Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit
Additional Reading and Resources
Chapter 1
Office Communications Server product home page
Office Communications Server Infrastructure Requirements
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Release Notes
Office Communications Server Technical Library
Evaluate Microsoft Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator today
Unified Communications Group Team Blog
Chapter 2
Communications Server 2007 R2 Infrastructure Requirements
Office Communications Server Technical Library
Unified Communications Group Team Blog
Chapter 3
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Infrastructure Requirements
Conferencing Server
Edge Server
Communicator Web Access
Media Server role
Office Communications Server product home page
Office Communications Server Technical Library
Unified Communications Group Team Blog
Chapter 4
TechNet article: How Service Publication and Service Principal Names Work
TechNet article: Certificates
TechNet article: Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and IPsec
Hardware Load Balancers for Office Communications Server 2007
TechNet article: Secure Application Publishing
Microsoft Unified Communications home page
Partners by Capability: Hardware
Microsoft Unified Communications Hardware Load Balancer Deployment
The IP Network Address Translator (NAT) [RFC 1631]
STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs) [RFC 3489]
Chapter 5
Microsoft Download Center
Windows XP Resource Kit: Understanding Logon and Authentication
New Authentication Functionality in Windows Vista
Kerberos Authentication Reference TechNet article
Microsoft NTML MSDN article
Microsoft Office Live Meeting home page
TechNet article: Understanding Logon and Authentication
TechNet article: TLS/SSL Technical Reference
Technet article: Kerberos Authentication Technical Reference TechNet article
MSDN article: Microsoft NTLM
Windows Security Collection
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol [RFC 3261]
Live Communications Server Support
Chapter 6
Office Communications Server deployment document downloads
A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Event Package for Conference State [RFC 4575]
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extension for Instant Messaging [RFC 3428]
Chapter 7
Help and Support article 939800: The Windows Server 2003-based Network Load Balancing service is not supported by Communications Server 2007 in production or lab deployments
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comment (RFC) Document 2782
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Administration Guide
Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Edge Server Deployment Guide
Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit Tools
Help and Support article 941315: You cannot start the Communications Server 2007 logging and tracing tool from an Access Edge server or from a front-end server
[MS-AVEDGEA]: Audio Video Edge Authentication Protocol Specification
Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007
Chapter 8
Configuring Intelligent IM Filtering
Microsoft Volume License Services
Configuring IM Provider Support on Edge Servers
Managing User Accounts
Forefront Security for Office Communications Server
Enabling User Accounts for Office Communications Server
"Step 2.2. Configure DNS" in the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Edge Server Deployment Guide
“Capacity Planning” in the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Planning Guide
Chapter 9
Description of the Genesys GETS SIP/CSTA gateway
Standard ECMA-269 Services for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III
Standard ECMA-323 XML Protocol for Computer Supported Telecommunications Applications (CSTA) Phase III
Technical Report TR/87 Using CSTA for SIP Phone User Agents (uaCSTA)
Chapter 10
Qualified IP-PBXs for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
Unified Communications Partners page
Microsoft Unified Communications Open Operability Program
The tel URI for Telephone Numbers [RFC 3966]
Select a Deployment Option in Office Communications Server
Chapter 11
Qualified Gateways for Office Communications Server 2007
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Quality of Experience Monitoring Server
Enterprise Voice Planning and Deployment Guide
Word document: Integrating Telephony with Office Communications Server
Microsoft Unified Communications Partners
Word document: Enterprise Voice Route Helper User's Guide
Download: Office Communications Server Resource Kit tools
Route Target Regular Expressions
Tel URI RFC 3966
RegExLib.com Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)
Microsoft Quality of Experience document download
Chapter 12
How to Create a New Unified Messaging Dial Plan
Unified Messaging
Step 3. Configure Communications Server to Work with Exchange UM
Understanding Unified Messaging Dial Plans
White Paper: Unified Messaging Technical Overview
White Paper: Planning for Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging - Part 1
White Paper: Deploying Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging - Part 2
White Paper: Managing Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging - Part 3
White Paper: Educating Information Workers About Unified Messaging - Part 4
White Paper: Testing and Troubleshooting Unified Messaging - Part 5
White Paper: Unified Messaging Technical Reference - Part 6
Chapter 14
Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007
OCS support for shared SQL Server
Cisco and Microsoft Collaboration in Unified Communications
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Planning Guides
Chapter 15
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Deployment Guide
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 downloads
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Command Line Reference Guide
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Planning Guide
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Voice Planning and Deployment Guide
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Deployment Guides
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Active Directory Guide
Chapter 16
Office Communications Server TechNet home page
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Planning for Monitoring Server
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Deploying Monitoring Server
Chapter 17
Troubleshooting the Database Engine
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Administration Guide
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Planning Guide
Chapter 18
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 home page
WMI Administrative Tools download
OCS support for shared SQL server
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 WMI Reference
Windows Management Instrumentation
Chapter 19
Windows Installer Logging MSDN documentation
Windows XP Professional Resource Kit: Understanding Logon and Authentication TechNet article
Multilingual User Interface Package for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 download
Communicator 2007 Group Policies documentation
Microsoft RoundTable Device Management Tool
Office Communicator 2007 R2 Deployment Guide
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Documentation Library
Microsoft RoundTable Users Guide download
Microsoft Roundtable Setup Guide download
Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Administrator's Guide
Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service Portal Administrator's Guide
Chapter 20
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Best Practices Analyser
WireShark Network Protocol Analyzer
Microsoft Network Monitor 3.2
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Voice Route Helper User's Guide
Office Communications Server 2007 Deployment Validation Tool
Readlog Command-Line Options
Microsoft Office Communications Server Web Site
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit Tools
ActiveState Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
Live Communications Server Support
Chapter 21
Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Look-up download
Microsoft Unified Communications community forum
Microsoft Office Communications Server Team Blog
Microsoft Unified Communications Partners
Microsoft Support Services
Microsoft Office Communications Server Web site
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit Tools
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit
The TechNet Unified Communications Forums
The Microsoft Office Communicator team blog
Office Communications Server 2007 VoIP Troubleshooting Guide
Microsoft Help and Support Knowledge Base article 200525
Networking: Host Name Resolution TechNet article
Chapter 22
Integrated Windows Authentication (IIS 6.0) TechNet article
SSL/TLS in Windows Server 2003 TechNet article
Session Initiation Protocol [RFC 3261]
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Specific Event Notification [RFC 3265]
TLS Protocol [RFC 2246]
Obtaining and Using Globally Routable User Agent (UA) URIs (GRUU) in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) draft-ietf-sip-gruu-15
Windows 2003 Security Collection TechNet article
Microsoft Help and Support Knowledge Base article 239869: How to enable NTLM 2 authentication
MSDN article: Understanding SOAP
TechNet Article: Integrated Windows Authentication (IIS 6.0) TechNet article
Unified Communications Managed API V1.0 SDK
Microsoft Help and Support Knowledge Base article 830539
Microsoft Help and Support Knowledge Base article 871023
Microsoft Help and Support Knowledge Base article 239869
Microsoft Help and Support Knowledge Base article 896861
Microsoft Office Communications Server Web site