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• Ian Hameroff talks to me about Exchange 2010 features

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/21/ian-hameroff-talks-to-me-about-exchange-2010-features.aspx";digg_title = "Ian Hameroff talks to me about Exchange 2010 features";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin... Posted Apr 21 2009, 05:28 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Exchange, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration

• Outlook Thread Compressor – now available externally

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/20/outlook-thread-compressor-now-available-externally.aspx";digg_title = "Outlook Thread Compressor – now available externally";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin... Posted Apr 20 2009, 10:23 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Exchange, Messaging & Collaboration, Desktop Productivity Applications, Thread Compressor, Outook

• Lovelace colloquium at Leeds university

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/17/lovelace-colloquium-at-leeds-university.aspx";digg_title = "Lovelace colloquium at Leeds university";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url... Posted Apr 17 2009, 08:26 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Events, Messaging & Collaboration, Live Communications Server, Women in Technology, Lovelace colloquium

• Interact 2009 and Exchange 2010

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/15/interact-2009-and-exchange-2010.aspx";digg_title = "Interact 2009 and Exchange 2010";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url =... Posted Apr 15 2009, 08:53 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Exchange, Events, General musings, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Live Communications Server, Knowledge Management, Exchange 2010, Interact 2009

• OCS R2: A really easy way to share your desktop

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/03/31/ocs-r2-a-really-easy-way-to-share-your-desktop.aspx";digg_title = "OCS R2: A really easy way to share your desktop";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin Read... Posted Mar 31 2009, 09:03 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Live Communications Server, Desktop Productivity Applications, How to Articles, OCS R2

• Technet Virtual conference. Vote for your sessions

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/03/17/technet-virtual-conference-vote-for-your-sessions.aspx";digg_title = "Technet Virtual conference. Vote for your sessions";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin... Posted Mar 17 2009, 12:16 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Security, Events, TechNet, Windows Server, General musings, Information, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Training, Systems Management Software, Knowledge Management, Virtual Conference

• OCS resources

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/03/11/ocs-resources.aspx";digg_title = "OCS resources";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor... Posted Mar 11 2009, 12:08 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Exchange, General musings, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Live Communications Server

• Exchange Online White paper

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/03/09/exchange-online-white-paper.aspx";digg_title = "Exchange Online White paper";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title... Posted Mar 09 2009, 01:52 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Exchange, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration

• Evaluation software links for the OCS R2 launch today

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/02/03/evaluation-software-links-for-the-ocs-r2-launch-today.aspx";digg_title = "Evaluation software links for the OCS R2 launch today";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin... Posted Feb 03 2009, 11:40 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Live Communications Server, Desktop Productivity Applications, Knowledge Management, live Meeting, OCS R2, Evaluation software

• OCS R2 Virtual launch

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/02/02/ocs-r2-virtual-launch.aspx";digg_title = "OCS R2 Virtual launch";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title... Posted Feb 02 2009, 10:26 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Live Communications Server, Virtual launch, OCS R2

• Getting my hands on Microsoft Surface

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/01/22/getting-my-hands-on-microsoft-surface.aspx";digg_title = "Getting my hands on Microsoft Surface";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url... Posted Jan 22 2009, 09:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Unified Communications, General musings, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Live Communications Server, Desktop Productivity Applications, Microsoft Surface, BCS, Wtech09

• Missing Drafts folder in Outlook 2007: Found again with MFCMAPI

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/01/20/missing-drafts-folder-in-outlook-2007-found-again-with-mfcmapi.aspx";digg_title = "Missing Drafts folder in Outlook 2007: Found again with MFCMAPI";digg_bgcolor Read... Posted Jan 20 2009, 09:20 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Desktop Productivity Applications, Outlook 2007, drafts folder

• Early look at Exchange 14…

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/01/15/early-look-at-exchange-14.aspx";digg_title = "Early look at Exchange 14…";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title... Posted Jan 15 2009, 09:59 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Exchange, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Knowledge Management, KC Lemson, Exchange 14

• Become a Certified Master – in OCS

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/01/13/become-a-certified-master-in-ocs.aspx";digg_title = "Become a Certified Master – in OCS";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url... Posted Jan 13 2009, 05:33 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Live Communications Server, office Communications, OCS certified master

