Microsoft Higher Education Tech NE : Interop

OCS for Blackboard Learning Platform

Matthic — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:43:00 GMT

Enabling Technologies wrote a really cool app that lights up Office Communication Server Instant Messaging and Presence within Blackboard. See the attached datasheet. For more information contact: info@enablingtechcorp.com www.enablingtechcorp.com...(read more)

OCS - New PIC Licensing and XMPP Gateway released

Matthic — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:30:00 GMT

We are excited to announce changes to the Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (PIC) license that provides instant messaging and presence federation to the Windows Live, AOL and Yahoo! public IM networks. A PIC License will no longer be...(read more)

IE8 RTW very soon

Matthic — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:22:00 GMT

IE8 is going to release to the web very soon. It wil not come down via Windows Update for several weeks. Just like IE7 there is a blocker toolkit for when it does. Contact matthic for more information. IE8 launch is coming soon. Get your public site ready...(read more)

New Docy - Exchange Labs / Exchange on-prem split SMTP namespace

Matthic — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:13:00 GMT

This is very cool. Official documentation which helps Universities that use Exchange Labs (Outlook Live) and Exchange on- premises share SMTP namespace. E.g. If you want students on Outlook Live and fac/staff on Exchange on-prem and want to share SMTP...(read more)

Entourage for Exchange Web Services Beta is Live

Matthic — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:54:00 GMT

I am excited to announce that we went live with our Entourage for Exchange Web Services beta today. For those of you who may be new to the Exchange Web Services feature, this is new technology that we partnered with the Exchange Server team on to allow...(read more)

MOSS + CAS authentication session at Educause 10/29

Matthic — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:14:00 GMT

Based on the excellent work at Yale School of Management and The University of Miami we are sponsoring a technical session at Educause. MOSS + CAS: Hybrid Authentication/Authorization Architecture for SharePoint 2007 Wednesday October 29th from 10-10:30...(read more)

Ensuring your website is ready for Internet Explorer 8

Matthic — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:24:00 GMT

Top line - IE 8 can potentially affect websites designed for previous versions of IE. Feel free to reach out with questions. Thanks. Users may experience one or more of the following issues when Web browsing existing content with Internet Explorer 8 in...(read more)

Groundhog day - Entourage MAPI support?

Matthic — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:05:00 GMT

Here's some good insight on a question we get all the time - "When will Entourage use MAPI?" http://blogs.msdn.com/nadyne/archive/2007/11/20/q-a-mapi-support.aspx...(read more)

Yes Virginia, there is a way to migrate your old internet mail

Matthic — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:05:00 GMT

New version of the Transported toool has RTW and now includes POP and IMAP migration tools. Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set...(read more)

Microsoft /opensource

Matthic — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:31:00 GMT

The site provides information about Microsoft’s position on OSS and its interaction with the OSS community. It also details information about getting started with OSS and Microsoft technologies, as well as providing regular academic, technical and business...(read more)

OWA Light vs Premium

Matthic — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:42:00 GMT

This is allways a big question with non IE browser support for OWA. Things have improved significantly with OWA 2007. http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/09/13/428901.aspx...(read more)