UC Unleashed

When I first started this blog, I was an Exchange consultant and MVP. I spent my work days working with clients and deploying Exchange, or migrating from one version to another, or migrating from a different solution, such as Notes or GroupWise, to Exchange. Times were fun and challenging. I picked the name Ehlo World for two reasons. First, “ehlo” is a command that two mail servers send to each other at the beginning of a conversation negotiation. The “world” part came as an homage to “Hello World”. If you’ve written scripts or code, you know that one of the first exercises in learning how to code was to issue a command that would output “Hello world” to the console screen. Since I was noodling with PowerShell, which got its first big push with Exchange server, the “ehlo world” kinda made sense to me.

Flash forward years later, and my coworker, Mark Smith, came to me and said “We’re going to start also doing OCS and Lync consulting. We need a Lync guy. Tag – you’re it.”. I could barely spell OCS or Lync at the time. I had never seen the admin console, let alone deployed it. But I dove in, and it’s been a fabulous ride. As I’ve gone along, I’ve also further honed my PowerShell skills. I’ve written some whopper sized scripts, including several that were more than 6000 lines a piece. When you tie (now) Skype for Business and Exchange and PowerShell and Office 365 together, you get a great Unified Communications platform. UC. While I don’t spend much time dealing with Exchange these days, I still noodle with scripts for it. Mostly those requested by coworkers, clients, and peers. But I’m primarily focused on the Skype for Business side, and the Ehlo World name was a little stale given my focus. So, I’m rebranding to UC Unleashed. UC for the previously mentioned reasons, and the Unleashed for several others. First being that I’ve written scripts, functions, and one liners that (at least try to) think outside of the box. Second, I was honored to be involved in the writing of the Skype for Business Unleashed book.

So there you have it. A new name, but with the existing content. Linked URLs should automatically redirect to the post on the new ucunleashed.com domain soon. A new logo and a new blog theme are in the works. I’m working on some cool stuff (well, *I* think it’s cool), and you’ll see that soon. Until then, feel free to comment on my posts, suggest new scripts and ideas, and more.

Until then…