http://www.theocsinsider.com The "Inside" Perspective on OCS 2007, VoIP and Unified Communications Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:38:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently The VAR Guy blog announced that an OCS app store was in the works. Not by Microsoft though - by Evangelyze Communications, an OCS channel partner (like us!). (There's a nice write-up on No Jitter too. Eric asked some good questions.) I find this idea very interesting. Honestly, ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/ocs-2007/ocs-2007-r2/an-app-store-for-ocs-great-idea/ A few days ago Microsoft announced two new SBS previews. Named "SBS 7" and "SBS Aurora" for now, their preview releases will be available at the end of summer. (But only to those who sign up to participate - sign up here if you want to try them ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/ocs-2007/ocs-2007-r2/will-the-new-small-business-server-help-out-ocs/ (Sorry about the delay on this post. WordPress didn't want to cooperate last week, and I didn't have the time to fight with it.) A few days ago we were asked a question. This question, I felt, deserved its own post. Because it brings up a very important ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/voip/ocs-2007-r2-now-vs-ocs-2010-later-whats-the-plan/ I'm back! I'd talk about my trip, but it's not OCS-related. However, we did get a few responses to last week's query. The majority were questions about Communications Server "14." And as luck would have it, we have something to discuss along those lines! Brent Kelly of the "No Jitter" blog ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/ocs-2007/ocs-2007-r2/a-peek-at-next-years-model-more-features-of-communications-server-14/ The OCS Insider will be back next week. I'm heading out for a business trip in just a few minutes. I'll be back in time for next week's post. Speaking of, which of these topics would you like to hear more about? OCS 2007 R2 Support OCS 2010 Voice over IP Using OCS ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/uncategorized/no-response-please-try-your-call-again/ Last week at TechEd, Microsoft announced the new features of Communications Server 14. Frankly, I''m not sure why the new version is named "14." But that's not what I wanted to write about anyway. What I'm blogging about today is a few of the features announced. More ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/ocs-2007/ocs-2007-r2/rename-and-a-revamp-new-features-of-communications-server-14/ Or, The Many Components Involved in Running OCS-Based VoIP A client of ours had lots of trouble getting Conferencing to work lately. We put in OCS for them only 4-5 months ago. Naturally, they called us and said, "Your OCS is broken! We can''t conference now!" "Quick, Fix ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/ocs-2007/when-support-calls-go-awry/ Microsoft recently announced that they are discontinuing the Response Point small-business VoIP system. They decided that while demand was encouraging, it wasn't enough to sustain Response Point as a standalone business. The Response Point Team suggests Microsoft OCS as an alternative. This announcement was written about on several other websites, including ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/ocs-2007/ocs-2007-r2/yes-ocs-works-for-the-small-business-market/ Among our Exchange 2010 upgrade projects, we encounter a few more clients still using Exchange 2003 than we do on Exchange 2007. We also see a lot of the 2003 clients struggle following a 2010 upgrade. The differences between Exchange 2003 and 2010 are more severe than those between 2007 ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/exchange-2007/upgrading-from-exchange-2003-to-2010-plan-for-these-changes/ Last week I said I'd go into more detail about UC user adoption. In keeping with that, I thought I'd write out an adoption plan from some of our OCS/Exchange deployments. As you probably know by now, user adoption is the other half of a successful server installation. It''s ... http://www.theocsinsider.com/ocs-2007/a-basic-plan-for-unified-communications-user-adoption/