Alessandro Appiani Microsoft TechNet Speaker v-alessa@microsoft.com

1. Unified Communications Workshop Milano/Roma, 10/12 luglio 2007 Alessandro Appiani Microsoft TechNet Speaker v-alessa@microsoft.com

2. Le funzionalità “classiche” di Real Time Communications Instant Messaging, Rich Presence, Conferencing Nota: Office Communications Server 2007 è in Beta Testing, e non ancora ufficialmente rilasciato. Le informazioni contenute in questa presentazione potranno di conseguenza essere soggette a qualche variazione.

3. IM/Presence and Office Communicator

4. Communicator Clients

5. Enterprise IM – Improved User Experience • Office Communicator enhanced • For more screen real-estate • Enhanced Group IM • Rich Presence • Rich Call Control

6. Simpler, Full Featured Customizable, Selective Communicator Web Access Client • 100% JavaScript • Zero Client Installation • Can traverse Firewalls • Minimal restrictions on activities • Identical Experience to OC • Platform Independent UI Client UI Controls Custom Client API

7. Same look and feel and contact list as desktop client Mobile device optimized features (current conversations shown as example) Conversation window Search integrated into organization’s corporate directory Access multiple forms of communication with a contact, including via the mobile phone from the same interface Communicator Mobile In Action

8. demo

9. Understanding Rich Presence • Rich Presence Categories, Containersand Watchers • Rich Presence Model • Presence States • Access Levels • How It Works

10. Presence System Overview Client Server States Containers Watchers AGGREGATION SRCIPT Systray Personal Available Busy DND Away Offline Custom States My Status Area UserState Toast Sign-As Team 3PCC PhoneState In a Call In a Conference Presently VoIP/Video Workplace OC Active Idle Away Capabilities CoMo MachineState CWA Tanjay Calendar State Exchange Public Working Hours Busy (appointment) In a Meeting Out of Office (OOF) Free/BusyMeeting Details OOF Note

11. Presence Publish Presence Notify Presence Notify Presence Publish Presence Notify Presence Publish Presence And OCS • The primary role of the server is to efficiently distribute presence information from publisher’s to a set of authorized watcher’s in near real time

12. Presence StatesWhat do they tell about you? Available Willing

13. Presence Access Levels: Publications

14. demo

15. Deploying Office Communicator • Office Communicator Setup Issues • Administrative Control • Troubleshooting Basics • Post Deployment Possibilities

16. Office Communicator Setup Issues • MSI based setup • /q for silent install • /l*v for creating logs • Per machine installations only • Deployment • Intellimirror, WSH, GPO, SMS. • Uninstall/ Reinstall recommended for Beta3

17. Administrative ControlGPOs versus In-band Provisioning • In band provisioning • WMI settings on the server • Pool level settings • Group policy objects • ADM Files • User level settings • User options • Precedence of control • GPOs > In band > user options

18. Administrative ControlVoice Control Features • All in-band settings will have an associated policy • Name consistencies between in-band and GPOs Additional information can be found in Office Communicator Deployment Guide and Communicator_2007_Policy_Settings.xls accompanying the OCS Documentation.

19. Troubleshooting Basics • Enabling tracing • Registry keys • HKCU\SW\Microsoft\Tracing\communicator • HKCU\SW\Microsoft\Tracing\uccp • Options dialog • List of logs • Log location: %userprofile%\tracing • Communicator.log • Communicator.etl • Communicator-uccp.log

20. demo

21. Deploying and Using Conferencing Solutions in OCS 2007

22. Training OLM 2007 Professional Extend with Live Meeting for training and events Events OLM 2007 Professional and Professional Room Collaborative Meetings OLM 2007 Standard and OLM 2007 Professional and OCS 2007 Enterprise CAL Take control of the information and the delivery of the solution Windows Meeting Space (VISTA) Comparing 2007 Conferencing SolutionsServer or service continuum Scenarios On-Premise Microsoft Hosted Free up IT resources with a secure service for meetings, training and events Face to face Collaboration

