Today, Jeff Raikes announced some great news at the Financial Analyst Meeting that Communications Server 2007 and Communicator 2007 is code complete and will be released to manufacturing tomorrow, July 27 th . RTM is a significant milestone in our...

If you like FREE and want to experiment with unified communications products in a virtual online environment, then you've come to the right place. Check out the newest Unfied Communications TechNet Virtual labs covering the following topics: deploying...

We previewed our next major release of Microsoft Office Live Meeting today at TechEd. This proved to be an important milestone for us since we haven’t had a major update to the service in awhile. Customers told us they wanted to see new features in three...

At Interop Las Vegas 2007, Microsoft Corp and 9 leading IP-PBX vendors announced plans to provide interoperability between their respective communications solutions; this represents more than 80% of the global PBX installed base. These industry leaders...

The Office Communications Server Public Beta has now been enhanced by product offerings from Unified Communications Group’s strategic gateway partners. After IT Pros download the Public Beta, they will be directed to the Strategic Hardware Partners Resource...

Are you excited about devices? If so, please check out the next generation of phones and devices we announced today with our partners optimized for Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. We’re encouraging customers to test...

Some great news today as Tellme Networks has officially joined the Microsoft family. On May 3 rd , Microsoft announced that it has completed its acquisition of Tellme, the Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of voice services for everyday life, including...

In LCS2005 SP1, two new federation models were introduced; the ability to federate with the three big public IM providers AOL, MSN & Yahoo! and Enhanced federation by which peer enterprises are discovered via DNS SRV. Further, enhanced federation...

Some great news from the Unified Communications Group. Exchange is now offering a FREE trial of Exchange 2007. This free trial service enables enterprise customers to experience Microsoft ® Exchange Server 2007, the industry’s leading platform for...

With the recent Response Point announcement, we’ve received some questions about the relationship between this offering, the upcoming Office Communications 2007 release, and Microsoft’s overall unified communications strategy. Both Office Communications...

You know without getting all technical about this blog, I thought I’d just talk a little bit about “supported” load balancers for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005. Often the question from customers becomes, “Is my particular load balancer...

Today is a really exciting day for the Office Communicator team because it marks the first time we have been able to share with you the full extent of our vision of what type of user experiences we believe must comprise Unified Communications . Delivering...

Today, Jeff Raikes, the president of Microsoft’s Business Division, (my boss’s boss) did a keynote at VoiceCon and announced that we’re making the interoperability specifications for Office Communicator 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS...

For my first blog – I decided to write about Multiple Points of Presence ( MPOP ) and the underlying technology that supports it. Lets examine some terminology that will be useful to us to understand MPOP. The user that publishes presence information...

There is some exciting news coming out today around tools for transitioning from Lotus to Microsoft that I thought our readers might be interested in. You can find out more about this from a post on the Exchange Server Team Blog "You had me at EHLO.....

FAQ Question - Is there a way to control the users that are populated in the ABS file or is there a way to filter the address book based on an AD Attribute? Answer - The users populated in the ABS files can be controlled based on certain AD Attributes...

I am happy to tell you that we opened a private beta of our new version of Office Communications Server 2007, to 2,500 companies. What’s special about this version is that it has a lot of the VoIP capabilities built in. The coolest thing I have experienced...

We are getting questions from developers about the RTC Client APIs ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775893.aspx ) and Windows Vista. Developers can use the RTC APIs to create messaging clients or utilities that work with Live Communications...

There hasn't been much discussion about high availability of the server and failover capabilities of the client, but it’s something that I think is pretty cool, and JUST WORKS. And since I tested it, I think it works pretty well and deserves a kudo to...

Overview Automatic configuration allows Communicator to find and connect to the appropriate LCS server without manually entering a server name into its settings. Communicator has special requirements for DNS and certificates to make this work properly...

This is just the first of a series of posts regarding performance of Live Communications Server. Performance is a complex topic, so I thought I would step back and describe some of the basic principles behind what we do in the product group to analyze...

Hello. I’m Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President for the Unified Communications Group and I want to welcome you to the new UCG Team Blog. We’re glad that you have taken the time to come visit today and hope you will do so again in the future to...