Pro LCS: Live Communications Server Administration

Description

Pro LCS: Live Communications Server Administration will guide you on how to best leverage Microsofts Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS) to improve your business communications. This information-packed volume includes everything you need to know about LCS, but were afraid to ask. This includes all the different clients that you can utilize and how you can best deploy them.

This book comes loaded with handy hints and tips, useful real-world scenarios, and extensive walkthroughs aimed at getting you up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible. It even includes a complete discussion about setting up a pilot deployment and rolling out the final solution in your chosen environment. This book is the expert guide to LCS for administrators, systems integrators, architects, and product or project managers who want to get the most out of LCS.

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CONTENTS:

Part 1 : Introduction to Live Communications Server

a.Chapter 1: What is Live Communications Server [RM]

b.Chapter 2: Instant Messaging [AE]

c.Chapter 3: Presence [AE]

d.Chapter 4: SIP [AE]

e.Chapter 5: Server roles [RM]

f.Chapter 6: LCS clients [RM]

g.Chapter 7: LCS topologies [RM]

Part 2 : Setting It Up

a.Chapter 8: Requirements [RM]

b.Chapter 9: Preparing Active Directory [RM]

c.Chapter 10: DNS [RM]

d.Chapter 11 Certificates [AE]

e.Chapter 12: Installing Standard Edition [RM]

f.Chapter 13: Installing Enterprise Edition [RM]

g.Chapter 14: High Availability [AE]

Part 3 : What can it do - configuration?

a.Chapter 15: configuring routes [AE]

b.Chapter 16: configuring users [RM]

c.Chapter 17: configuring clients [AE]

d.Chapter 18: configuring federation [RM]

e.Chapter 19: Public Instant Messaging Connectivity (PIC) [AE]

Part 4 : Getting the most from LCS

a.Chapter 20: backup and restore [AE]

b.Chapter 21: logging [AE]

c.Chapter 22: archiving [AE]

d.Chapter 23: troubleshooting [RM]

e.Chapter 24: Reporting [AE]

f.Chapter 25: Office Integration [AE]

g.Chapter 26: The SDK [AE]

h.Chapter 27: Additional Resources [AE]