Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Office Communications Server 2007 Videoconferencing Interoperability White Paper

Office Communications Server 2007 is the first Microsoft product to combine enterprise-ready IM (instant messaging), presence, videoconferencing, Web conferencing, and VoIP (Voice over IP) telephony in one solution. In addition, Office Communications Server 2007 includes real-time videoconferencing solutions running on servers in your intranet or interoperating with videoconferencing hardware vendors (such as TANDBERG or Polycom).

Providing interoperability between Office Communications Server 2007 and videoconferencing vendors allows you to take advantage of your existing videoconferencing hardware investment while extending videoconferencing features to other users with minimal hardware investment and user training. The users that attend conferences using dedicated videoconferencing hardware can schedule meetings and determine attendee availability using familiar tools, such as Microsoft Office Outlook or Office Communicator 2007.

Office Communications Server 2007 provides solutions for real-time communications within your organization, between federated networks, and with users on the Internet. The solutions include instant messaging, real-time audio communications, real-time videoconferencing, Web conferencing, and playback of recorded video conferences.

The downloadable white paper focuses on the interoperability of Office Communications Server 2007 with real-time videoconferencing vendors. This paper discusses the following topics:

  • Creating videoconferencing solutions using Office Communications Server 2007.
  • Creating videoconferencing solutions that interoperate Office Communications Server 2007 and videoconferencing hardware vendors such as Tandberg and Polycom. 

To learn more about these vendor solutions, please click the partner logo below.


Presence Integration Between IM Applications and 2007 Microsoft Office System

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Office2007_IM_Integration.doc

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9/9/2008

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English

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1 min 56K

Monday, September 8, 2008

OFCCT201 - All-Up Unified Communications and Collaboration Demo

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At Tech.Ed Australia Ian Palangio and I did a 75 presentation that contained no PowerPoint slides.  It was a complete demonstration of Unified Communications and Collaboration technologies available from Microsoft including:

  • Office 2007
  • Office Groove 2007
  • Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Office Communicator 2007
  • LiveMeeting Hosted Service
  • Office Communications Server 2007
  • Exchange Server 2007 including Unified Messaging

An interesting thing is that we completely performed our demonstration live on Microsoft infrastructure - the real stuff that Ian and I (plus 100,000 others) use imageevery day.  We connected remotely into Microsoft's network and completed a complete project centric demo.  Ian was connected via VPN, and I was VPN-less on a very slow network.  My (very) slow network actually wasn't deliberate, it was due to infrastructure issues at the event - but it ended up showing some of the capabilities of our technologies on low-bandwidth/high-latency networks quite well.

Ian has created a Word document of what our demonstration script was, and screen shots of what was shown.  For those that attended, you can follow through this content easily.  For others, it is a long demonstration scenario around how a company could run an Innovation or R&D type project - in our case it was around the development of a Bluetooth integrated Bicycle Helmet.

You can download this Word demo script document (5MB) from Ian's Windows Live SkyDrive at:

http://cid-e7db9bf957528709.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/OFCCT201%20UCC%20Demo/OFCT201%20UCC%20Demo%20Script.docx

Mission accomplished!

Last week I upgraded my MCTS on Windows Server 2008 to MCITP Enterprise Adminstrator.

PRO: Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator: 858 points!

So my current certifications are:

MCSE2003, MCTS OCS, Windows Vista, MOSS, WSS and  Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure and Windows Server 2008 Active Directory and MCITP Server and Enterprise Administrator. And ofcourse MVP on OCS. Yeah!

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So basically this opens the sign up for the Microsoft Master and Architect Program.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Patrick passed away..

Although I didn’t knew Patrick in person, I always enjoyed watching him speak at conferences (really loved the dutch/belgian english accent he had:).

My deepest condolences  to Patrick’s family, friends and his colleagues at U2U..