Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) is due for release later this summer and will replace Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS) as the software giant’s offering for unified messaging.

{Updated Dec 5, 2009 to address inaccuracies in my original post (sorry), and the new download content from Microsoft. Now updated to be correct. Rand} One of the nicest integration features in ...

Certain things exist without explanation: Ben Affleck’s career; the micro PC; Tofurky. For many, LCS (Live Communications Server) 2005 fell into this category. Is it IM? Is it voice over the network?

Office Communications Server 14 -- which I've heard will be called Office Communications Server 2010 when it ships in the latter part of this year -- is going to be tightly integrated with SharePoint ...

When it comes to voice communications, Microsoft has long maintained a two-pronged approach: Office Communications Server on the one hand and Response Point on the other. Though the two products ...

Miercom test lab put OCS Release 2 through its paces, and found many worthy additions--with a few caveats. When the Miercom team took a look at a RTM (Release to Manufacturing) version of Microsoft ...

Microsoft released Forefront Security for Office Communications Server 2007. I’ve been working with the product for about 9 months and seen it go through a number of changes; each iteration ...

Validation goes ok until logins try to happen, then all goes to hell. I kind of suspect whatever is causing this is the issue. Some websites say this may be due to an improper certificate, but if I ...

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I'm installing OCS2007 in a small AD (native) environment that runs Windows 2003 R2 SP2 (we also have Exchange 2003 SP2 on another server, FYI) I've successfully prepared AD with the OCS Deployment ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Microsoft has boasted that its Office Communications Server is robust enough to replace PBX systems and serve as the enterprise communications hub, but experts say OCS adopters will need third-party ...