This seminar was slightly ahead of the Fall (2006) launch Microsoft is conducting on the full line-up of new Office and Exchange products, everything from a new version of Exchange to an entire release of Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Project, Visio, SharePoint, Office Communications Server, etc.  In this free seminar led by Rand Morimoto, author of dozens of best selling books including an upcoming 1200+ page book on Exchange 2007 (due out Fall/2006) and the integration of Unified Communications technologies of the Office 2007 apps, presented, demonstrated, and shared best practices around the implementation and usage of the new Microsoft products and technologies.

Rand covered:

 *  what’s new in the various updated Office 2007 products (Windows, Excel, Project, Visio, etc)

 *  what to expect in the upcoming release of Exchange 2007

 *  what are the top features and functions of SharePoint 2007

 *  how organizations are leveraging this new integrated Office / Exchange / SharePoint family of products together to create a highly effective business environment

 *  what’s new with Unified Communications, the concept of linking Exchange 2007 messaging to OCS 2007 instant messaging, to SharePoint data sharing, to Exchange mobility

 *  what’s involved in migrating and integrating the 2007 family of products into an existing Windows 2003, Office 2003, Exchange 2003, SharePoint 2003 environment

 *  Etc, etc, etc.

Note: this seminar was just an introduction to the new 2007 line of products. Rand will run other seminars throughout the next few months on specific step-by-step implementation, migration, administration, and support best practices targeted at Exchange 2003 to 2007 migrations, SharePoint 2003 to 2007 migrations, and Unified Communications integration best practice processes and procedures.

You should download and print the slide deck that will be used throughout this session

Video #1 (1-hr, 24-min): Covers Exchange 2007, Office 2007, Web Access, and Unified Communications

Video #2 (40-min): Continued with coverage on SharePoint 2007, Office Communications Server 2007, InfoPath 2007, Groove 2007, and Project 2007

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