Archive for March, 2011

So apparently the 2011 UK TechDays are actually being held at a cinema, the Vue Fulham to be precise. Key topics this year include: Mobile – Windows Phone 7 development and roadmap Client – WCF and Silverlight development Cloud – Public/private cloud and Azure Web – Development with IE9 Desktop – Deployment, Virtualisation and Lync […]

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 18:36 | 0 comments
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My workplace (like many other early adopters of Communications Server) are still enjoying the perks of OCS 2007 R2 and one of the most frequent questions I get is how do I get your ring tone? Until now I have been scratching my head trying to understand how I had managed to update it myself, somehow my […]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 11:50 | 0 comments
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Prior to Lync CU1 (released in January), all manually created locations needed to validated against a Master Street Address Guide or MSAG (a database used to find the appropriate emergency service number that a 911 call should be routed to). The problem is that outside of North America this functionality ceases to exist and therefore those […]

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 00:20 | 4 comments
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Skype for Asterisk has just been updated to version 1.1.4 Summary of changes within this release: Added privacy controls for web presence as shown at http://www.skype.com/intl/en/tell-a-friend/get-a-skype-button/ Added auto-reply text chat capability Added support for dialplan app Transfer() on SFA calls To download this update, please visit: http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/skypeforasterisk/ So how do I update existing installations of […]

Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 09:49 | 0 comments
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I just caught a post over at “UnplugThePBX“, (a fellow Lync MVP blog) – and it turns out that Microsoft are adding Lync to their enterprise level CAL suites. This is great news for businesses that currently own a Core CAL and would like to “dip their toe in the water” and discover how enterprise IM and presence […]

Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 20:09 | 0 comments
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I just found myself glued to a Channel 9 video that features a US development organisation Gold Systems. Using UCMA 3.0 (the Lync Server development API) they demonstate some impressive CEBP examples, typically applicable to a Contact Centre environment. Very impressive stuff and a solid example on why the Microsoft UC stack has a great […]

Sunday, March 20th, 2011 at 00:19 | 4 comments
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