Happy New Year!
Currently I'm OOF. I will return on the 5th of January 2010. Expect delay in my responses. If urgent please contact my manager Menno Windsma on menno.windsma@e-office.com or contact e-office directly (www.e-office.com) > contact
See you in next Year! Be aware of fireworks.
Joachim Farla
Check out the weblog of my colleague Bas Krikke on the NWOW project definitions for customers.
Webblog: http://baskrikke.blogspot.com/ (Join him now!)
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wat is kennis?
Dit is een goede vraag. Laten we beginnen met het omgekeerde: wat is het volgens mij niet?
Volgens mij bestaat kennis uit drie delen met ieder een ander doel: formele documenten, werkdocumenten en ervaringsdocumenten.
Laten we beginnen met werkdocumenten.
werkdocumenten
Werkdocumenten zijn documenten die gemaakt zijn in de context van speurwerk, projecten of klanten. Ze moeten in de context van hun creatie bekeken worden. Vaak worden deze documenten in een samenwerkingsomgeving (team site) opgeslagen, zodat de context van het document nog rijker wordt richting taken, andere documenten en hyperlinks. De selectieve context (project, klant, speurwerk) zorgt ervoor dat de metadata gericht is op het korte termijn gebruik. De algemene vindbaarheid is nog niet optimaal en gericht op “ontdekken”. Mooie voorbeelden zijn het projectplan, lessons learned, een offerte, klantrevisie op die offerte.
Werkdocumenten zijn bijna altijd “onder handen” maar kunnen leiden tot formele documenten.
formele documenten
Formele documenten zijn zorgvuldig opgebouwd (na speurwerk, samenwerking, een project of een klant bijdrage) en zijn ontdaan van specifieke context (algemeen gemaakt). Er heeft dus een transformatie plaatsgevonden van specifiek naar generiek. We zien dat er nu volop ruimte is voor metadata om de structurele vindbaarheid van dit document te verhogen. Mooie voorbeelden zijn een werkmethodiek, een proces beschrijving, een rente tabel.
ervaringsdocumenten
Medewerkers gebruiken de formele kennis en ontdekken de werkdocumenten. Ze doen hiermee nieuwe ervaringen op in het praktische gebruik. Deze ervaringen kunnen zij weer delen in persoonlijke blogs, bijdragen aan wiki pagina’s of deelname aan fora. Al deze vormen zijn op te vatten als ervaringsdocumenten. Persoonlijke ervaringen zijn zeer relevant omdat ze erg dynamisch zijn en sterk relateren aan het praktische gebruik.
Bij e-office verwacht ik dat een blog aggregatie een hogere informatie waarde gaat opleveren dan nieuwsaggregatie. We zullen het terugvinden in de intranet startpagina positie!
het verband
Gebruik maken van kennis start met Zoeken, zoeken naar formele kennis, werkdocumenten en ervaringsdocumenten. Door het vinden van deze documenten wordt de relevantie voor je eigen gebruik bepaald. Let op, het is dus niet de publicist die de relevantie bepaalt, het is de lezer (jij dus)! Persoonlijk denk ik dat je nooit een document zult vinden dat direct antwoord geeft op je vraag (je mag jezelf afvragen waarom je herhalend werk zit te doen…), maar het document helpt je wel om de auteurs van de documenten te achterhalen. En zo is er een verband tussen documenten zoeken, documenten vinden en relateren aan je zoektocht en vervolgens het vinden van collega’s die jou kunnen helpen met je interpretatie of je werk. Iedere collega heeft een profielpagina en is natuurlijk direct te benaderen via chat. Gebruik deze snelle middelen om vast te stellen of iemand jou kan helpen (of doorverwijzen). Verbreed je kleine kring van collega’s met de collega’s die zij weer kennen.
persoonlijk profiel
Een persoonlijk profiel is vaak statisch. Een profielkaart wordt vaak maar 1 keer per jaar bijgewerkt, ambitieus is 2 keer per jaar (functionering en beoordeling). Dergelijke constructies vind ik niet hoopvol, het geeft meer aan wat iemand vorig jaar zou kunnen weten… Daarnaast moeten veel profielkaarten in meetschalen worden ingevuld. Wie zegt nou dat dit de werkelijkheid weergeeft? Er zijn dus uitdagingen met actualiteit en betrouwbaarheid. Twee zware redenen die aangeven dat het hebben van statische profielkaarten niet de eindoplossing zijn.
