a Single Point of Contact

Finally…

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Some new OCS Live Meetings guides were recently published to the MS Downloads site.  Good information for your library.

• Deploying the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 Client with Office Communications Server 2007
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Administrator’s Guide (v1.1)
• Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Security Guide

Some new and updates OCS guides were just published to the MS Downloads.

• Supportability Guide (v1.2)
• Planning Guide (v1.2)
• Office Communicator Web Access (2007 Release): Administration Guide

Interested in learning how you can use the new Microsoft Office Communicator as a phone?  If you have deployed OCS Voice in your organization you will want to check this article just posted on the Communicator team blog.

• Phone Numbers in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007

Excerpt:

Using communicator, phone numbers can be supported in the following ways

• User dialing the short extension of another user (such as 12345)
• Dialing out to a PSTN phone number (fully or partially, such as 14258828080 or 8828080)
• Dialing vanity numbers such as 1800FLOWERS.
• Dialing from the Contact list

FaceTime has a nice product out that can do just that.  With Forefront for OCS not due out until who knows when it looks like one other company is rushing to fill the void.

"FaceTime Enterprise Edition provides organizations with the tools to standardize their Instant Messaging (IM) infrastructure on the Office Communications Server 2007 unified communications (UC) platform while ensuring compliance and securing their environment against IM-borne malware and spam over IM."

Key benefits:

• Standardization on Office Communications Server 2007 by blocking access to unauthorized IM and P2P networks
• Built in support for both Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 and Office Communications Server 2007
  allows for flexible migration
• Identity management with policy control at global, group and individual employee levels
• Guaranteed TrueCompliance™ to meet corporate policies and government regulations
• Interoperability with existing anti-virus solutions
• Zero-day blocking of IM-based worm and virus attacks
• Anti-SpIM controls protect bandwidth and close security holes
• Archival of file transfers over Office Communications Server 2007 into WORM storage
• Advanced content filtering and keyword blocking to prevent loss of confidential information
• High availability and load-balancing deployment increases security and reliability of existing real-time communications infrastructure
• Targeted remediation and inoculation of spy are-infected endpoints without deploying client software
• Automatic protection against threats identified by FaceTime Security Labs

Check out their product here…

First posted here by BrettJo this link provides videos, case studies, demos and presentations for all things UC.

Launch Presentations and Demos

Even if you couldn’t attend, increase your understanding in 10 key areas related to unified communications with these presentations from the event.

• Administering within a UC environment
  (PPT 2003, 4.3 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 1 MB)

• Deploying Office Communicator 2007
  (PPT 2003, 10.9 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 1.8 MB)

• Embedding UC in your applications
  (PPT 2003, 13.2 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 5.82 MB)

• Exchange Server 2007 SP1 overview
  (PPT 2003, 8.16 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.34 MB)

• Security and governance in UC solutions
  (PPT 2003, 10.8 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.41 MB)

• Solutions for mobility and anywhere access
  (PPT 2003, 8.94 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.43 MB)

• Unified communications and the end user
  (PPT 2003, 8.66 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.43 MB)

• User-focused approach to optimal VoIP quality
  (PPT 2003, 7.89 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.46 MB)

• VoIP Topologies and interoperability
  (PPT 2003, 12.7 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 4.16 MB)

• Web conferencing solutions
  (PPT 2003, 12.4 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 2.93 MB)

Grab the rest of the content here…

Overview

The document provides a functional description of the Microsoft RTAudio speech encoder and decoder. A list of core capabilities is provided. Also, a detailed list of features such as rate control and forward error correction is included to show how the codec can be used in Voice over IP and other IP Network-based media communication solutions. Finally, the document includes information for licensing this technology from Microsoft Corporation.

Click here to download the updated doc…

Overview

The Unified Communications Enhanced Presence Schemas are intended for application developers who are interested in publishing or subscribing to enhanced presence within the Microsoft unified communications application framework while maintaining interoperability with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007. The accompanying XML Schema Definition (XSD) files are provided as an application development tool.

The enhanced presence model provides finer control over published presence information. Unified communications clients, other than Communicator, need to understand these presence data types if they are to interoperate with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007.

Note:

• There is no support for this download.
• The accompanying XML Schema Definition (XSD) files may not be redistributed.

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Looks like some updates to the following guides were recently released.  I still don’t see a change management section so looks like we have to re-read the entire document to find out what’s new.

Office Communications Server 2007 Document:

• Security Guide v1.1
• Technical Overview v1.1
• Planning Guide v1.1
• Supportability Guide v1.1

Office Communicator Server 2007 Visio stencils are now available from the MS Downloads site.

Overview:

The Office Communications Server 2007 Visio stencil contains icons for Office Communications Server 2007 server roles and components.

Click here to get the stencils…