Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit [Paperback]

Rui Maximo (Author), Rick Kingslan (Author), Rajesh Ramanathan (Author), Nirav Kamdar (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 4, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0735626359 | ISBN-13: 978-0735626355 | Edition: 2 Pap/Cdr

In-depth, comprehensive, and fully revised for R2—this RESOURCE KIT delivers the information you need to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Get technical insights, scenarios, and best practices from those who know the technology best—the engineers who designed and developed it—along with 90+ Windows PowerShell™ scripts, bonus references, and other essential resources on CD.

Get expert advice on how to:

• Plan server roles, infrastructure, topology, and security
• Design and manage enterprise instant messaging (IM), presence, and conferencing solutions
• Configure voice mail, enterprise voice, dual-forking (PBX), and VoIP
• Apply industry best practices for deployment
• Manage Unified Communications clients and devices
• Administer remote access, federation, and public IM
• Understand SIP and authentication technologies
• Implement a cross-team backup-and-restore plan
• Automate management tasks—sample scripts included
• Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot problems more efficiently

CD features:

• 90+ Windows PowerShell scripts for automating administrative tasks
• Office Communication Server Resource Kit tools
• Links to references and webcasts
• Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions eBook
• Four appendixes, including Windows PowerShell functions, Direct SIP with IP-PBX, and A/V troubleshooting
• Bonus content—Chapters from 15 related Microsoft Press® books
• Fully searchable eBook of this guide

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About the Author

With 18 years of experience in the software industry, Rui Maximo had the opportunity to work on over 20 commercial software products for Microsoft, IBM, RSA, Greenplum, and startups. He has held various roles over the years as software design engineer, program manager, software test engineer, consultant, author, presenter, and instructor.

Rui's areas of expertise include: - software design and development - security - Technical writing - Analytics - Unified Communications - Directory services - Programming

Rick Kingslan is a Microsoft senior technical writer, trainer, and consultant with expertise helping customers implement infrastructure services, including Office Communications Server.

Rajesh Ramanathan led the team that shipped VoIP, IM, and conferencing for Communicator 2007, and has extensive background in telecommunications, protocols, and application development.

Nirav Kamdar is a development lead on the Office Communications Server team, and previously served on the Microsoft Exchange, Office, and Windows® engineering teams.

Product Details

• Paperback: 880 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 2 Pap/Cdr edition (February 4, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735626359
• ISBN-13: 978-0735626355
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #731,961 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rui Maximo was born in Dili-Timor to a Portuguese diplomat and Chinese mother whose parents immigrated to Indonesia, grew up in Portugal, Hong Kong, Pakistan, and Senegal before immigrating to the U.S. at age 17. He continues to travel to more parts of the world. With 20 years of experience in the software industry, he spent 7 years in the product group at Microsoft developing previous versions of Lync Server. After co-authoring 5 books on Lync Server and previous versions, he still enjoys writing and developing applications for Lync.

More details available at http://www.maximo.ws

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Microsoft OCS R2 Resource Kit Review, April 13, 2009

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Mark S. Myers "PC Load-Letter?" (Oswego, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit (Paperback)

The resource kit for R2 is very similar to the R1 version - it is a very technical reference on the servers, roles, services, ports and communications mechanisms to the latest version of OCS. In that, it is written for those with on-hand experience with Microsoft server OS deployments such as Server 2003 and Server 2008. This book is not a book for beginners on OCS. In my opionion, there isn't a good written published reference for beginners - stick with the Microsoft white papers and TechNet articles. If your job is to design, architect OCS R2, this book is very valuable and will provide the process and procedures for completing your design. Deployment tasks are treated a little more lightly; while they are covered, the specific task-by-task details are not provided. That, again, is left to the white papers Microsoft has written well on the subject. As far as migration from OCS R1 to R2, the pages covered are from 659 to 662. Only a few pages - but the process to migrate is depicted in the pages. Migration from LCS or OCS R1 is a coexistence process as you will likely deploy OCS R2 on net-new hardware along side the existing legacy product. This allows easy migration by simply associating the legacy SIP-enabled users to the new system.

This reference is well worth the purchase price. This, along with the Microsoft-provided technical references will steer you in the right direction for OCS R2.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well done, May 12, 2010

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Jim Raymond (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit (Paperback)

When I first picked up the book, I thought I knew OCS. Then I read it. It covers everything from client functionality, to expected SIP conversation behavior, to WMI and AD attribute details. I continue to use it as a reference for projects and troubleshooting. It has been and will continue to be a very useful tool.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You won't find a better book on this topic, May 12, 2010

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TechEditor (Tacoma, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit (Paperback)

If you really want to "get under the hood" of OCS, this is the book to have.