mensen en kennis
Het persoonlijk profiel wordt ook bepaald door je werkdocumenten, je project deelname, je rol in projecten, de tijd die je besteed hebt aan een onderwerp, je persoonlijke meningen in een blog, je bijdragen aan wiki’s, je bijdragen aan discussies en het netwerk van collega’s die je gebouwd hebt in de loop der tijd. Stuk voor stuk dynamische verslaglegging van jouw werk. En het mooiste is: hiervoor hoef je geen moeite te doen, het bouwt vanzelf op!
ZOEK (MENSEN + DOCUMENTEN) = KENNIS
hoe nu verder?
Noodzakelijke voorwaarde hiervoor is een oprechte houding gericht op DELEN en op INTERACTIE met je collega’s. Traditionele managers zouden moeten sturen op delen en niet op behouden. En hierop zouden alle initiatieven voor kennis op gericht moeten zijn. De tools helpen, maar zonder deze noodzakelijke grondhouding blijven het passieve middelen. De praktijk leert dat al deze technische projecten gewoon mislukken. Jammer, want veel medewerkers gebruiken deze middelen in hun privé situatie al zeer vaak. Zou het dan toch komen door de stelling “je gedraagt je zoals je gestuurd wordt”? Werk aan de winkel voor Het Nieuwe Werken professionals!
MSN has temporarily suspended provisioning new PIC domains until January 5, 2010 due to the Holiday break (currently-provisioned domains will not be affected)
Thanks to the Microsoft Enterprise Communications Support Team!
Version:
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Date Published:
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Language:
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Download Size:
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The full set of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation is contained in the download file named Communications_Server_2007_R2_Documentation.chm.
IMPORTANT See Additional Information for important information about circumstances under which a CHM file will not display correctly, and how to resolve the issue.
Today was the day! On today’s program exam 70-557 Microsoft Forefront Client and Server!
About this Exam
This exam is for IT professionals who work in mid-sized to large computing environments and who are deploying and using Microsoft Forefront technologies. This exam focuses on Forefront Client Security, Forefront Server Security, and Forefront Edge Security.
More information can be found here. The exam I took this morning consist of 47 questions and the minimal score to pass is 700/1000. My score: 978 points ;-). Enjoy doing this exam.
Source: Microsoft Learning
More information on: http://events.linkedin.com/UCVUG-nl-Q1-meeting-Netherlands/pub/182612 and spread the world. We have some exciting stuff on Wave 14 and the next version of OCS! Some exciting demo’s are showing up. And check out our prizes!
Joachim Farla – Owner and Founder UCVUG.nl
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ER ZIJN NOG TICKETS BESCHIKBAAR!
Tijdens deze sessie staat alles in het teken van Unified Communications!
Deel 1: (Spreker: Matthijs Hoekstra - Microsoft Nederland)
In deze eerste sessie van 2010 brengen we je op de hoogte van de nieuwe ontwikkelmogelijkheden van de nieuwe Wave 14 versie van OCS en Office Communicator. Aan de hand van een paar praktische voorbeelden laten we je de applicatie integratie mogelijkheden zien. Ben je geen developer dan is het nog steeds interessant om te weten te komen hoe de verschillende integratie mogelijkheden werken.
Dus volop informatie over de nieuwe versie van OCS!
Deel 2: (Spreker: John de Breij - Mitel Nederland)
Na de nieuwe versie van OCS gepresenteerd door Matthijs Hoekstra gaan we doorpakken met Mitel die zijn Unified Communications propositie gaat laten zien aan de hand van een aantal praktijk voorbeelden.
Het event om bij aanwezig te zijn!
Schrijf je nu in: http://ucvugnlq1.eventbrite.com/
Zie ook: http://unified-communications.blogspot.com/2009/11/voyager-pro-uc-wg200b-present-during.html en win een prachtige headset van Plantronics!
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Samen met Ben Kuiken had Gonny Vink afgelopen week een interview op BNR over het boek. Link
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In januari, februari en maart presenteer ik samen met Renee Hulsman van e-office op een ontbijtsessie over SharePoint 2010. Deze keer geen show met features (daar zijn er al heel erg veel van), maar een verhaal vol met context.
