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You may recall a while back I blogged on Communicator QoS for MPLS wide area networks, well just today over at The Office Communications Server Blog an excellent post has been published on setting up client-side DSCP tagging for Vista SP1 or SP2.

Source: here

Earlier in the year Microsoft announced their plans to compete with Apple’s ever-expanding (and successful) retail operation.

Neowin has published pictures of a prototype model discovered at Microsoft HQ here.

The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog have just posted up a great white paper entitled “Fundamentals of Troubleshooting Unified Messaging in Exchange 2007”.

Source: here

Our prayers have been answered, gentlemen (and ladies) start backing up your data for a Windows 7 RTM as early as “second half of July“!

See Microsoft PressPass for more information: here

Recently published over at the Windows Virtualisation Team Blog…

Hello – I’m Zane Adam, senior director of System Center and Virtualization marketing at Microsoft. I wanted to share some exciting news related to Microsoft’s virtualization and System Center offerings and HP’s Insight Control Suite for System Center.  With the official release today of Insight Control Suite for System Center, HP has taken a significant step in advancing the dynamic datacenter for customers with HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem platforms by enabling HP Insight Control capabilities to be invoked directly from the Microsoft System Center consoles.

We believe the combination of the System Center suite, Microsoft’s virtualization offerings and Insight Control suite for System Center will help further ease the customer experience by reducing complexity and the requirements on administrator’s time, delivering integrated management of virtual machines, the underlying host systems and optimizing the utilization of resources, power and space. Today’s release of ICE-SC includes a combination of functionality delivered seamlessly through System Center and HP Systems Insight Manager.  At a high level, the fully integrated components include:

} Bare Metal deployment – delivered via an Operating System Deployment (OSD) toolkit that plugs directly into System Center Configuration Manager

} PRO pack integration – the ability to manage virtual machines running on ProLiant host systems through System Center consoles

} Lights out remote management – via an iLO Advanced license

} Enhanced configuration and inventory information for ProLiant systems surfaced in the System Center Configuration Manager console

} ProLiant system health monitoring from the System Center Operations Manager console

} All backed by the power of the HP Services organization with 30,000 Microsoft-trained professionals

Congratulations to HP on bringing this offering to market and providing these powerful capabilities to our mutual customers.  Be sure to check out the guest blog post on the System Center blog from Scott Farrand of HP.

Thanks – Zane

Source: here

Today I was asked the question Why is my office location information not being displayed within Office Communicator?

Location information is defined as “endpoint location” and as illustrated in the chart below the viewer has to be a member of your Team or Personal group to be allowed to view.

For more information have a look at the article here