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Friday, June 02, 2006 3:08 PM

User groups leaders for user groups

We're hosting a community leaders day today on campus, where we invite all of the people in the UK who run User groups, either online or offline.  They come from all technology areas, but in the IT Pto space, there are a number of gaps. In the UK
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 12:30 PM

Watch out: Another Instant messaging worm

This IM worm has been affecting Yahoo Messenger users, and installs a "Safety Browser" onto the desktop (hiding behind an Internet Explorer logo).  This leads the user to sites which could install spyware on PC's.  Have a look at the news
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:35 PM

Live Messenger features

(I can't get my head around this new name.  I still think of this as MSN messenger 8.0).  Anyway, here's a list of features that you can try, now that you've got your hands on the beta... Windows Live Call. With one click users can now make
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:15 PM

RTC Webcasts for June

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 100)Wednesday, June 14, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific TimeEvan Archilla, Consultant, Projectline ServicesMicrosoft Office Communicator 2005 is an integrated
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:17 PM

MSN Messenger 8.0 beta

Well it's not really MSN messenger 8.0 any more, it's called Windows Live Messenger. And you can download it now as it's gone to a beta program where enyone can try it out.  Just go here to see all of the different beta programs you can
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:14 PM

Office Communicator for your cell phone

We've now released a version of communicatior for the mobile phone.  So we now have the full client, the Web client and a client for cellphones.  nice... Communicator Mobile extends the reach of Live Communications Server 2005 to information
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Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:12 PM

Take an MCP exam for Free

James noticed that you can take an MCP exam for Live Communications Server for free.  You need to use a promotional code (on his blog)  when you book the exam.  And if you pass the beta - you'll be one of the first MCP's on LCS too... so
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:39 PM

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
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Friday, February 24, 2006 11:31 PM

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
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Friday, February 17, 2006 2:48 PM

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
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Monday, February 13, 2006 3:51 PM

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
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Friday, February 03, 2006 6:12 PM

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
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Friday, January 06, 2006 10:24 PM

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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Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:07 PM

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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Monday, December 19, 2005 3:04 PM

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
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