Welcome to the Microsoft Hosting Partner Technical Advisor blog!
As mentioned in the monthly Technical Advisor Update email, this blog site is driven by your Hosting Technology Specialists (TS) at Microsoft and you! This is a new site to allow blog interaction between the Microsoft Hosting TS's and Microsoft's SPLA Hosting Partners. We encourage friendly, spirited, focused dialogue, questions and concerns on our Hosted Solutions (WBH, HMC, WBHA, CSF), Microsoft's overall technologies and the hosting industry in general. Enjoy!
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Anonymous
October 31, 2006
This will be great communication tool, everyone in the community should add this site to their regular reading list. And don't be afraid to comment - the more feedback the better the content! You will need to sign-in to post comments. Don't have an account? Sign-up for one from the link at the top of the page, it's quick and free.Anonymous
November 01, 2006
Looking forward to leveraging the resource and glad to finally see it. I've subscribed to the RSS feeds leveraging IE 7.0, and can't wait to see the open dialog flourish.Anonymous
November 01, 2006
Glad to see this blog get started. Looking forward to learning from and sharing with others.Anonymous
November 01, 2006
I receive the Hosting Newsletter each month and I just got October’s release. Michael van Dijken tellAnonymous
November 02, 2006
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November 08, 2006
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November 08, 2006
I have some questions about Microsoft Solution: Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.5 over at http://kevin.tunis.name/archive/2006/11/02/Microsoft-Solution_3A00_-Hosted-Messaging-and-Collaboration-3.5.aspxAnonymous
November 08, 2006
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November 08, 2006
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November 10, 2006
Chuck Ladd provided us with a very in depth answer to the questions about the Microsoft Solution: Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.5. In my first question Chuck says yes to this solution being deployed on a Virtual Server running Microsoft Longhorn 64-bit but only for testing and demo purposes but not in a production environment. Interesting, my thought is what if you were to run two servers, the first one set up using the 5 server deployment as described in the Consolidated Server Guide for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.5 and then set the second server as mirror to the first. Chuck, on the hosted Microsoft Dynamics I received two solutions from Microsoft - Professional Edition for Service Providers Hosted Deployment Model and Professional Edition for Service Providers Managed On-Premise Deployment Model; is this the same as the download that you recommend in your answer? I would like to Chuck Ladd and the Microsoft Hosting Partner Advisor Team for answering this question.Anonymous
November 10, 2006
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November 16, 2006
I have a question about Unified Communications, how can this be provided as a On-Premise Hosting Model?Anonymous
November 17, 2006
It’s an exciting time to be working with products that fall under the Unified Communications umbrella. Within Microsoft Unified Communications is comprised of our real-time collaboration group (Live Communications Server and Live Meeting) and our messaging group (exchange) Live Communication Server (LCS) falls under our Hosted Messaging and Collaboration Solution. If you haven’t read up on that product I’d encourage you to check it out at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/communicationsserver/FX101729111033.aspx In my opinion we’ve documented that product as good or better than anything else we’ve come out with. Information specific to hosted scenarios can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/solutions/hostedmessaginglive.mspx We also just released the Microsoft Solution for Enhanced VOIP Services 1.0 (EVS) which gives service providers a scalable multi-service solution enabling enterprise class Unified Communication services in a multi-tenant environment. The solution is based on Hosted LCS and includes Office Communicator extensions for Advanced Call Forwarding and Call History. This release supports Sylantro. We are currently gathering requirements to support other vendors in our next release. In addition, Office Communications Server 2007, which is slated to be released the summer of 2007, will support on-premise web conferencing and multi-party audio and video. http://www.microsoft.com/uc/Technologies.mspx Exchange 2007, which is slated to be released by the end of this year, will also support unified messaging. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/features.mspx We’ll wrap these products into a future version of HMC. -AdamAnonymous
December 05, 2006
Hi there! Where would I post if I have an HMC development question? Is this the right place - if not can you please direct me ?Anonymous
December 10, 2006
I would be interested in learning more about 'Microsoft Solution for Enhanced VOIP Services 1.0 (EVS)' as noted by Adam in his post. We're members of the HMC program, but I cannot find any additional information about this offering. Please advise. Thanks.Anonymous
February 04, 2008
Hi I am looking for some information regarding the intgration of HMC 4.0 with CSF. Any documents, links would be greatly appreciated.