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Watch this webcast series that provides meaningful and useful information on capabilities and considerations, planning and designing, deployment and configuration for unified communications solutions in the areas of voice, messaging & presence, and conferencing. Here are descriptions of the coverage areas:

• Microsoft unified communications technologies enable you to add VoIP to your existing PBX systems. Microsoft telephony solutions deliver a software-powered VoIP foundation for organizations and operational control for IT.
• Microsoft unified communications technologies streamline your messaging systems and add presence functionality to your line-of-business applications. A familiar, intuitive user interface combined with communication technologies such as instant messaging and conferencing helps everyone stay connected.
• Microsoft unified communications technologies make conferencing easier to implement and manage. Users can start a conference from an IM session or add communication modes such as phone, video and Web conferencing, and data sharing all while using a familiar interface that helps improve remote collaboration for companies of all sizes.

IT Manager Webcast: Platform Solution Blueprints: Unified Communications

In this webcast, we illustrate how Microsoft Unified Communications simplifies access to information no matter where you are. If you struggle with information overload then tune in to this webcast and see how context, relevance, and immediacy help move you from being available to being ready.

Presenters: Ghazi Masood, Director of Unified Communications, Advaiya, Inc., and Eric Zinn, Enterprise Solutions Specialist, Advaiya, Inc.

Are you digging out your backups every time there is a failure? Are you paying a lot for hardware replication that promises zero data loss? Join us in this webcast to learn about the advantages of cluster continuous replication (CCR) over other high availability solutions and get a deep dive into CCR internals.

Presenter: Ayla Kol, Program Manager II, Microsoft Corporation

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In this session, we will discuss how Exchange gives administrators more control and provides "anywhere access" to your inbox. We'll take a look at the built-in security and protection mechanisms that Exchange provides. We will also cover the new Exchange Management Console, how the improved GUI management tool is simpler for you to use, and quicker to navigate. We will also cover PowerShell, the new administrative interface. We will round off with a look at the significant client side improvements and transport rules.

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TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 01 of 24): Integration of Exchange Server 2007 and Active Directory

This session kicks off a 24-hour learning series on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. In this webcast, we cover the basic relationship between the Active Directory directory service and Exchange Server 2007. Learn about the important components of Active Directory that are required before you can install Exchange Server 2007. We also discuss the components Exchange Server installs and modifies, and we explain what these components do. This presentation starts on a high level with a review of some basic Active Directory concepts; we then get specific and look at the objects and scheme extensions Exchange Server 2007 installs.

Presenter: Harold Wong, Senior Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

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Announcing Exchange 2010 Beta

Exchange 2010 beta is here! In this video, Crystal Flores talks with Corporate VP Rajesh Jha about what’s in the beta, including archiving, improved voicemail, and more. You can check it out yourself at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010 or read more at the Exchange blog at http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx

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TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT uses the Exchange Hosted Services to Protect the Messaging Environment

Microsoft deploys and supports more than 130,000 Exchange Server mailboxes for the global organization. All mail delivered to mailboxes@microsoft.com is first routed through Exchange Hosted Services, a hosted service that filters mail for spam and viruses and enforces corporate e-mail policies “in the cloud” before the mail reaches the Microsoft corporate network. This session describes Microsoft IT deployment, including server configuration and implementation, collecting server evidence, and lessons learned from deployment. Exchange Hosted Services is a service offering to enterprises that currently serves over 10,000 customers and processes 3.5 billion messages across the EHS global network.

Presenters: Ali Haveliwala, Microsoft IT Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, and Omesh Desai, Microsoft IT Systems Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

In today's litigious society it is important for all companies, public and private, to be concerned about maintaining a compliant e-mail environment and knowing how they will address the issue of e-discovery if it confronts them. In this webcast, we discuss how the Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services (Filtering, Archiving, and Encryption) can address your company's compliance and e-discovery needs. In addition, we provide ideas on how you can take advantage of the Microsoft Office Live Meeting conferencing services to roll out the training necessary to achieve your company's employee compliance training objectives.

Presenter: Mike Powell, Partner Account Manager, Unified Communications Services, Microsoft Corporation

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The Microsoft Unified Communications (UC) platform enables developers to build productivity-enhancing communication features efficiently and securely by leveraging Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server as a communications software infrastructure. In this webcast, you learn about the future of Microsoft Unified Communications products and platform, including Communications Server 2007 R2, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, and the new UC platform software development kits (SDKs). Learn how your client and service solutions can do communication with context using presence, instant messaging (IM), voice over IP (VOIP), and video.

Presenter: Chris Mayo, Unified Communications Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Episode 6 in a series. I wrapped up my interviews with the OCS team with Anand Lakshminarayanan, who showed me some of the IT Admin specific features in OCS R2. Need to plan an OCS architecture? How about a wizard that you provide with your locations, users, and feature requirements and it spits out a detailed Visio style architecture for you, including recommendations for number of servers and locations. Bandwidth requirements too! Need to expose your OCS environment to the internet? No problem. Here's a wizard that will list out all the ports, IPs, etc. that you need to open. Just print it out and hand it off to your firewall guy. Reports? Lots of reports added in R2. Breakdowns of voice and video activity. Performance reports, including types of devices and how they're performing. He also talks about virtualizing, scaling and managing OCS R2.

