With Unified Messaging (UM) language packs installed you enable callers and OVA (Outlook Voice Access) users to interact with the Unified Messaging system in multiple languages. Each UM language pack includes :

• TTS engine (Tex-to-Speech)
• ASR (Automatich Speech Recognition)
• Voice Mail Preview

Installing UM Language packs for Exchange 2010 can be done in two ways. First you have to download the correct Exchange 2010 UM language packs. The UM langauge packs for Exchange 2007 cannot be used! Read more »

Google introduced an updated version of the Google Apps Connector for Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) on 2 march 2010. The new version is 2.0.

With the release of this version users can accept/decline meetings, schedule new meetings, move meeting times and add/remove meeting attendees in Google Calendar from their Blackberry devices. Other functionality as synchronising contacts, mail etc. is already present in the current version.

As we offer this product as a hosted solution (since late 2009), we already upgraded our hosted BES servers for Google Apps with the latest release.

If you are interested in this product or want more (technical) information, feel free to contact me or e-office.com.

The first official Social Media Connector for Microsoft Outlook 2010 (currently still beta) is present. It’s the connector for LinkedIn.

When receiving an e-mail from a person or looking at a contact, you immediately see the Social Media Bar in Outlook. Here it states all the communication you had with that person, conversation history, activities, meetings etc.

Now with the LinkedIn add-on, you can invite someone directly to your LinkedIn profile and you get more information about these contacts.

For the Outlook 2010 beta users – Installation requires you to first uninstall the Outlook Social Connector and click on Not Available. Then download the Social Media Connector (here).

Also download and install the Linked connector.

Note – The connector is currently only available for Outlook 2010 32-bit systems! It also doesn’t include the Sharepoint 2010 connection.

Problem

When you’re building (or already) have a active/passive Exchange 2007 cluster and you try to move the cluster to the other node, it’s possible you receive an error like this :

The installation on node ‘NODE’ is inconsistent. ConfiguredVersion=, UnpackedVersion=8.2.176.2. An upgrade might not have completed successfully.

As the error already explains, there is a version problem. To understand this problem you need to know a little bit about the installation steps Exchange does while installing. Read more »

Yesterday Microsoft released the first Exchange 2010 rollup, number 1. You can download the update here.

A nice addition is that Blackberry Enterpris Server (BES) is now fully supported with Exchange 2010 Rollup 1.

More details about the update can be found here.

Version 8.0.6362.143 of the console and add-in brings improvements and fixes that include:

• Improvements to text display on PPT slides in recordings
• Users using IE browser with security setting is set to “Do not save encrypted pages to disk” on Vista machines will be able to join meetings successfully
• Custom text displays correctly when meeting scheduled with Outlook Add-In

From the KB articles follow the link to download the new versions:
KB 974251 : Description of the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client update package: Sept 2009
KB 974252 : Description of the update for Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook: Sept 2009

For those of you who administrate an OCS or LCS environment, please read the following. It seems an issue has come up with a patch that came available during the last patch releases, regarding KB 974571. As described by Doug Deitterick’s blog, it’s recommended to NOT apply this patch. If you install the patch it’s possible your OCS / LCS servers believe they are in an evaluation mode.

You’ll see events like this one :

Event Type:        Error
Event Source:    Live Communications Server
Event Category:                (1000)
Event ID:              12290
Date:                     10/13/2009
Time:                     8:28:57 PM
User:                     N/A
Computer:        �
Description:
The evaluation period for Microsoft Office Live Communication Server 2005 has expired. Obtain the released version of this product and upgrade to the non-evaluation version by running setup.exe

A solution now is to uninstall the patch.

For more information, I refer to this link.

1. Nokia Photo BrowserDownload (free)

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Exchange 2010 is Code Complete. In November the product will be available.

More info on the Microsoft blog

Before requesting or renewing a Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 certificate, you need to install the LCS Resource Kit (download).

In the resource kit is a tool Read more »