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Today is a big day for the Communications Server (or now Lync Server) product group, firstly the release of a final name, Microsoft Lync Server 2010 – there were rumours doing the rounds and the strange appearance of a blog here seamed to be the catalyst for this, even though the majority of the screenshots were […]

Monday, September 13th, 2010 at 17:09 | 0 comments
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For those that have not seen this already, this is a fabulous video made back in the 1960’s, I’d previously seen a short version (great for embedding in a deck of slides at a UC presentation as an ice breaker). Just remember, this is not Carry on Telecoms!

Friday, September 10th, 2010 at 23:37 | 0 comments
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It’s not always straight forward quantifying the savings of UC, the benefits are far easier to get your head around. But when we deployed Communications Server 2007 R2 within our organisation we knew it would slash the extortionate conferencing charges we had been paying – our estimate was in excess of £50,000 per annum! During the […]

Friday, September 10th, 2010 at 21:27 | 0 comments
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No I am not going completely cuckoo, those who live in the UK and are showing signs of grey hair (or going bald in my case) will remember the slogan “Follow the bear”, which was paired with the iconic Hofmeister bear advert. Whilst I am no bear, I strongly encourage those who are interested in more up-to-date UC […]

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at 09:22 | 0 comments
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I just came across this Sesame Street-esque UC parody video, created by @shawkeith from Network World – check it out, highly amusing!

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 23:44 | 1 comment
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Seeing as Exchange 2010 SP1 has hit the streets I thought it would be a good time to remind folks of shiny new/improved service pack UC functionality, including CS ’14’ support! Taken from Microsoft TechNet: The Unified Messaging server role has been improved and has added new features in Exchange 2010 SP1. To use some of […]

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at 23:30 | 0 comments
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