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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

This section describes NextHop and provides NextHop articles organized by category for Microsoft Communications Server.

In This Section

  • What Is NextHop?

    Describes NextHop, the Microsoft Communications Server team’s customer response channel.

  • General

    Contains general NextHop articles that don’t fit easily into the other Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 categories, including product and event announcements.

  • Archiving

    Contains NextHop articles about archiving. The Archiving Server feature provides a way for you to archive instant messaging (IM) communications that are sent through Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  • Certificates

    Contains articles about certificates in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  • Clients and Devices

    Contains NextHop articles about planning for and deploying clients, devices, and presence in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  • Conferencing (Workload)

    Contains NextHop articles about conferencing, one of four key Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 workloads.

  • Enterprise Voice (Workload)

    Contains NextHop articles about all aspects related to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Voice (one of four key Office Communications Server 2007 R2 workloads), as well as connectivity to public switched telephone network (PSTN) and IP-PBX. In these articles, you will find information about how to configure Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking and Direct SIP.

  • External User Access (Next Hop Articles)

    Contains NextHop articles about external user access. External users can access Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 features when one or more Edge Servers are deployed in a perimeter network.

  • IM and Presence (Workload)

    Contains NextHop articles about IM and presence, one of four key Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 workloads. Every Office Communications Server 2007 R2 deployment includes support for both instant messaging and presence.

  • Integration (includes Interoperability and Coexistence)

    Contains NextHop articles about integration, interoperability, and coexistence of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 with other products, such as Microsoft Office.

  • Operations (Next Hop Articles)

    Contains NextHop articles about operations, including information on managing servers, unified communications clients, and unified communications applications that you have deployed in your Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 environment.

  • Security (Next Hop Articles)

    Contains NextHop articles about security in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  • Tools (NextHop Articles)

    Contains NextHop articles about tools to help you work with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

  • Troubleshooting (Next Hop Articles)

    Contains NextHop articles about troubleshooting. They have information and procedures to help you troubleshoot your Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 deployment.