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Microsoft and PBX and VOIP

Aah, I felt sorry for these old PBX's on this video. Poor things. Mark , Tom , Marshall and Tom have all blogged about this ages ago but I forgot to link to it then. So Robert reminded me again... Bless them - I bet they're relieved they're not losing

OCS 2007 Bandwidth calculations

Arthur (who has links to all the OCS 2007 documentation) has been testing OCS against LCS 2005 and he's sent me his bandwidth results for OCS 2007 which I thought I'd share with you: "Having read your posting about LCS 2005 bandwidth , (I do read your

Office Communications Server 2007 RTM

As James and Arthur have noticed, last week, we've released Office Communications Server to manufacturing now (RTM) so it'll soon be generally available. Check out the new Office Communicator blog site for updated info (and Johann's blog for all the pictures!).

OCS 2007 videos on IT's showtime

***Long blog post - lots of photos*** As we're deep in planning for the Unified Communications unplugged tour in October and November, the email about UC sessions landed in my Inbox at an appropriate time really. We filmed several sessions recently on

Live messenger expressions

I haven't blogged about Live Messenger for a while, but I got a mail the other week showing all of the new stuff that was available, so I had a play around today and saw quite a few bits of new addons that I hadn't tried before. I can play games like

Virtual Labs for Office Communications Server 2007

Cristin, who works in the OCS Online media team at corp has alerted me to the new set of virtual labs that we've produced for Office Communications Server 2007. Very timely indeed as I'm still wading through loads of emails since I alerted people to the

VOIP and Skype

I've had quite a few mails since my article for the TechNet newsletter went out yesterday (and blog post earlier today). There's obviously lots of interest about VOIP as I've had various mails ranging from how to set up a PBX, questions for information

TechNet events - need your input...

So what topics would you like us to show you at our TechNet events? I've created a voting panel so you can decide. I have 3 event spaces to fill, so I thought I'd gauge popularity of the topics so you decide, and George and I will schedule these in...

Unified Communication Webcasts for August

Momentum Webcast: A Sneak Peek at Microsoft Unified Communications (Level 100) Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Bob Clancy, Mid-Market Solutions Advisor, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032345915&Culture=en-U

Unified Communications partners in IP PBX..

so We've signed up a fair few IP PBX partners in advance of the next wave of our Unified Communications products due out later this year. We talked about the lineup at Interop this year. Looking at the list of hardware partners I noticed that you can

Unified communications device

I've finally got one of these devices to play with. Here's the newsfactor story that announced things. James has been calling me from his phone recently and the quality is really good. Julian sounded like he was talking on skype the other day (loads of

User groups day

I've been running in between two places today, half my time was spent at today's user groups day , and the other running around sorting out pink t-shirts for tomorrows Digigirlz event. I'm actually terrified about tomorrow, put me in front of an audience

VOIP viral clip from the Unified Communications team

This is another one of these little viral audio clips that spread around the Internet. I loved the previous video clips that the Unified Communications team have done, like the spoof on the Devil wears Prada film, showing Unified Communications in one,

Unified Communications Webcasts for May

MSDN Webcast: Building Office Communications Server 2007 Telephony Speech Applications (Level 200) Wednesday, May 16, 2007 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time Albert Kooiman, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032337307&Culture=en-US

Finally... OCS beta goes public...

Ok so I'm over here in the US for an IT Evangelism summit and so I missed the announcement that everyone has been waiting for on Office Communications Server 2007. I was having a coffee with Kevin this morning in the cafe in building 30 in Redmond when
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