That is a really great news, I’ve just read on PowerShell Team blog that PowerShell will be installed by default on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

It means that for us Exchange guys we will have one less step in order to install Exchange Server in the future Operating Systems

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/10/2...7.aspx

Outlook Team has started a series named “Living in Outlook” where they want to demonstrate some tips & tricks about Outlook client that can save us a lot of time.

The first one is related to Multi-day calendar views, as follows: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/10/27/l...s.aspx

The october update for Communicator 2007 has been released, more information about this new release can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957707.

This update fixes the following issues:

• 958659 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958659/) When you use telephony mode=4, you can only manually set the URI information in Communicator 2007
• 957793 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957793/) A Communicator 2007 client is unusually slow at startup
• 956734 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956734/) The presence status of Communicator 2007 changes to “Away” for all Terminal Server users when one user locks the desktop on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

To download it : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...f46645

Read more at source: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/1...1.aspx

The OCS Technicall Product Management Team recorded two videos about some of the new OCS R2 features: Attendant Console and Conferencing.

Here are the links to access them:

• Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and the new Attendant Console
  http://edge.technet.com/Media/OCS-and-the-new-Atte...nin1.0
• What’s new in Conferencing with Office Communications Server 2007 R2
  http://edge.technet.com/Media/Whatrsquos-New-in-Co...07-R2/

How to access all commands in the Ribbon key using keyboard instead of a mouse.

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/10/20/r...s.aspx

Microsoft announced the new OCS version know as OCS 2007 R2, the worldwide launch will be on Feb 3, 2009.

Read more at source: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/oct0...R.mspx

More informatou about OCS: http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver

The RU4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 was released, as follows:

You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...ang=en

Description of the Rollup Update 4 for SP1: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952580

There is a KB with all Exchange Server build number and release dates of the products, check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158530.

With the hotfixes released in August 2008, Microsoft is significantly improving the capability for Office Communications Server 2007 to exchange calls with SIP-based IP-PBX, in particular from Cisco. As a consequence, Microsoft now supports OCS deployments in Direct SIP with IP-PBX between Office Communications Server and specific versions of Cisco Call Manager.

Read more at source: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/0...0.aspx

As a part of the broad initiative across Microsoft to support 64 bit versions across many of its product lines, the next release of OCS will support 64-bit operating systems only. This decision will help meet customer demand and is a natural progression of the product that aligns with the same approach taken by the Exchange team (with Exchange 2007) and the SharePoint team (with SharePoint 2007) to support 64 bit operating systems only.

Read more at source: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/0...6.aspx