date: 05/29/2008
Shell Case Study
One of the re-occuring questions I get whenever I am meeting partners and customers is "So who...
Date: 05/29/2008
Email is ruining my life......
This article has been around for quite sometime - I was due to attend a meeting with Loughborough...
Date: 05/29/2008
Long Time no Blog....
It has been a busy time over the last couple months. Microsoft are in the last quarter of their...
Date: 05/29/2008
OCS Planning tool
The OCS Planning tool is available It is a great start to plan your OCS topology producing diagrams...
Date: 03/14/2008
OCS Speech Server 2007 - I am blown away
I was tasked with doing a UC demo by our illustrious leader at a recent group meeting. The brief was...
Date: 03/10/2008
Unified Communication Specialisation
A lot of Partners ask me who do I achieve the UC Specialisation - well if you need to find out what...
Date: 03/10/2008
Live Meeting licenses now available for partners
I realise that this has been a bug bear for a lot of partners, the fact that LM licenses were not...
Date: 03/10/2008
Partner Communities - Sign up today
Are you a Partner - would you like to know what other Partners are doing or just have the...
Date: 03/10/2008
New Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources
A new version of the Transporter suite has been released that will aid you in moving from the...
Date: 01/30/2008
Unified Communications News
I have been a bit slow to get these announcements on my blog - but hopefully this post will cover...
Date: 01/30/2008
New Year and loads happening
The New Year is with us and there is loads happening in the world of UC. I had a great break and...
Date: 01/14/2008
My Demo Environment - Part 3 Integrating Exchange 2007 UM with OCS
So far I have tried to highlight how to get OCS and UM working separately. But obviously if we can...
Date: 12/13/2007
Exchange 2007 Sp1 is now available
SP1 is now available - from here There are a wealth of new features and functionality included and...
Date: 11/30/2007
My Demo environment - Part 2 OCS 2007 and Mediation Server
Firstly when I started writing this I did not think it would be so long - it is only now that I have...
Date: 11/29/2007
Exchange 2007 Architecture Poster
If you want to impress your friends and colleagues or just have a reference poster for Exchange 2007...
Date: 11/16/2007
Back after Unplugged
I have been away from blogging for some time, this is mainly due to spending the large proportion of...
Date: 11/16/2007
BTW - OCS Launch is October 17th
Pretty common knowledge I know but I have not actually blogged the registration details. The UK...
Date: 10/03/2007
Enhancing Presence by adding new states
I learnt some great things at TechReady - here is one of them You have probably read that in OCS...
Date: 10/02/2007
My Demo Environment - UM
As I posted earlier I am writing a series of posts on how I set up my UC demo environment, In this...
Date: 09/24/2007
Exchange Unified Messaging
It is amazing how quickly you forget how you use to do things in the old days. I have been without a...
Date: 09/24/2007
Unified Communications - My Demo Environment
I have not posted for a while - since RTM of OCS things have been very busy. Lots of people ask me...
Date: 09/24/2007
Quality of Experience vs Quality of Service
Today is my last day at the Microsoft Technical Conference in Seattle. It has been great - lots of...
Date: 07/27/2007
Exchange 2007 Server Business Value tool
I am currently at TechReady in Seattle. It is a opportunity to get to know some new people and learn...
Date: 07/22/2007
UC Training Paths now available
This has just recently been released so I thought I would add it here to ensure all the latest info...
Date: 07/17/2007
French Gov say Blackberry is Insecure
While looking for a holiday this weekend I stumbled across this story on the EnjoyFrance website. I...
Date: 07/09/2007
Telephony Integration Whitepaper and General UM stuff
There is know loads of great material off the UC site as well as Technet Here are some of the...
Date: 07/06/2007
Week 3 of my Journey with OCS and Communicator 2007
I blogged about my experiences of not using a phone a couple of weeks ago and so I thought I would...
Date: 07/06/2007
Certificates and Exchange 2007
I was planning on writing a blog about certificates and Exchange 2007 - it has been sitting in my...
Date: 07/03/2007
PartnerBot - Information at your fingertips
I have been meaning to Blog about this since it was released. It is great technology and I love Bots...
Date: 06/25/2007
OCS 2007 week 1 - It gets better and better
On Monday of this week I was put on the OCS2007 pilot - I have been using Presence and IM but this...
Date: 06/22/2007
Searching Multiple Mailboxes
One of the great features within Exchange 2007 is that ability to do searches over multiple...
Date: 06/22/2007
OCS APIs
If you haven't seen them before the following OCS API's are now available...
Date: 06/14/2007
Mobile 6
I don't really talk a lot about Mobile and the way it integrates with Exchange 2007. I simply take...
Date: 06/14/2007
"If it were a TV show it would be friends"
I don't entirely agree with this statement but totally agree with this article which I saw on...
Date: 06/13/2007
Naming of Longhorn
This is quite amusing - at least it shows that we do have a sense of humour...
Date: 06/13/2007
Coooool Phone
Just checking out the latest gadgets and came across this It is worlds first touch panel phone - I...
Date: 06/08/2007
CEO Summit Megatrends
Check out Bill's CEO Summit keynote. This is an enlightening video that explains what he sees are...
Date: 05/29/2007
UC Devices
A whole bunch of UC devices has been unveiled today - check out Mark's blog to see the devices....
Date: 05/14/2007
OCS Ignite
I have just got back off the OCS ignite - it is a great piece of training and really gets anyone...
Date: 05/14/2007
UM @ Microsoft
It has finally happened and UM has been rolled out to all UK .employees. I have been demoing this...
Date: 05/14/2007
Why I use Communicator
So the Office Communication Server 2007 public beta has been out there for some time and lots of...
Date: 05/14/2007