Microsoft Office Communicator 2007: Presence Integration Between IM Applications and 2007 Microsoft Office System

Microsoft released v1.1 of the Microsoft Presence Integration Between IM Applications and 2007 Microsoft Office System document, you can get it here

Beta Exam 71-704 extended for 2 weeks

Due to extreme winter weather conditions, Microsoft is extending Beta Exam 71-404, OCS 2007 R2 Voice Specialization for another two weeks.

Register for FREE with code OCSR2J for BETA Exam 71-404 Prometric sites.

Candidates should plan for up to four hours to take the Beta exam and provide feedback on every question (versus the typical two hours to take Released version exams.)

It is highly recommended that candidates for Exam 74-404 (Beta 71-404) have experience with OCS 2007 R2 and have completed the Unified Communications Voice Ignite v 2.0 (R2) Workshop. A preparation guide for the exam is available here

The exam is available in English only.
For questions to Microsoft Learning about the exam, email jseymour@microsoft.com

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Group Policy Field Guide

Microsoft released v1.1 of the Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Group Policy Field Guide, you can get it here

Additional Windows Live Messenger PIC/Federation IP Address - Postponed

Tomorrow’s planned added capacity has been postponed for technical reasons and to provide additional time for administrators to update their firewall settings if necessary to reflect the additional IP address. The new date that this work is scheduled to go into place is Friday, March 26, 2010. For organizations that have chosen to restrict this traffic to specific IP addresses, you must have the list in KB897567 in place prior to Friday, March 26, 2010 or PIC connectivity with MSN will fail.

Exchange Server 2010 Help

Microsoft released Feb2010 of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Help file. You can get it here

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Group Policy Field Guide

Microsoft released v1.0 of the Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Group Policy Field Guide, you can get it here

Unified Communications Phones and Peripherals Datasheet v012810

Microsoft released v012810 of the Unified Communications Phones and Peripherals Datasheet, you can get it here