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Federation with Microsoft and with Education Institutions

How do you build a community? Federate! In OCS 2007 you have the ability to federate with other schools, other companies (including Microsoft), and federate with Public IM (AOL, MSN, and Yahoo). Some of our OCS customers have federated with the Microsoft...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 04:18 PM by The Three UC Amigos
Voicemail - Do I retain it?

What are your message record retention policies? Some customers I've worked with are very hesitant to store voicemail and email on the same system. They are fearful that this would provide them with a legal or retention problem. If you have obligations...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 04:08 PM by The Three UC Amigos
How can I speed up the Exchange Management Shell launch?

Have you noticed it takes quite a long time to open up the Exchange command shell? I timed it and it takes anywhere from 20 to 30 seconds to launch. I found a way to knock this down to 2-3 seconds. This script updates the GAC with some of the Exchange...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2008 06:57 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange, management shell
Is there a way to separate OCS server administration between pools in the same domain? Can't we all just get along Part II

I had this question today from a large University in the Midwest and after some digging I found the answer to this is yes: Here are the steps to do this: 1) Create two Universal security admin groups in ADUC such as OCSserverPool1group and OCSserverPool2group...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2008 06:26 PM by The Three UC Amigos
Can't we all just get along? Part I

Scenario 1: Delegating Setup (Installation and Activation) Mark and I run into this problem in HiED often. We want to deploy but we are completely decentralized. Each department runs their own gear. We may have a central AD infrastructure but this model...

Published Tue, Aug 26 2008 01:55 PM by The Three UC Amigos
What if I have external users?

This is where the real value of OCS is. I can invite users outside my organization (Visiting Staff, Educators, Students) to participate or lead in a web conference. The tool to do this is the OCS Conferencing Add-in for Outlook. In this short video I'll...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 09:42 AM by The Three UC Amigos
Home Movies with OneNote

Hi folks - I'm back after a couple of weeks off with my new daughter Claire. During my time off, I had a chance to do something that I've been meaning to get started on for a while and that is record some OneNote videos. Last Sunday, while Claire's...

Published Sun, Aug 24 2008 01:24 PM by OneNote and Education
Is there a way to get Office Communicator inside of Outlook?

I had a few SameTime/Notes schools who were switching to Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 ask me if there was a way to embed Office Communicator client inside of Outlook? The answer is yes. There sample add-on available here along with source. Here is what...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 04:41 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Communicator client inside of Outlook OCS Vista Gadget
The newest little note

Hey folks – I’ve taken a brief break from blogging until at least mid-late August. My daughter was born on Friday, August 1st. Her name is Claire Freya Tholfsen . She was 7lb 6oz and 19 3/4 in. long at birth. She is our first child and it’s been a week...

Published Sat, Aug 9 2008 04:37 PM by OneNote and Education
Software + Services for Academia?

So much hullabalu is afoot in the press these days regarding Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing and Web 2.0 that our own internal news service had to create a new RSS feed category just to optimally classify and keep tabs on the trends, stories...

Published Wed, Aug 6 2008 09:33 PM by It's all about edU

Filed under: Web 2.0, Software + Services, Technology

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Federation with Microsoft and with Education Institutions

Voicemail - Do I retain it?

How can I speed up the Exchange Management Shell launch?

Is there a way to separate OCS server administration between pools in the same domain? Can't we all just get along Part II

Can't we all just get along? Part I

What if I have external users?

Home Movies with OneNote

Is there a way to get Office Communicator inside of Outlook?

The newest little note

Software + Services for Academia?