Online Seminar - Understanding Office Communications Server 2007: Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Presence, VoIP, and how it Integrates with Exchange and SharePoint
 

 

In this seminar, led by Rand Morimoto (who contributed to the Syngress Press book on OCS/2007 as well as author of dozens of bestselling Sams Publishing books on Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008), along with Alex Lewis (Senior Consultant and OCS MVP expert), present, demonstrate, and share best practices around the implementation and usage of the new OCS/2007 product.

 

Rand and Alex cover (and demonstrate):

*   what’s included in OCS/2007, and how organizations are using it to solve business needs

*   how OCS/2007 instant messaging can be using within an organization for communications

*   how OCS/2007 instant messaging can link into Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Messenger, and MSN Messenger from a centralized gateway

*   how OCS/2007 instant messaging can be logged and audited to address regulation and compliance requirements of managed communications

*   where the integrated OCS/2007 Live Meeting function can be setup within an organization on a server within IT so organizations can minimize their use of external services like WebEx and the like

*   where OCS/2007 Voice-over-IP can be used to replace PBX phone systems or better integrate as a VoIP client into Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and the like

*   how the Office Communicator 2007 client can replace several applications (ie: NetMeeting, MSN Messenger, Cisco/Skype VoIP client, etc) into a single client application

*   what’s involved in migrating from LCS/2005 to OCS/2007 for orgs already using LCS/2005

*   how OCS/2007 can provide mobile IM communications to Windows Mobile device clients

*   Etc, etc, etc.

 

Rand is the President and Alex is a Senior Consultant of Convergent Computing (CCO), an Oakland-based technology consulting firm that helps organizations assess, architect, implement, and support Microsoft-based technologies. Convergent Computing has been helping early adopter organizations test and implement Office Communications Server 2007 in production environments for the past 2½-years. With a couple years of production-level early implementation experience with some of the largest early adopter companies in the country, CCO has amassed a wealth of knowledge on implementation planning, business application integration, administration best practices, and support relative to the use of OCS in the enterprise.

 

You should download and print the slide deck that will be used throughout this session

 

Video #1 (2--min): What is OCS/2007

Video #2 (51-min): Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Archiving

Video #1 (1-hour): OCS 2007 Mobility, Voice over IP Telephony, Architecting and Designing OCS, and Migrating from LCS/2005 to OCS/2007

 

Convergent Computing is a technology consulting firm headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area that helps organizations plan, implement, and support their networking environments. If your organization can use assistance implementing, supporting, or just getting better use of your Windows Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, or other network or application technologies, please contact our organization for assistance mailto:sales@cco.com