Dustin's Tech Notes

I’m trying to get back on track this week with the weekly roundup post. Lots of existing stuff going on in the UC world. A special congrats to my fellow MVPs who were reawarded this week!

Blogs and Articles

NextHop - New Features in Communications Server “14”

NextHop - Voice Resiliency in Communications Server “14”

NextHop – Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Support for Acme Packet Session Border Controllers

Tweets

@JabraBusiness: Did you know that Frost & Sullivan expect there to be 50million UC users by 2015? http://tinyurl.com/2g9uv9v  #ucoms

stevenmc1060: A great read on SmartSIP. Nice job KP! #ucoms and #OCS http://bit.ly/bb6Euu

SWISSUC: AudioCodes Supports Survivable Branch Appliance of Microsof Communications Server "14" http://www.audiocodes.com/OCS #ocs #cs #ucoms

@SWISSUC: What's New in Communicator "14" (Video) http://bit.ly/d7HSzR  #ocs #ucoms #li #yam

Blogs and Articles

• Issue Moving LCS 2005 Users to OCS 2007 R2 hosted on 2008 R2 Server – Microsoft UC Made Easy (Randy Wintle)

•  Polycom – Smooth Transition of Leadership – Henry Dewing’s Blog (Forrester)

• Geographically Disbursed Edge Topology and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – Byron Spurlock (NextHop)

Tweets

DrRez: UC Communications Strategies: Talbot Harty Discusses NET UC Strategy, Smart SIP, and Partnerships http://bit.ly/aMgutC  #ocs #ucoms #uc

 hwdewing: A change of the watch at Polycom http://bit.ly/d6zcEQ  #ucoms #telepresence

 TechGenix: Split DNS: Configuring DirectAccess for Office Communications Server (OCS): Here’s a very interesting articl... http://tinyurl.com/379485c

ServicesReady: OCS Tools to Help You Get It Right the First Time. Planning and deployment tools for #ocs by Linda Wells. http://bit.ly/8XOHZp  #ucomsServicesReady: OCS Tools to Help You Get It Right the First Time. Planning and deployment tools for #ocs by Linda Wells. http://bit.ly/8XOHZp  #ucoms

 ServicesReady: Learn about NextHop and download an OCS 2007 R2 Workload Architecture Poster. http://bit.ly/bEuUlv  #ocs #ucoms

Week Ending 5/7/2010

In an attempt to get myself back on the blogging track, I’m going to start a weekly roundup of just random stuff from the Microsoft UC world. This will include links to blogs, tweets, and other social media as well as just general blobs of info. The formatting of this post may change weekly until I can figure out something that makes digesting information easy.  So here we go…

Blogs and Articles:

Upcoming Polycom Phones for Communications Server 2010 – Mike Stacy

Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia Debuts – PR Newswire

Office Communicator 2007 May 2010 Update – Microsoft Support

OCS Federated Partner – Inside OCS

Twitter:

Just in case you don’t use twitter, I will be including tweets from the Microsoft UC world. If you do happen to be a twitter addict, just perform a search on #ucoms for the latest trends on unified communications. Additionally I would recommend following the infamous @DrRez for everything Microsoft UC.

Via @DrRez

RT @joafar: RT @DrRez: New on PR Newswire: Microsoft Communicator Mobile for Nokia Debuts http://bit.ly/97lSIe #ocs #ucoms #mobile

RT @energizedtech: RT @DrRez: Post by Curtis Johnstone: AD Properties Required to Enable a User for #OCS http://bit.ly/9tyurp #activedirectory #ucoms

RT @joafar: RT @DrRez: Want to learn more about UC and collaboration? Sign up for #UCWorld Online Symposium May 9. http://bit.ly/deqcyu #UCOMS

Adkins on NextHop: Resource Forest Topology with #OCS 2007 R2 and #Exchange 2010 http://bit.ly/c59Ocx #ucoms

DrRez: Nice: UK SharePoint Team: Office Communicator integration (Presence) in custom webpart for SharePoint 2010 http://bit.ly/cQFB9h (msdn.com) #ocs #ucoms · 10 minutes ago

Other Tweets

MichaelJKillian: Unified Communications & social networking RT @Orbius: 10 emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch. http://ht.ly/1Hug9 #UCOMS

Meredi26: Facebook co-founder, @chrishughes, will be a keynote speaker in #UCWorld. Register to attend www.ucworld.com #collaboration #UCOMS

AspectUC: #Aspect virtual event- presentations, round table discussions & live chat w/industry experts & peers http://bit.ly/ciOmbZ #UCWorld #UCOMS

StevenParrott: Interop 2010: Sprint’s Corey Hansen http://twurl.nl/4qd48f At Talking about IP Convergence, #UCOMS, Mobile Integration and a lot more. RT

luchtsiuil: RT @DrRez: New by Collin Hoag on NextHop: Resolve Exchange Free/Busy and Communicator Presence Issues http://bit.ly/aEw8ja #ocs #ucoms #exchange

MichaelJKillian: social networking should be included RT @UCVoices: .Unified Communications to Achieve Large-Scale Capabilities: http://ow.ly/1GOPD. #UCOMS

Am I missing something here? If so feel free to drop comments.

Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Office Communicator 2007 R2. These updates can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center and will be available via Microsoft Update in the near future. The updates are as follows:

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 – KB968802

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Database upgrade – KB979857

Attendant Console 2007 R2 – KB980936

Office Communicator 2007 R2 – KB978564

Office Communicator Phone Edition 2007 R2 - KB981526