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Determining Number of Users for OCS Front End - Connectivity

Determining Number of Users for OCS Front End - Connectivity — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:39:39 GMT

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The OCS Director Role - Connectivity

The OCS Director Role - Connectivity — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:17:29 GMT

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re: OCS 2007 Licensing Explained

Mike Stacy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:47:24 GMT

Anna,

Yes, the archive server does require an OCS license. You would use a Standard Edition license for Archive servers.

Mike

re: OCS 2007 Licensing Explained

Anna — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:16:10 GMT

Thanks for this good post. One thing is unclear from this is: does the archiving server role require an OCS license?

wmi msft

wmi msft — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:12:29 GMT

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Filtering Contacts for OCS 2007 - Connectivity

Filtering Contacts for OCS 2007 - Connectivity — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:41:23 GMT

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Cutting Edge Microsoft UC - Connectivity

Cutting Edge Microsoft UC - Connectivity — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:28:50 GMT

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re: Filtering Contacts from the Address Book

Mike Stacy — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:29:00 GMT

Michael,

I believe my post indicated that you can use a standard NAT firewall to publish the web components but that a reverse proxy is preferred for security reasons. If you do not have access to a reverse proxy and/or are comfortable with the limited security you get with a NAT solution, you can simply NAT a public IP to the private IP of your web components server.

Mike

re: Filtering Contacts from the Address Book

Michael — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:34:49 GMT

This is a bit off topic, but I saw your post on TechNet reagarding not using a reverse proxy. I understand you can do this, but according to others you would not get Adddress Book downloads, DL expansion or meeting content? We're putting an Edge server in our DMZ (Cisco firewall). Is there a way to configure the firewall to allow these things to work?

Thanks

re: The PIC Provisioning Process

Mike Stacy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:51:19 GMT

Manny,

Can you clarify your question? Are you trying to understand what it would take for a new public IM provider to join Microsoft's PIC offering?

re: The PIC Provisioning Process

H Manny Otto — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:55:39 GMT

A new scenario:

Say that a public IM which is not yet in the fold (AOL, Yahoo, MSN) wants to join the provisioning of Instant messaging and wants to be part of the circle. Using OCS, what would be the ramifications?

ottohm@gmail.com

re: OCS 2007 Licensing Explained

Mike Stacy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:54:54 GMT

M4biz,

The Edge server is a separate role that is required for internet-facing scenarios. Your questions would be more efficiently served by reviewing some of the existing documentation available from Microsoft. Here is a link to a rollup of the OCS 2007 documentation:

www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

The main pieces to read that will address your questions are:

- "Step 1. Determine Key Planning Considerations" in OCS_Planning_Guide.doc

- "Step 6. Plan for External User Access" in OCS_Planning_Guide.doc

- "Overview of Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition" in OCS_EnterpriseEditionDeployment.doc

Mike

re: OCS 2007 Licensing Explained

M4biz — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:22:05 GMT

Thanks Mike.

But I've don't exactly understood what is Edge Server:

is it an OCS role or a different sofware?

And if it is an OCS role, is it possible to install on the same subnet two OCS Standard (no Enterprise)?.

I've read, in fact, that only OCS Enterprise can be splitted on different machines.

Thanks in advance.

re: OCS 2007 Licensing Explained

Mike Stacy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:00:58 GMT

M4biz,

You will need 1 more Windows and 1 more OCS Standard license for the Edge server that you'll need to support external connectivity. The Edge services cannot run on the same server that hosts users. Besides that, and assuming your external users meet the requirements outlined by Microsoft for that type of license, that looks correct to me based on my understanding. Obviously your reseller will have the final word on this.

Mike

re: OCS 2007 Licensing Explained

M4biz — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:46:55 GMT

I'd like to know if I've correctly understood:

for this environment:

- All users are External users

- all users needs Audio/Video/conferencing/IM and eventually PSTN connectivity

- only one server

- the right bandwidth available

the only licenses needed are:

- N. 1 Windows Server R2

- N.1 OCS 2007 Standard (KNA-00100)

- N. 1 External Connector Enterprise (to support unlimited external users)

- N 1/users Communicator (B6I-00690)

- N.1 PIC/user/year

- NO Standard/Enterprise CAL needed

- All roles : Access Edge Server, Web Conferencing Server, A/V Conferencing Server and Reverse Proxy are hosted and installed on the single OCS 2007 Standard Server.

- For PSTN connectivity (to allow External User to receive and place calls from and to PSTN network) I need to purchase and deploy an hardware Media Gateway as those provided by Audio Codes.

Is the right configuration ?

Thanks in advance.

Ing. Cosimo MERCURO

Mercuro for Business