• Are you a SharePoint Master?

  digg_url = "http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/01/12/are-you-a-sharepoint-master.aspx";digg_title = "Are you a SharePoint Master?";digg_bgcolor = "#EEEEEE";digg_skin = "normal";digg_url = undefined;digg_title... Posted Jan 12 2009, 01:32 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: SharePoint, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Desktop Productivity Applications, certified master

• OCS Technet Events coming up

  Brett will be delivering a couple of Unified Communications events next quarter that may be of interest – especially as R2 is almost here… one face to face event in Manchester, and an online event… “What’s New in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Read... Posted Dec 29 2008, 08:06 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Unified Communications, TechNet, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Live Communications Server, Desktop Productivity Applications

• Unified Communications – Real stories from real people

  This is one of our internal videos that we use to raise awareness of UC.  I know Bob really well and I can just imagine him on the call.  So I asked him for clearance to share this with a wider audience.  The other videos are still internal... Posted Dec 22 2008, 12:28 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Unified Communications, General musings, Messaging & Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Live Communications Server, uc, ocs, roundtable, Messaging &amp, OC, Bob Maher

• UC or not? How do you get the correct people?

  One of the key concerns about whether to implement Unified communications in an organisation is who has the skill set to manage and administer it.  Since UC is relatively new, finding someone with hands-on experience of UC is going to be an issue... Posted Nov 06 2008, 02:04 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Unified Communications, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Live Communications Server, uc, VoiceCon

• Exchange Virtual hands on Labs

  I like the idea of these LabCasts.  You follow along the webcast and do hands on config yourself using Virtual Labs.  I like playing with the interface  - it helps me learn faster so I thought I’d forward some of these on in case you’d... Posted Nov 05 2008, 10:34 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Exchange, Events, Exchange 2007, Messaging & Collaboration, Virtual Labs, Unified Messaging, Messaging &amp, Labcast

• Office Communicator Netiquette and tips

  I noticed that Mark has posted some great tip s for using Office Communicator which I thought I’d share – and also add a couple of my own… If you don’t want to be disturbed then set your status so that you do not get any Alerts – or any sounds. ... Posted Nov 04 2008, 11:11 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Live Communications Server, Desktop Productivity Applications, Office Communicator

• OCS R2 announced at VoiceCon

  Heck.  I forgot to blog about the R2 release of Office communications server and the mail reminding me to do so has been sitting in my inbox for a week.  No excuse at all.  So here’s the facts. OCS will be 64 bit only as per the announcement... Posted Oct 27 2008, 10:07 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, OCS 2007, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Live Communications Server, Desktop Productivity Applications, VoiceCon, Interact 2008, OCS 2007 R2

• Gossip? – or a hint at our strategy?

  For those of you who are not particularly interested in Exchange or Unified Communications – but are very interested in trying to work out where the company is going may find the following snippet from the Exchange Team blog interesting:   Rajesh... Posted Oct 16 2008, 12:36 PM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Exchange Server, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Live Communications Server, Desktop Productivity Applications, Office Live

• IM bot translator

  Now this is a really cool idea – I can now have Instant message conversations with people in different languages and there’s an IM translator bot that will translate for me. Read all about it on the blog…         All you have to do... Posted Sep 24 2008, 04:35 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Desktop Productivity Applications, translator bot, IM bot, messenger translator bot

• OCS 2007 – now on a BlackBerry

  I just noticed this over on Johann’s blog.  We’ve released the OCS 2007 client for BlackBerry the other day.  Here’s the feature list: Enjoy Familiar Features Wirelessly Enjoy a desktop-like experience on your BlackBerry smartphone, with features... Posted Sep 23 2008, 04:30 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Exchange, OCS 2007, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Instant Messaging, Desktop Productivity Applications, SmartPhone, blackberry

• The Ultimate Steal – just in time for University

  I notice that we’re running another promotion of the Ultimate steal (thanks to Ra y and the smallbiz blog ).  What you may not know is that ANYONE with a valid .ac.uk account can get Office 2007 for this price. This means that teachers, lecturers... Posted Sep 09 2008, 11:49 AM by TechNet Blogs Filed under: Messaging & Collaboration, Office 2007, Messaging & Collaboration, Collaboration, Desktop Productivity Applications, the ultimate steal