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Office Communications Server:What’s New in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 introduces not only a number of brand-new features, it also delivers some significant enhancements to existing functionality. Here’s an overview of some of the most important new features and functions you’ll find in this latest release. Stephanie Pierce

Office Communications Server:How Remote Call Control Powers OCS 2007 R2

The Remote Call Control capabilities in OCS can be used to extend your R2 deployment to legacy devices. Find out how to configure Remote Call Control to provide rich OCS capabilities in an environment with a PBX system. Rajesh Ramanathan

Office Communications Server:Securing OCS with ISA Server

To securely extend your OCS 2007 infrastructure to remote users and organizations, you need to deploy one or more Edge Servers and provide reverse proxy access to these servers. Here’s what you need to know to use and configure ISA Server 2006 as a reverse proxy for your OCS deployment. Alan Maddison

Office Communications Server:Managing OCS 2007 R2 from the Command Line

Though you can configure Office Communications Server using wizards, there are times it makes sense to work from the command line. Explore the LCSCmd command-line tool and see how you can use it to set up OCS 2007 R2. Greg Stemp and Jean Ross

Office Communications Server:A Powerful Tool for OCS Planning and Deployment

The Planning Tool for OCS 2007 R2 is a wizard that provides prescriptive guidance to help you prepare to deploy R2 in your organization. Discover how you can quickly generate a topology and create a list of recommended hardware to help guide your planning and deployment efforts. Stephanie Pierce

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Columns

From the Editor:The Speed of Innovation
Joshua Hoffman
Letters:Readers Speak Out
Toolbox:New Products for IT Pros
Greg Steen discusses tweaking your system with TuneUp Utilities, auditing system configurations with SysCompare Pro, and fixing configuration errors with HijackThis. He also looks at the Microsoft Press book "Configuration Manager 2007 Administrator’s Companion".Greg Steen
Exchange Q & A:Site Resiliency with SCR, Recommended Root Volume Size, and More
Should you deploy CCR-based mailbox servers in a multi-subnet environment? Can you determine the maximum latency for Outlook clients running in cached mode? Get answers to these Exchange Server questions and more.Henrik Walther
Utility Spotlight:VMC to Hyper-V Import Tool
Discover how you can use the free VMC to Hyper-V Import tool to import and then modify VMC files, easing the process of migrating older virtual machines to Hyper-V.Matthijs Ten Seldam
Utility Spotlight:Screenrecorder
Screenrecorder is a very easy-to-use screen-to-video capture program that lets users easily capture onscreen events to a small video file that can be shared with others, making it easy to record instructions or reproduce problems for more effective troubleshooting.Burak Uysaler
Utility Spotlight:Screenrecorder
Screenrecorder is a very easy-to-use screen-to-video capture program that lets users easily capture onscreen events to a small video file that can be shared with others, making it easy to record instructions or reproduce problems for more effective troubleshooting.Burak Uysaler
Inside SharePoint:Updating Security Account Credentials
The second of a two-part series, this installment discusses how automating password changes for SharePoint security accounts is complicated despite the fact that the SharePoint object model includes the necessary logic to carry out credential updates.Pav Cherny
Windows PowerShell:Automating User Provisioning, Part 1
Don Jones kicks off a four part series that will look at how you can use Windows PowerShell to create a real-world user provisioning script.Don Jones
Geek of All Trades:Tools of the Trade
Get an overview of some handy free tools created by Microsoft that cover many of the tasks IT professionals must deal with on a regular basis. These utilities will help ease the administration of file servers, Exchange servers, desktops, and more.Greg Shields
Desktop Files:Mitigating Circumstances
It’s not enough to simply wait for security problems to surface and then try to eliminate them. Wes Miller explains how real security involves proactively seeking out the root causes of vulnerabilities and fixing them.Wes Miller
Hey, Scripting Guy!:Watch the Stopwatch
The Scripting Guys demonstrate a script that times an activity and writes the results to the registry. After subsequent runs, the script retrieves the previous value from the registry and tells you both the current time and the previous time.The Microsoft Scripting Guys
Field Notes:Listening to the User
Find out how establishing a system for listening to both internal and external customers can help your IT department become a more vital part of the larger business structure.Vivek Bhaskaran
Blog Tales:WSUS clients install updates properly but don’t send any status reports back to the server
You may notice that your clients will check into WSUS and install updates properly but don't send any status reports back to the server. Here's a cool tip and a cool tool that can help.J.C. Hornbeck
Windows Confidential:The Forgotten Hotkey
Raymond Chen looks at the evolution of the Alt+Tab hotkey and how the Alt+Esc hotkey has remained unscathed.Raymond Chen