April 2009 - Blogs from the Microsoft Field - Microsoft Education Community

Another webcast with FreedomWriter Founder, Erin Gruwell - Tuesday, May 6th

For those of you who missed the first webcast, you have another chance! If you've been reading my blog, you'll remember that last summer I had the opportunity to work with Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writer Teachers . For those of you who have...

Published Thu, Apr 30 2009 07:25 PM by OneNote and Education

Filed under: Education, Teacher, OneNote, Freedom Writers, Teacher Tech Tuesday

Exchange 2010 and OWA

WOW!!! My customers have been asking for this forever. In the past I had to point out that the best experience was for web access was with Internet Explorer. But the response I would get is that being in an academic environment I can’t dictate what students...

Published Wed, Apr 29 2009 02:31 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Can I make native voice calls through OCS on a Mac or non-PC platforms?

I get asked this quite a bit from schools as they want the ability to place/receive voice calls on the Mac or Linux using OCS R2. The answer is yes if you leverage the SmartSip technology from our partner Evangelyze. You can make and receive voice calls...

Published Tue, Apr 28 2009 07:32 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Mac, OCS, voice

Microsoft Unified Communications (MUC) User Group

We are pleased to invite you to the first meeting of the Microsoft Unified Communications User Group for Educational Institutions. This is an independent group that encourages communication between users of (and people interested in) Microsoft Unified...

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 01:34 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Events, Collab

Windows 7 - XP Mode (XPM)

This is cool stuff for Windows 7 Application compatability efforts. http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/business/archive/2009/04/24/coming-soon-windows-xp-mode-and-windows-virtual-pc.aspx...( read more )

Published Mon, Apr 27 2009 09:25 AM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Win7

Low cost IP phones for OCS?

A university in the Northwest wanted to retire their dying PBX and had a few key questions about our OCS R2 voice offering: What are my options for my analog phones with OCS R2? For analog phones, you can configure a back-to-back SIP gateway configuration...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2009 08:21 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: OCS, R2, Office Communicatons Server, ip phone, e911

A new 64-bit Send to OneNote Printer powertoy

OneNote Group Program Manager, David Rasmussen just released a much requested new powertoy, the "Send to OneNote Printer" for 64-bit machines! Now those of you with 64-bit machines can help Mother Earth and send all of those Print outs to OneNote...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 08:32 PM by OneNote and Education

Filed under: OneNote

Happy Earth Day - green IT articles

TechNet Magazine published this special online-only Green IT issue for IT Pros earlier this evening. The issue features a strong collection of new and archived articles, including: · Framework for Building a “Hyper-Green” Virtual Server System · Planning...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 04:42 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Desktop Sharing with OCS R2

I was asked by a school to provide more detail around the new desktop sharing feature in OCS 2007 R2. What is desktop sharing? Desktop sharing is the ability to share your desktop from a PC directly from the Communicator client with other communicator...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 12:02 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: OCS, deployment, desktop sharing

OneNote wishes you a happy Earth Day

April 22nd is Earth Day , and in celebration we've put together some great OneNote resources to help you and your schools reduce your paper usage with OneNote. I've written about this previously, including our web page on how to reduce paper/processing...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2009 08:52 AM by OneNote and Education

Filed under: School, Teacher, Student, OneNote, Community

Boston Virtualization User group

Virtualization Group - Boston . Their initial charter is to hold monthly meetings in Waltham Ma on the fourth Thursday of each month. They had an initial membership drive event in which they pulled in plenty of new members, numerous sponsors and new board...

Published Tue, Apr 21 2009 12:18 PM by Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE

Filed under: Virt

R2 Edge planning tool just released

This is a very nice tool as it will help layout your OCS R2 Edge environment: You can enter all your IP information via the wizard and it provides a nice Edge summary at the end: Along with Firewall rules: Certificate needs: DNS needs: and how...

Published Thu, Apr 16 2009 07:39 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: OCS, deployment, Edge, Office Communicatons Server, tool

Exchange 2010 – Evaluation bits have arrived!

Grab your beta evaluation copy of Exchange 2010 here . What is new in Exchange Server 2010?: Flexible and reliable · Remove the need to deploy complex and costly clustering and third-party data replication products for full-scale Exchange...

Published Wed, Apr 15 2009 05:40 AM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange, Exchange 14, Exchange14, Exchange 2010, Exchange Server 2010

Outbound Filtering

One of my customers needed a way to scan outgoing mail by using the content filtering anti-spam agent. By default this agent does not work on trusted connections, therefore all emails sent from your Hub server to your Edge Transport server using the Internal...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2009 12:33 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Filtering

Site Resiliency for Exchange 2007

This topic has come up twice in the same week. Quite a hot topic. We’ve talked about CCR and SCR in the past this topic will focus on options for site resiliency. This is where we have a primary and secondary center. The first item to understand is what...

Published Tue, Apr 14 2009 12:10 PM by The Three UC Amigos

Filed under: Exchange 2007, CCR, DR, CAS

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