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Unified Communications
Programs and Events, offered by Microsoft and QuickStart

There’s a lot of content available to individuals interested in Unified Communications training.  Some of this is free, some of it is paid for so please check to make sure you’re signing up for what you want.

NOTE:  I believe that if you attend the one of the webcasts, we may be able to provide free training if you ask to "follow up" on your evaluation after the webcast so be sure to do the eval.

One-hour Webcasts (NO COST)
Each month QuickStart and Microsoft’s Unified Communication Team will host an hour-long webcast on the new Microsoft Unified Communications platform. Microsoft Unified Communications products deliver rich, intuitive and seamless communication capabilities that enhance productivity and collaboration by streamlining how people communicate. They form a complete software solution that enables effective communications across e-mail, instant messaging (IM), voice, data, video, and Web conferencing, with enterprise-grade security and reliability.

An Overview of Deploying Microsoft’s Live Communications Server 2005
Learn how to deploy Microsoft’s Live Communication Server 2005. We’ll go over steps you’ll need to consider for setup, rollout and user adoption.
Tuesday, November 7 – 10:00 AM
For more information visit:  http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=112230

Microsoft’s Unified Communications Platform for Financial Services
Looking for new ways to reduce the costs of delivering your financial services products? Would you like to enable Internet-based real time client meetings to go over documents? Come learn how Microsoft’s Unified Communications can make it possible. We’ll see how we can bring home loan closings to the web and enable much faster document processing.
Tuesday, December 12 – 10:00 AM
For more information visit:  http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=112231

Four-day Deep Dive (Instructor-led Training)
(Note that there is a charge for this training.)
Hosted by QuickStart Intelligence

Implementing Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005
Live Communication Server 2005 is rapidly becoming an important part of how organizations are communicating and collaborating more efficiently through Instant Messaging, and integration with telephony technology and Microsoft Office. This new four-day course provides IT professionals with the skills to implement, manage, configure, and troubleshoot Live Communication Server 2005. Attendees should have at least a year or more experience implementing and supporting a Microsoft Windows® 2000/2003 Active Directory® environment before attending. Upon completion they will also be eligible to take exam 70-262 toward the new MCTS: Live Communications Server 2005 certification.
For more information visit:
http://www.quickstart.com/courses/course.asp?cat=Live%20Communication%20Server&type=116&course=7034

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About your presenters:
Please join the Microsoft Unified Communications Team to learn more about how software working in conjunction with your PC, phone and internet connection can bring instant productivity to your teams! Your Microsoft representative is an expert in Instant Messaging, Presence (availability status), telephony integration as well as web conferencing. Each technologist brings multiple years of experience in the real time collaboration market and can provide answers to your communications questions.