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For those interested in downloading my deck from Microsoft UK TechDays 2011 on Monday, I have made the slides available below. It appears the folks at Microsoft have, not surprisingly, had their hands full and videos/resources are yet to be made available via the TechDays site (watch this space). Until then my slides are below: […]
I just received an e-mail from Digium – see below (the makers of Asterisk), informing Skype for Asterisk customers that MicroSkype have chosen not to renew their agreement. Fingers crossed this is not a sign that Microsoft intend on restricting 3rd party integration with the Skype service? Product notification: Skype for Asterisk will not be available for sale […]
A few months back I was asked by the kind folks at Train Signal if I’d be interested in creating Lync training videos, specifically geared towards the IT community – and accessible at no cost! I really liked the idea and my first contribution has now gone live – here (a video version of my […]
I recently had a requirement to run through a new lab installation of Lync Server, I wanted to use my existing test Active Directory and ensure that once I’d completed testing I could roll back to my initial test server.
For those that have tried to create an entirely new installation in this scenario, you’ll be familiar with the need to remove references to your existing Central Management Store location, in my case I didn’t want to migrate or move my existing topology, just disregard it – albeit temporarily.
Just a few hours ago Microsoft announced that they had purchased Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion, so now begins the predictions – how will this change Microsoft’s suite of communications products, most notably Lync. Short of asking SteveB (sorry not even us MVPs only get an opertunity to do this more than once a year – […]
Time does fly when you are having fun, or in my case on what felt like a mammoth (2 weeks) vacation with the family/kids. We decided to bite the bullet and do the Orlando/Disney World thing following the success of Disneyland Paris a year back. Of course I’m not quite sure who enjoyed it more me […]