Op basis van een of twee gebruikers-scenario's gaan we door SharePoint 2010 heen en laten we zien op welke manier we de vraagstukken binnen een organisatie kunnen realiseren door inzet van ondersteunende technologie. Natuurlijk grijp ik ook weer terug naar de gedragskant en de organisatorische impact van deze technologie.
Twee scenario's staan op de rol: "verbinden van kennis en mensen" (als 2.0 variant op kennismanagement en profielen) en "slim communiceren". Ik ga me er sterk voor maken om de sessie zo praktisch mogelijk te maken, niet alleen het waarom maar ook het HOE.
Het zijn kleine sessies (rond de 8 bezoekers) met een zeer hoog interactie gehalte. Alleen dan kom je tot de kern van de vernieuwingen ten opzichte van SharePoint Server 2007 of Portal Server 2003.
Schrijf je in via de LinkedIn events voor januari, februari en maart 2010.
Vind je deze vorm van introductie in SharePoint (en in het bijzonder de 2010 versie) interessant voor je eigen organisatie en kun je er niet bij zijn? Neem dan contact met me op, we kijken dan samen naar mogelijkheden voor een alternatieve sessie.
Ik heb er veel zin in en hoop dat onze klanten het verschil zien tussen features en oplossingen...
Check out Bas Krikke his weblog! http://baskrikke.blogspot.com/
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e-office wint in de categorie Delivery Service Excellence
Houten, 27 november 2009 - e-office heeft uit handen van Research In Motion (RIM) de Blackberry Innovation Award 2009, in de categorie Delivery Service Excellence, ontvangen. Daarmee spreekt RIM zijn waardering uit voor e-office in het ontwikkelen en implementeren van mobiele applicaties en services voor gebruikers van het BlackBerry-platform.
In het juryrapport spreekt RIM over de wijze waarop e-office zichtbaar een positieve bijdrage heeft geleverd aan het efficiënter maken van bedrijfsprocessen en het verhogen van de beschikbaarheid van mobiele diensten bij zijn klanten. e-office heeft bij een groot aantal klanten een effectieve aanpak gekozen van uitrol, integratie, ingebruikname en ondersteuning van het BlackBerry product. Daarnaast heeft e-office zich bewezen als specialist in het ontsluiten van een diversiteit aan informatiesystemen naar de BlackBerry smartphone. Ook noemde de jury de grote populariteit van e-office's IT helpdeskoplossing.
Thierry Lammers, directeur e-office mobile: "De belangrijkste criteria om deze award te kunnen winnen waren creativiteit, een snelle terugverdientijd en populariteit onder gebruikers. Aan alle criteria konden we voldoen, ook mede door ons jarenlange partnerschap met RIM. We zijn dan ook erg blij en verheugd dat dit via deze award openlijk kenbaar wordt gemaakt."
De award is uitgereikt tijdens de jaarlijkse BlackBerry EMEA Alliance Summit 2009, dat dit jaar werd georganiseerd in Rome.
Voor meer informatie:
e-office
Pauline Huijzer / Eline Roelfsema
Tel.: 088 001 83 00
e-mail: pauline.huijzer(at)e-office.com / Eline.Roelfsema@e-office.com
Whizpr
Maartje Dekens / Willemijn Vader
Tel.: 0317 410 483
e-mail: e-office(at)whizpr.nl
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In dit video-interview (5:56) spreekt Het Nieuwe Werken Blog met Roland Hameeteman, mede-oprichter en directeur van e-office. Hameeteman gaat in op de vraag wat Het Nieuwe Werken voor hem betekent en wat hij in de loop van de jaren heeft geleerd over leidinggeven en sturing.
Check it out!: http://hetnieuwewerkenblog.nl/het-nieuwe-werken-interview-roland-hameeteman-video/
And will now support javascript! So, no additional software is required to run the OCS Webchat on your site (public or private). The solution is build on our existing SaaS infrastructure provided by e-office Datacenter Services.
Sign up now for a free OCS Webchat trial: http://products.e-office.com/Products/OCS-components/WebChat/Request-trial.aspx
OCS Webchat Development Team
Today we got invited by Charles Whitton (PAM Unified Communications – Voice) from Microsoft Netherlands to join the first UC Community Day @ Schiphol Rijk.
