Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 (OCS) is Microsoft’s platform for handling synchronous communications, including VoIP, instant messaging, integration with legacy telephone systems and ...

This morning Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes will take the stage in San Francisco at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium to announce the global availability of Microsoft's unified communications platform, ...

Microsoft is on tap to show off Office Communications Server Release 2 (R2) at the VoiceCon show in Amsterdam on October 14. And the company already is working on the follow-on release, which will ...

Microsoft's Office Communication Server "14" is now known as Microsoft Lync 2010, and it's due to hit the market by year's end, said Kirk Gregersen, senior director of Microsoft Office product ...

Well, the new Office Communication Server -OCS R2 is due to be released next Tuesday (3 Feb 2009). I know that everyone has been waiting for this release – well maybe not everyone, but certainly quite ...

Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS) is the evolution of Microsoft’s previous collaboration server, Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS). While the main component of OCS is the backend ...

Behind it all lies Active Directory—the engine that fuels Office Communication Server's deep presence awareness reach. Office Communication Server takes the Active Directory information and ...

Yes. The integration with Exchange 2007 Unified messaging service obviously won't work, but everything else does.<BR><BR>No. Standard Edition uses a local SQL express installation. Enterprise Edition ...

I recently got a demo of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Exchange, SQL Server and Communications Server all working together. It is a rich and complex offering, with myriad ways of communicating. We ...

I should have gone to law school. If I had, I could right now be planning where to build my new summer home, ’cause you know I’d be on Microsoft’s team getting ready to sue anyone who might be using a ...

During a conference in Tokyo last month, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer started spreading the word that Voice over IP (VoIP) would be coming to Windows Vista. While Ballmer's speech was short on detail, it ...