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For those that have been utilising Microsoft Unified Messaging (UM), or as some call it voice mail, there are some user experience differences to be aware of when migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010. I’m referring to the way in which end-user configuration is manifested, upon execution of the  “Manage Voice Mail” button within Outlook (as seen below in Outlook […]

Friday, January 7th, 2011 at 14:58 | 0 comments
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Last month I asked all readers to submit their favourite new piece of Lync functionality in aim of a “personal favourite” being picked on January 1st (today) and the winner receiving a Polycom CX300 used at TechEd 2010.  The winning feature was submitted by Adler Catalin, his/her comment was: The best feature is that is became so simple and […]

Saturday, January 1st, 2011 at 11:24 | 0 comments
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I came across an interesting Computer Weekly article that was published back in April 2010, it was brought about via a study conducted by Microsoft – specifically targeting the economic challenges being experienced by public/private sector businesses and employee expertise retention. The video (below) will do a better job in delivering this message than I, however the […]

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 at 15:08 | 0 comments
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  This is clearly documented within the AudioCodes “Fast Track Guide”, right? – well yes and no. AudioCodes decided to miss a critical piece of information which cost me 2 hours of my precious life (ultimately I would have expected it to take 2mins!)  The documentation supplied can be seen below:    The key factor […]

Saturday, December 11th, 2010 at 17:46 | 0 comments
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Off the back of my participation at Tech-Ed 2010 a very kind Microsoft employee named “Albert”, donated one of the CX300 devices used to demonstrate Lync at the product stand. I could of course hold on to this fantastic device – the CX300 is a personal favourite of mine, but instead I thought how about […]

Friday, December 3rd, 2010 at 17:38 | 12 comments
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Whilst at Tech-Ed 2010 I had the opportunity to help the Microsoft Lync product folks on the Lync stand, it was a great chance to assist Microsoft’s new and existing UC customers with their Lync queries. Strangely one of the top questions I personally received was “What is Lync, is it Language Integrated Query (Linq) on steroids?” […]

Saturday, November 27th, 2010 at 18:44 | 0 comments
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