More than 8 months in the making, we're pleased to announce that Group Chat QFE1 is released as has the Group Chat SDK.  This is a strategically important release, as it provides key features and performance enhancements that elevate OCS Group Chat to an enterprise grade product.  This is the culmination of many late nights, tens of thousands of lines of code, several hundred bug fixes, dozens of DCRs, and lots of fire drills. :)

Key updates include:

. Scale Improvements

. Group Chat now supports up to 60,000 concurrent users

. Server Resiliency

. Support for High Availability and Disaster Recovery

. Server Side SDK

. Managed APIs to programmatically access all End User and Amin functionality

. More integrated client experience

. Co-existence with Communicator, including ability to use Group Chat as primary IM client

. User colors

. Support for custom end user colors

. Client Extensibility [Add-in]

. Ability to stitch business logic into the flow of chat rooms by serving up URLs inline using Add-in APIs.

Congratulations to the entire Group Chat team!