Microsoft Office Roundtable @ e-office

Yesterday we had an fantastic overview of an brand new Office Roundtable at our company. William van Male (Solution Specialist Unified Communications) Microsoft Netherlands was giving a demo with Live Meeting 2007 RC. We connected the Roundtable to my laptop and within 5 seconds we realize that it was time worth. What an amazing device width also integrate perfectly with Office Communications Server 2007. e-office is on a pre-order list to buy an couple of Roundtable's. Microsoft is releasing the Roundtable over a couple of weeks (begin August). The prize is still around 3300 dollars.

Important and interesting features are panoramic view of all your meeting attendees. Multiple microphones integrated with active speaking capabilities. Great menu with plenty of possibilities to configure your Roundtable. RJ45 connection to automatically update your Roundtable with Microsoft Update Services. WSUS for only the device :-)! Outbound calling possibilities. Speaker settings, tutorials to get familiar with the Roundtable. When connecting the Office Roundtable it installs 2 devices under Device Management (1 for Audio, 1 for Video)

So great impression! Included some pictures of the device of the year 2007!

Device overview: (power cable with integrated RJ11,RJ45 capabilities), integraded color menu with various of options:

Panoramic view and closer picture of Office Roundtable Menu.



If you need to have some more indepth information do not hesitate to contact me.

Microsoft OCS Event - Office RoundTable!

Today Microsoft was doing another event on Office Communications Server 2007 the new way of communicating. We (Hans) also spotted the device of the year 2007.

Slick picture:



Tomorrow morning we also have an Roundtable to play with. So lets download the Live Meeting 2007 RC from the Microsoft download site and test it.

Hans thanks for spotting this wonderful thing!

Microsoft Office RoundTable review

This week we are reviewing the Microsoft Office Roundtable. Only for 1 hour :-(
There is a very interesting post about a RoundTable http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/microsoft/microsoft-roundtable-review.asp

This week i will post some pictures of a live Rountable!

Specialization Requirements - Unified Communications (Microsoft Partners)

Specialization Requirements
Certifications
To qualify, your organization must employ or contract with two individuals, each of whom must have passed one of the following Microsoft exams:
Exam 70-236 : TS: Exchange Server 2007, Configuring
Exam 70-237 : Pro: Designing Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Exam 70-238 : Pro: Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Exam 70-262 : TS: Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 - Implementing, Managing and Troubleshooting
Exam 70-284 : Implementing and Managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Exam 70-285 : Designing a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Organization
Exam 70-638 : Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring (available in 2007)
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Customer References
You must submit at least three customer references that meet the following criteria:
Each reference must feature the planning, deployment, and management of solutions that enable unified communications across email, instant messaging, voice, data, video, and Web conferencing, using one of the following Microsoft technologies:
Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2003
Office Communications Server 2007
Live Communications Server 2005
Each reference must feature a project that you have completed for a customer within the last 12 months.

Exam 70-638

When you decide to get certified for OCS you have to wait (source Microsoft Partner Site)

Configuring Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007*
Exam 70-638 (In Development)
Microsoft Learning Prep Guide (Available tbd*)