Posts Tagged ‘Unified Communications’

The Microsoft Exchange Team has just announced that Exchange 2010 has now RTM’ed! I have been running their beta and release candidate versions for a number of months and even published a guide on UM integration. I can honestly say this version is the best to date, some of my favourite features include: Voicemail to […]

Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 18:14 | 0 comments
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I previously mentioned that integrating OCS 2007 R2 was now possible given that Asterisk 1.6 now supports TCP SIP trunking. I also found myself in a position where I wanted to start testing Exchange 2010 UM without touching my production PBX (which in this case is a Nortel CS1000). After scouring the blogosphere I found […]

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 15:49 | 91 comments
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You can find me in this month’s Official Windows magazine, I briefly mention about how Unified Communications can improve your life not only at work, but also at home. Apparently I’m an expert too? (ehum)

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at 12:22 | 0 comments
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Most IT pros will not be in possession of an OCS/UC capable PBX from the day they decide to look into evangelising their businesses comms infrastructure. But now that OCS 2007 R2 supports UDP based SIP trunks and third parties like JAHJAH offer off-site trunking services there are alternatives worth considering before making the “bigger” […]

Sunday, September 27th, 2009 at 13:33 | 1 comment
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Keeping up with the current wave of Microsoft products is always challenging, but I am personally excited about Exchange 2010, messaging and UC is my particular area of interest. One of the first things I wanted to address was my migration from Exchange 2007 and understanding what works and doesn’t work – the current release available to the public […]

Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 18:05 | 0 comments
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Back in early 2007 my workplace were in the market for an enterprise strength unified communications system, the aim from a high level was to take the businesses voice and data collaboration systems to the next level. In addition to this we knew it had to have: Instant Messaging Voicemail to E-mail Presence Conferencing opportunities […]

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 18:25 | 0 comments
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