Today’s agenda:
First, I would like to thank Microsoft Nerherlands and Plantronics for this wonderful day. As partners we get a good experience about Plantronics products and the proposition Microsoft is having in the “new way of work”. We called that last one “work21”. Especially the key insights of Wave14 are very cool. Thanks to Thijs Janssen. Respect to the NDA! Also lots of respect to the presentation of Steven van Houttum about Microsoft Exchange 2010. Good networking day and lots of inspiration. Keep up the good work!
Maybe next time (session 2) I will show you guys something about Wave 14 (if you let me ;-). Great partner present by the way by Plantronics (Altec MR402):
Check out the Voyager PRO today: http://www.plantronics.com/voyagerpro/ or contact your B2B Sales Manager: xander.kupers@plantronics.com
/Thanks!
File Name:
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Language:
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Overview
This whitepaper:
This document describes the results of a series of configurations that were run in a Hyper-V environment to validate that Office Communications Server on Hyper-V provides stable performance and scalability for production use.
Source: Microsoft Download
New products from Microsoft UC partners, Polycom, Microsoft Hardware, GN and Plantronics, recently passed the UC hardware qualification and may use the Optimized for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 wordmark.
Check out this table:
Source: Voice Specialized Partner Sales and Technical Resources: November 2009
| Partner | Current Promotional Offers |
| New!
| SIP Trunking Services for Office Communications Server R2. Includes services for local phone numbers (Direct Inward Dial), toll free numbers, local calling, U.S. long distance, and international long distance. |
| Sprint is offering its award winning MPLS network with SIP Trunking that has been certified for interoperability on the OCS R2 platform. Trials and special promotional offers are available. Coupled with Sprint’s unmatched 3G and 4G wireless networks, Sprint brings UC with OCS to a new level. | |
| Free trial offer | |
| Free month-long trial for mobile phone solution | |
| Waive the Concurrent Call MRC and the MPLS port fee for the first two months. Flexible VoIP rate plan and competitive interstate and intrastate rates apply. | |
| First month of SIP channels monthly charges and setup fee half price. Offer valid until December 31, 2009. |
Tenx to Matthijs Hoekstra for pointing me out. See the nice PDC stuff on Unified Communications! Some nice views on Wave 14 and the new Communicator interface.
Microsoft Unified Communications: Developer Platform Futures
Session 1: (Chris Mayo)
http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-12?type=wmvhigh
Learn how Microsoft Communications Server and Microsoft Exchange provide a comprehensive and flexible communications platform for developers. Get a first look at the next generation of this platform through a series of demos and code examples. See how to embed Communicator features in your application using new Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls, and learn about the new API to develop full custom clients for Communications Server. Also see how the UC Managed API 3.0 provides access to the new Voice-over-IP features of Communication Server.
Session 2: (David Ollason)
http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR13?type=wmv
Come take an in-depth look at how to integrate and extend the Office Communicator experience into your Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight applications. See how to provide the same integration experience as Office and Outlook including contact search, contact lists, presence, contact details and more. Learn how to pass contextual data from your application using the new contextual conversation API.
Source: http://microsoftpdc.com/ (Check it out!)
File Name:
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Version:
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Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB977187
Date Published:
11/18/2009
Language:
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Download Size:
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This hotfix download for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway is described in the Knowledge Base article 977187.
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Het einde van het jaar staat vaak in het teken van goede voornemens voor het nieuwe jaar. Wat zijn uw goede voornemens op zakelijk gebied?
Wilt u uw mensen en hun kennis nu echt gaan verbinden? Bent u op zoek naar manieren om effectief klantcontact te bereiken? Of wilt u de communicatie en bereikbaarheid van uw professionals optimaliseren?
e-office neemt u graag mee op weg naar 2010. In een aantal interactieve sessies ontwaakt u in 2010 samen met e-office en zullen wij u inspireren hoe u uw voornemens waar kunt maken met de inzet van Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
In 2010 organiseert e-office de volgende ontbijtsessies:
Interesse?
Voor meer informatie, het programma of deelname aan de klantsessies neemt u contact op met uw accountmanager of bezoekt u onze website.
We get lots of questions if OCS 2007 R2 is supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 / domains. The current statement is very clear:
Source: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Documentation (CHM).
