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...

The support documentation for OCS 2007 R2 on Windows 2008 R2 has been released.   Office Communications Server 2007 R2, OCS 2007 or LCS 2005 does not work correctly after you upgrade to Windows Server 2008 R2 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982020 Supportability is available for Office Communications...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Today OCS R2 was launched. Check out this very exciting website and get you hands on the presentations, see the keynote, breakout sessions and more. I will try to focus my future posts on OCS R2 and the capabilities you will achive with this release.

With the release of OCS R2, there will also be a lot of enhancements and extra functionality added to the APIs. Learn how UCMA 2.0 and Unified Communication Workflow Activities provide a powerful communications arsenal to build Presence, IM, and voice-enabled services that can be leveraged from any...

Brief Description Migrate OCS 2007 global settings from the System container to the Configuration container using the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Global Settings Migration Overview The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Global Settings Migration Tool enables Administrators...

Key new features of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 include the following: Next-Generation Collaboration • Dial-in audioconferencing. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 enables businesses to eliminate costly audioconferencing services with an on-premise audioconferencing...