Microsoft's Unified Communications Vice-President, Gurdeep Singh Pall Delivers Predictions for 2009

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Microsoft's VP of Unified Communications, Gurdeep Singh Pall , has made some interesting predictions for UC in 2009. His 10 UC predictions were posted on No Jitter today. The full list can be found at source link below. I have listed a few of my favorites below: 2. UC gets softer The past year has seen...

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Office Communications Server (OCS) Forums Have Moved

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Just in case you missed it, the OCS forums are now located at a new URL. Be sure to update your book marks to the new location at http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/officecommunicationsserver/...

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Microsoft Roundtable Christmas Offer

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Microsoft is offering a special promotion on Roundtable devices this holiday season. 10% off your next order up to five Roundtable devices or even higher discounts on volume purchases. Check out the full details and terms of the discount here: http://tinyurl.com/6ou97f...

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Microsoft Office Communications Server and IBM SameTime Integration Announced

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Yesterday at VoiceCon in San Francisco, Microsoft and IBM announced they have integrated Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and Lotus Sametime via inter-domain federation. This will allow organizations running OCS to federate with organizations running Sametime. I have to say, I look forward to...

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Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 New Topology Recommendation

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A new video has been released on TechNet edge discussing the new IT pro experience in OCS 2007 R2. One of the talking points discussed is around topology. As you probably know OCS 2007 provides the option to use a consolidated topology (all OCS components – front end, a/v, conferencing reside on one...

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Office Communicator 2007 October 24th Update Released

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Microsoft has released a new update for Office Communicator 2007. This update fixes three issues found in the client. The update fixes issues listed in the following KB articles: 957793 – A Communicator 2007 client is usually slow at startup   958659 – When you use telephony mode=4, you can only...

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Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 - Group Chat Video Posted on TechNet Edge

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TechNet Edge just posted a great video on using Group Chat in OCS 2007 R2. As stated in an earlier post, this is the feature I most anticipate in OCS  2007 R2.   What's New in Group Chat with Office Communications Server 2007 R2   Source: TechNet Edge...

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Sign Up for the Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 Virtual Launch Event

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Microsoft will be hosting a virtual launch event to kick off the upcoming release of OCS 2007 R2. Sign up for the event by going here: http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/virtualevent/languageselect.aspx...

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What’s New in Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 Conferencing on TechNet Edge

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Part 2 of OCS 2007 R2 Conferencing features has been posted to TechNet Edge. I have embedded it in this post. Very cool stuff!!   What’s New in Conferencing with Office Communications Server 2007 R2   Source: TechNet Edge...

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Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 - Persistent Group Chat Uses

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Persistent group chat is probably the feature I most look forward to seeing in the R2 release of Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007. If you aren’t familiar with Persistent group chat, the technology came into Microsoft with the acquisition of Parlano. Persistent group chat (PGC) allows teams to...

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