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Our very next Swiss IT Pro User Group after work evening event is taking place once again on (every first Tuesday of the month) 5. Apr 2011 with the PowerShell Script Club, Zurich chapter moderated by our in-house expert and MVP Marc. Refreshments and location kindly sponsored by Digicomp. Click here for registration and more information of this free event for IT Pros by IT Pros.

Technorati tags: PowerShell, Community/User Groups, Events

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The Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 cumulative update (CU8) described in KB 2501722 (Mar 2011)* fixes the following issues:

• 2489816 A user is displayed as another user in Office Communicator 2007 R2
• 2489823 You hear a loud noise when you call a European PSTN number by using Office Communicator 2007 R2

This CU also addresses issues previously documented in a number of other KB articles (see KB itself for more information or dowload CU8 directly).

In addition, the following issue will also be fixed if this cumulative update is applied together with KB969696, KB969821 and KB978564 for the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (OCS 2007 R2 backend), Office Communicator 2007 R2 (MOC client) and Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook:

• 971628 When a delegate on behalf of a manager tries to use the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook to schedule a live meeting or to schedule a conference, the delegate’s information instead of manager’s information displays in the conferencing request unexpectedly

* update #10 for MOC R2

Keywords: patch, hotfix, update, rollup package, moc, ocs, 2007, r2, cumulative update 8 (CU8)

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

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Tue 08 March 2011 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
System Center Virtual Machine Manager vNext: Service Lifecycle Management for the Private Cloud

Track: Management (MGT201)
Speaker/s: Desmond Lee
Session Type: Breakout Session
Room: Red Room 1 | Level: 200 - Intermediate

Private clouds enable abstraction of services from the underlying fabric. This abstraction delivers benefits to the enterprises for fabric management as well as service management. Come and see how VMM vNext delivers industry leading service design, deployment and management for private cloud environments. See the power and benefits of using Server Application Virtualization and image based servicing. Learn how to create private clouds, design service templates and empower your end users to deploy and manage services in the private cloud. Attendees will gain an understanding of VMM vNext supported scenarios, along with an understanding of how to use these capabilities to build an on-premise private cloud.

Wed 09 March 2011 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
System Center Virtual Machine Manager vNext: Fabric Management for the Private Cloud

Track: Management (MGT301)
Speaker/s: Desmond Lee
Session Type: Breakout Session
Room: Purple Room 1 | Level: 300 - Advanced

Private clouds enable abstraction of services from the underlying fabric, delivering benefits to the enterprise for fabric as well as service management. Come and see how VMM vNext delivers industry-leading Fabric Provisioning and Infrastructure Management. See how VMM vNext will handle Networking, Storage, Cluster and Bare Metal Provisioning. Learn how VMM vNext will help with Dynamic Optimization, Power Optimization and Monitoring of the Infrastructure to ensure that you are providing the desired service levels to the consumers of your Infrastructure, with the speed and agility they require.

Technorati tags: TechEd, Events, Virtual Machine Manager, Cloud Computing

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The Lync Server 2010 Technical Library (Lync documentation) has been updated with new documents, clarification and errata* in the March 2011 release:

- Deploying Lync Server 2010 in a Multiple Forest Environment (link)
- Planning for Metropolitan Site Resiliency (link)
- Supported Server Collocation (link)
- Deployment Best Practices for External User Access (link)

To assist in the planning, capacity sizing and deployment of Lync solutions, two new tools have also been released:

- Lync Server 2010 Capacity Calculator (link - download and documentation)
- Lync Server 2010, Stress and Performance Tool (download, on-line doc)

Reference
- TechNet NextHop: Lync Server Documentation Update and Tools Release (link)
- Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Documentation Help File (download Lync documentation)

Technorati tags: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 / Lync 2010 (client)

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