So, Windows Server 2008 R2 is still not supported. Testing OCS 2007 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 requires also testing different domain/forest structures. Stay tuned.
Special thanks to Xander Kupers of Plantronics. Xander is a B2B Sales Manager @ Plantronics and he is offering two WG400/B devices as present for UCVUG.nl members who join next UCVUG.nl session in January 2010. So join us on the next UCVUG.nl session and win this wonderful product.
More information on plantronics products please feel free to contact Xander. E-mail: xander.kupers@plantronics.com
Or see him at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/xanderkupers
Technical Information on the WG200/B: (Source: Plantronics Official Site)
<<JOIN US ON: http://ucvugnlq1.eventbrite.com>>
File Name:
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Version:
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Date Published:
11/13/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
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Overview
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, or onto any virtualization solution that is a certified partner through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partners for the following workloads:
This document describes the results of a series of configurations that were run in a Hyper-V environment to validate that Office Communications Server on Hyper-V provides stable performance and scalability for production use.
Source: Microsoft Download
Yahoo will be performing scheduled maintenance on their OCS Gateway Servers during the following maintenance window:
Confirmed Maintenance Start Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5:00pm Pacific Time
Projected Maintenance End Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5:30pm Pacific Time
Users may encounter sporadic access service availability, service disruption, and incorrect presence during this maintenance window.
User Action:
No action needs to be taken by your Office Communications Server administrator(s). Additionally, there will not be any further notification regarding this maintenance activity unless there is a broad disruption of service. In such cases, we will relay outage communication accordingly.
File Name:
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Version:
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Date Published:
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Language:
English
Download Size:
10.4 MB
Overview
With Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Service Provider, administrators can implement basic instant messaging and presence functionality for Microsoft Office Outlook®-Live users. Prior to the Web Service Provider release, Outlook-Live users accessed this functionality through client applications such as Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 or Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release).
Web Service Provider does not introduce features excluded from Communicator Web Access (2007 R2 release). It simply gives Outlook-Live users an alternative method for accessing basic instant messaging and presence information. For example, senders of an e-mail will now be able to view presence information from within the Outlook-Live application.
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Lots of questions we get from you guys about the way Microsoft support Windows Server 2008 R2 together with OCS 2007 R2. Well there is a clear quote on this.
TIP: please review and stay tuned on the following Microsoft Page:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/supported-applications.aspx
Quote for OCS 2007 R2:
“Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and later versions will be supported beginning Q1 2010”
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Windows Server 2008 R2 Foundation
Platform: www.ucvug.nl
Dear blog readers! The central topic of this week is: What are you going to do in 2010! Well we will not stuck in the old days and we make some serious progress on what is UCVUG.nl (?) What will be on the cover @ UCVUG.nl sessions in 2010.
Attention: UCVUG.nl is something different comparing to the sessions and community effort on Dustin Hannifin his Community Site (which is brand new btw!! > take a look at www.ucvug.org . Check out their agenda of the December meeting. http://ucvugdec2009.eventbrite.com/. Dustin (.org) is covering the USA (International – English) part and our UCVUG.nl is focused on the Benelux (Belgium/Netherlands).
We both share the same ideas like doing these meetings. As Dustin said before “A virtual user group is a user group that hosts all meetings online. Presenters and attendees participate virtually via online tools such as Microsoft Live Meeting.”
Next year we will:
Stay tuned on UCVUG.nl! You can follow me personally on:
Web: http://unified-communications.blogspot.com
Twitter: twitter.com/joafar
Now on Microsoft Download.
File Name:
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Version:
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Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB977065
Date Published:
10/27/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
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This download was originally released on February 1, 2009. For a complete list of fixes and changes in this latest version, please see KB article 977065
Special thanks to the iDialog Development Team and Congrats to my MVP buddy John Lamb. Nice work.
See all information on: http://www.modalitysystems.com/idialog/
This free update (v1.1.1) was released today:
Features:Fixes:
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Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB972884
Date Published:
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Language:
English
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972884
Article ID: 972884 - Last Review: October 28, 2009 - Revision: 1.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975611
Article ID: 975611 - Last Review: October 28, 2009 - Revision: 1.0
I didn’t test these updates already but they are supported and published on Support Microsoft. Enjoy!
