Free at Last

Published 14 October 08 09:09 AM | Sean Olson 

At last we are free to start blogging about our upcoming R2 release of OCS 2007.  We've made a formal announcement at VoiceCon Amsterdam and the lid is off on this release which we've been cooking for over a year now.  I'm especially proud of the customer focused nature of this release.  There is not an ounce of fat in the release.  No superfluous features,  no pet projects, no easter eggs ;-)  Seriously, every last piece of this release has come from detailed and repeated feedback from our customers.  64-bit support,  Windows Server 2008 support, PSTN bridging,  Boss/Admin support, and much much more.  This is our best release to date.  And this couldn't come at a better time.  As folks are starting to tighten their belt during these tough times, OCS 2007 R2 offers some tremendous cost savings. Our own internal deployment of R2 is going to save us million$ just with the PSTN bridging feature. That is some awesome ROI.   Beats my 401(K) for sure ...  I'll be posting a ton of more stuff about R2 in the coming days. 

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# Killickr said on October 14, 2008 1:03 PM:

What happended to http://blogs.technet.com/uc/ ?

It seems very quiet with so much going on?

Roger

# Sean Olson said on October 14, 2008 7:47 PM:

That blog has been replaced by a new blog here:  http://communicationsserverteam.com/

# Matt Freestone said on October 15, 2008 4:22 PM:

Hi Sean, will this release of OCS 2007 (R2) include a fix for faxing in an Enterprise Voice senario?  In a pure Enterprise Voice deployment (no PBX) you have to give users a second extension and bypass OCS (mediation server) directly to the Exchange UM server for inbound fax to work.  This was due to a limitation in the mediation server role.  Has this issue been resolved?  PLEASE say yes :)

Thanks!

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About Sean Olson

Sean Olson is the Group Program Manager for the Office Communications Server product at Microsoft. His team is responsible for all engineering aspects of conferencing, instant messaging, presence, and voice within the server product. He has over 10 years experience in the area of real time communications and voice over IP and is an industry expert in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standardized by the IETF. Since joining Microsoft in 2002, he has delivered five releases of the Office Communications Server product line working on everything from protocols, to security, to performance.

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