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Unified Communications - where's mine?...

Hmm, Day two of our technical conference and I'm irritated. The sessions so far have been really good, the opportunity to chat to the people in the product team is always great. I get to hear what's going on at the moment and what we're doing in the future

Get ready for Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 has been launched, you knew that didn't you? So you're all ready to move to the benefits of a 64 bit platform, extra headroom and a much more controllable and compliant environment for your users. But what if you're in the "wait and see"

Pre configured Exchange and LCS DVD to download

I make no apologies for this (why reinvent the wheel?). David produces an Exchange 2007 newsletter which he distributes internally from time to time. I'm unashamedly reproducing it here as he finds things I've never seen before, so I'm banking on the

Configuring your PBX for Exchange 2007

At last we've started releasing documentation of Unified Messaging PBX configuration. Alex thinks that we've released our own already, but for now we've got documentation on which PBX's are supported for use with Unified Messaging and IP/VOIP gateways,

Unified Communications Techies - we need you...

Do you fancy a technical presales role in Unified Communications? Do you want to work for Microsoft? Do you want to work somewhere warm? like Sydney? If so, here's a job that Oscar has just forwarded to me. I've reproduced the job description here and

Real Time collaboration Webcasts for January

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Live Meeting 2005 (Level 100) Thursday, January 11, 2007 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Evan Archilla, Consultant, Projectline Services http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032318886&Culture=en-US

At last! Thank you Windows Live Messenger

Richard has noticed that Live Messenger includes a link to the forgotten your password web page. I've been harping on about how difficult it is to change your password or secret question in Messenger, and now we've included it at the sign in page. So

More IM on mobile phones

I blogged about our announcement the other week (we entered into a partnership with Orange). eWeek have noticed that Radicati have released a report showing how much more room for growth there is in this market. Radicati says business users want IM services

Messenger: Lost password or secret question

I blogged about this a couple of years ago, but I still get quite a few mails asking about resetting passwords on Live Messenger (MSN Messenger). Some people can't remember their password, some have had their account hacked, some cannot sign in. All of

Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for December

TechNet Webcast: Deploying Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 (Level 300) Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Joe Schurman, Trainer, Connected Innovation LLC http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032314188&Culture=en-US

The next User Group meeting

Both Nathan and Arthur have been nagging me recently. Nathan has a bit more influence at the moment as he's out here at ITForum and nags me everywhere I turn. Arthur, who runs the Unified Communications User group has a list of up and coming events, including

Instant phishing

I read this in the newswires about phishers taking over IM accounts and using these accounts to get personal details from you. SPIM (spam for Instant messaging) is something that would really bug me (if I got any). as my IM account is really simple to

The end of SMS?

Will this spell the end for SMS text messages on your phone then? I was reading the article in The International Herald Tribune about Steve Ballmer talking about the new services that Orange subscribers in Europe will be able to use soon. You can do real

Unified Communications webcasts for November

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Unified Communications Overview (Level 100) Friday, November 03, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time Joe Schurman, Trainer, Connected Innovation LLC http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032313385&Culture=en-US

Web Office: Hype or reality?

I was really interested to read Richards post on the Web Office of the future and how we've evolved since the olden days of indicidual Word processing packages, spreadsheets, and email clients. I'm using a whole host of Web tools at the moment. Windows
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