Next meeting of the Colorado Unified Communications User Group is all about bringing back some goodness from the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC)!

We are excited to have Jason Sherry (Exchange MVP) come talk to us about Exchange migrations!

"Exchange cross forest migrations: Free or 3rd party tools?" is the title and this session will cover the steps required to migrate from one Exchange 2000 or higher forest to Exchange 2010/2013 in another forest. A high-level outline of the steps, scripts, Microsoft tools, and notes from the fields will be discussed.  Discussion will cover the scripts included with Exchange 2010 and 2013 to migrate mailboxes across forest and how to migrate contacts, groups, policies, and many other settings that aren’t migrated by those scripts. The main focus will be the many additional steps, solutions, and scripts required to do a full fidelity migration. This session will not go into detail on Forefront Identity Manager and 3rd party solutions; however the use of them will be discussed.  This session will mainly focus on the needs of small to medium companies (< 3,000s of mailboxes). Information discussed will be helpful to any size organization that needs to do a cross forest migration.

We are also super excited to announce that ENow will be sponsoring this months meeting and we will get to hear from them about their tools inconjuction with Exchange and Hybrid solutions. If you haven't seen their products, check them out or follow them on Twitter: @ENowConsulting.

We hope that you will join us on May 29th from 4-6pm for this great session.

Also... I have another great #ucoms Update deck... you won't want to miss this one!

The meeting will be held at the Microsoft office in the Denver Tech Center.

Microsoft Offices
7595 Technology Way
Suite 400
Denver, CO 80237

Please RSVP so we can make sure there is enough food and drink

Colorado Unified Communications User Group for 2014

It's 2014 and the Colorado Unified Communications User Group is getting ready to fire back up again. The leaders have been working on a new schedule for this year and we have some great plans for this year... some I'll share... some will have to wait til later in the year ;-).

First off... we are going to have a monthly discipline that is going to be either Lync, Office 365, or Exchange. We try to find a sponsor every month related to the discipline and then we will have either one of the leaders or a member give at least one presentation... also related to the discipline.

Also, at every meeting, during the time we are serving food and beverage, we are going to have a new "Lync Update" presentation that will be a quick summary of the big Unified Communications related news items since the last meeting. This may include issues, announcements, blog posts... you name it. Anything we deem the Colorado Unified Communications User Group community might be interested in knowing.

First up for January, Plantronics will be our sponsor and they will be giving away some headsets! The topics for this meeting on January 30th at 4:00pm are:

• Lync Meeting Etiquette
• Deploy Lync Voice

The meeting will be held at the Microsoft office in the Denver Tech Center.

Microsoft Offices
7595 Technology Way
Suite 400
Denver, CO 80237

Please RSVP so we can make sure there is enough food and drink