The Three UC Amigos
Three Microsoft UC technology specialists covering U.S. Education
Latest Communicator Windows Mobile client available 3.5.6906.28
You can surf it from your Windows Mobile phone at www.getcomo.com Some new features of the latest...
Author: markga Date: 08/17/2009
Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition is avail
It’s out!!! So many of you have asked about it’s availability. It’s here as of today. No more...
Author: GregK Date: 08/13/2009
Things to consider with non-certified OCS Voice Endpoints
This was something I came across for customers who are buying non-certified UC endpoints since this...
Author: markga Date: 08/11/2009
New Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook available for download
The Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook now allows delegates to schedule a Live...
Author: markga Date: 07/28/2009
New Exchange 2010 Storage and High Availability training available
Some new Exchange 2010 storage and HA training has been released. You can attend a webcast, test...
Author: markga Date: 07/16/2009
OCS Education Listserv for Higher Education Customers & Resources to Use
For Educational Customers- please do not misuse. I wanted to inform you of a new listserv that has...
Author: bill hagen Date: 07/15/2009
Live Meeting 2007 Service questions
These were some questions from an Ivy League university: 1) What is the point of setting a meeting...
Author: markga Date: 07/14/2009
How do we integrate OCS 2007 R2 with our Service Oriented Architecture?
This was question from a university in Tennessee. Here is a nice overview slide of our UC...
Author: markga Date: 07/07/2009
Tanjay (LG-Nortel IP8540 or Polycom CX700) phone and other end user questions
These questions came from a school district in California replacing their entire legacy voicemail...
Author: markga Date: 07/02/2009
Windows Live/MSN/Hotmail PIC licensing no longer needed for federation
Big licensing news effective today, if you have OCS 2007 R2 Standard CALs or OCS 2007/LCS CALs with...
Author: markga Date: 07/01/2009
Geneva, Exchange Online
What a way to start a blog. Geneva. It sounds important and it is. Geneva is the code name for our...
Author: GregK Date: 06/19/2009
Download Free UC e-books from Microsoft Press
Microsoft Press 25th Anniversary "Free E-Book of the Month" Offers This will be our last...
Author: markga Date: 06/17/2009
Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging whitepaper
There is nicely written whitepaper to help you troubleshoot and understand how Exchange 2007 Unified...
Author: markga Date: 06/05/2009
How to Evaluate OCS + Blackboard Client
Please contact Enabling Technolgies Corporation for evaluations and pricing for OCS- Blackboard...
Author: bill hagen Date: 06/04/2009
OCS + Blackboard Integration
OCS For Blackboard consists of the following: · Rich Web Client The Web Client was built using...
Author: bill hagen Date: 06/04/2009
I need to support Rim’s COMO client in OCS 2007 R2
When we launched OCS 2007 Rim shipped a client for OCS 2007. This client requires that the customer...
Author: GregK Date: 06/04/2009
UC R2 Adoption and Training Kit
The Goal of this UC kit is to distribute UC materials and support for 3 key end user groups: IT...
Author: bill hagen Date: 06/01/2009
What is new with Exchange Server 2010 ActiveSync and Outlook Mobile?
Some great new changes coming with Exchange 2010 Active Sync. We have many more partners...
Author: markga Date: 05/31/2009
Exchange 2010 – Management Tools
The largest percentage of helpdesk calls incurred by an organization include DL management, message...
Author: GregK Date: 05/26/2009
I am having problems getting Group Chat Administrator Console working
This was a question coming from an education customer in Minnesota deploying OCS R2 Group Chat...
Author: markga Date: 05/22/2009
What is new with archiving and Exchange 2010?
Here is a summary of the new Exchange 2010 archiving/retention features: What is Personal Archive?...
Author: markga Date: 05/19/2009
Do I need a director with OCS R2?
I was asked this from a school district in Southern California who was rolling out OCS R2 and...
Author: markga Date: 05/18/2009
Disable IM
What? If I have OCS why would I want to do this. Some schools are deploying OCS for Audio/Video...
Author: GregK Date: 05/14/2009
Exchange 2010 – Exchange Online
Exchange Online will be migrating to Exchange 2010 code after we RTM Exchange 2010. Exchange 2010 in...
Author: GregK Date: 05/12/2009
Exchange 2010 and High Availability – Part II - DAG
Database Availability Group (DAG) When an administrator creates a DAG, it is initially empty, and an...
Author: GregK Date: 05/12/2009
Exchange 2010 and High Availability – Part I - DAG
Great Post Mark. The changes for Exchange 2010 keep coming. It’s great to see the maturity of...
Author: GregK Date: 05/12/2009
What is new with Exchange 2010 storage?
Is there any reduction in IOPS? Yes, another huge 70% reduction in IOPS with Exchange Server 2010....
Author: markga Date: 05/11/2009
What is new with Exchange 2010 UM?
We have a green light to talk about some of the upcoming Exchange 2010 features in more depth...
Author: markga Date: 05/03/2009
Exchange 2010 and OWA
WOW!!! My customers have been asking for this forever. In the past I had to point out that the best...
Author: GregK Date: 04/29/2009
Can I make native voice calls through OCS on a Mac or non-PC platforms?
I get asked this quite a bit from schools as they want the ability to place/receive voice calls on...
Author: markga Date: 04/28/2009
Desktop Sharing with OCS R2
I was asked by a school to provide more detail around the new desktop sharing feature in OCS 2007...
Author: markga Date: 04/22/2009
Exchange 2010 – Evaluation bits have arrived!
Grab your beta evaluation copy of Exchange 2010 here. What is new in Exchange Server 2010?:...
Author: markga Date: 04/15/2009
Site Resiliency for Exchange 2007
This topic has come up twice in the same week. Quite a hot topic. We’ve talked about CCR and SCR in...
Author: GregK Date: 04/14/2009
Right Sizing your Network for OCS R2
In order to understand bandwidth requirements for OCS it’s important to first model expected usage...
Author: GregK Date: 04/13/2009
Working with the Mac
I’ve spent the last few days working on a Mac and setting up Entourage with Exchange Web Services....
Author: GregK Date: 04/07/2009
Where should I place my Exchange UM server?
This is a common question I get since your PBX may not be in the same place as your mailbox servers....
Author: markga Date: 04/04/2009
Office Roundtable
At Voicecon we announced that Polycom has licensed the ability to distribute Office Roundtable...
Author: GregK Date: 04/01/2009
The Rosetta Stone - SBC
A session border controller is a device that can provide signaling and media streams in voice over...
Author: GregK Date: 03/25/2009
Promote your R2 rollout and give them some training
There are some nice banners, posters, stickers, etc to use for your rollout. There is also some nice...
Author: markga Date: 03/24/2009
Convert your Live Meeting recordings to WMV format
New Conversion Tool A new conversion tool just came out that takes a Live Meeting recording package...
Author: markga Date: 03/20/2009
Forefront has RTM’d for OCS
FSOCS provides protection against malware in IM communications and is designed for OCS 2007 and OCS...
Author: GregK Date: 03/17/2009