Several partners in the past few weeks have asked me about hands-on training courses for OCS 2007 R2 – well I can confirm that the online training materials, including hands on labs, are now available on the partner portal. Fill yer boots.

This course provides an introduction to Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2, including how you can use OCS 2007 R2 for real-time interactions between users, and how you can unite OCS 2007 R2 with Microsoft Exchange Server as part of Microsoft Unified Communications. From instant messaging and presence to unified conferencing and enterprise voice, the course walks you through a variety of features and enhancements found in OCS 2007 R2 and demonstrates how to use these enhancements to help provide a more comprehensive communication solution.

Labcast duration: This labcast consist of 15 video recordings and 9 labs. Each video is approximately 26 minutes long, and each lab takes approximately 1 hour. You have the option to view all  or some of the recordings, as well as taking all or some of the labs.

Labcast OCS 2007 R2