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Federation is an important goal for the Office Communications Server team and we are excited to announce several changes to public IM federation between Office Communications Server and public IM networks, effective July 1, 2009:
· The Live Communications Sever Public IM Connectivity (LCS PIC) license will be renamed Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (OCS [...]

Microsoft has just released the following Knowledge Base articles (KB972041, KB972042) to address the incorrect calculations of license expiration dates for Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 and Office Communicator (OC) 2007 R2 Evaluation Edition. The current expiration dates were calculated based on build time, causing the OCS 2007 R2 and OC 2007 R2 Evaluation [...]

You Can Download Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 from the following Link – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BC08CDB7-98E9-47E5-AA63-EB17C2CE4592&displaylang=en (CommunicatorMobile.PPC.msi) or
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=93062936-F216-4D97-AA13-105A20454322&displaylang=en (CommunicatorMobile.SP.msi Form Link)
As per the Article (Installing Communicator Mobile for Windows Mobile from a Storage Card Link http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425083(office.13).aspx) you need to have a .CAB file, by default only .MSI is downloadable from the Microsoft Website.
You can install the [...]

One of our consultants in the UK, Paul Brombley did a write up on a deployment and how they dealt with Reverse Number Lookup for a legacy PBX. He also presented to the team of consultants assisting with customer and partner deployments of R2. http://blogs.technet.com/msukucc/archive/2009/05/21/reverse-number-lookup-and-dealing-with-legacy-pbx.aspx
OCS Team

In order to mark Audio and Video packets for DSCP in OC 2007 R2 â?? the following steps has to be performed on Vista SP1 and SP2 PCs:
1)    Create and update the following key : (32 bit DWORD set to)
 
a.    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\RTC\Transport\QoSEnabled
b.    Set 32 bit Dword to 1 to enable
c.    Reboot PC â?? (this will not [...]

The information listed below has been tested using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition R2 supports the use of non default TCP\IP port configurations for network access to its pool configuration databases that are located on the backend SQL server instance. Microsoft SQL Server supports three types [...]