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  Windows 7 Deep Dive (RC) für IT Professionals
Montag, 11. Mai 2009, 09:00 bis 13:00 (inkl. Stehlunch)
Ort: Microsoft Schweiz GmbH, Richtistrasse 3, 8304 Wallisellen

Inhalt:
Kennen Sie Windows 7 bereits oder arbeiten Sie sogar damit. Dann ist dieser Event das Richtige für Sie. Erhalten Sie einen tieferen Einblick in Windows 7 speziell die neuen Funktionen für Unternehmen wie Branch Cache und Direct Access werden Ihnen gefallen. Ebenfalls wird das Thema Deployment mit MDT2010 und Anwendungskompatiblität genauer beleuchtet. Abschliessen werden wir diese Springboard Training mit Management und Security Themen rund um Windows 7.

Level 300
Speaker: Markus Erlacher, Technical Solutions Professional

Melden Sie sich jetzt zu dieser Veranstaltung füur IT Pros hier an (oder Microsoft Schweiz IT-Events Kalender hier).

  Windows 7 RC Event for Microsoft Partners
Montag, 11. Mai 2009, 13:30 – 16:30
Ort: Microsoft Schweiz GmbH, Richtistrasse 3, 8304 Wallisellen

- Roadmap, Daten, Zahlen Fakten
- Produktübersicht
- RC (Release Candidate) versus Beta Build
- Key Features, BrancheCache, DirectAccess -das Leben ohne VPN etc.
- Windows Server 2008 R2, das Zusammenspiel „Better Together“
- MDOP Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
- Promotionen rund um Windows 7

Wir freuen Sie anschliessend zu einem Windows7 Apéro einladen zu dürfen.

Melden Sie sich jetzt zu dieser speziellen Partner Veranstaltung hier an.

Technorati tags: Community/User Group, Events, Windows 7

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Two focused topics on SQL Server 2008 covering eliminating downtime for SQL maintenance and effective aggregations in Analysis Services 2008 await you next Tue 5 May 2009 at our monthly Swiss IT Pro User Group event in collaboration with Swiss PASS Chapter.

In collaboration with Swiss PASS Chapter, we are pleased to invite Chris Webb (Crossjoin Consulting) and David Tung (xkoto, Inc.) as guest speakers to deliver these exciting sessions.

More information and free registration here.

Technorati tags: Community/User Group, Events, SQL Server 200x/2008

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This language pack bundle for Exchange Server 2010 Beta includes updated packs for all the supported languages (version 14.00.0482.021). Language packs for Unified Messaging are available as a separate download*.

More info and download here.

* search for this in a previous post on this blog

Technorati tags: Exchange Server, Beta

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This download consists of the speech recognition and text-to-speech language packs that you can deploy for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. These are actually the language resources for use with the Microsoft speech recognition and speech synthesis engines delivered as part of OCS 2007 R2 and Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Speech SDK. The UCMASpeechRedist is a pre-requisite to install any speech language packs.

While you are at it, you should check out this recent update (described in KB963025) for Speech Server 2007 that includes all cumulative fixes right up to April 2009. Both x86 and x64 editions are available for download.

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, Speech Server, OCS 2007 R2

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In the final installment of this tutorial series, I discuss the tasks you need to perform in step 6 to configure OCS 2007 for Direct SIP with an IP-PBX based on CUCM .

First and foremost, download and apply the update packages for the various OCS 2007 RTM server roles and the MOC 2007 RTM client. Follow this by making the required changes to MediationServerSvc.exe.config on the Mediation Server. Except for the latter modification, the formally listed updates are not applicable for R2 server roles and MOC R2 clients. For more information on the changes, search for my previous post “RFC3966 compliant E.164 Numbers and Direct SIP (Part II)”.

Next, start the OCS RTM or R2 snap-in and complete the tasks listed here:

1. on the Mediation Server / Properties / Next Hop Connection tab, point the IP address under the PSTN Gateway next hop section to the SIP truck on CUCM and use port 5060
2. under forest node / Properties / Voice Properties, create a Location Profile and matching Normalization rules (International, National and Internal Numbers). TIP: No spaces or special characters for naming a location profile
3. on the target Mediation Server / Properties / General tab, associate the Default Location Profile with the Location Profile created in the previous step
4. allow AD replication to propagate the changes made for the OCS global settings (stored either in the System Container, aka Domain Naming Context, or Configuration Partition)

For the above, the actual procedures are demonstrated in the following instructional video that runs for about 5′39.

Update (11 July 2010)
Click here to open video in new window.

Created with TechSmith’s Camtasia Studio 6.
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Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, VoIP

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The Recording Converter for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 is a free tool that converts meetings recorded in Office Live Meeting 2007’s High Fidelity Presentation (HFP) format into single movie files using the WMV format. It comprises of the Recording Converter Engine and Graphical User Interface.

The tool runs under Windows XP or higher with the .NET Framework 2.0 and Windows Media Player 9 or higher installed. To capture application or desktop sharing contents in a meeting recording, the Recording Converter should be run on a computer with Office Live Meeting 2007 already installed (as the needed decoders to export these contents are already present).

You can use applications like Windows Media Encoder, Windows Movie Maker or my favorite Camtasia Studio application to do additional transcoding or editing for specific purposes.

Find out more and download this tool here and here.

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2

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This kit comprises of user awareness and training materials for Office Communications Server 2007 and R2* designed to support IT Pros, administrators or corporate trainers in speeding up the usage and adoption of UC technologies in the enterprise.

The materials include posters, door hangers, quick reference cards, demos and tutorials, and web-based training. More information and download of the Microsoft Unified Communications Training and Adoption 2007/2007 R2 User Awareness and Training Materials can be found here.

* as well as Communicator 2007 / R2 client

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Training

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Check out the UM language pack (beta) available as as an add-in to Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging x64 servers. This enables the latter that is running on Windows Server 2008 to speak and recognize additional languages when callers use Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) or when voice messages are transcribed.

The languages available are US English (en-US), German (de-DE), Spanish (es-MX), French Canadian (Fr-CA) and Japanese (ja-JP) supporting a variety of UM features from UM prompts, Text to Speech (TTS), ASR to Voice Mail Preview.

More information and download here

Technorati tags: Exchange Server, Beta, Windows Server 2008

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The Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 walks you through a series of questions about your edge server deployment. This can be an existing or an entirely new (to-be) setup.

The generated reports suggest settings covering DNS services, firewalls and digital certificates from edge servers, reverse proxy to the next hop server. As a bonus, answers to the questions posted by the tool will be compared to recommended OCS 2007 R2 best practices.

This unsupported tool requires the .NET Framework 3.5 and runs on XP SP2, Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Read more and download this tool here.

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2

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