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Well i had some spare time this night and just thought how would LCS 2007 be.

Its comes is two flavors, the Standard and of course the Enterprise edition. The standard can host up to 5000 clients. While the Enterpise can have more clients connected and can use Hardware Load balancing and much more enterprise like stuff.

In one word LCS 2007 is great, finally we now get the live meeting solution to our own LAN. Microsoft calls it as On-Premis Web Conferencing. I think this is a great thing for world wide spread organisations. The combination of Outlook 2007 with the Live meeting plug-in, Exchange 2007, LCS 2007 and the new 2007 Communictaor give you al the flexibility you need as an Information Worker. With great presence information (MS calls it Rich presence). you can now pin point youre status information. So not everbody needs to know what you are up to but only youre boss and wife let’s say.

There is support for PSTN phone lines within the 2007 edition. So pretty cool. Just have to figure out a way to use UM from Exchange 2007 with LCS 2007 and the 2007 Communicator.

 To bad there is no mobile 2007 communicator (yet). Would be nice.

If you install the 2007 communicator you will need a LCS 2007 backend. LCS 2005 is not supported as back-end.

I will some up some features:

NEW FEATURES:
§         On-Premise Web Conferencing

§         Rich Presence

§         Federation Enhancements

§         Deployment and Administration Improvements

Multimedia Capabilities:

§         IM Conferencing Server. Provides server-managed group IM.

§         Web Conferencing Server. Enables multiparty data collaboration.

§         A/V Conferencing Server. Enables audio and video conferencing.

§         Telephony Conferencing Server. Enables audio conference integration with ACP (audio conferencing providers).§         Access Edge Server. Validates and forwards IM traffic between internal and external users. The Live Communications Server 2005 Access Proxy with a new name.

§         Web Conferencing Edge Server. Enables data collaboration with external users.
§         A/V Conferencing Edge Server. Enables audio and video conferencing with external users.§         Group IM

§         Data Collaboration
§         Audio/Video
§         PSTN Connectivity

Data Collaboration:

§         PowerPoint support. Uploading and sharing Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation graphics program slide decks, including animations and other rich features.
§         Application sharing. Sharing applications among multiple participants. Can be disabled using WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation).
§         Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) Support. Uploading and sharing of any document format that supports the MODI print driver, such as the full suite of Office documents.
§         Web page. Sharing Web pages that can be viewed and navigated by all meeting participants.
§         Multimedia. Viewing media files (such as Flash or Windows media files) synchronously by all meeting participants.
§         Handouts. Sharing files in their native formats among meeting participants.
§         Snapshot. Taking and viewing a static Desktop snapshot.
§         White boarding. Free-form drawing and writing in a common, shared space.
§         Text. Writing and sharing text on a virtual whiteboard (separate from richer white boarding features).
§         Annotation. Annotating any type of slides.
§         Polling. Polling meeting participants based on lists of questions and possible answers and recording and compiling their responses.
§         Q & A. Asking and answering questions during a meeting.
§         Chat. IM within the context of a meeting.
§         Shared notes. Ability to share meeting notes with other participants.
 

So this is a lot that we can do with LCS 2007. I’m excited can’t wait for the release updates.

See ya,

Jeroen J. Jansen

Source: MS

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

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