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OCS Reference Tools you can use!!
All Unified Communication End User Reference Guides Favorite OCS Deployment guide End User Content for UC Microsoft Office Communicator Quick Reference Using Communicator with Office Applications Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Demo Office Communicator Read More...
Load Balancers
One of the big differences between LCS and OCS is the need for hardware load balancers for the Enterprise pool. You can use a load balancer that supports SNAT (source network address translation) or DNAT (destination network address translantion). SNAT Read More...
OCS Ignite Tour (IT PROS)- Get Trained!!
As a valued member of the Microsoft community, we would like to extend to you an official invitation to an Office Communications Server 2007 Ignite event! This 2-day hands-on technical workshop is intended to provide you with key information regarding Read More...
Let's have a little Focus
I figured I'd talk a little about the OCS conferencing architecture in this blog. The OCS Conf architecture consist of 3 main components: The focus, focus factory, and the MCUs. The Focus is the traffic cop. It is a conference state server that coordinates Read More...
External Connectors for OCS
In reviewing OCS licensing and pricing with the field we received some questions regarding the OCS External Connectors (Standard and Enterprise). To help mitigate any additional confusion below is a mini FAQ on OCS External Connectors. When do you need Read More...
MSIT and deploying OCS
Our Internal IT just posted a whitepaper and presentation on deploying OCS at Microsoft to 85K users worldwide. Great info on scaling to meet our availability and security requirements. Technical White Paper | PowerPoint Presentation Read More...
customize Office Communicator
A colleague asked me if I was feeling better the other day and I asked him why he thought I was feeling bad. He said your IM says you have a headache "do not disturb". What he was referring to is the ability to customize Office Communicator. I customized Read More...
Planning Tool
We have a new OCS Planning Tool to help you plan your upcoming OCS deployment. The tool is still in beta and some of the links aren't available yet but it does provide you with a quick visio and initial sizing of your environment by looking at the design Read More...
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