Woo! Now I can talk about it! It looks like Office Communications Server 2007 R2 has been officially blessed and released to manufacturer (RTM)! Once I get my grubby little hands on it, I'll be posting pictures and how I have things set up, but I wanted to mention a couple of things that are key (to me) in this release:
- 64-bit only
- Officially supported on Server 2008
- Simplified Edge role management and existence
Management improvements
- Additions to the MMC snap in to support new features (Conference Attendant, Application Sharing, etc..)
- Administrative tools now have a separate install (I can put them on my remote workstation)
- Automatic and Push updates to ALL devices (Roundtable, Phone Edition, OC 2007 R2)
- Improved Certificate Wizard and Management (I haven't seen this yet, but it is my favorite on paper)
Now that I have that little list, I can start to go through the Planning and Architecture and build a NEW OCS design based on the new goodies. I'll post a diagram as soon as I have it ready.