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There is a new capability in R2 CWA to initiate or join an audio conference.  Here’s how it works.
Vivian is logged onto CWA as a remote user.  Amy and Hao are on her buddy list – they’re both logged onto Communicator either inside or outside the corporation:
 
Vivian begins with an IM to Amy:
 
In the resulting [...]

 
This article describes the steps taken by Office Communicator to establish a Communicator call between an OC client sitting on a typical home network, connected to the Internet using a NAT router and another OC client placed on the company’s internal network. The user initiating the call will be Alice and the data and logs [...]

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 [...]

 
This is an update to a post I made about a year ago to help you choose the AD store OCS uses for global settings. 
 
Quick note on terminology
Active Directory has three stores often referred to as Naming Contexts –Schema, Domain and Configuration.  The Schema and Configuration Naming Contexts are replicated to every domain controller in [...]

Rick Varvel, a Microsoft Principal Consultant has just started his blog and his first post is fantastic. Here is the link to his post -
http://blogs.technet.com/rickva/archive/2009/04/03/Configuring-A_2F00_V-Edge-Service-for-NAT.aspx
OCS Team