Posts Tagged ‘Office Communications Server’

We have Office Communication Server 2007 (OCS)live and in production here at PointBridge. It is co-existing nicely with Live Communication Server 2005 (LCS). There was only one hang-up at first: LCS users couldn’t see OCS users’ presence. It was a one-way thing though; everyone on OCS could see all the LCS users’ presence no prob. […]

Feature Comparison of LCS and OCS With the recent release of Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS), I thought it might be a good idea to compare it with its predecessor, Live Communications Server 2005. As with my Exchange UM vs. Unity matrix, I can’t find many good comparative studies out there, so I figured this […]

There is a lot of chatter about QoS and how you "don’t need it" to effectively use OCS as a voice platform. The logic behind that seemingly crazy statement is that MS has commissioned a test by Psytechnics (http://www.psytechnics.com/page.php?id=060307&section=newsandevents) that showed voice calls using Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 were of a higher quality than […]

Note- this post was written in 2007, prior to OCS R2. OCS R2 in fact IS a conference bridge, and a good one at that. Most people who travel in OCS/LCS circles know that OCS 2007 includes a bundled version of LiveMeeting. This allows people to collaborate with powerpoint/whiteboard/chat/desktop sharing. Also, the bundled LiveMeeting allows […]

For those of you that need to test such things as Migrations or Identity Integration using MIIS and find yourself with a need to virtualize Novell on a Virtual Server 2005 Host, you are out of luck right? Microsoft currently does not support Novell on Virtual Server 2005. However you can install Novell onto Virtual […]

So how do you reduce the time it takes to build out complex lab environments? You may find it easier to build one Parent Disks for your OS i.e. Windows 2003 Server with SP1, and then save as a template or Parent disk. This will allow you to quickly build your lab without building a […]

So you need to completely isolate your LAB environment with no connectivity between the Production and Virtual Hosts. The customer states that we need connectivity to the Virtuals on the Virtual Host but the Virtuals themselves must not be able to directly communicate with the Virtual Host server which is also a member of the […]

I’ve had some exposure to work with some of the virtualiztion products recently and I thought a blog depicting how they compare would be helpful to those not as familiar with the variety of products offered today and how they compare. The document attached addresses the subject of this blog. Happy reading. Mark Myers MMyers@PointBridge.com […]