I encountered this problem 2 years ago and I posted it in MS Forums to look for answers. I'd just like to share how it was resolved. The architecture is like this...
Tel/Mobile Phone <----> PSTN (Telco) <--E1R2--> AudioCodes MG1K <----> OCS 2007 R2 Mediation <----> OCS 2007 R2 Front-End <----> OC 2007 R2
How was it solved? Click here... :)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
SharePoint 2010 Benefits Overview
SharePoint 2010 is the business collaboration platform that enables you to connect and empower people through formal and informal business communities, within the enterprise and beyond, and to manage content throughout the information lifecycle. Whether deployed on-premises or as hosted services, SharePoint’s integrated capabilities are enhanced by search technologies and enable you to rapidly respond to changing business needs by making data-driven decisions and by deploying customized solutions quickly and securely. The consolidation of collaboration solutions onto SharePoint 2010 makes it possible to cut costs by lowering training and maintenance expenses and increasing IT productivity, all within a governable and compliant platform.
Connect and Empower People
Making people more productive is a direct result of enabling them to access resources and knowledge regardless of where they are and what device they use, through a user experience optimized for usability and adoption. Learn more
Cut costs with a Unified Infrastructure
Driving cost efficiencies and accomplishing more with the same resources is possible through the consolidation of all the key business collaboration solutions into SharePoint 2010 and using this common platform to deploy solutions for your intranet, extranet, or for your Internet web presence. Learn more
Rapidly Respond to Business Needs
When time-to-market is key, SharePoint 2010 enables people to customize the out-of-box platform and deploy solutions that enable them to address specific business requirements quickly and in a secure manner. Learn more
(From http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/benefits/overview/pages/default.aspx)
Connect and Empower People
Making people more productive is a direct result of enabling them to access resources and knowledge regardless of where they are and what device they use, through a user experience optimized for usability and adoption. Learn more
Cut costs with a Unified Infrastructure
Driving cost efficiencies and accomplishing more with the same resources is possible through the consolidation of all the key business collaboration solutions into SharePoint 2010 and using this common platform to deploy solutions for your intranet, extranet, or for your Internet web presence. Learn more
Rapidly Respond to Business Needs
When time-to-market is key, SharePoint 2010 enables people to customize the out-of-box platform and deploy solutions that enable them to address specific business requirements quickly and in a secure manner. Learn more
(From http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/benefits/overview/pages/default.aspx)
Saturday, April 24, 2010
What to Expect in SharePoint 2010
Microsoft’s Business Productivity Infrastructure product suite is truly exciting and should be looked forward to by any IT professionals. Exchange Server 2010 was released very recently. I’m very excited and looking forward to the release of Office Communications Server 2010 and of course, the other of much significance of them, the SharePoint Server 2010. SharePoint 2010 marks a significant upgrade to the SharePoint product. Here are the things that you should look forward to in the SharePoint 2010 release!
Hardware and Software Requirement
Hardware and Software Requirement
- SharePoint Server 2010 will be 64-bit only
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2
- SharePoint Server 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server 2008 or 64-bit SQL Server 2005.
- Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) is replaced by the new SharePoint Foundation 2010
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is now SharePoint Server 2010
- You can get SharePoint 2010 in Standard or Enterprise Editions, for Intranet or Internet/Extranet Scenarios (http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/editions/Pages/default.aspx)
- o This includes all the search features and integration capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010 and adds deep platform flexibility and scale and enhanced content processing capabilities.
- o You can deploy FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint across multiple servers to meet demanding requirements for redundancy, performance and capacity. It can be scaled among the following axes: document volume, query volume and processing power for content, query, and results. Deployment, configuration and management take place through user interfaces, Windows PowerShell cmdlets, XML configuration files and command-line operations. (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee781286(office.14).aspx)
- o FAST Search technology was acquired by Microsoft from Fast Search & Transfer company in Norway. (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jan08/01-08FastSearchPR.mspx)
- SharePoint 2010 includes a new and extensible database designed to support usage reporting, logging and custom reports.
- Visio Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a service application that lets users share and view Microsoft Visio Web drawings. The service also enables data-connected Microsoft Visio 2010 Web drawings to be refreshed and updated from various data sources. (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663485(office.14).aspx)
- Social tagging, bookmarks, notes, a new group authentication feature (people management and authorization by distribution list), blogs, wikis and merging of calendars from Exchange Server and SharePoint 2010 calendar are the things you should look forward to in SharePoint 2010 collaboration.
