Unified Communications by Joachim Farla

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Software Update Service Deployment Guide

This document describes how to deploy Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Software Update Service. Version 1.2 download it now.

File Name: OCS_UpdateServiceDeploy.doc
Version: 1.2
Date Published: 5/29/2008
Language: English
Download Size: 2.1 MB

Unified communication (UC) devices, such as Microsoft® Communicator Phone Experience and Microsoft RoundTable™, enable rich communication within an organization. Deploying these devices requires regular maintenance by the IT department, which includes providing available software updates to these unified communications devices. All UC devices rely on an automatic mechanism to obtain software update required on a regular basis.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Upgrade Service provides an automated way to update all unified communications devices deployed in an organization. These software updates can be the latest enhancements or fixes to known issues in the current version already deployed on the device. This document guides you through the process of deploying the Office Communications Server 2007 Software Update Service in your organization.

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Update Service Administration Guide

This document describes how to administer Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Software Update Service. Version 1.1 download it now.

File Name: OCS_UpdateService_Admin.doc
Version: 1.1
Date Published: 5/29/2008
Language: English
Download Size: 1.5 MB

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Software Update Service is an automated way to update all unified communications devices deployed in an enterprise. These software updates could be the latest enhancements or bug fixes in the current version already deployed on the device.
This document explains how to use Software Update Service to perform the following:

Manage updates in your organization
Monitor logs and other update information

Portal Event now with UC

Hi everybody! Especially for the readers in the Netherlands. Next month we will organize the Virtual Microsoft Portal event in Houten and Schiphol-Rijk. After 8 times its now time to use Unified Communications to arrange this.

As Bas Krikke always say its the physical minimum and the virtual maximum. The old good stuff before will now be virtualized by Microsoft Live Meeting 2007. Good speakers and great content.

Two LM line sessions on the same time in two different places (e-office in Houten and Macaw in Schiphol-Rijk). So basically you have free of choice. More information about this event and registration more in the upcoming weeks.

UCMA Part 2: Self

In Part 1 we have seen how we can subcribe to Roaming Contacts in this part we will take a look at Self subscription.

You may ask why do we want to subscribe to our self? Actually Self subscription returns some important information. Which categories do we have set up. Which containers do we have and the membership of those containers. And who is subscribed to me. The last one can be very handy. For instance we have created a bot, and we want to tell everybody who is using it that it will be down for maintenance or that new functionality has been added.

More information on this article please review our new UC Development Weblog. Check it out!

UCMA Part 1: Roaming Contacts

Looking at the UCMA 1.0 SDK stated that it is possible to use subscriptions. The only thing that is missing is how to implement them? What do we need to send? What do we get back?

For this information you have to dig deep into the protocols.
Recently Microsoft published preliminary versions of these protocols. You can find them here: Office Protocol Documents. It's almost 90 Mb in PDF documents :-(.