Source: Voice Specialized Partner Sales and Technical Resources: October 2009
The Office Communications Server 2007 Microsoft Certified Masters Program offers three weeks of intensive technical training to enable your consultants and engineers to deliver the highest quality solutions for your end customers. Many partners are making strategic investments in the Microsoft Certified Masters training programs to enable them to differentiate their services and build credibility in a competitive market. The program offers a unique mix of in class instruction and a substantial hands on labs infrastructure where candidates can perfect their product knowledge to ‘level 400 and beyond’ – see the Master team blog for more details. Sessions are delivered by recognized experts in their field including members of the Product Team, MSIT, and Microsoft Consulting. All supported by over 70 hours of lab exercises and hands on activities.
Curriculum areas include:
Source: Voice Specialized Partner Sales and Technical Resources: October 2009.
Don’t miss out - the next delivery is now open for registration. For more information, please contact Adrian Maclean.
Use this page to find technical documentation to help you understand, plan, deploy, and operate Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 servers.
10/23/2009
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Office Communications Server 2007 Visio stencil
The Office Communications Server 2007 Visio stencil contains icons for Office Communications Server 2007 server roles and components.
10/23/2009
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Version:
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Date Published:
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Language:
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Download Size:
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This document describes the requirements and processes for activating and provisioning public instant messaging (IM) connectivity for Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Office Communications Server 2007, and Live Communications Server 2005.
Cool I missed this one. Congrats guys!
Telenor is the first telecoms operator to launch a Unified Communications (UC) solution on the Norwegian market. A total of 30,000 Telenor employees currently use Unified Communications services. This important internal experience forms the basis for the product being launched commercially today.
Source: http://www.telenor.com/en/news-and-media/news/2009/telenor-launches-unified-communications-UC
“with Unified Mobile Status, staff members can see from their own PC client whether colleagues are free or busy on their mobiles. This service obtains information from the Telenor mobile network about whether the colleague in question is busy or free, and this status information is then sent to the employee's PC (Unified Communications client). Mobile Status is delivered together with Blueposition.”
Forefront Security for OCS MP for Ops Mgr 2007
Forefront Security for Office Communications Server Management Pack provides real-time insight into the health and performance of key Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (Version 10) components and services.
10/16/2009
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Communications Server 2007 R2 Site Resiliency White Paper
This white paper provides guidelines and best practices for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 site resiliency.
10/15/2009
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TEI of Microsoft UC - English.pdf
Version:
October 2007
Date Published:
10/8/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
281 KB
This is an analysis of the total economic impact of implementing Microsoft Unified Communications products and services.
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Version:
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Date Published:
10/7/2009
Language:
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<<Special offer ONLY for UC/Exchange experts /[MVP’s]>>
As Unified Communications expert or Exchange Server expert within the UC community e-office would like to offer a free single user, OCS WebChat NFR license for your blog/Community Server or public SharePoint website!
See also our story on Microsoft Case Studies.
LIVE:
See the live version of OCS WebChat on this weblog Unified Communications Netherlands and lets have a chat. Support the community members now with OCS WebChat! Let’s interact and Unified Now.
Goal: Our Chat Solution Extends Benefits of Unified Communications to Web Site Visitors on your personal blog! Our main goal is to support you guys with all your activities right within the (OCS or Exchange) community.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
**and sent it back to joachim.farla (at) e-office.com**
TIP: As you probably know the DWORD value QueryServiceForStatus is a very special DWORD value in your registry. Sometimes it makes customers happy! By default when setting up a MOSS 2007 (SharePoint) intranet or other topology (extranet, internet) a nice integration feature is showing up. The item where I would like to focus on is the OC 
ActiveX control who controls the presence icon in your IE session. When having Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 installed on your local computer presence is shown in SharePoint. 
By default SharePoint calls name.dll, which calls MSO.DLL, which in turn calls Communicator or Windows Messenger. For Office 2003 it was always Windows Messenger, which would call Communicator, until SP2 when MSO.DLL started calling Communicator directly. The reg key effects the behavior of MSO.DLL
A registry value is available to configure how Outlook queries for a contact's presence information. You can configure this registry value to determine how Outlook retrieves the online status for contacts who are not on your Windows Messenger contact list.
The issue was showing up last week while doing a large OCS R2 implementation (2k seats).
Case: Customer is using MOSS 2007 as there intranet platform and PowerFuse from Citrix to connect to that.
