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There are so many reasons to deploy a unified communications solution
To be more precise, because this is a Microsoft blog, there are so many reasons to deploy Microsoft’s Office Communication Server 2007 (OCS).   Every day since I first became a member of Microsoft’s dogfood deployment of OCS I’ve been amazed at just Read More...
Event: Identity & Access for Education
We’re running a seminar in London, in partnership with Oxford Computer Group, on 12th June. It’s an opportunity to learn about solutions for identity and access management, messaging, collaboration, and how you can enhance existing technology investments. Read More...
Exchange Tour - more dates in Cambridge, Manchester and London
Just after the the OCS launch, the UC team in the UK embarked on the Exchange Unplugged Tour 2007 that saw them travel to 9 venues during 3 weeks on the road seeing nearly 1000 attendees. Well, similar to any good rock and roll tour, they have decided Read More...
Unified Communications for Universities
Talking to a US colleague recently, he was telling me about various projects worldwide where universities are bringing together all of their communications and messaging systems. He referred me to the case studies published in the last six months of things Read More...
7 tips for working securely from wireless hotspots
Like last week's posting, on 10 ways to work more securely , was a handy way of reminding your staff about common sense steps that they can take to keep their own personal PCs secure, as well as contributing to the organisation security you're managing. Read More...
When data goes bad...a student study
We've been doing a lot of work with students recently, and from that I've learnt quite a bit about their ICT habits. Two years ago universities reported that three-quarters of students turn up with their own PC, with some reporting that 99% of students Read More...
What do you do when you have to tell all your students your campus is closed?
Okay, this doesn't happen every day (thank goodness), but let's suppose that you've got an important message, for all of your students, and which is time critical. It may represent part of your contingency planning, or it may be that there are certain Read More...
Product launch invitation: Office Communications Server 2007
Here's another launch that might be of interest to you. This one is for our Office Communications Server 2007, which shifts the convergence of phone, email, fax, IM, web conferencing and voice over IP. You will have seen how different mechanisms of communication Read More...
Would You Like To Know Even More About Unified Communications?
Exchange Tour Unplugged 2007 24th October - 5th November 2007 Reading, London, Sheffield, Manchester, Maidenhead, Warwickshire & Glasgow More dates have just been announced, covering much more of the country. This is your opportunity to get the inside Read More...
How to put the groove into multimodal education
My colleagues in Australia sent this posting last night with the summary: SUMMARY BroadMeadows has created an amazing environment for children to learn via multimodal experiences: Document creation, video production, Mobile devices for discovery, pairing Read More...
Talk to the Hand
There's a lot of new things inside Exchange 2007 - things like new features in Outlook Web Access and the ability to access e-mail, voice mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere that you have a connection (telephone and computer). In Exchange Read More...
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