February 2, 2009 4:06 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cut The Strings,
Harry Brelsford,
Microsoft,
phone,
Response Point,
SMB,
SP2,
VoIPI am not sure how this snuck up on me, but today is the day that Microsoft is releasing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for their small and medium business phone platform Response...
January 30, 2009 6:10 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
IBM,
Microsoft,
trends,
Unified Communications,
voice,
VoIPThe battle for unified communications supremacy rages on. The players all recognize that this is a lucrative market segment that will continue to grow and they each want to claim as big a piece of the market as they can.
Networking hardware and IP telephony hardware vendors like Cisco, Nortel,...
January 28, 2009 12:08 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
case study,
Evangelyze Communications,
Microsoft,
SmartChat,
springhouseSpringhouse Education and Consulting Services offers technology training and project management consulting. Springhouse worried that some visitors to its Web site might be in too much of a hurry to use the contact form to ask questions. The company also...
December 30, 2008 1:57 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
launch event,
Microsoft,
OCS 2007,
OCS 2007 R2,
Office Communications Server,
webcastMicrosoft will be rolling out the latest incarnation of Office Communications Server soon. Rather than doing a live event or multiple live events across the country, Microsoft is doing the official unveiling of OCS 2007...
December 26, 2008 4:57 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Microsoft,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
Response Point,
SaaS,
software-as-a-service,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsFor small businesses, there are cost-effective options like Microsoft's Response Point which meet the communications needs pretty well. Large businesses can invest in enterprise-class unified communicaions platforms such as Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 and the rest of the Microsoft...
December 23, 2008 8:43 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications,
Exchange,
Microsoft,
Mike Stacy,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsPart of the value of unified communications- in fact a big part- is the unified part. With a Microsoft Unified Communications implementation, the Office Communications Server (OCS 2007) has to be able to communicate with the Exchange Server for a variety of converged communications reasons. One...
November 22, 2008 6:32 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco,
CUCM,
Evangelyze Communications,
Microsoft,
Mike Stacy,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
SIP,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsAccording to a recent Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Unified Communications, Microsoft, Cisco, and Nortel are the industry leaders in terms of both innovation and the ability to actually deliver that innovation to customers. Nortel and Microsoft have an intimate partnership through their ICA...
November 22, 2008 6:18 AM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications,
Microsoft,
Mike Stacy,
OCS 2007,
Office Communications Server,
Response Point,
SmartChat,
SmartVoIP,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsRecently at VoiceCon Evangelyze Communications announced their SmartVoIP solution which enables customers to bridge Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft's small and medium business...
November 17, 2008 4:00 PM
Posted by: Tony Bradley
certificate,
Comodo,
Exchange Server 2007,
Microsoft,
Office Communications Server 2007,
SSL,
UC,
Unified CommunicationsWhile it is possible to build a Microsoft unified communications infrastructure using only private certificates generated internally, it greatly handicaps the effectiveness of the UC environment. In order to communicate with devices connected outside of the network- including laptops of employees...
