Capabilities of Office Communicator 2007?

[Eggy]

Microsoft's Deployment Guide for OC 2007 says (p7; asterisks added):

"Communicator 2007 provides instant messaging, enhanced presence, and
conferencing for the users in your organization who are connecting from
inside your firewall. Communicator 2007 also provides several other features
that
***you can offer by deploying additional Office Communications Server
2007*** server roles, as described in Table 2.

and...


Instant messaging, Enhanced presence, On-premise conferencing, Address Book
Server... ...No additional server roles required


Can I take this to mean that OC2007 can be used for basic functions WITHOUT
the need for an Office Communication Server? I'm interested only in basic IM
functions, so this configuration would be very appealing.

Please help me clarify.

Eggy

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Eggy,

You may want to use the link below to check this with the
MS Office Communicator folks in that discussion group.

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Microsoft's Deployment Guide for OC 2007 says (p7; asterisks added):

"Communicator 2007 provides instant messaging, enhanced presence, and
conferencing for the users in your organization who are connecting from
inside your firewall. Communicator 2007 also provides several other features
that
***you can offer by deploying additional Office Communications Server
2007*** server roles, as described in Table 2.

and...


Instant messaging, Enhanced presence, On-premise conferencing, Address Book
Server... ...No additional server roles required


Can I take this to mean that OC2007 can be used for basic functions WITHOUT
the need for an Office Communication Server? I'm interested only in basic IM
functions, so this configuration would be very appealing.

Please help me clarify.

Eggy >>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.communicator
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.office.communicator

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com