Goodbye Desk Phone, You Have Served Me Well

rwhitworth — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:22:22 +0000

I have to admit that I try to avoid talking on the phone as much as possible, but I have a family, so I still need a phone. But now, thanks to our deployment of OCS 2007 R2, I have moved my Cisco 7960 IP Phone off of my desk for good. OCS is now my voice client, but I am still tied into the corporate Call Manager phone system. My voice mail still sits on Unity but we are looking at a limited test deployment of Exchange Unified Messaging since we already own it as part of our licensing agreement. I can’t speak much to the technical aspects of our implementation and how it ties into Call Manager, but, luckily I have a great WAN Engineer who really gets this stuff. The end result is that I now have a wireless plantronics headset, and I can make and receive all calls from my computer. And I can do Live Meetings with a dial-in phone number. And I can do multi-party conference calls with both pc audio and cisco phones. And its pretty cool that on top of that, the OCS client is delivered to my desktop as an App-V stream.

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Goodbye Desk Phone, You Have Served Me Well