October 2010 - Posts
Today I have the pleasure of blogging about the final engineering milestone for Microsoft Lync 2010 - the next release of Office Communications Server and Communicator - also known as Release to Manufacturing, or RTM. We're incredibly excited about this release as it's really the culmination of a five-year journey to help customers transform the way they communicate. This platform has evolved over the past few years. Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007; released November 2007) introduced Communicator and a totally new experience for enterprise IM, presence and conferencing built into the Office applications people use every day. In February 2009, OCS 2007 R2, added on premise audio conferencing that was easy to manage, saved customers money, added core enterprise telephony features, and better supported collaboration through richer online meetings and ad hoc conversations via Communicator.
The Lync 2010 release takes collaboration and productivity to the next level by:
- Providing a single platform that integrates the various modes of communication necessary for people and businesses to be productive. It does this for the end user via a single client experience, and on the back-end with a unified infrastructure and management experience. We knew that for customers to see real value, they would need to achieve cost savings that come from bringing this all together as well as a smart interface to encourage user adoption.
- Enabling an extensible and open platformthat invites corporate and professional developers around the world to help us provide customers with greater flexibility. Many developers are already reshaping their business models based on the Lync platform. For example, Joe Schurman, a Microsoft partner at Evangelyze Communications, recently said that the Lync platform "has forever changed how our organization develops and produces software." The success here will be driven by our open approach to interoperability which enables Lync to work with existing communications systems while implementing a single API set across all modes of communication, simplifying the developer experience.
- Rounding out enterprise voice capabilities so that Lync can help the broadest set of customers reduce legacy infrastructure costs and enhance that infrastructure with an incredibly rich set of softphone capabilities. Employees are able to work more effectively from home, on the road, or in any number of evolving workplace scenarios.
- Supporting our partner community by enabling them to provide an optimized experience with Lync. This is exemplified by the enormous range of devices available from partners around the world. We and our partners will have a ton more to say about the advances here at launch.
Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/uc/archive/2010/10/27/microsoft-lync-released-to-manufacturing.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
Microsoft Lync Web App can be used to join Lync meetings from a web browser on Windows and Mac operating systems. One of the first steps most users would perform after joining a meeting is to connect to meeting audio. Lync Web App supports users joining meeting audio via a PSTN phone, or via a previous version of Communicator like Communicator 2007 R2.
The following screenshots illustrate the steps a user joining a Lync meeting as Guest (unauthenticated) via the Lync Web App has to take to join the meeting audio.
Read more at source: http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2010/10/26/1906.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
In this post MSExchange Team explains how to remove messages from mailboxes, public folders and queues in different versions of Exchange Servers, they also go through the process to act proactively using Transport Rules.
Ever so often, an Exchange administrator faces a situation where messages that fit specific criteria need to be removed from a large number of mailboxes or from Exchange transport queues. The need may arise due to some sort of mass mailing, a message sent accidentally to a large distribution group or individual recipients, or it could be one of the steps required to be taken as a part of cleanup efforts after a mass-mailing virus outbreak (although the latter have been increasingly rare and generally taken care of by Exchange-aware antivirus scanners).
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/10/27/456739.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
With the release of Microsoft Lync 2010, we are introducing Lync Web App, a new Silverlight based web browser client that allows participants without Lync 2010 account or Lync 2010 client to participate in meetings using Windows or Mac operating system and present and view PowerPoint slides, share desktop/application (Windows platform only), poll the audience and collaborate on a whiteboard.
Lync Web App can be used by employees who have Lync 2010 account, but do not have a Lync 2010 client installed on their machines, like those working from home on a PC or a Mac. Lync Web App also enables external partners, such as salespeople, who are invited to Lync 2010 meetings but do not have Lync 2010 account to join meetings as guest.
The Lync Web App sign-in page below illustrates how Lync Web App can be used by guests who do not have a Lync 2010 account, as well as by users who have a Lync 2010 account, but do not have Lync 2010 client installed on their machine.
Read more at source: http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2010/10/19/1763.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
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Hi Folks,
Great blog post from Lync 2010 Team about accessibility.
Accessibility was an important consideration we put our efforts into during Lync 2010 development. In addition to helping our customers with disabilities, these improvements also bring about broad usability enhancements in the product.
We have made improvements in almost all accessibility areas (keyboard navigation, high dpi, high contrast, shortcut keys, global hotkeys, focus indication etc.). Additionally, we have made sure the initial level of accessibility for all the new scenarios introduced in Lync 2010 are higher compared to past releases (collaboration features for e.g.)
Read the full story at: http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2010/10/06/Accessibility_Features_in_Lync_2010.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
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Hi folks,
MSExchange Team has just blogged about RU1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1. They also stated that they are going to release RU2 in early December.
Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on October 12th.
This update includes new fixes for the following server roles:
- Client Access
- Mailbox
- Edge Server
- Hub Transport
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/10/07/456538.aspx
Get the RU1 here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a371fa96-e85b-4a4f-8242-15d56595d0ec
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
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Hi folks,
I wrote about this specific feature in Exchange Server 2007 SP3 on top of Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 a few weeks ago at MSExchange.org http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/deploying-exchange-server-2007-service-pack3.html.
However the MSExchange team has just released a note stating that the same procedure is also valid for Exchange Server 2010, that is really cool and it will save a lot of time of your help desk team.
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/10/06/456520.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
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Hi folks,
Exchange Server 2010 brought a lot of new features and one of them is the capability to install the product in hosting mode. In this post I will show how to install it, actually it's a single line to get the work done.
I'm writing an article series about the entire process, installation, management and so forth and it will be published soon at MSExchange.org. A few points that you need to cover before installing Exchange in Hosting mode, as follows:
- Service Pack 1 is a must
- The installation process is only by using command-line
- You cannot have a hosting organization and a regular organization on the same Active Directory
- Exchange Management Console won't be installed
In order to install we are going to take advantage of a new switch of SP1 which is /InstallWindowsComponents that will installl all windows components automatically.
setup /roles:m,h,c /InstallWindowsComponents /Hosting /OrganizationName:<NameofYourHostingOrg>
The command in action can be seen in the figure below.
After installing Exchange Server 2010 SP1 in hosting mode, you will see the Exchange Management Shell and the next steps will be the creation of plans, and start creating tenant organizations.
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
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Hi folks,
It has been a while since my last post and now I'm back for good. After spending my last 7 months in Brazil in a project I'm finally back home, close to my Hyper-V servers and with a couple of Exchange gigs down the road. Time to have some fun and blog about cool stuff!
Back in Brazil I had the opportunity to present two sessions in TechED South America: one session about SP1 and another session about DPM (most of the time I used Exchange as example during the session :)).
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
Office Communicator Wave 14 - Now officially called "Microsoft Lync" - has a wealth of new features around Contacts, Contact Search and Presence. Join Alex Hehmeyer as he demonstrates the new Contact Card, Skill Search, Contact Pictures, Location in Presence, Office2010 Integration points and more!
Watch it out at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/edge/Ff945192(MSDN.10)?query=1
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio