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World-class Exchange management
From the MCS Ireland blog.... The "Managing Exchange Messaging Services by Using Metrics" whitepaper...
Author: jkruse Date: 07/18/2007
New OCS 2007 Virtual Labs
Try out the latest features of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 in a free, online virtual...
Author: jkruse Date: 07/17/2007
TechEd Australia (and NZ) sold out!
Just saw over on Kleefy's blog that TechEd is sold out. Sorry if you didn't register in time, but...
Author: jkruse Date: 07/17/2007
RoundTable photos
At the Microsoft Australia company meeting earlier this week I demonstrated the RoundTable camera to...
Author: jkruse Date: 07/13/2007
Integrating LCS presence with Lotus Notes
Have you ever wanted to embed LCS 2005 presence controls within Lotus Notes applications? Well I...
Author: jkruse Date: 07/05/2007
New Exchange 2007 podcasts
TechNet Webcast : Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services (Level 200) Friday, 1 June...
Author: jkruse Date: 07/05/2007
Preparing for a presentation
This technique for preparing for presentations seems eerily familiar......
Author: jkruse Date: 07/05/2007
Exchange 2007 certificates
While I was having lunch with one of our Exchange Engineers today I asked "what is the most common...
Author: jkruse Date: 07/04/2007
Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) in Exchange 2007 SP1
One of the best, and most talked about, capabilities coming in Exchange 2007 SP1 is Standby...
Author: jkruse Date: 06/28/2007
OCS shines with Office Communicator 2007 front end and Exchange 2007
A great review of OCS is available Network World... Microsoft is getting ready to make a big splash...
Author: jkruse Date: 06/26/2007
New Exchange Server 2007 podcasts available
TechNet Webcast: Troubleshooting Exchange Server Mail Flow Issues Using the Exchange Troubleshooting...
Author: jkruse Date: 05/27/2007
How to protect your IM infrastructure
After reading about the latest worm to infect public IM networks, I wanted to quickly post about how...
Author: jkruse Date: 05/24/2007
Virtual TechEd
The place to extend the Tech·Ed experience online! Easily access Tech·Ed content – including...
Author: jkruse Date: 05/24/2007
One demo is better than 5 presentations
From Oscar's blog.. It’s great to see the announcements this week on Channel 10 by Jabra/GN...
Author: jkruse Date: 05/20/2007
Conference galore
It's been a while since I posted, so what has been happening this week? On Monday I co-presented...
Author: jkruse Date: 05/15/2007
Tech.Ed 2007 is coming
It's almost that time of year again! Tech.Ed 2006 was a huge success, and this year promises to be...
Author: jkruse Date: 04/22/2007
Making sense of Office Communications Server and Response Point
With the recent Response Point announcement, we’ve received some questions about the relationship...
Author: jkruse Date: 04/19/2007
Faxing in Exchange 2007
Unified Messaging provides the functionality of having voice mail, email and fax to a single...
Author: jkruse Date: 04/19/2007
Load Balancers with Live Communications Server 2005
Load balancing is based on various forms of network address translation (NAT) at layers 2 and 3 of...
Author: jkruse Date: 04/02/2007
See me at the Security and Management Seminars
This year I'll be presenting at the Security and Management Seminars once again. The more complex...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/30/2007
Exchange 2007 and AD
This post focuses on two aspects of Active Directory (AD) design for Exchange 2007: The recommended...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/29/2007
UC and me
You may remember that back in November I posted an article about a UC/RTC role going at Microsoft in...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/28/2007
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Public Beta - download now!
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, the next evolution of Live Communications Server,...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/26/2007
Multiple Points of Presence (MPOP)
A great post on MPOP in OCS is available at the UC Team blog... Lets examine some terminology that...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/23/2007
Exchange 2007 storage - updates
The Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator has been updated -...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/18/2007
Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 Interoperability Specifications
We've released some really good information on how OCS 2007 interoperates with traditional PBXes and...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/14/2007
Microsoft Set to Deliver Enhanced VoIP Solutions
In case you missed the news last week..... ORLANDO, Fla. — March 7, 2007 — In a keynote address at...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/13/2007
Speech codec in OCS 2007
One of the huge improvements we're making in Office Communications Server 2007 is in the area of...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/13/2007
More Exchange 2007 podcasts
TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 14 of 24): Maintaining Antivirus (Level 200)...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/11/2007
Office Communications Server 2007 - public beta
Imagine the complexities of modern communications condensed into a seamless experience with one...
Author: jkruse Date: 03/08/2007
New laptop
I recently took delivery of a new HP Compaq nc8430 laptop, and I think I am in love!
Author: jkruse Date: 03/05/2007
Exchange 2007 SP1
Do you want to create rules in OWA? Have you heard of SCR? You know where I'm going with this.........
Author: jkruse Date: 02/27/2007
Exchange Server 2007 podcasts
Some great Exchange 2007 podcasts available for download below. Subscribe to the RSS feed at...
Author: jkruse Date: 02/13/2007
Windows Mobile 6
Unless you've been hiding in a cave for the last few days, you've no doubt heard about Windows...
Author: jkruse Date: 02/12/2007
Exchange 2007: Platforms, Editions, Product Keys and Versions
Scott Schnoll has a great post on the differences between the various versions of Exchange 2007. He...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/29/2007
BigPond Wireless Broadband (EVDO) in Windows Vista
I've had a PCMCIA mobile broadband card from Telstra BigPond for a while now, but since I upgraded...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/23/2007
Tools to migrate from Domino/Notes to a MS platform
From the Collab Tools blog... Today, Microsoft publicly announces a new set of tools to make the...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/22/2007
UC webcasts
Here are two great webcasts on integrating LCS 2005 and Exchange 2007 with your existing telephony...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/22/2007
Exchange Webcasts for February
TechNet Webcast: Labcast Series (Part 1 of 8): Installing Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)Friday,...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/22/2007
Iiiit's a small word, after all ...
We recently hired a new Developer Evangelist in Brisbane who goes by the name of Scott Barnes. When...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/18/2007
CCR Transport Dumpster
CCR in Exchange 2007 uses asynchronous database replication. You would think that in the event of...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/18/2007
Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator
I feel like I'm always plagiarising You Had Me At EHLO recently, but this is gold and I highly...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/16/2007
Give us input for the next release of Exchange
If you would like to provide feedback to the Exchange product group on what should be in the next...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/15/2007
Media Center + Zune + Xbox 360 + Slingbox = :D
Ok so this post isn't really related to UC at all, but what the hey ... Over the Christmas/New Year...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/15/2007
Exchange 2007 Help
I've had several customers ask me if there are any really good books on Exchange 2007 I would...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/14/2007
Exchange 2007 Visio stencil
Thanks to Anthony Vitnell for passing this on... This stencil and template provided enable you to...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/14/2007
Unified Messaging PBX Configuration notes for Cisco Call Manager (preview)
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging PBX Configuration Note for Cisco Call Manager 4.1...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/14/2007
Presence for your presents
There are some interesting UC-related musings over at ZDNet ... The problem I have isn't a presence...
Author: jkruse Date: 01/04/2007