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 applications such as Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 or Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access (2007 release). Web Service Provider does not introduce features excluded from Communicator Web Access

Being able to react to a changing server infrastructure is important for achieving a rationalized or dynamic IT infrastructure. This becomes a necessity with virtualization and the dynamic natures of workloads sharing an infrastructure. With Microsoft System Center Server Management Suite Datacenter, understanding and reacting to the dynamic nature of workloads becomes possible with our Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Tips. In this webcast, we detail the architecture of PRO Tips explaining

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 This post describes a change to the authorisation model in Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 R2. If you recall from part one, I mentioned that there are 33 operations defined

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 customers, this means Cisco Jabber and Google Talk users can now be part of Office Communications Server IM contacts. Starting today, the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway

I was working with the System Center Virtual Machine Manager support team a few months back looking for a way that we could help reduce the amount of time it takes to resolve a case as well as reduce the number of incidents we get, and one of the things that was suggested at the time was a site explaining some of the initial troubleshooting and data gathering steps we traditionally do for the majority of our cases.  That way you can get a head start on any issue you’re calling about, plus we

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 In parts two and three, I walked through a specific scenario. However, you’re probably asking after having read them how I knew what operations are needed, and when,

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 In part two , I started creating the scenario of separating the view two users have when opening Hyper-V Manager so that they only see their own VMs. To do that, I

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 Part one provided information on the primitives available in the AZMan model and looked at the out-of-box Hyper-V configuration. Building on that information, part

Hyper-V uses a role based authorisation model for access checks. This series of articles takes a look at the model; defines the available primitives; and walks through a couple of examples. (I actually wrote most of this series many months ago – only finally found the time to post it up!). Quick links: Part1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 As the term ‘Role Based Authorisation Model’ implies, Hyper-V has an authorisation layer which performs access checks to grant or deny an account access to operations

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 join conferences while on the go . Instead of using conference dial-ins and entry codes, you can now join conferences with the single click of a button. This capability is available for all meetings scheduled

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 Standard Client Access License or Office Communications Server 2007/ Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 Standard CAL license with active Software Assurance (SA) qualify for federation with Windows Live Messenger

"Where should I install VMM, on a physical server or inside a VM and then add that same physical server as a managed host?" This is a common question from our customers regarding the placement of VMM. The answer is that either is a fully supported scenario . In fact, some of our customers want to build a fully virtualized environment, with the only physical machines being hosts. In this scenario, the entire environment can then be managed using one VMM server running on a virtual machine

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 Server 2008 Hyper-V and any Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partner solution ( http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/svvp.aspx?svvppage=svvp.htm ). Presence, Instant Messaging

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 Hangers, and E-mail samples, and User Education Materials such as Quick Reference Cards, Flash Cards, and links to Web-based Training. … see more here

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 Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Polish Portuguese (Portugal) Portuguese (Brazil) Romanian

  There are a lot of F*** words out there.  FUSI is one of them: Find, Use, Share Information. Some of you probably know already that I’m pretty obsessed with how people handle the information overload that we all experience.  FUSI is definitely one of the fundamental pillars of the NWOW (New World of Work). When I drove to work this morning, and that took me some time, I started to think about the F-part in FUSI: where do I get my information?  Information, meaning: any kind