Archive for February, 2010
Next Hop is a Microsoft TechNet portal dedicated to Unified Communications, specifically Office Communications Server. Articles are written by the Microsoft product groups, experienced field engineers, MVPs and in this case ME! I asked (begged) if Dr. Rez if he would consider a new contributor and my wish was granted. Check out my article, entitled “Unified Communications […]
Exchange (and Outlook) is the conduit whereby users can access new e-mail, contacts, calendar, news (RSS), voicemail (Exchange Unified Messaging) and presence (via OCS and your Communicator client). Exchange 2010 extends the unified messaging functionality by offering the end user more control over call answering, this is achieved by adding a free/busy aware rule based system. […]
Check out an interesting video on how Microsoft’s own IT department deployed Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and views from key members of staff. The post-UC views expressed within the video are definately shared by the organisation I work for. Taken from TechNet Edge: Unified Communications at Microsoft supports over 40,000 users. Multiple communications tools such as e-mail, […]
Of course you are! For those who are not already aware, Microsoft are attending the upcoming UC Expo in Olympia, London. Brett Johnson, a technical lead in the Microsoft Unified Communications group, will present an early preview of OCS Wave 14 (aka OCS 2010), this session (Wednesday 10th March 11:50 AM – 12:20 PM) is rumoured […]
Previously I mentioned that during the “integrated roadmap” announcement there was continued collaboration with Microsoft technologies, I had mistaken this to mean that the existing agreement (entered back in July 2006 and expected to terminate this July) would continue and possibly renew. However only 2 days since the AvayaN strategy was announced the ICA site […]
