On the original question, can a voice message (or any audio message attachment for that matter) be "played" through an OWA interface?
The answer is both yes and no. Obviously, there are two pieces to this: the OWA side and the client side. On the OWA side, the audio part has to be fed to the client via either http or https, and arrive in a format that is meaningful. Either Unity (Cisco - was Active Voice) or Unified Messenger (Avaya - was Lucent - was Octel - was VMX) can do this part, although there are differences in the behaviors of the two. So can the browser on your client play what the OWA server sends it? Maybe. That will depend on the audio capabilities of your browser and the hardware that is running it. What you cannot do for almost certain, is reply with an audio message. Well, yes you could do it, but it would not be pretty or obvious to most users. Several changes to the core Exchange product need to be made for things to work really well. Most of these changes are happening, and may even be at least somewhat useful in the form in which they arrive. The one really big misgiving that I have is the attitude that continues to persist within much (not all) of Microsoft that the primary client of the future is a Windows based on the NT kernel and the Intel x86/Pentium chip families. But that of course leads to a very long digression - all of which is in the archives. -----Original Message----- From: Clemens, Rick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:13 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: OWA and Voice Mail We are currently using Unified Messenger 4.1 in our Exchange 5.5 environment and fixing to migrate to Exchange 2000 in two weeks. This means that Unified messenger will have to utilize the GC instead of Exchange 5.5 Directory. Sounds like you are having problems with this....anything I should know? -----Original Message----- From: prontomail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:04 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: OWA and Voice Mail .... And it's crappy ..... at least in my environment. Barfs really loud anytime I have to do any maintenance on my GC. Does not know HOW to look for other available GC. Really clumsy to recover from. I'll stop here. Deji ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Seielstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: RE: OWA and Voice Mail > Its called Octel Unified Messenger, and is currently sold by Avaya, > who has > the old Lucent (and before that AT&T) PBX hardware business. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity > Atlanta, GA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Orban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:51 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: OWA and Voice Mail > > > > > > I saw something similar that worked with Outlook (not OWA), > > developed by a third party for Expanets, who took over the sales end > > of Lucent Technologies. You might want to check with Expanets about > > that. I can't > > remember the company who developed it now, but when I called > > them directly > > they refered me back to the reseller. > > > > John Orban > > System Administrator > > The Country School > > www.countryschool.org > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Clemens, Rick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:45 PM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: OWA and Voice Mail > > > > > > Please excuse my ignorance on this topic but about 2 years ago I > > went to a Hands-on Lab for Exchange 2000 and in OWA they had this > > media tool that > > played voice messages on the web page itself. You just > > clicked a button to > > download and install. > > > > I currently have Exchange 2000 running and I cannot find anything > > like that in OWA.....Is it something that is thirdparty or something > > that you download > > separately or am I in a bad dream and just need to wake up? > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
