Social networking sounds so pleasant and civilized. It’s cocktails and canapés. Folks of like interests coming together to discuss the latest events. And, then, you hear the loud, obnoxious voice. Apparently, nothing is right and the host doesn’t know, want to know or care that this guest is ‘unhappy’.  Suddenly, everyone is.. more »

Interested in learning the fundamentals of troubleshooting common Unified Messaging call flow issues? We've just released a new white paper on troubleshooting Unified Messaging. In this white paper, we walk you through the flow of a simple call in UM and take a look at things that may go wrong at various points in the call flow. We provide tips .. more »

I don t know whether to laugh or cry! Avaya announced on Tuesday, May 26 My first thought was that I ll bet the announcement just made the day for current Avaya partners. In many areas, Avaya dealers have already been competing against other Avaya partners now they ll have even more Avaya partners to compete against! My second thought was that if .. more »

(like so many of us) and the author of nine books including Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, Sheryl and I both interact with Guy on a regular basis on Twitter. He's quite "touchable" and loves to engage in idea exchange. Alltop screen for Unified Communications . .. more »

and I joined forces to create what began as the Realtime VoIP Community. That community grew quickly, with discussion forums and participation from around the globe. In early 2006 we shifted to this blog as the central hub of activity and broadened our focus with the . Our posts and articles broadened to embrace mobility, wireless and later social .. more »

Microsoft Online Services in 19 countries worldwide. People in these countries can now try Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Communications Online, and next month, these services will be available for purchase. As part of this news, we re also announcing that GlaxoSmithKline has chosen Microsoft Online Services as their messaging and .. more »

Energy. We all need it, we all use it, and there s probably no other industry sector out there that better understands the importance of squeezing the most out of precious resources. So what steps are they taking within their own organizations to be more productive in these tough times? For this month s customer spotlight, we look at the energy .. more »

Two years ago, most people had never heard of unified communications. Today, as the combination of cost savings and productivity improvements that UC solutions can deliver has become clear, adoption of UC technologies and approaches has moved to the top of the list of IT priorities for many companies. Forrester Research recently found that more .. more »

recently published an article on the messaging landscape entitled The Messaging is the Medium: Survey results are in . In an online research study looking at what messaging platform companies were running and how committed they were to them, gathered over 1100 responses across different organization sizes : corporate (over 5,000 employees); .. more »

Each month, we look at different organizations across various industries to see how unified communications is transforming their businesses. This month we highlight academic institutions, from school districts to colleges and universities, and how these educational establishments are using Microsoft s UC software to change the ways they communicate .. more »

This release is, without question, the best Exchange yet. And, it all centers around our customers. With Exchange 2010, we demonstrate our relentless pursuit of addressing customers needs both IT professionals and end users. If I could sum up Exchange 2010 in one phrase it would be: Accomplish More. At the end of the day, that s what it s all .. more »

UCC is an industrywide initiative designed to help business employees communicate and work with each other more effectively, both inside and outside the office... more »

Polycom taken over the Microsoft Round Table device manufacturing from Microsoft. This is a good move as this fits well within Polycom core business. This is a great device with features like "Active speak detection" etc... more »

This is definitely one of the most easiest way of installing/uninstalling a dotnet windows service... more »

arrow The Prufer Code and the Floyd-Warshall Alg... Learning About the Graph Construct using Games, Part II Improving Your Visual Studio Workspace Choosing Sub Menus for a Common Browser Menu Waitable Timers in .NET with C# "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinkin.. more »

Earlier this year Microsoft released the Web Platform installer, currently available in version 1 or as a version 2 beta . I've been playing around with it for a few days and I think it is generally a step in the right direction. If you are doing web development on the Microsoft platform, it's well worth it to install this on any development .. more »

Jan recently asked: "Something I don't see being addressed that often - When you say you read a lot, is that on your own time, or do you actually spend time at work reading? I think spending time at work reading & learning is justifiable, although not always easy.. more »

The Code Project Latest Articles This article gives a quick overview of how Ajax helps with the slow parts of web applications and highlights one of the new approaches in ASP.NET..... more »

Having recently released our initial offering of Silverlight controls, we are starting to get a feel for the sorts of issues Silverlight developers commonly encounter in designing and developing their applications. One question which seems to pop u.. more »

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