SBS Voice Mail integration
Is this out there somewhere???
Perhaps in the next release of SBS (no not R2!). The exchange team seems to be working on the whole unified messaging thing and may have it ready to go for the next exchange realease. Now this will be COOOOOOOL!!!!!
My wife had a cell phone, oh the many years ago, that had unified messaging. VMail, EMail, Fax from a cell phone, with outlook and webmail interface. It was really cool. but the service provider was gobbled up by one of the bigger services and she lost all those features. Then we moved and never got back to that.
Seems to me though, this is a ripe thing for the next SBS release. It already has email and fax. Lump into that Instant messaging, VoIP, and Voice Mail and Video Mail, all natively on an Outlook client and the possibilities sky rocket.
This is a call to action to the SBS product management team. Let's get this to work for Small Business. Imagine, a USB handset/headset, that works inside Outlook to provide VoIP routed through the SBS server in exchange with Voice Mail/EMail integration. Add a usb camera and now video mail is on there. Add Instant messaging with the communicator client integrated into outlook and, well, U C where I am goin'.
-bill watters