I've recently been spending a lot of time with the Office Communications Server (OCS) team, and they've shown off some of the new features in OCS R2. In this interview, I met Jamie Stark, a Technical Product Manager that looks after VoIP in OCS. In this interview, we talked a little about integrating OCS into existing telecoms, and Jamie walked me through the new Attendant Console in OCS R2. If you've got a busy receptionist that spends a lot of time taking and routing calls, the Attendant Console was built with that job in mind.

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Avi Sagiv is a Product Manager in OCS, and I met with him to talk about the new OCS features coming for mobile phone users. When OCS talks about mobility, they aren't just talking about Windows Mobile devices - they have a java client for phones that Avi showed me as well. There have been some significant enhancements to performance and functionality of OCS on mobile devices, and OCS has some great features that make mobile computing really viable - like the ability to start a conference call with one press - the OCS server actually calls you back, as well as your other conference attendees, so you don't pay any outgoing minutes.

Attend this webcast to learn about Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and its architecture. We discuss changes from Communications Server 2007, supported deployment topologies, recommended configurations, planning process, capacity planning, and deployment best practices. We also cover in detail the migration process from Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 to Communications Server 2007 R2.

Presenter: Peter Schmatz, Program Manager II, Microsoft Corporation

Come to this webcast and learn about Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 architecture, changes from Communications Server 2007, supported deployment topologies, recommended configurations, planning process , and deployment best practices. We also cover in detail the migration process from Communications Server 2007 to Communications Server 2007 R2.

Presenter: Peter Schmatz, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 contains exciting telephony and enterprise voice capabilities. In this webcast, we discuss many of the new features in Communications Server 2007 R2 and explore the functionality and architecture with detailed demonstrations of both client-side and server side capabilities. We also cover core enhancements to the media stack for telephony and enterprise voice, specifically regarding how to ensure the highest quality of experience.

Presenter: Mahendra Sekaran, Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corporation

What's New in Office Communicator, Communicator Web Access, and Devices with OCS 2007 R2

This time, my visit to the OCS team lead me to Huat Chye Lim and Ashima Singhal. Huat shows us some device integration with an IP phone, showing how presence and OCS contact details can be leveraged on devices other than a PC. Ashima shows off some of the functionality available in Communicator Web Access - the browser based Office Communicator client - the look and functionality is almost identical to that of the desktop client. They also show us some of the new features in the client, like one click desktop sharing and video conferencing - more cool stuff in R2!

In this webcast, we examine Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, the unified communications client program for Communications Server 2007. Discover how Communicator 2007 enables distribution group integration, rich presence management, custom presence, interruption management, metaphors, rich text instant messaging (IM) conferencing, and integration with 2007 Microsoft Office system programs, including Outlook and OneNote. This presentation should serve as a primer for a webcast on Communicator 2007 deployment, troubleshooting, and customization later in the series.

Presenter: Chris Cullin, Director, Microsoft Corporation

In this session, we walk through administering and managing the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service. We cover creating and managing user accounts; storage management; managing a Live Meeting Conference Center, including setting roles, policies, and preferences; and generating administrative reports.

Presenters: Andres Delgado, Learning & Dev Specialist, Microsoft Corporation, Jay Brummett, Supportability Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, and Anahita Bahrami, Learning & Dev Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

Take a Video Tour of Microsoft Office Live Meeting service (2007)

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Discover the integrated solutions Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 provides to help you manage your time and information by connecting people across boundaries while controlling the information that reaches your e-mail inbox. In this webcast, we discuss how Outlook 2007 delivers innovations you can use to quickly search your communications, organize your work, and better share information with others. Join this session to learn the top ten ways you can make Outlook 2007 work for you.

Presenter: Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

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In this webcast, we look at some of the powerful scripting capabilities of Windows PowerShell. First, we introduce some of the basics of Windows PowerShell we examine how the help system works and review the Windows PowerShell command structure. We also discuss how to format output and some basic Windows PowerShell commands. Next, we explore variable declaration and scripting constructs in Windows PowerShell to perform basic programmatic functions, like loops and branching. Then we look at advanced scripting techniques involving functions, filters, script blocks, and error handling. We also look briefly at how to use Windows PowerShell with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to gain access to a wide variety of system objects and settings. Finally, we look at how to use the Microsoft .NET Framework to build a simple form using Windows PowerShell.

Presenter: John Baker, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation , and Yung Chou, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

MSOL is a set of online enterprise applications: Exchange, Sharepoint, Office Communications and Live Meeting. Kayvann shows how to get the most out of this robust online offering.