TechEd / IT Forum promotional video

Ooh I like this.  It’s our promotional video for TechEd and ITForum in November in Barcelona.  The video is available in different formats and can be accessed from this page.

2 criticisms though…

Lots of formats – not Silverlight though (I’m now a fan of Silverlight so the sooner we get all of our videos from Microsoft.com onto Silverlight, the better)

The video talks about “this fall”.  Come on guy’s, we’re European over here, and we all refer to the latter part of the year as Autumn, not fall.  Grrr…

 

Apart from that it’s a good video, but you’d better get your skates on – we expect ITForum to completely sell out this year – so register earlier rather than later to make sure you actually secure a place…

And I’ll see you there – on the Ask the Experts front desk as usual…

Exchange 2007 Unified messaging deployment

I get asked this question more than almost any other when I’m out on the road “yes but is that what you’ve done at Microsoft?” when I chat about some feature of Exchange or other.  So I’m always pleased when we publish one of our own internal case study deployments for you to have a look at.  We’re used as a benchmark by lots of large customers who want to see how our architecture scales and how what we’ve done can be modified to fit their infrastructure. 

So Microsoft IT have released this white paper on IT Showcase detailing how we’ve deployed our Unified messaging and fax solution on Exchange 2007

Using Exchange Server 2007 for Unified Messaging and Fax

Integrating a users communication tools can help streamline a person’s daily work process and relieve minor stress. This technical white paper describes how Microsoft IT provides users the next generation of Unified Messaging functionality for anytime, anywhere e-mail and voice mail access through VoIP and UM technologies in Exchange Server 2007. The content details Microsoft IT’s technical implementation and deployment strategy for Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging features in the its enterprise messaging environment of over 120,000 mailboxes.

It’s the little things that the Exchange team have thought of that make the biggest difference – especially in a global organisation.  The switching of the auto attendant accent impresses me the most.  If I put in an extension number and the timezone for that extension is set to Australia, the Auto attendant switches from the US accent to the Australian accent: if I put in an extension that maps to a UK locale, then I get the clipped British tones of the local auto attendant. 

Simple but really effective…