I'm a UC Blog

I meant to post this last week, but held off adding new content whilst moving blog platforms. Below is an interesting video (embedded in Silverlight, thank you WordPress!) which examines how some of Microsoft’s enterprise customers have realised the benefits of Unified Communications via Office Communications Server, with Exchange Unified Messaging.

You may have spotted that the blog has been given a spring clean? In actual fact I have ported the site from Community Server 2008.5 SP2 to WordPress 2.9.2. I would love to have said it was an easy job, but alas it was not… Firstly my reasons for this bold move… Community Server was way […]

In life comes but a few special moments: Riding your first bike (without falling off) A first kiss Getting your driving license Your Wedding The birth of your first child (in my case two/twins, nothing prepares you for this!) However today brought yet another new heartfelt experience, I was awarded a Microsoft MVP for Communications […]

Of course you are! For those who are not already aware, Microsoft are attending the upcoming UC Expo in Olympia, London. Brett Johnson, a technical lead in the Microsoft Unified Communications group, will present an early preview of OCS Wave 14 (aka OCS 2010), this session (Wednesday 10th March 11:50 AM – 12:20 PM)  is rumoured […]

When I first started up this blog (almost a year ago) it was about Virtualisation, Messaging, Windows, Voice and anything else relevant! However over the last 6 months a common theme has prevailed – Unified Communications. Therefore from this point forth “I’m a PC Blog” is now “I’m a UC Blog”, both old and new […]

Uncharacteristically the Exchange Team has announced official support for BlackBerry Enterprise Server in just over four weeks since the release to web. Taken from the Exchange Team Blog: I’d like to share with everyone some good news today— BlackBerry® Enterprise Server (BES) is now fully supported on Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 and BlackBerry® Technical Support […]