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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

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

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

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

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

RTC Webcasts for May

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 100)Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific TimeEvan Archilla, Consultant, Projectline ServicesMicrosoft Office Communicator 2005 is an integrated

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

Radvision and LCS extensions

This is really interesting.  I saw it on the newswires this morning that we've signed an agreement with Radvision to provide SIP toolkits (read our press release here).   They can take advantage of the SIP extensions for LCS that will be

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

RTC Webcasts for February

Microsoft Webcast: Implementing Integrated Communications with Microsoft Collaboration Technologies (Level 200)Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific TimeBob Sutton, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft CorporationInformation workers currently

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
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