Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 Integration Microsoft unveiled the Release 2 version of Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft's solution for managing presence awareness, IM infrastructure, teleconferencing, and Voice over IP. The next version of Microsoft Communications Server includes enhancements that give network administrators additional control for maintaining their communications infrastructure efficiently while representing an expandable platform for collaborative business activity.

To reduce costs, improve productivity, and support teamwork, the latest version of Microsoft Communications Server 2007 allows phone audioconferencing to eliminate expensive third-part services with an in-house audioconferencing bridge that can be maintained as part of a company's overall communications infrastructure. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 also now features desktop sharing, which enables workers to share their PC seamlessly and launch audio communications and team up with others external to the company on PC, Apple Mac, or Linux computers via a web interface. The latest version of Office Communications Server also enables geographically dispersed teams to collaborate by taking part in theme-based discussions that persist over time. This tool provides users with a list of all active chat sessions and themes, periodically backs up discussions in a format that addresses auditing requirements, delivers utilities to look through the entire record of chat on a given topic, and provides triggers and alarms to inform people of recent posts.

the new edition of Office Communications Server also includes improved support for voice and mobile workers. The innovative attendant window allows receptionists or team secretaries to control phone calls and conferences on behalf of associates, set up processes to route calls, and manage larger volumes of incoming communications via a software-based interface. A new SIP trunking capability enables companies to cut costs by setting up a straight-through Voice over IP interface between an Internet telephony service supplier and Office Communications Server without requiring on-premises VoIP gateways. In addition, Office Communicator Mobile support now includes more device platforms including the Nokia S40, RIM Blackberry, and Windows Mobile.

How Progent's Microsoft-certified Consultants Can Help You to Benefit from Office Communications Server
A Standard Edition Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 manages all necessary services on one physical Front End Server. The small expense in hardware and simplicity of administration make this version is ideal for small and mid-sized companies and for remote offices. Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 is based on Windows Server and taps into powerful Windows technologies such as Active Directory, SQL Server, Operations Manager, and Microsoft Exchange Server. With Microsoft Communications Server 2007, you can incorporate real-time collaboration features and presence awareness to ubiquitous Office programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office Word. Presence awareness from your server can also be incorporated into productivity applications. Office Communications Server 2007 also serves as the presence engine for team sites and portals, providing presence and IM access from within Windows SharePoint sites.

Microsoft Office Communications Server Help

Progent's Microsoft-Gold certified professionals can provide professional consulting services for all these areas and can help your company in designing and implementing a rollout of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 so as to optimize the productivity value of this IM, presence, and VoIP platform. Progent can also help you to upgrade from Microsoft Live Communications Server to the Release 2 edition of Microsoft Communications Server.

Progent's IT professionals can assist you to install Office Communications Server 2007 and integrate a range of Microsoft platforms to benefit from the presence awareness, IM, and Voice over IP features enabled by Microsoft Communications Server:

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Progent can provide help for designing, configuring, and maintaining successful Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions that will significantly improve important areas of your organization's IT environment including collaboration, web portal, corporate-wide search, forms-driven business operations, access to management intelligence, and content control. Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can help you to evaluate the business case for implementing SharePoint Server, provide configuration and integration expertise, help your business to set up Microsoft SQL Server as a back-end database, enhance your network architecture, integrate your standard and specialized application software to operate with Office SharePoint Server, create a company-wide protection strategy that includes web portal technology, and provide remote and in-person repair and Help Desk support.

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Progent's SQL Server consultants can help you installs Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL Server RDBM solution is integrated effectively with your application software. Progent offers automated network tracking to ensure your corporate information system is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Technical Response Center is ready to provide quick resolutions for SQL database issues. Progent's certified data protection experts can assess your company-wide security policies and mechanisms and suggest enhancements for better regulatory compliance. Progent's application developers can help your company to develop or customize line-of-business programs or web sites utilize databases managed by Microsoft SQL Server.

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Progent's Microsoft Gold certified desktop support experts offer a wide array of cost-effective services to assist you company to install, integrate, repair, and administer desktop PCs and notebooks based on Windows. Progent can provide onsite or remote help for single desktop computers and handheld devices or work with your business to design and implement a company-wide rollout of the latest release of Windows. Progent can also install Microsoft Office or Microsoft Dynamics applications on your client PCs so they communicate efficiently with other Microsoft applications, products from popular publishers, SQL databases, and key solutions network-wide. Progent can also provide engineers and technical workers to assist you to prepare for and complete a company relocation or merger organized to produce minimal disruption of your productivity.

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Progent’s professionals offer expertise in a variety of disciplines relevant to mobile networking including system architecture, Activesync, wireless security, mobile e-mail, Windows Mobile, RIM Blackberry, and mobile software development. Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can save your business time and expense by using their wireless expertise to show you how to choose and integrate mobile networking solutions that fit the needs of your business. Progent can also optimize your IT architecture so that mobile data devices work better.

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Progent’s Technical Response Center provides nationwide remote help for Windows and Cisco-based small business computer networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service experts offer telephone support and online secure computer access to isolate and resolve technical problems quickly and affordably. The breadth of IT experience represented by Progent's staff of country-wide support engineers allows Progent to escalate even the toughest network issues to appropriate experts as required.

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