CS 14 Public Instant Messaging Connectivity (Voice and Video)

In CS 14 and the new not yet released Live Messenger IM between O”CS” and MSN / Live is like today, but Audio and Video will be supported as well between Live messenger and OCS.

Then the user experience will be like a full Unified solution, this will be a great add on to Microsoft Unified Communication because there is x million MSN/Live users out there all ready, and a lot of minor company’s is using Live messenger as there Presence and IM tool.

I am on the CS 14 and the new Live messenger “dog food” internally in Microsoft, it’s very nice and it’s working the live messenger will come with a lot of new stuff!

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New: Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity Provisioning Guide

Updated: October 2009

This document describes the requirements and processes for provisioning public instant messaging (IM) connectivity for Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Office Communications Server 2007, and Live Communications Server 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

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Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity Provisioning PIC

and the site to do the provisioning is here

Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity Provisioning Guide

Information Required for Provisioning

To provision Office Communications Server public IM connectivity, you need the following information:

· Microsoft Agreement Number

· Access Edge service fully qualified domain name (FQDN)

· Primary Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) domain

· Any additional SIP domains

· Any additional Access Edge service FQDNs

· Contact information

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OCS: MSN PIC for free :)

Windows Live: Customers with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Client Access License or Office Communications Server 2007/ Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 Standard CAL license with active Software Assurance (SA) qualify for federation with Windows Live Messenger without additional licensing requirements. Customers who do not meet the qualifying requirement should buy the Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity license for federation with Windows Live Messenger.

AOL/Yahoo!: Federation with AOL and Yahoo! requires the Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (PIC) per user subscription license. The PIC License provides connectivity to both IM service providers. There are no license options for connectivity to only one provider, but administrators can choose which service provider they provision.

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http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/en/us/public-im-connectivity.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/mikkelbn/default.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver/en/us/public-im-connectivity.aspx