Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will launch on February 3rd 2009. We are trying something new this time and will do the launch through a website that mimics a live event.  The website will include: keynote, breakout sessions, customers evidence Read More

So you are not going to get exactly what you want but the question from Aaron, Elan and Mark was the fact that the guidance to give a customer collocating their Archiving database with their SQL backend for OCS was rather vague. In the OCS Planning Guide Read More

The announcement for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 has been made and you should begin to see more information being blogged as well as posted on the Microsoft site. One thing to have administrators thinking about is interoperability of a mixed Read More

In light of  the OCS R2 public announcement, the OCS Technical Product Management team has recorded a series of videos with the latest additions to the product and the value those bring to the customers. The videos are posted at the TechNet Edge Read More

In our previous post, we introduced changes in Office Communications Server to enable Direct SIP with IP-PBX such as Cisco Call Manager. In this simple example, we provide a configuration of Direct SIP with Cisco Call Manager 4.2.1. Read More

In early 2007, Cisco was touting their three year lead on Microsoft in UC.  Now, Cisco seems to have decided they were running in the wrong direction - and perhaps even in the wrong race. In the last month, Cisco has added two new software pieces 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