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Without much fanfare Microsoft released a significant update to the Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 last weekend. This release is not only significant given the impressive set of new features, but most of all because it provides direct interoperability of the UCMA 2.0 with major VoIP Gateways and IP-PBXs. Where till today a ...

Well, it’s been two weeks now since the Metro and the Airlift training and I’ve had a chance to play around with Wave 14 and the developer APIs.   As you may know there are two APIs – UCMA 3.0 and the Communicator API. I’ve been begging for over a year for Microsoft  to give us the hooks we need and they have done a pretty good job ...

I’ll be in Bellevue/Redmond next week (14 – 19th) for the Microsoft 2010 MVP Global Summit. This will be my 4th Summit and I am really looking forward to it. It’s a long tiring week but if gives me a chance to reconnect with friends in the OCS Product group as well as my MVP friends. There are some new OCS MVPs that I am looking forward to ...

New Microsoft Speech Technologies web site is now live. Enjoy. I’m off to read all of the content.

Happy New year everyone! 2009 was a great year for OCS. For how good it was and where we should be going in 2010 see Unified Communications 2009 - A year in review by my friend and fellow OCS MVP Joe Schurman. It is customary at this time of the year to make predictions and resolutions for the new year. I’m not very good at predicting things so ...

What’s the story on Speech Server’s future?   Over the last few months I keep getting inquiries from people concerning the future of Speech Server 2007. They are interested in starting new IVR projects, converting MSS 2004 apps or moving from other platforms to Microsoft. Disappointingly Microsoft is keeping very quiet on this topic when ...

Things are really starting to take off for GotSpeech Consulting and I am starting to look for some other resources – i.e. Speech Server developers. So if you are interested in doing some development for GotSpeech Consulting please contact me and/or send me your resume. Most of the need at this point is for Speech Server but there may be some OCS ...

Things have really changed for me since becoming an independent consultant. I’ve been busy with work the last two months but I’ve found that what makes up my work day has changed dramatically. For instance I now rely heavily on Twitter and I follow every OCS related tweet. I also have 10 blogs and 3 Microsoft OCS related forums that I follow in ...

Since I work for myself now I’ve been giving more thought to my development platform and strategies for keep different client projects separate. I had lunch last week with fellow MVP Andrew Connell. AC described for me a custom virtualization server that he built for his SharePoint  projects. The more I listened the better the idea ...

I got this in my email today: Dear Marshall Harrison, Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Communications Server ...