Archive for June, 2010

Yesterday I attended a UK UC User Group day at Microsoft Campus Reading, it was a hot day in and around London (my trusty Smart Car told me it was 30 degrees during my un-pleasurable M25 snail’s pace journey) so spending the day in *MS-Air-con was all good! *MS-Air-con is not a new Microsoft product….yet!

The agenda was as follows:

Start End Title
09:00 10:00 Registration and coffee.
10:00 10:15 Introduction.
10:15 11:15 What’s new in the client.
11:15 11:30 Coffee break.
11:30 12:30 Voice architecture and high availability.
12:30 12:45 Sponsor Session.
12:45 13:30 Lunch.
13:30 14:30 Voice deployment.
14:30 15:30 What’s new in conferencing.
15:30 15:45 Coffee break.
15:45 16:45 Architecture, migration and interop.
16:45 17:00 Q&A; and wrap-up

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 at 12:09 | 1 comment
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During a keynote from a rather sweaty Bob Muglia at Tech-Ed North America, Gurdeep Singh Pall took to the stage and announced additional functionality available within Communications Server ’14’. This was without doubt the most interesting disclosure to date, which also included a product demonstration. (for those with Silverlight I have embedded the video below – […]

Monday, June 21st, 2010 at 14:40 | 0 comments
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The UK Microsoft Messaging & Mobility User Group ran a joint live meeting with Microsoft UK this morning, specifically focused upon functionality within the forthcoming service pack (SP1) for Exchange 2010. Presenters were Brett Johnson (MSFT Messaging Technical Specialist), Leigh Smith (MSFT UC Technical Specialist) and Nathan Winters (an MVP for Exchange Server).

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 19:49 | 0 comments
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I’m sure that most of you are aware by now of StevieJ’s WWDC keynote earlier this week, where he reached out to fanboys from far and wide, preaching about why you need the forthcoming iPhone 4. I myself own an iPhone 3G, I skipped the 3G(s) – there was little incentive for me to upgrade. I’ll probably take the […]

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 19:32 | 0 comments
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Earlier this week a requirement was made to purchase additional voice-over-IP handsets, usually we would have purchased devices from a “major communications vendor” (I’ll recite no names) as our current OCS deployment is predominantly made up of remote call control users. However given that our strategy this year is to really push Office Communications Server […]

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 18:46 | 0 comments
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To co-incide with Tech-Ed North America new information on Microsoft’s next iteration of Communications Server is being made available. Resources worth mentioning: Microsoft.com’s new Communications Server ’14’ site – here The Microsoft UC Team blog – here The Three UC Amigos blog – here As always my Twitter feed – here Well, what are you waiting for?!?

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at 19:56 | 0 comments
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