Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 - Keynote

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If you missed the Keynote from Tech Ed 2008 on Monday here are a few of my notes: Identity Lifecycle Manager 2 Beta 3 – Public Release WSO2 – OpenSource Integration .Net integration with Java and PHP Application. Virtualization – Work with Citrix to provide desktop Virtualization Hyper...

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Off To MVP Summit 2008

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Monday morning, I will be headed off to Seattle and Redmond, WA for the 2008 Microsoft MVP Summit. This being my first year, I'm especially excited to see what this event is all about. For those of you that read my blog and hope to hear some juicy details from inside Microsoft, sorry...Most all of the...

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Interact 2008

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Check out the new Microsoft conference. Interact 2008 is aimed at IT Professionals who have been charged with deploying Unified Communications products such as Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Round Table, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting. For full...

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Windows Server 2008 Hands On Lab

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I just got home from the Server 2008 HOL event in Indianapolis. This 2 day event focused on the new features and capabilities of Windows Server 2008. The labs were really good but could have used more slide presentation and discussion. Overall it was worth the trip to check out the upcoming Server OS...

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Microsoft Tech Ed Takes On New Format

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Microsoft has announced that Tech Ed will be changing things up a little this year. The biggest event of the year for IT Pros and Developers will be moving to a two week format. Week 1 will be focuses solely for an audience of developers, while Week 2 will be entirely geared for IT Professionals. Both...

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Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Ignite Training - Day 2

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Ok I'm home and I'm dead tired!! Ahh but more work to be done including blogging about another awesome day of Ignite training. Today we hit the ground running with the Voice and PBX integration capabilities of OCS. I again was very impressed with the "coolness" features of OCS and Communicator...

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Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Ignite Training - Day 1

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Day 1 of 2 is complete and we covered a lot of material relating to OCS. So far we have covered a high level feature overview, architecture, and deployment scenarios. This training is very lab driven. So far we have deployed OCS Standard Edition, Performed Testing of Chat, Audio, and Video in both the...

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Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Ignite

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This coming Monday and Tuesday I will be attending OCS 2007 Ignite training in Indianapolis. This is a first look training at Microsoft's newly released corporate IM, web conferencing, and VOIP solution. I'm pretty excited to check this out as I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around some of the...

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GCC Church IT Roundtable - I’m There

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I will be attending the IT Roundtable at Granger Community Church next Wednesday. The Church IT Roundtable brings together IT professionals from churches all over the country. For more info on the Church IT Round Table see Jason Powell's blog here: http://jpowell.blogs.com/jason_powell_church_it/2007...

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Tech Ed 2007 DVD Set Arrives

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I just received a copy of the DVD Set from Tech Ed 2007. I now have hours of sessions to go back and listen to. Whoo hooo!!...

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