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?

Lab Test: Microsoft OCS 2007--Voice Communication for the Next Generation? In lab testing, OCS demostrated scalability, at least for basic call handling, along with some cool new capabilities. But ...

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 ...

Is it here? Has convergence finally arrived? You know… replacing those arcane devices we call PBX’s with an all software VoIP solution. Well, I don’t know if I’d put the PBX on eBay quite yet, but we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Wednesday announced that it will support server virtualization for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, its first statement on what portions of its real-time platform will run in a virtual ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...