Mucking with MWI – Part I

In the process of migrating a customer to Lync recently we inherited an obligation to provide a *BIG* Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) light when-ever a voicemail message arrived in a particular high-priority mailbox. We figured there were a number of ways we could do this: Optically couple to the MWI LED on an LPE or …

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Hey, UM, Don’t Record Messages – I’m on Holidays!

Coming back from holidays and finding your Inbox with hundreds of new messages is something I think we all dread, especially when you KNOW many of them are no longer relevant because the sender received your OOF message and took their issue elsewhere. (Thankfully Outlook 2010’s “MailTips” have helped to reduce that figure). If you’re …

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