October 2009 - Posts
Today has been announced that the new DAG (Database Availibility Group) feature will also be supported on the Standard Edition of the new Exchange 2010 product.
Since the Standard version only supports up to 5 databases (compared to 100 db's for the Enterprise edition) this will be especially useful for the smaller corporations.
DAG still uses components from Windows Clustering, therefore the OS still needs to be Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.
This year the team from Communified.net vists Tech-Ed Europe again! With 2 'reporters' and 2 'guest reporters' on site we will try to cover the event for you, as we did last year.
Stay tuned for the latest from Berlin! Expect also virtualisation content and some System Center posts as our 2 guest writers will include other technologies then UC alone.
Today Microsoft released the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway.
With an XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) Gateway it is possible to exchange basic IM en Presence information between an OCS environment, and XMPP based systems like Google Talk and Jabber. This OCS XMPP Gateway requires an additional server which is placed between the OCS Edge server and the XMPP system.
After the gateway is deployed OCS user can add or delete users of an XMPP environment as contacts, and communicate with users of an XMPP environment through one-on-one IM conversations. This is comparable with the concept of Federation between OCS based environments, but in this case limited to only Presence and IM.
The XMPP Gateway package and documentation can be downloaded at the following location:.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa560bfe-9960-473a-bfb8-53bff678cec4&displaylang=en
Recently Microsoft added the Lifecam Cinema to list of Deviced Optimized for the Office Communicator.
This device features a 720p HD Ready Widescreen sensor, 30 fps, Autofocus, Real glass lens etc. More info can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=008&active_tab=overview
Over here in The Netherlands the device is priced around 70 Euro, which is, in my opinion, a very reasonable price for such a type of device.
Only one small remark, in full screen HD mode it can spit out video frames at a rate of approximately 1.5 Mbps
. So be prepared at the Edge!! (Or block HD Video, but if that is the case you shouldn't even read this post or buy the device!!)