Screenshots of the new OCS 14 (Lync) are released by Microsoft. ZDNet has a nice article about the new OCS version.

More screenshots of the new communicator client can be found here.

Microsoft released a new version of the Microsoft Online Services Sign-in tool. This sign-in tool is used to connect to Microsoft BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite).

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite is a set of messaging and collaboration solutions hosted by Microsoft, and consists of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online.

The new version of the sign-in tool is : 1.0.1427.040 (download)

Hosted BES for Google Apps is a cloud service we (e-office) are already offering to multiple customers.

This solution will enable you to fully utilize your BlackBerry with our Hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Server with Google mail.

Some features

• No more on-premise BES!
• First month trial period
• First 10 Blackberry activations are free!
• Setup is quick and easy. With a simple guide to adjust two settings on your Google Apps domain, you’re ready to connect you’re Blackberry with Google Apps
• Calendar synchronization (two-way sync)
• Read and deleted messages on your BlackBerry are also marked as read or deleted on in your email account
• You can search for contact information of coworkers from the global address list on your BlackBerry

Requirements

• Google Apps Premier or Educational Edition
• BlackBerry Devices with proper BES level service from your wireless provider.

Register

Register for a trial with e-office. For more information (technical or otherwise) feel free to contact me.

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

Other Outlook Social Media Connectors are :

• Outlook Social Media 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 MySpace add-on, you can invite someone directly to your MySpace 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 MySpace connector.

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

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
  * Voice Mail preview is currently only  available in : English (US) – (en-US), French (France) – (fr-FR), Italian – (it-IT).

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! Continue reading »

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.