Unified Communications and Collaboration

Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Voice components, get prepared for future-ready foundation Unified Communications that based on software. This is interesting, when the capability or functionality is not part of the existing version then just wait for next version release or service pack.

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications in 2007 http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/microsoft/article3/article3.html There are other reports from Gartner that related with Unified Communications for Web Conferencing 2007 and Enterprise Wireless E-Mail Software 2006.

OCS 2007 has several roles: - OCS Standard and Enterprise - Archiving and Call Detail Record (CDR) - Edge Server - Mediation Server - Communicator Web Access - Quality of Experience (QoE)

I get asked quite a lot what the options for outbound fax for Exchange 2007 are and up until now I have had to say 'its available from third party vendors'. I am pleased to say that I recently discovered one vendor that we have been working with in particular, Captaris. I wont go through what it does because there is more than enough info on their website , it does look pretty impressive though as it supports tracking of inbound/outbound faxes via the Exchange Messaging Tracking Log, support for current Office and Windows release and even has the option to transport faxes into Sharepoint.