Read about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mwo/archive/2011/03/01/windows-phone-7-client-for-lync.aspx Enjoy

Lotus Notes Connector for Microsoft Online Meetings: This project, created by Microsoft, contains two modified IBM Lotus Notes® mail templates (7.X and 8.5) which can schedule Microsoft Online Meetings (of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 or the Live Meeting service) via the Notes scheduling...

Office Communicator 2007 R2 trial edition has been re-released. You can get it here .   This update fixes the following issue: After you apply the MS09-056 security update that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) article 974571, you cannot start the Evaluation version of Office Communicator...

New TechNet download : Unified Communications Phones and Peripherals (published 01/29/2010) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=74BD3EC0-C7DC-4111-A9B7-A9AFBDC86AA9&displaylang=en TechNet webpage : Optimized Devices for Office Communicator http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb970310...

get it here Issues that the update rollup fixes. Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles: 977439 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977439/ ) Exchange Server 2010 users cannot open certain attachments when they...

With Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Service Provider, administrators can implement basic instant messaging and presence functionality for Microsoft Office Outlook®-Live users. Prior to the Web Service Provider release, Outlook-Live users accessed this functionality through client...

First, Microsoft is releasing the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway at no additional licensing cost; it allows basic presence sharing and instant messaging (IM) with Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol networks Cisco Jabber and Google Talk. For Office Communications Server...

Following the release of Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 in January, the Communicator team continued to work on additional features and improved upon some of the existing ones. Everything is now in an update that's ready to use. One of our goals with this update was to make it easier to...

From July 1st PIC with windows Live will be at no extra cost. Licensing requirements for Public IM Connectivity depends on the service providers you want to connect with and your Communications Server client access licenses. Windows Live: Customers with Office Communications Server 2007 R2...

We are pleased to announce official support for server virtualization for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. We are introducing support for both a fully distributed virtualized topology across several hypervisors and for a single server virtualized topology. These topologies are supported on Windows...

Agent Communications Panel enables agents to manage their communications (make calls, receive calls, conference, and chat) from their Microsoft Dynamics CRM system. See more here …

The Edge Planning Tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 provides settings for configuring your perimeter network based on information that you provide to the tool.   Read more here …

The Unified Communications Adoption and Training Kit for 2007 R2 provides guidance and resources for IT Pros, HelpDesk, and Trainers to speed adoption and usage of Unified Communications technologies in the enterprise. The kit includes Planning Checklists, Awareness materials, including Poster, Door...

New whitepaper on telephony integration released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8CDE0C3A-042E-445B-A514-2D12ED5B2AC2&displaylang=en

note from site: This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 for 60 days. You can get them here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3bfe2fb6-493b-42d6-859e-eddddf04e2e8&displaylang=en

It is released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e7871dcd-8173-4866-a0c2-af8659092acc This MUI Package for Office Communicator 2007 R2 includes the following languages: Arabic Bulgarian Catalan Chinese - Simplified Chinese - Traditional Chinese Hong Kong Croatian...

Forefront Security for Office Communications Server can help you protect your Office Communications Server 2007 instant messaging environment against malware and out-of-policy content. Forefront Security for Office Communications Server supports both Office Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition...

Good reading when looking into QoE. With the introduction of voice capabilities in Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, greater attention than before is required to ensure that the end user voice experience matches or exceeds traditional time-division multiplexing (TDM) desk phones. Microsoft...

I stumbled upon this list and really contains some good links: Object FWLink Download URL OCS 2007 R2 Eval   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67a3de72-7dbd-4e0b-92a5-29d0b46009a7 OC 2007 R2 Eval   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=535637af-d92f...

While working to release the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 MOM (System Center Operations Manager 2007) Pack we encountered a blocking problem where this cannot coexist with the Office Communications Server 2007 MOM Pack. While fixing this issue will be straightforward there is the overhead of...

The R2 client policy documentation, in spreadsheet format is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5d6f4b90-6980-430b-9f97-ffadbc07b7a9&displaylang=en . This download package contains the Communicator.adm file and a spreadsheet that documents the Group Policy settings...

It is here: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fdf32585-c131-4832-8e27-67e70636c1e8&DisplayLang=en

Recording Converter for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 is a tool for Office Live Meeting 2007 customers to convert recorded meetings in High Fidelity Presentation (HFP) format into single movie files. The converted movie files can be integrated with a customer's existing learning management system...

The documentation has been released and can be downloaded here

The journey to a unified way of communicating is well on the way. When we take a look on the journey coming from LCS to OCS to OCS R2 a lot of things has been added. One of my colleagues, Stephen Chirico , started to build a list of features based on version, and it is his list, a little bit modified...