23. Using The Communicator Client For Video Conferencing • Great out of the box experience • No need to run A/V tuning wizard • 1:Many Video Conferencing • A/V streams are mixed on OCS Server (via MCU) • Experience optimized for Voice • Lightweight, • NAT, Firewall, and Proxy Traversal • ICE • Media Relays • HTTP Tunneling • High Quality • Wideband adaptive codecs • Rich video

24. demo

25. video Ad Hoc Conferencing With Office Communicator

26. Live Meeting 2007 Console • One Experience across OCS Server and Live Meeting 2007 Service • Same Meeting Client • One binary – One install (separate from Communicator) • Same user-experience • Same brand: Live Meeting • Seamless Functionality (on-premise) • Works with the server in your company • Permit anonymous join to allow anyone to join • Works by federation with other companies • Works with Live Meeting 2007 service with anyone

27. Live Meeting Service Office Communication Server “OCS” AVMCU DataMCU RAPID AVMCU Data Pod LM Client LM Client LM Client CommunicationOCS and LM Service

28. Using Integrated Scheduling • Outlook Add-ins Provide • Scheduling for both server and service • Integration with the Outlook ribbon

29. demo

30. Using Office RoundTable • Immersive Virtual Meetings • Active speaker and panorama views • Views synchronized with data • Revolutionary Experience • Record and playback meetings • Suitable for every meeting room + =

31. Understanding Rich Media • Voice • Integrated VOIP: 2 way and multi-party audio • High quality, network adaptive codecs • PSTN • Support with ACP partners • New hybrid VOIP-ACP functionality (Service only) • Video • Integrated Multiparty Webcam video • Full screen and flexible layouts • New RoundTable video • Connectivity • Works across firewalls • Scalable – 100’s of audio-video users per conference

32. video RoundTable

33. demo

34. Rich Media In LiveMeeting ClientVoice and Video In Meeting

35. Using Rich Media High Fidelity Recordings • Archive voice, video, animations, speaker transitions • Archives are searchable and easily shared as folders • Playback in web browser • Timeline + rich speaker and event indexing

36. Certificates In Conferencing • Using Certificates • Recommendations • Standard Configuration • Enterprise Pool • Edge Servers • Installing and Deploying Certs

37. Using Certificates For Security • Server-to-server authentication using MTLS • Federated proxies • OCS Server within the Enterprise • Authentication of OCS Servers to various clients • Remote users • Anonymous users • Clients, such as MOC • Confidentiality through data encryption in OCS Server 2007 data channels • Authentication requirements for STUN protocol used by A/V Conferencing Edge Servers in external conferencing scenarios

38. Certificate Recommendations Standard Configuration

39. Certificate RecommendationsEnterprise Pool

40. Certificate RecommendationsEdge Servers

41. Installing And Deploying Certificates • Certificate Wizard simplifies creating and assigning certificates to most OCS Server 2007 roles • Support for external and internal servers • The CA is selectable • Certificates are created by default with exportable private keys (PKCS #12) • Import/export operations are available

42. demo

43. Riferimenti e risorse (1) Unified Communications Homewww.microsoft.com/uc Unified Communications Italy Homewww.microsoft.com/italy/office/uc Office Communications Server (& LCS 2005) Homeoffice.microsoft.com/en-us/communicationsserver Exchange Homewww.microsoft.com/exchange Exchange Italy Homewww.microsoft.com/italy/exchange

44. Riferimenti e risorse (2) Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 Public Betawww.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/beta/ocs Office Communications Server 2007 Public Beta Documentationwww.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0A3E2593-5812-4BF5-A554-3215CBBA587A&displaylang=en Office Communications Server 2007 Public Beta TechNet Centertechnet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb267356.aspx Office Live Communications Server TechNet Centertechnet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb267354.aspx Exchange Server TechNet Center technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging Role on TechNetwww.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/um.mspx

45. More info... • Alessandro Appianiv-alessa@microsoft.comalessandro.appiani@pulsarIT.net • My (company) blog:www.pulsarit.net/cs/blogsinfo (news e technical tips) sui sistemi Microsoft per ITpro, con particolare attenzione al mondo Communication & Collaboration (Exchange, Powershell, e prossimamente OCS 2007)

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