Posts Tagged ‘Unified Communications’

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, MVPs and in this case ME! I asked (begged) if Dr. Rez if he would consider a new contributor and my wish was granted. Check out my article, entitled “Unified Communications […]

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 at 13:29 | 1 comment
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Exchange (and Outlook) is the conduit whereby users can access new e-mail, contacts, calendar, news (RSS), voicemail (Exchange Unified Messaging) and presence (via OCS and your Communicator client). Exchange 2010 extends the unified messaging functionality by offering the end user more control over call answering, this is achieved by adding a free/busy aware rule based system. […]

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 09:41 | 0 comments
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Wishing you all a great 2010 (and hopefully bigger budgets for UC spend!)

Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at 20:19 | 0 comments
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  Apparently my photo generated PowerPoint decks are not that great (day job safe…for now anyways) For those interested, the real slides and videos are now online. Microsoft Unified Communications: Developer Platform Futures presented by Chris Mayo WMV WMVHigh MP4 Slides Integrating and Extending the Microsoft Office Communicator Experience with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight presented by […]

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at 23:11 | 0 comments
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My recent how-to article on Trixbox with Exchange UM integration has generated quite a large amount of interest and from what it seems a large part of the IT community is looking/interested in Unified Messaging (this is suggested by keyword searches from Bing and Google). The question at the back of my mind would be […]

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 20:40 | 1 comment
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Not only does Gartner predict an IT spend rebound in 2010 (wishful thinking, but fingers crossed!), but also that Unified Communications will become one of the most strategic technologies your can’t afford to ignore. The table below was presented at Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo 2009, October 18-22, in Orlando. Source: here

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 at 05:59 | 0 comments
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