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Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server R2 have two multi forest topologies that have been tested by and are supported by Microsoft. One of these topologies is the Office Communications Server Resource forest \ User forest topology and the other is the Office Communications Server Central forest and User forest topology. The focus [...]

We’ve been working on the Downloads page on the Communications Server TechCenter! Check out the improvements:
·         Separate pages devoted to 2007 R2 Downloads and 2007 Downloads;
·         Clearer categorization of available 2007 R2 downloads;
·         And most importantly…more of the good stuff: More listings!
 
Find even more links than before to all the tools and resources that our team produces, including [...]

We are pleased to announce that the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Speech Server (a.k.a. Speech Server (2007)) runtime is now officially supported on Windows Server 2008, in addition to the originally supported Windows Server 2003 Platforms(listed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb813400.aspx).
Microsoft will support application deployments, Administrative tools and Data Processing Utilities like the MssLogToDatabase and MssLogToText tools. [...]

October 24 Update – The MS09-56: Vulnerabilities in CryptoAPI could allow spoofing article has been updated with a Known Issues section and FIX for the LCS and OCS product. That article is the authorized content as it requires the proper groups to coordinate and confirm the data published. We thank those of you who both [...]

Hooray! Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway Has Been Released
This article walks you through setting up the XMPP Gateway and configuring it to work with Jabber XCP 5.4. For those who have been anticipating this release, I am happy to say, here it is, and it’s been worth the wait if you require Jabber or [...]

Important edit October 7- the original post stated Windows 2008 R2. This is incorrect we do not support that version at this time. The correct version should be Windows 2003 or Windows 2008.
Check out the following figure. That’s no illusion-it’s an Office Communicator user communicating with a Gmail user.
If you can’t wait to try [...]

We are excited to announce changes to the Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (PIC) license that provides instant messaging and presence federation to the Windows Live, AOL and Yahoo! public IM networks. Starting October 1, 2009, the following licensing changes will be made:
A PIC License will no longer be required for federation with [...]