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Harold Wong, an IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft just posted up his “New Efficiency” decks. I saw these presented at the UK event and draw your attention specifically to the UC slides that can be viewed on SlideShare here
Source: here (and all decks)
Taken from the OCS Blog:
We’ve been working on the Downloads page on the Communications Server TechCenter! Check out the improvements:
· Separate pages devoted to 2007 R2 Downloads and 2007 Downloads;
· Clearer categorization of available 2007 R2 downloads;
· And most importantly…more of the good stuff: More listings!
Find even more links than before to all the tools and resources that our team produces, including new links to Office Communications Server 2007 R2:
· Best Practices Analyzer (for both 2007 and 2007 R2 versions)
· Capacity Planning Tool
· Edge Planning Tool
· Planning Tool
· Resource Kit Tools (64-bit)
· Web Scheduler
…as well as links to:
· Agent Communications Panel for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0
· Language packs for CWA, Response Group Service, and Speech
· Communicator Multilingual User Interface
· Management packs
· Communicator Mobile (for Pocket PC, Smartphone, and Java)
The new 2007 R2 page now also includes links to all downloadable, technical product documentation for 2007 R2, including:
· Collections of the full IT Pro library
· Pointers to the various topic-focused documentation downloads
· Pointers to the indices of the server, client, and end user documentation downloads
Let us know whether the new pages help you find what you need, or if there are additional resources that you cannot find there!
Adam Dudsic
Site Manager
Source: here
Google’s has announced new Android 2.0 functionality, including:
With Exchange 2010 launch events taking place and TechEd Berlin a few weeks away, more Exchange information is being released by Microsoft’s product teams.
A recent blog post on Microsoft’s Unified Communications Blog discloses licensing information:
“All of the specifics around pricing and licensing will be available when we launch, but just to give you an idea, a customer buying a new license will pay about $55 for Standard CAL and about $35 for Enterprise CAL. Existing customers with Software Assurance, of course, only pay for the renewal of Software Assurance, so this price is much lower. And for the servers, a typical customer can expect to pay about $550 for Standard Server and $3200 for Enterprise Server. As you know, pricing depends on the license type you choose, and if you buy via one of the CAL suites further discounts apply, so definitely take this as a ballpark vs absolute. As always, your reseller partner or Microsoft rep can get you the specifics on pricing once Exchange 2010 is available. “
Source: here
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 whether or not this is being setup for test/evaluation purpose or full production use i.e. are people using Asterisk (open source) or opting for the more conventional solution from a major vendor like Avaya, Cisco or Nortel (sorry that’s Avaya now!)
No Jitter has put together some interesting key pros and cons on this, but reaches no conclusion.
What PBX do you use?
Source: here
