Availability of the Exchange 2010 Beta was announced last week.  You can find a short video that details the Beta and the new 2010 features here . The Exchange Web Services Managed API was also announced last week (details and useful links here ...

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 was built with standards-based interoperability in mind in order to allow partners to create devices and solutions for our Unified Communications stack. Since the release of OCS 2007 R2, I’ve been getting a lot of...

This is Part 5 of a series of blog posts on setting up a virtualized development environment based on the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 VHDs . Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Now that we’ve done all the heavy lifting getting the TS virtual machine...

This is Part 4 of a series of blog posts on setting up a virtualized development environment based on the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 VHDs .  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3   Now that we have the Terminal Services role installed on the TS virtual...

This is Part 3 of a series of blog posts on setting up a virtualized development environment based on the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 VHDs .  Part 1 Part 2   Now that we have the TS virtual machine on the Fabrikam domain, we need to...

This is Part 2 of a series of blog posts on setting up a virtualized development environment based on the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 VHDs .  You can find Part 1 here .   Now that we have the TS virtual machine built, we need to join...

“I see dead people.” – Cole Sear, The Sixth Sense “I see progress bars…” – Me, over the last couple of weeks.   Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5   In my previous post , I mentioned that it’s possible to use Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services...

I get this question a lot, so I thought I’d post a short post while I stare at progress bars…   In EWS, impersonation allows your code to perform operations using the permissions of the impersonated account.  For example, if a service were running...

Thanks to everyone that made it to the live webcast last week.  It was great to have Jon Rauschenberger from Clarity Consulting as a guest speaker.  If you couldn’t make it, you can watch a recording here .  Feel free to post any questions...

While watching progress bars during the setup of my TS box for the Fabrikam VMs, I thought I’d catch up on some reading. Michael Greenlee has been putting together some great posts on UCMA 2.0 development lately. For example, if you’ve had issues with...

From a prior post on building a virtualized UC development environment , I’m building out a Terminal Services virtual machine for the Fabrikam VMs and taking notes for a series of (near) future blog posts. I’m using snapshots to make sure I don’t end...

I thought this was a thought provoking post, so I wanted to share.  Enjoy .

This made me laugh for a number of reasons, but mostly because I work with these people… http://edge.technet.com/Media/Social-Networking-in-the-real-world/