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Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for April

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 100)Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific TimeEvan Archilla, Consultant, Projectline ServicesMicrosoft Office Communicator 2005 is an integrated

RTC Experts - Come and talk to us...

I'm over in Washington state again for a meeting of our evangelist managers, so I thought I'd extend my trip by a day and catch up with my virtual team of evangelists and talk to a couple of people in the product team.  I've just had a meeting

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for March

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Communicator Technical Overview (Level 200)Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific TimePaul Duffy, Product Manager, MicrosoftIs your organization's remote communication still limited to the call-wait-response

Sending Instant Messages to a group of people

This one had me puzzled for a while.  Scott wanted to send IM to a group from the Exchange Global Address List, similar to the old types of Broadcast that everyone used to use 10 years ago (Netware 3.12 perhaps?). I had to look this one up and found

Unified Communications Group - the merging of Exchange and Real Time collaborations.

There's been quite a lot of talk in the press and the blogosphere since the announcement on Monday that the Real Time Collaboration group and the Exchange team were going to merge into the UGC.  I think that this is a really good idea - and gives

Messenger 8.0 beta for download

Well I'm impressed with the UI of the new MSN Messenger 8.0 beta, or as I really should be calling it: Windows Live Messenger 8.0 beta.  A selection of existing MSN messenger users have been invited to try the new beta version. I can't give you the
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Be careful of the Christmas worm

I just noticed this on one of the newswires.  There's a worm propagating around the Instant Messaging services pretending to redirect you to a Xmas site.  Here's what IMLogic have to say about it: This worm broadcasts a URL out over IM clients
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Real Time Collaboration Webcasts - December

Microsoft Webcast: Manage Information Overload with Integrated Communications Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific TimeJason Bunge, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft CorporationE-mail, instant messaging, voice mail, and mobile connectivity

EASI Passport Domains, PIC and LCS 2005

Dennis pointed me to the following change when using PIC (Public Internet Connectivity).  I can't find anything on the LCS website about this - so thought I'd reproduce his blog here. I blogged about PIC connectivity in the past - so here's

Real time Collaboration - ask the product team some questions

I picked this up on Kintans blog last week, but thought it was also worth mentining here: The RTC team at Microsoft have started blogging (about time too :-) )  so you can read about how they're getting along with the product here.  Certainly

Encarta answers your questions via MSN Messenger

So many people have told me about this new feature, I just had to try it out for myself, and now I have, I've just got to share it with you! You can add Encarta to your MSN Messenger buddy list and ask it questions.  The answers are totally fascinating. 
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Spend less time in the office?

I've just noticed this video on Steve's blog.  I was expecting something different and laughed out loud at the end of it... I hate airports - and now I know why :-)  

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: Enabling Microsoft Office Live Communications Server and Office Communicator for Telephony (Level 200)Tuesday, November 1, 2005 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific TimeTodd Eby, Director of Solutions Engineering, GenesysIs your company's implementation

LCS ports used for communication

Gary wondered if there was a kb article that detailed the ports that LCS used to communicate between client and server.  Well Gary, all I could find is a list of the basic ports used when LCS 2005 talks to Windows messenger.  here you go Gary:

Bill Gates chats to Channel 9 - without socks

Robert Scoble gets to chat to Bill Gates for 15 minutes on Channel 9.  Its an interesting interview and has a few insights about Bill's 10 and 15 year vision for software, and where he thinks we're headed. He talks about XML and development initiatives
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