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Greetings!
 
Another recommendation from Sandy Spencer, until recently Regional Vice President for Channels for Qwest Communications, "Having known Tom for more than a decade, to me he is a quite the "quintessential innovator." Tom developed and delivered a week long data and internet training which turned out to be a terrific course for everyone!
 
Throughout the past decade he created TECHtionary the "World's First and Largest Animated Library on Technology. Few yet can appreciate that TECHtionary is more than just a source of knowledge. TECHtionary is proven to reduce the cycle by educating not only channel/business partners but provides critical insights to the decision-maker allowing them to more easily and rapidly understand the benefit to the organization.
 
In summary, Tom delivers on time, on budget proven tools and solutions yielding immediate and long-term revenue-generating and cost-saving benefits."

 
OCS Forum Expo 2010 will be held in Boulder, Colorado, June 15 & 16 at the St. Julien Hotel (www.stjulien.com) with keynotes from OCS MVPs, Media Gateway/SBC experts, customers, planners and others. 
 
Attendees and exhibitors will receive thousands of dollars in valuable videos, training courses and online access to a "live" OCS system. 
 
There will be sessions on OCS Planning, QoS, Security, Firewalls, Media Gateways, PBX Integration, Mobile OCS, Communicator, WAN-Bandwidth Planning, Customer Applications, Troubleshooting, Session Border Controllers and others.
 
For speaker/exhibitor/attendee information contact Tom Cross cross@gocross.com or 303-594-1694. 
New TODAY - Creating OCS Users:
This video demystifies the creation of an Active Directory user and then shows how to configure that user for OCS. We show some of the different things a user can be allowed to do with OCS via the user configuration.
 
Video, check out our weekly free training video - watch it now! 
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Previous Videos:
- OCS Planning Tool
- Edge Planning Tool
- Getting To Know Microsoft Office Communicator
- OCS User Creation
 
Upcoming Videos:
- OCS Server Roles: Front End
- OCS Server Roles: Edge
- OCS Server Roles: Mediation
- OCS Management Interfaces 
 

GET ALL OCS Videos - free to class attendeesMore than 20 OCS videos will be available in the coming months with 10 new ones monthly.  Amazing "actionable" information for anyone doing OCS.  Subscriptions available for 1, 10, 100 or more users starting at $9.95 a month. Subscription service goes live soon.
 

ONLINE WEBSEMINAR - sign up now for next webseminar October 12 and second week of every month October-December classes via webseminar - Monday-Friday (10AM EST - 4PM EST) - $995 per person with access to the OCS system for 30-days afterward (additional time available at a discount).
 
Private seminars either onsite or online are also available, depending on schedule. 
 
Click here for the complete course outline. 
 
Get independent training and live OCS "sandbox" available for testing, planning and configuration.
 
Fundamentals of OCS & SIP with "Live" OCS System
SIP & Microsoft OCS-Office Communications Server with Virtual OCS Lab Training Course
 
5-Day Onsite/Webseminar and "Live" not virtual Lab.
An executive and operational guide to SIP-Session Initiation Protocol & Microsoft OCS-Office Communications Server/Communicator available in classroom (onsite) format of five (5) days, via webseminar or custom version. 
 
This course is designed to help enterprise technical-executive managers, channel partners and others better understand SIP-Session Initiation Protocol and Microsoft's OCS-Office Communications Server. 
 
There is two years of research, interviews, discussions, meetings and presentations to channel partners, providers, manufacturer's and other interested parties in the SIP-VoIP industry.  In addition to the classroom presentation, a "live OCS" lab/demonstration for all students is included.  The purpose of the virtual demonstration is to give attendees a "road test drive" of OCS and be able to ask implementation and configuration questions.  The lab is always in development and services/features may change without notice.    
NEW - Now with Media Gateway Training
1) Applications for Mediation Server:
            -IP Telephony benefits
            - Communications cost savings
2) Installation/configuration of Mediation Server:
            - OS Configuration/System Preparation
            - Installation
            - Post/clean-up
3) Configuration with OCS, media gateways:
            -Requirements for OCS interoperation
            - Interface with media gateways, PBXs
4) LAB Case Study: Installing SIP trunks on a Mediant 2000 hybrid MS/gateway:
            - Mediant 2000 overview
            - Setup - Protocols, Codecs, QoS and other performance issues
            - SIP trunk installation/provisioning
5) OCS users and media gateways:
            - Configure users for OCS and configure OCS user features, e.g. allow phone usage
6) Test calls on the system
7) Troubleshooting
8) Tips and tricks

Call Tom Cross 303-594-1694 or cross@gocross.com for more information and scheduling.
 
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OCS Forum provides classroom and webseminar training as well as a non-production environment for those IT departments without additional equipment, budget or time.  This allows planners and users to test ideas, dial in and dial back out, IM file transfers, remote desktop sharing, video conferencing, run scenarios, review logs, break linkages and learning about new telephony features and network access.  OCS Forum is also designed for both the system integrator/consultant who wants to learn about OCSR2 without having to build their own system as well as the enterprise customer who doesn't have the time, resources or knowledge to develop one.  OCS Forum Labs are designed to be "hands-on" or "over-the-shoulder" with experts available for Q&A and classes for feature-specific review.
 
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