Process:
Problem: the users see only presence from content managers who are added to the personal contact list of the user.
Question: Is there any way to set this by default:
Answer: YES! You can control the behavior on how presence is shown in MOSS. Like the same we had with LCS 2003 Microsoft published a article how to change your registry. For more information feel free to read the entire article (recommendation). Here the short to do list:
To modify this behavior, change the QueryServiceForStatus value in the following registry subkey:
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
3. Right-click PersonaMenu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. In the New Value # 1 box, type QueryServiceForStatus, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click QueryServiceForStatus, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type one of the following values:
7. Click OK, and then quit Registry Editor.
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Documentation updated on 30/09 (Microsoft Download). Check it out.
Version:
1.0
Date Published:
9/30/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
114 KB - 90.9 MB*
DOWNLOAD IT HERE! The download also contains a link to the new OCS 2007 R2 Deploying Certificates.doc!
Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 for Java (Nokia S60 320X240 resolution)
File Name:
communicator_NOKIAS60R1_JVP_EN_US.zip
Version:
1.0.6875.0
Date Published:
9/25/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
461 KB
Hi! Long time no see. It has been quiet over here the last few weeks. After 3 weeks of holiday in France and a 3000 km trip afterwards I was completely “DOWN” when I was back home. This “DOWN” moment had it’s reflection right one week after my holiday. Sick for almost 5 days and now completely back in business. Pfff the world of a MVP/Father is not easy ;-( Especially not when you also have almost 800 email messages from outside the Microsoft Community. It really gives extra “drive” to evangelize more on Unified Communications and presence. 800 email messages……!
So included in this post just a wrap up what’s in my mind.
ATTENTION: New technical fellow on the stage right within the UC Weblog Team! The next months Michiel van Oudheusden will join the group to write technical UC stuff also. For people who don’t know Michiel: he is the lead developer on the OCS WebChat solution. See his linkedin profile also (here)
Upcoming blogposts:
/Joachim Farla
Summary:
Yahoo! will be performing maintenance that will affect their OCS gateways. The outage is schedule to be brief, but as a precautionary measure, the following maintenance window has been declared:
Maintenance Start Date/Time: 9/24/2009, 10:00pm Pacific Time
Maintenance End Date/Time: 9/25/2009, 1:00am Pacific Time
Impact:
Office Communicator users may notice incorrect presence of their Yahoo! Contacts, or may not be able to communicate via PIC with their their Yahoo! contacts.
User Action:
No action needs to be taken by your Office Communications Server administrator(s). Additionally, there will not be any further notification regarding this maintenance activity unless there is a broad disruption of service. In such cases, we will relay additional outage communication accordingly.
Reference:
File Name:
PCDReskit.msi
Version:
6907.53
Date Published:
9/17/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
12.6 MB
Overview
The PreCallDiagTool is an application that reports expected audio quality as it relates to the network effect. The tool should be installed on any desktop or laptop PC that suffers from inconsistent network connection quality. The PreCallDiagTool can provide a quick check of the current network conditions and also preserve a history of quality data to let users profile their network performance over time or other conditions. The tool is particularly useful for home/mobile users and users using WIFI access points.
Note: This is the 32 bit version of the PreCallDiagTool. The 64 bit version can be found in the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit.
(in dutch) Roland Hameeteman, een van de oprichters van e-office, is vandaag 50 geworden. Daar moet voor gezongen worden! Roland, van harte.
Version:
6907.45
Date Published:
8/27/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
55 KB - 1.4 MB*
The Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is a Windows Presentation Foundation standalone client application. The Planning Tool Wizard asks interview questions about features that the system administrator is interested in enabling in the Enterprise, as well as information about the Enterprise.
The Planning Tool uses the information gathered from the administrator to dynamically draw a recommended topology for every site that the administrator identifies. Additionally, the Planning Tool calculates the types and amounts of hardware needed across the entire Enterprise, as well as for each site. The Planning Tool also provides links to documentation of the specific planning and deployment tasks that the administrator will need in order to deploy the topology.
Source: Microsoft Download. Download it here!
Dear weblog reader,
I am on annual leave and will not have access to my email. This weblog is temporarily managed by my colleague Michiel van Oudheusden. If you have any questions about current blogposts please ask him or sent a email to michiel.van.oudheusden@e-office.com or add him to your contact list in Communicator/Hotmail (same as SMTP address).
