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Related to my previous post on the presence survival guide this paper provides an in-depth look at the enhanced presence model developed for Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. This paper is targeted at IT and support professionals and includes the following topics:

An overview of presence and enhanced presence features
A system [...]

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Ever wanted to know more about the new enhanced presence model in OCS?  A little gem I found buried in a blog post back in 10/2007 is the Presence Survival Guide.  This jewel explains the basic information you need to understand presence, how it works, and how to use it to your advantage to make [...]

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This page describes the Microsoft Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program for enterprise telephony infrastructure. Use this page to learn about the Open Interoperability Program, qualified SIP-PSTN gateways and IP-PBXs, and the process for telephony infrastructure vendors to join and participate in the program.
 
As Jen Trier Rasmussen posted yesterday, this page was recently updated.
 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb735838.aspx

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The ISA Server product team has just published a guide on how to configure CWA 2007 for external access using ISA 2006.  For more options on configuring CWA with ISA check out the CWA Lab Deployment guide.
 
"The page that ISA Server 2006 publishes externally is the ISA Server 2006 page, which uses forms-based authentication. This [...]

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Originally posted here…
 
"System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2007 Release Candidate is now available. SCCP 2007 helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, with capacity planning models for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 coming soon. It provides you with the tools [...]

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Originally posted by Clive…you can check out his post for more details on what’s updated.

Windows Client 2000/XP OS Management Pack
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Update
Windows Server 2000/2003 OS Management Pack
WSS 2.0 (2003) Management Pack
Terminal Services 2000/2003 Management Pack
Microsoft Information Worker Management Pack
SPS 2003 Management Pack
IIS 2000/2003 Management Pack
Exchange 2003 Management Pack
AD Management Pack [...]

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Gotta love the Internet.  Thanks to my good bud Aaron for noticing this post from BrettJo who wrote about this new kit from Microsoft.  I personally have two LifeCams and have often thought wouldn’t it be great if this Call Button worked with my Office Communicator 2007 client?  Well my prayers were answered…
Microsoft Internet Communications [...]

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Microsoft released a refresh for the Vista SP1 RC.  Check out this link to get the update.

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Issue
So you’ve deployed OCS 2007 with Voice in your organization and know you need a way to keep track of all the phone numbers your have assigned to your voice enabled users.  One way of course to is to build a nice spreadsheet but that can be cumbersome to manage in a large environment where [...]

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An update to the OCS 2007 Technical Reference document was just released.
 
However…yet again there is no reference to what has changed over the previous version. 
Please Microsoft…please add some language to let us know what’s changed.
 
Grab the update here…

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