The UC Architects Podcast S01E11

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

The 11th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who’s joined by Ståle Hansen, Johan Veldhuis, Dave Stork and yours truly. Special guests are Lync MCM Kevin Peters and Lync MVP Matt Landis.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

Lync 2010 Cumulative Update 7 (CU7, October 2012);
Lync VDI, SBA, SBC;
Availability of Wave 15 products for MSDN/TechNet and Volume license customers;
Microsoft Surface RT;
Building your own Exchange lab;
Exchange 2013 and Lync 2013 exams.

You can directly listen or download the episode or subscribe to the podcasts using iTunes, Zune or RSS.

Exchange 2013 RTM available! (and Lync 2013, Office 2013, ..)

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

If you’ve got a TechNet or MSDN subscription, you can get the RTM bits of Exchange Server 2013, Lync Server 2013, Office 2013 Professional Plus and Sharepoint 2013 NOW!

With the RTM bits available, you can start testing the product itself as well as compatibility with 3rd party products or in-house developed solutions. Be advised that a schema update is required to support Exchange Server 2013.

Finally, the updates for Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2010 required for co-existence are still not available. Exchange 2010 SP3 is expected first half of 2013; no details have been disclosed on the update for Exchange Server 2007.

The UC Architects Podcast S01E10

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

The 10th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Steve Goodman, who’s joined by John Cook, Michael Van Horenbeek, Serkan Varoglu, Johan Veldhuis, Ståle Hansen and yours truly.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, and Office RTM
Microsoft Surface RT
Lync Ignite
Exchange Ignite
iOS 6 Calendaring Issues
Exchange 2010 Datacenter Switchover Troubleshooter
Exchange 2013 Beta exams
Exchange Update Rollups re-released
Lync Profile Tool
TEC Europe

You can check the podcast including the links mentioned here. To subscribe to the podcast using iTunes check here, Zune here or RSS here.

The UC Architects Podcast S01E09

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

The 9th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Pat Richard, who’s joined by John A. Cook, Justin Morris, Tom Arbuthnot and Dave Stork. Special Guest is Elan Shudnow.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are:

MVP awards
MEC roundup
Building a Lync lab
Max token size
Lync & Exchange exams
Elan’s Lync scripts
Matt Landis’ Tip: Instant Message Using Lync and Windows Speech Recognition

You can download the podcast here or subscribe to updates using iTunes here, Zune here or RSS here.

The UC Architects Podcast S01E08

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Michel de Rooij

The 8th episode of The UC Architects is online. The UC Architects is a bi-weekly podcast on Unified Communications in the Microsoft domain, i.e. Exchange and Lync Server, or related subjects.

This episode is hosted by Steve Goodman, who’s joined by Pat Richard, Serkan Varoglu, Johan Veldhuis and yours truly.

Amongst the topics discussed in this episode are: