Mark Garcia - Unified Communications product specialist

Interactive smartboard for $55? Yes, it can be done.

I thought this was pretty amazing to watch with some very simple items you can have an amazing...

Date: 09/23/2008

How does faxing work with Exchange unified messaging?

I had this question from a university in the rocky mountain range.  With Exchange Server 2007...

Date: 09/08/2008

What type of bandwidth does OCS web conferencing use?

I had this question from a large school district down in Florida and the answer is it depends on...

Date: 09/05/2008

Is there a way to speed up the Exchange Management Shell launch?

Have you noticed it takes quite a long time to open up the Exchange command shell? I timed it and it...

Date: 08/26/2008

How do you separate OCS administration between pools in the same domain?

I had this question today from a large University in the Midwest and after some digging I found the...

Date: 08/26/2008

Is there way to get the Office Communicator inside of Outlook?

I had a few SameTime/Notes schools who were switching to Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007 ask me if there...

Date: 08/15/2008

How can I quickly validate my ActiveSync, SMTP, Autodiscover, Outlook Anywhere infrastructure from the Internet?

I just came across this very nice testing tool called the "Exchange Server Remote Connectivity...

Date: 07/10/2008

Can I install OCS into an Active Directory Forest deployed as a Single Label Domain?

I just had a school that deployed a single label domain in Active Directory (e.g no .com or .edu for...

Date: 07/07/2008

So what is Microsoft Live@edu and Exchange Labs exactly?

Just a quick note that I am changing my role into a pure Unified Communcations Technology Solution...

Date: 07/02/2008

Windows Mobile 6 and GPS already here

The new upcoming iPhone 2.0 has GPS with Google maps support only. Should I get excited now? I guess...

Date: 06/12/2008

Preliminary Guidelines for Running Exchange Server 2007 on Hyper-V

The Exchange product team is going to announce our preliminary strategy for Hyper-V and Exchange...

Date: 06/12/2008

What are my Office Communicator client options?

Here is another common question I get from schools. What options do I have to connect to Office...

Date: 05/21/2008

Why run Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 vs Windows Server 2003?

I seem to be getting this question a lot from schools as to what is the value of running Exchange...

Date: 05/21/2008

My Hyper-V RC0 install experience

For my new role, I needed to build out a Hyper-V server in order to demo MOSS, Exchange 2007 and OCS...

Date: 04/29/2008

I love the new HTC Vogue XV6900 phone...

I have been using our mobile phones since the beta days and I have to say this Windows Mobile 6...

Date: 04/24/2008

What MOSS 2007 prerequisites are needed for Windows Server 2008 and how can I automate this?

When I was installing 64-bit Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on my Hyper-V 64-bit Windows Server 2008 guest...

Date: 04/09/2008

Exchange 2007 Site Resiliency

I just had a discussion around when to use stretched CCR vs. SCR with the Exchange 2007 product...

Date: 04/07/2008

First Post. My Intro...

Hello friends! Welcome and my name is Mark Garcia. I am Technology Solution Professional (TSP) for...

Date: 04/06/2008