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In the off chance it has passed you by the MS Exchange Team has released to web the final SP1 bits, here. This major update delivers a host of new functionality, specifically around archiving, Outlook Web App, mobility and the management UI – more on this here. For the full announcement head over to the […]
I know this is a little off topic, but chances are that if you read this blog you wouldn’t be against a cross-blog Windows 8 poll that *may* get picked up by the man at Microsoft who say’s yes! (or no as the case may be). The man behind this poll is Michael Pietroforte at 4sysops (a […]
Whilst this report has already done the rounds, seen on many telephony vendor sites and blogs, I thought I would also make reference to the report published late last month (July 28th) and include a little narrative too! So what is Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant”? Gartner’s description: “depict markets in the middle phases of their life cycle by […]
I was asked by the lovely Karen Auby at Plantronics, whether or not I’d be interested in joining their blogging team, of course I immediately jumped at the chance! As a consequence, my first post, and hopefully not last, entitled “Critical elements for widespread VoIP adoption in the UK: usability and accessibility“, went live this morning. […]
Next Hop is a Microsoft TechNet portal dedicated to Unified Communications, specifically Office Communications Server. Articles are written by the Microsoft product groups, experienced field engineers and MVPs. Check out my second article, entitled “Strategic Considerations for Switching from a Legacy PBX to Communications Server“ Thanks – Dr. Rez and Susan Bradley Next Hop Homepage – […]
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
