Comments on: Microsoft Office Communications Server: Reaching Critical Mass? http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/03/24/microsoft-office-communications-server-reaching-critical-mass/ Managed Services & Cloud Services Blog for VARs & MSPs Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:09:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: william smith http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/03/24/microsoft-office-communications-server-reaching-critical-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-53106 william smith Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:57:08 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=7282#comment-53106 Microsoft is really quick to grasp of the need of the hosted model of unified communications. SAAS model still being not trusted enough hosted model provides the best alternative. Unified communication services will definitely gain pace when all the big players like Microsoft and CIISCO begin promoting them. But ultimately the end users are the major determinants. Microsoft is really quick to grasp of the need of the hosted model of unified communications. SAAS model still being not trusted enough hosted model provides the best alternative. Unified communication services will definitely gain pace when all the big players like Microsoft and CIISCO begin promoting them. But ultimately the end users are the major determinants.

]]> By: Joe Panettieri http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/03/24/microsoft-office-communications-server-reaching-critical-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-52957 Joe Panettieri Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:58:08 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=7282#comment-52957 Rob: I think you're referring to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zagtech.com" rel="nofollow">www.zagtech.com</a>. Correct? Do you work for them? -jp Rob: I think you’re referring to http://www.zagtech.com. Correct? Do you work for them?
-jp

]]> By: Rob http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/03/24/microsoft-office-communications-server-reaching-critical-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-52956 Rob Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:51:44 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=7282#comment-52956 Always a big fan of Microsoft. ZAG has a free BPOS offering. Microsoft also just announced ShoreTel for IBM Lotus foundations Always a big fan of Microsoft. ZAG has a free BPOS offering. Microsoft also just announced ShoreTel for IBM Lotus foundations

]]> By: Joe Panettieri http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/03/24/microsoft-office-communications-server-reaching-critical-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-52929 Joe Panettieri Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:41:11 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=7282#comment-52929 Matt: Thanks for raising some additional perspectives. I'm familiar with the Intermedia-Unison effort. Our previous coverage mentioned Unison; sorry I didn't make that company clear in the blog post above. I'll continue to watch the Intermedia partner base closely as they evaluate UC strategies. -jp Matt: Thanks for raising some additional perspectives. I’m familiar with the Intermedia-Unison effort. Our previous coverage mentioned Unison; sorry I didn’t make that company clear in the blog post above. I’ll continue to watch the Intermedia partner base closely as they evaluate UC strategies.
-jp

]]> By: matt landis http://www.mspmentor.net/2010/03/24/microsoft-office-communications-server-reaching-critical-mass/comment-page-1/#comment-52914 matt landis Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:48:20 +0000 http://www.mspmentor.net/?p=7282#comment-52914 I have to agree to partners will need to take a look at OCS. We are a microsoft Gold partner that has been researching OCS hosted. I think this could be an interesting solution for smb. But BPOS as a phone/complete UC system? ahem, not gonna happen... #1-bpos offers NO telephones calls (no ent. voice) #2-bpos can't even do peer-to-peer voice outside the firewall (i'm serious: if 2 users are not inside the same firewall they can not do any voice/video/ (media) only IM!) #3-BPOS OCS can't do any multiparty audio/video conference using ocs Also please make it clear that Intermedia is not offering OCS Enterprise Voice as a UC solution--they are offering an unknown product called Unison, that has a lot of concerns in my mind other than just dialtone concerns. Concerns that other partners has echo'd. One major one is that Unison/intermedia is asking parnters to ditch MS Outlook & exchange--which sounds almost ridiculous to me. Here is my research on Unison: http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-about-unison.html There are parnters offering full OCS Enterprise Voice: http://gopronetworks.com/ Matt Landis http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/ I have to agree to partners will need to take a look at OCS. We are a microsoft Gold partner that has been researching OCS hosted. I think this could be an interesting solution for smb.

But BPOS as a phone/complete UC system? ahem, not gonna happen…

#1-bpos offers NO telephones calls (no ent. voice)
#2-bpos can’t even do peer-to-peer voice outside the firewall (i’m serious: if 2 users are not inside the same firewall they can not do any voice/video/ (media) only IM!)
#3-BPOS OCS can’t do any multiparty audio/video conference using ocs

Also please make it clear that Intermedia is not offering OCS Enterprise Voice as a UC solution–they are offering an unknown product called Unison, that has a lot of concerns in my mind other than just dialtone concerns. Concerns that other partners has echo’d. One major one is that Unison/intermedia is asking parnters to ditch MS Outlook & exchange–which sounds almost ridiculous to me.

Here is my research on Unison:
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-about-unison.html

There are parnters offering full OCS Enterprise Voice:
http://gopronetworks.com/

Matt Landis
http://windowspbx.blogspot.com/

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