Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit [Paperback]

Jeremy Buch (Author), Rui Maximo (Author), Jochen Kunert (Author), Byron Spurlock (Author), Hao Yan (Author), James O'Neil (Author), John Clarkson (Author), Kintan Brahmbhatt (Author), Mitch Tulloch (Author), Rick Kingslan (Author), Stephanie Lindsey (Author), Microsoft OCS Team (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735624062 | ISBN-13: 978-0735624061 | Publication Date: January 19, 2008

Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting Office Communications Server 2007 with expert insights direct from the Microsoft Office Communications Server Team. This official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT delivers in-depth technical guidance on architecture, deployment, security, administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting Communications Server 2007. You ll also discover the essential information for working with VOIP and phone integration features. In addition, you get more than 150 timesaving scripts, tools, and other job aids for automating administration, plus an eBook for the entire RESOURCE KIT on CD.

Provides the information that every administrator needs about troubleshooting, security enhancements, phone integration, VOIP, group policy and automating administration

CD includes additional job aids and a fully searchable version of the entire RESOURCE KIT book

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About the Author

Jeremy Buch is a Software Development Lead in the Real-Time Collaboration Group at Microsoft, where he has worked for the last seven years. Jeremy has been involved in the development of the Microsoft Exchange Conferencing Server, Microsoft Exchange Instant Messaging since 1998, and all versions of Microsoft Office Live Communications Server since the team was created in 2000.

Jochen Kunert is a Program Manager on the Office Communications Server team in the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, WA, USA. As one of the founders of a Switzerland-based company named media-streams.com, he joined Microsoft as a result of the acquisition of this company by Microsoft in October 2005.

Rui Maximo is a lead program manager working on Office Communicator Web Access Server. He s been working in the Unified Communications Group since Live Communications Server 2003. Since joining this group, he s worked on Active Directory® schema extensions, migration from Exchange 2000 IM, defining supported topologies, designing Microsoft Management Console, WMI, LCSSync, Microsoft Operations Manager Pack, and worked on VoIP.

Product Details

• Paperback: 650 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (January 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735624062
• ISBN-13: 978-0735624061
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,048,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OCS Resource Kit Review, February 22, 2008

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Ralph H. Elmerick - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit (Paperback)

The OCS 2007 Resource Kit is a must have for any OCS administrator. It has all the details about Office Communicator you need to fully support and understand this complicated product. It has all the WMI settings that any admin would need to make changes to there environment. Also detailed diagnostic information about IM, Conferencing, Telephony is fully exposed in their respective chapters. I highly reoommend it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on Office Communications Server 2007 I've ever seen, February 21, 2008

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B. Stucker - See all my reviews
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This is a great book for anyone who has, is, or is thinking about working with Office Communications Server 2007. There's so much detail packed into this book, and it really runs you through the product from the bottom up. Since there was so much collaboration between people who have or continue to work on the product, no detail was spared.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, detailed book, August 11, 2008

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Justin M. James "J.Ja" (Columbia, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit (Paperback)

This is a good, detailed look at Office Communications Server 2007. It has a lot of nitty gritty details, including information on how to debug the system with a network monitor and low-level protocol information. Where the book really misses the mark, is for administrators who do *not* have a giant, multi-site, zillion server network. Ironically, most sys admin books feel like the author only had access to 1 server to write the book, and admins in larger networks are left with no details on scaling out. This book goes in the opposite direction; huge portions of it are devoted to large networks, and all of the examples are for large networks. As the admin of a much smaller network, I found much of this to be useless, occassionally confusing, and trying to put me on an implementation path much more expensive than it needs to be for my organization.

J.Ja