Microsoft - MCTS Office Communications Server 2007, Configuration

The Unified Communications course is designed to give students an introduction into the concepts of Unified Communications plus an insight into the enterprise capabilities of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. Through a mixture of lecture and practical exercises students will deploy OCS 2007 and be made aware of the product features. The course is designed for those who are looking to deploy OCS 2007. The course can be used as preparation towards the Microsoft OCS certification exam.

Course Objectives

The primary objective is for students to obtain an understanding of Microsoft’s vision of Unified Communications. As part of the course, students will:

• Deploy an Office Communications Server 2007 infrastructure
• Configure and test voice and telephony features within OCS 2007
• Be aware of the concepts of the rich presence model and rich presence information data format
• Investigate the capabilities of web conferencing within OCS 2007

The course content is summarized below:

Introduction

• Introducing Microsoft Unified Communications
• Overview of Microsoft Office Communications server
• Installing and OCS architecture

Instant Messaging using OCS 2007

• Architecture of Instant Messaging
• Using the Microsoft Office Communicator client
• Rich Presence functionality within OCS 2007
• Functionality of enterprise instant messaging

Conferencing

• Standard on-premise conferencing
• Enterprise on-premise conferencing
• Categories of participants within on-premise conferencing
• Deployment of conferencing solutions
• Sharing documents in a web conference
• Using Microsoft Live meeting

Voice Architecture

• Telephony components within the PBX environment
• Introduction to Session Initiation Protocol
• Integration of OCS with PBX’s
• Using OCS telephony within the enterprise
• Signalling within a telephony environment
• Implementation considerations

Customising with OCS 2007

• Using presence controls with custom Windows applications
• Using presence controls with custom Web applications
• Automated agent applications
• RTC API and custom applications

We’ll prepare you for, and test you in the following exam:

• Exam 70-638 - MCTS: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring

Course Materials

Each delegate will be provided with a manual that can be used as a post course resource.

Knowledge of Microsoft server products, plus Exchange 2007 and SharePoint are required for this course.

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