RP Certification Exam now available

About this Exam
This exam validates the skills needed to successfully deploy Microsoft Response Point products and services.

 
 

Audience Profile
Candidates for this exam are Microsoft Value Added Resellers and Partners who sell and deploy Microsoft Response Point products and services.
The successful candidate will be familiar with Response Point core system features and functionality that are [...]

Check out Telephonation!

For those of you that haven’t been there yet, check out Telephonation.com.  They have loads of great articles and an active forum.
Be sure to take a look at their Video Vault while you’re over there!

Business Directory now available

We’re very excited to announce that our Business Directory is now available, right here on RPTricks.com.
The Business Directory is designed to make it easy for Response Point resellers, integrators and installers to advertise their company, and let our readers know that they’re out there.
If you have a business that sells or installs Response Point products, [...]

Microsoft launches new RP site

Microsoft launched their new Response Point site yesterday.  Here’s a glimpse:

Richard Spraque from the MS Response Point team blogged:
At last!  We have a new web site: the new and improved  http://www.microsoft.com/responsepoint is open to the world.
Since the vast majority of customers see Response Point for the first time on our web site, our main goal [...]

Aastra releases updated firmware for AastraLink RP

This just came from Aastra:
Maintenance release 2.1.1.123 for AastraLink RP™ phones is now available on the AastraLink RP™ website. This release includes both performance and feature enhancements including:
• Improved “Blue button” response time (removing dialtone and ringing for blue button presses)
• CT handset improvements, including visual voicemail notifications
• DTMF support for external IVRs using Early [...]

New firmware released for AastraLink RP

Aastra has release updated firmware for their AastraLink RP phones.
The new version is 2.1.1_rp.118.
Here’s the release notes with the changes since the last public version (114):
2.1.1_rp.118
-Fix for phone freeze when answering a call as part of a group or attended transfer
-Top 2 programmable keys on the model 6753i RP specifically are now unlocked in the [...]

CMP to exit the Response Point market

I’ve just been told that CMP are no longer going to be reselling the Syspine Response Point system.  In fact they will be exiting the Response Point market with immediate effect.
I would like to thank the team at CMP, especially Jerry Moore, for being a large part of the birth of Response Point, and for [...]

Rex Backman to speak at SoCal Asterisk User Group

Exciting news - Rex Backman, from the Response Point team at Microsoft, will be speaking at the SoCal Asterisk User Group meeting in Irvine, CA tomorrow evening (Thu 9/18).
The meeting is free and open to the public.  
The meeting is held at Heritage Park Library in Irvine, Ca. The library is located on the north-west corner [...]

X.D. Huang in the news

TMCNet has interviewed the General Manager of the Response Point team, X.D. Huang.
Check it out here.

Would you use a T-1 gateway?

Hi folks.
We’re curious to know how many of you would be interested in a T-1 gateway for Response Point, if one were available. Don’t get all excited - we’re not suggesting that we know anything you don’t, but nevertheless we’re interested to know how many of you would use such a device.