- BPA is a customizable feature that will run jobs to check your environments health, provide guidance in implementations and troubleshooting, then list the issues it finds along with fixes for those issues to help you solve them
- SharePoint Designer 2010 is the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications. Using SharePoint Designer, advanced users and developers alike can rapidly create SharePoint solutions in response to business needs. Advanced users can compose no-code solutions that encompass a variety of common scenarios, from collaborative sites and web publishing to Line-Of-Business data integration, business intelligence solutions, and human workflows, leveraging the building blocks available in SharePoint in an easy to use environment. In addition, developers can use SharePoint Designer 2010 to get a quick start on SharePoint development projects. (http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/related-technologies/Pages/SharePoint-Designer-2010.aspx)
- Internet Explorer 6.0 is NOT supported!
- Support for XHTML 1.0 compliant browsers
- Internet Explorer 8.0 and 7.0
- Firefox 3.x
- Safari 3.x
Typical Microsoft Unified Communications Architecture
Below is a typical Microsoft Unified Communications architecture that can be used by any organization.
Figure 1. Typical Microsoft Unified Communications Architecture.
This illustration shows a typical high-level architecture of Microosft Unified Communications. The development and implementation of Microsoft Unified Communications aims at building a secure real-time unified communications infrastructure that leverages on the use of Microsoft technologies. The diagram above show a typical arhcitecture of Microsoft Unified Communications that consists of the implementations of the Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2, with a Front-End, Consolidated Edge, and Mediation Server roles, which will serve as the foundation of the Unified Communications infrastructure. In addition to OCS 2007 R2, voice mail will also be enabled via the implementation of Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging server. To fully implement Unified Communications, OCS 2007 R2 will be integrated to the AudioCodes Mediant Gateway 1000 which will serve as the media gateway for inbound/outbound connectivity to PSTN. This architecture will leverage on the capabilities of OCS 2007 R2-enabled applications like Office Communicator 2007 R2, Office Live Meeting 2007, Communicator Mobile 2007 R2, and Office Outlook 2007, which will allow any organization's users the ability to communicate using the Instant Messaging, Telephony, Audio/Video Conferencing, and Web Conferencing features of OCS 2007 R2, and Voice Mail of Exchange Server 2007. Other than OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange 2007, any existing firewall and reverse proxy servers or appliance can serve as the HTTP Reverse Proxy and security gateway for the organization’s communications infrastructure and network, although it is ideal to use Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 (or Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010). This will protect their IT environment against Internet-based threats while providing their users fast and reliable access to data and the Unified Communications system across the Internet--whether the user is inside or outside the corporate's network. Also, Active Directory with a Forest and Domain Functional Levels of at least Windows 2003 are required.
More details on the architecture and procedures on how to install OCS 2007 R2 will be in my next posts... :)
This illustration shows a typical high-level architecture of Microosft Unified Communications. The development and implementation of Microsoft Unified Communications aims at building a secure real-time unified communications infrastructure that leverages on the use of Microsoft technologies. The diagram above show a typical arhcitecture of Microsoft Unified Communications that consists of the implementations of the Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2, with a Front-End, Consolidated Edge, and Mediation Server roles, which will serve as the foundation of the Unified Communications infrastructure. In addition to OCS 2007 R2, voice mail will also be enabled via the implementation of Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging server. To fully implement Unified Communications, OCS 2007 R2 will be integrated to the AudioCodes Mediant Gateway 1000 which will serve as the media gateway for inbound/outbound connectivity to PSTN. This architecture will leverage on the capabilities of OCS 2007 R2-enabled applications like Office Communicator 2007 R2, Office Live Meeting 2007, Communicator Mobile 2007 R2, and Office Outlook 2007, which will allow any organization's users the ability to communicate using the Instant Messaging, Telephony, Audio/Video Conferencing, and Web Conferencing features of OCS 2007 R2, and Voice Mail of Exchange Server 2007. Other than OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange 2007, any existing firewall and reverse proxy servers or appliance can serve as the HTTP Reverse Proxy and security gateway for the organization’s communications infrastructure and network, although it is ideal to use Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 (or Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010). This will protect their IT environment against Internet-based threats while providing their users fast and reliable access to data and the Unified Communications system across the Internet--whether the user is inside or outside the corporate's network. Also, Active Directory with a Forest and Domain Functional Levels of at least Windows 2003 are required.
More details on the architecture and procedures on how to install OCS 2007 R2 will be in my next posts... :)
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