TABLE OF CONTENTS OCS 2007 is actually the first public version of this product. It builds on the underlying promises and capabilities of Live Communications Server 2005, but OSC 2007 is really much, much more.
OCS 2007 builds on the foundations that Live Communications Server 2005 and Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC) 2005 delivered namely, presence and IM, federated communications, and remote call control. Newly available key features in OCS 2007 include a number of improvements to the IM and presence capabilities. Some of these improvements include integration with Microsoft Exchange Server distribution lists, as well as the addition of software-powered VoIP that allows users to make, receive, and manage voice (phone) calls using MOC 2007 running on their computers (as well as Universal Serial Bus [USB] telephone devices), and multiparty on-premises audio/video and Web conferencing. OCS 2007 also supports the Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) framework of protocols. This allows your users to take advantage of the aforementioned new communications capabilities from wherever they are located such as a hotel or a coffeehouse without needing to establish a virtual private network (VPN) connection. Let s look at some of these new features a little more closely.
OCS 2007 now provides enterprise users, both inside and outside the firewall, the ability to create and join real-time Web conferences that are hosted on your organization s internal servers. Meetings such as these are also referred to as on-premises conferences and can be scheduled or unscheduled. In other words, both...