If you have questions about:
I will be back on Monday the 14th of September.
Kind regards,
Joachim Farla
Office Communications Server - MVP
Infrastructure Specialist
Weblog: http://unified-communications.blogspot.com
User Group: http://ucvug.nl
Mobile business just the way you want it...
Smartphones are becoming more and more powerful. The handsets you can buy these days are loaded with more features than you will possibly find on a computer or laptop. Processing power, high speed connections, camera’s, large (touch) screens, GPS navigation; it’s all there and at a relatively low price. Just the way we like it.
Since a couple of weeks we get inspired of the new Outside Voice Control functionality in Office Communications Server 2007 R2. As e-office we have deployed a full blown OCS R2 environment including Mediation Server, SIP trunking, CWA, Group Chat etc. We also deployed a OCS R2 Edge server.
Inside story: Some departments at e-office uses BlackBerry as there primary IM/Mail/Apps device. On the other side we have lots of Windows Mobile 6.* endpoints. Uniquely we crossed our strategies to have best of both worlds. So today I would like to announce a new BlackBerry Mobile App: Integrating your Microsoft Unified Communications investment with BlackBerry technology.
If you are interested to get more information feel free to contact me or contact my colleague Thierry Lammers – Director e-office Mobile on mobile@e-office.com.
Call setup flow:
1. the BlackBerry end user initiates a ‘call via office’ OCS call from the BlackBerry smartphone. This feature is available from the BlackBerry via an icon on the BlackBerry desktop and menu integration in the native BlackBerry Address Book application. The e-office OCS client uses a data signaling channel to inform the e-office OCS service layer of the outbound call >
2. the e-office OCS service layer receives call details and user credentials
3. the e-office OCS service layer instructs OCS to set the correct presence status and initiate the cellular call to the BlackBerry end user. This is called the first call leg.
4. the BlackBerry end user answers the phone call
5. OCS initiates the second call leg with recipients phone number
6. the second call leg is established as soon as the endpoint answers the call
7. OCS bridges the two call legs between the BlackBerry end user and the recipient.
System requirements: 
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 
BES 4.1.x or newer with Mobile Data Services (MDS) activated 
e-office OCS client runs on BlackBerry SP with OS 4.2 or newer 
e-office OCS service layer runs as a web service on a Windows 2003 SP1 or newer machine with, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), .Net Framework 3.0 and OCS components installed. 
for enterprise CRM integration e-office Content Mobilizer middleware is required
Version:
6907.41
Date Published:
8/18/2009
Language:
English
Download Size:
129 KB - 14.5 MB*
DOWNLOAD HERE
As you probably know we are currently in the progress to make our OCS WebChat better then it already is! To get your valuable feedback we can offer you the OCS WebChat client for a 30 days (trial).
More information about the OCS WebChat solution see the Microsoft Case Studies on link
Sign up for free and sent me an email on joachim.farla@e-office.com and check our products description, advantages and other nice info!
Source: Voice Specialized Partner News
As you probably know e-office is know as Voice Ready Partner and also Voice Certified Partner on Office Communications Server 2007 and R2. During the program we also get updated on UC news especially on Voice related resources. Let me share with you some news and insights:
List of updates:
· Click on the e-office case study to learn how they help enrich their clients’ web site communications and inexpensively extend their existing infrastructure by using e-office WebChat, a configurable and customizable chat solution that can be embedded in an organization’s web site and connects web users to people in the company using Office Communications Server 2007 R2. See our products page for more product information http://products.e-office.com/webchat and see the OCS WebChat live!
<<CHECK OUT our UC evidence on Microsoft Case studies focusing on our OCS R2 WebChat Solution based on Silverlight 2.0>>
· Click on Quest’s case study to learn more about their new BPOS migration applications
· Interactive Intelligence case study to learn how they expanded market reach and new business opportunities by integrating Office Communications Server 2007 R2 into their to All-in-One Communications Software Suite
· Wonderware case study to see how they are helping manufacturers gain control over their machinery by using Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to embed new collaboration features into their industrial plant management software
So enjoy these resources and see you soon on the UC Weblog in the Netherlands! More information on additional UC weblogs please click on the official OCS Team Blog. Stay tuned!
