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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

New trojan - won't let you see "adult" sites

I don't normally blog about virus alerts, worms and trojans (Steve normally blogs about these) but this one this morning has caught my eye.  There's a new Trojan out there which won't let you visit sites with sex or exhibition in the title bar

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for September

Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Live Communications Server 2005 Overview of Real-Time Collaboration and Presence Technologies Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific TimeDennis Karlinsky, Group Product Manager, MicrosoftYou want

Live meeting add in Pack

The Live meeting add in pack has been released to the web.  Here's the info from the download page... OverviewThe Live Meeting Add-In Pack consists of three distinct add-ins: the Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook, the Office Collaboration Add-in,

Deploying Office Communicator at Microsoft

Microsoft IT showcase has released this white paper... Deploying Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Office Communicator 2005 at MicrosoftDetailed discussion of how Microsoft IT deployed Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Office

LCS and PIC connectivity

I've been involved in email ping pong with Chris for a week or so, I think he'd read my blog entry on PIC and wanted some further information  He wanted to know if it was possible to communicate with an MSN user who's passport is something other

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for August

TechNet Webcast: A Technical Overview of Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 (Level 200)Tuesday, August 02, 2005 - 1:00:00 PM - 2:30:00 PM Pacific TimePaul Duffy, Product Manager, Microsoft CorporationMicrosoft Office Communicator 2005 is the next generation

RTC Presence toolkit

I noticed that Graham and Mary Jo Foley have been talking about the RTC presence tooklit which was announced last week at rhw World wide partner conference in Minneapolis <...>RTC Toolkit. Microsoft is introducing the RTC Presence Toolkit,

LCS 2005 Bandwidth

I've been involved in and email exchange with a consultant from one of our Systems Integrators who was asking about bandwidth use in LCS  In the Architecture and Deployment document it states that LCS consumes 1.6Kbps of network bandwidth per user

0xC3F7580B - LCS 2005 and pools

I was chasing up an issue with moving users from one server to another in LCS for a migration to LCS 2005.  The server was throwing errors about each user and warning me about the pool.  I'd created an enterprise pool, and the servers were talking

Bandwidth use in RTC applications

I've been answering questions at the Information desk at the Ask the Experts area and meeting up with lots of people.  Thank goodness most of the questions have been about where someone is as opposed to how do I do this, and there have been several

LCS 2005 Public IM Connectivity (PIC)

Well, as I'm going to be helping out at the LCS Ask the Experts stand (when I'm not presenting with Betsy) I thought it was appropriate that one of the first questions I had - that wasn't about blogging - was about LCS and the ability to connect to AOL,