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December 17, 2009  11:45 PM

AltiGen Max Communications Server Gets Microsoft Seal of Approval



Posted by: Tony Bradley
AltiGen, contact center, gateway, Microsoft, OCS 2007, Office Communications Server, PSTN, UC, Unified Communications

AltiGen Communications has successfully completed Microsoft's Open Interoperability Program (OIP) for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, becoming the first company to offer both an all-in-one...

October 3, 2009  4:05 AM

Microsoft Unleashes More Comprehensive IM Connectivity



Posted by: Tony Bradley
AIM, Google Talk, instant messaging, Jabber, Microsoft, OCS, OCS 2007, Office Communications Server, PIC, Public IM Connectivity, Windows Live Messenger, XMPP Gateway, Yahoo Instant Messenger

Organizations using Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) have a powerful instant messaging tool with Office Communicator and Communicator Mobile. Federation allows different organizations running OCS to link up so that the users in each entity can see each other's presence and communicate...


August 16, 2009  3:54 AM

OCS 2007 R2 Adds Ability to Display Caller Name



Posted by: Tony Bradley
caller id, caller info, Evangelyze Communications, Mike Stacy, OCS 2007, OCS 2007 R2, Office Communications Server

On our home phones and mobile phones we more or less take it for granted that the Caller ID will display the name of the person or organization calling in addition to the originating phone number. In fact, many people simply refuse to answer calls from "Unknown Caller" and let them go to voicemail...


July 13, 2009  1:10 AM

Microsoft Pulls the Plug on Response Point



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications, Joe Schurman, Microsoft, Microsoft Voice and Unified Communications, OCS 2007, Response Point, SMB, UC, Unified Communications

A couple of years ago Microsoft created an innovative team with the goal of thinking outside of the normal corporate bureaucracy of Microsoft and coming up with a communications system for SMB's (small and medium businesses). The result was the Response Point system. Response Point was a...


May 31, 2009  4:38 PM

Microsoft and HP Form Unified Communications Alliance



Posted by: Tony Bradley
alliance, HP, Microsoft, OCS 2007, Office Communications Server, partnership, UC, Unified Communications

Microsoft has established itself as a leader in the unified communications market, but their focus on the software side of things means that they don't have an end-to-end solution. The up side for customers is that Microsoft does not lock you into using specific or proprietary hardware. That is...


March 16, 2009  6:07 PM

Microsoft OCS 2010 Will Eliminate PBX



Posted by: Tony Bradley
OCS, OCS 2007, ocs 2010, Office Communications Server, PBX, UC, Unified Communications, VoIP

If you have been following unified communications and the evolution of Microsoft's Office Communications Server, it is probably not a surprise to you to learn that Microsoft intends for the next major release of Office Communications Server to entirely eliminate the need for an enterprise to have a...


February 22, 2009  10:04 PM

Defining ROI with UC-B



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications, OCS 2007, OCS 2007 R2, Office Communications Server, ROI, SmartChat, SmartSIP, SmartVoIP, Unified Communications

UC-B is apparently a term coined by Blair Pleasant (and others at UCStrategies.com), President and Principal Analyst for COMMfusion Unified Communications. In


February 17, 2009  3:23 AM

Microsoft and Cisco Make Nice…Again



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Cisco, IP PBX, Microsoft, OCS 2007, Office Communications Server, PBX, UC, Unified Communications

It is no secret that Microsoft holds a dominant position in the server and desktop OS market as well as the office applications market. However, Microsoft products need networking equipment in order to interconnect and communicate and Cisco has a dominant place in the networking and routing...


January 28, 2009  1:16 AM

Driving Business Value With Unified Communications



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communications, Joe Schurman, OCS 2007, PBX, software-powered voice, UC, Unified Communications, voice

There is an old saying in sales that customers 'don't buy the bacon, they buy the sizzle'. In other words, customers are less interested in the nitty gritty details of what a product is or how it works, and primarily interested in what it will do for them. It's a sort of 'show me the money'...


January 16, 2009  2:41 PM

SmartVoIP Wins 2008 Product of the Year



Posted by: Tony Bradley
Evangelyze Communication, OCS 2007, Office Communications Server, SmartChat, SmartSearch, SmartVoIP, UC, Unified Communications, VoIP

Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 offers enterprises a cost-effective platform for voice and unified communications that also allows them to retain their existing voice hardware whether it is traditional analog or VoIP. Another advantage that it offers is that, because it is software...