Unified Communications

Good news, Microsoft has announced a license change to the Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 for the MSN PIC (Public IM Connectivity) license, which is needed to communicate and federate with the public MSN/Windows Live network from your OCS environment. The MSN PIC license is now free is you have an active Software Assurance (SA). Windows Live: Customers with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Client Access License or Office Communications Server 2007/ Live Communications …

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A few months ago Microsoft released an updated version of the Office Communications Server 2007 Edge Server Deployment Guide. This document guides you through the deployment of edge servers in your Office Communications Server 2007 topology. You typically deploy edge servers after you have deployed Office Communications Server in your internal network.If you need to communicate with users and organizations outside your internal network by using your Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 deployment, you need …

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The Resource Kit Tools for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (version 6907.0) was released in February 2009. You can use the set of deployment, technical tools and references to complement the product documentation delivered in R2. Supported platforms to run the ResKit Tools are Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008. Note that the tools should be used exclusively with OCS 2007 R2 (RTM) only. These are essentially the same tools shipped …

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Microsoft has released the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Tool. The Capacity planning and load simulation toolkit is for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and can be using for planning and sizing situations together with the planning guide. This release of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Toolkit contains tools and documentation to simplify your hardware planning, provide you with increased knowledge and best practices for performance tuning, and improve your …

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Microsoft has release Office Communications Server 2007 R2 as downloadable VHDs ready to use with Hyper-V for testing purpose. Start evaluating Office Communications Server today. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most (like Office Outlook). Note: 1. This trial software is intended for evaluation purposes only. 2. There is no product support for …

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