The Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 is a tool that takes a user through a set of interview questions regarding the proposed or current edge server deployment. The tool interviews users about their perimeter network settings as Read More

As a part of the broad initiative across Microsoft to support 64 bit versions across many of its product lines, the next release of OCS will support 64-bit operating systems only. This decision will help meet customer demand and is a natural progression Read More

Today Cisco announced the acquisition of PostPath, an e-mail offering.   In a blog post by the VP of their Collaboration Software Group, Cisco has stated that this is part of their “cloud-based collaboration platform”. This acquisition Read More

Finally, the OCS Best Practices analyzer has been updated such that I can run it on my Vista SP1 x64 machine. Virtual PC is nice with the drag and drop functionality of the shared clipboard but having to run a machine just to check a BPA was a real annoyance. Read More

<August 26 update - removing survey url and contact email. > As the OCS development team is hardening the next version of OCS, the planning team is looking ahead to the version which will follow. In this version we’d like to take a step back and Read More

The July 2008 update for Communicator 2007 has been released - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=954439 NOTE: This update replaces the following update: 951662 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951662/) Description of the update for Communicator 2007: Read More

Unisys recently put out a press release announcing the UC Hosted Trial, and I wanted to give some additional behind-the-scenes information on what we’re doing here.  This is a system managed by Unisys that lets Microsoft and Unisys field sales sign Read More

Update for Communicator 2007 Phone Edition - July 2008 (KB952693) has been released to the Microsoft download center. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eeb1b339-df7e-486f-a47a-23d7ed8be6fd&DisplayLang=en Description of the Read More