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Operational Flexibility and Control
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 provides flexible communications solutions for users while giving
them the tools and control their organization needs to manage more secure, compliant
communications. This leads to:
 Reduction of unmanaged, public communications services used by employees.
 Improved ability for IT to implement compliance and security policies.
 Simplified and faster administrative tasks such as user management and office moves.
 Lower cost of deployment and management of software-powered VoIP, presence, enterprise
IM, and conferencing vs. competitive alternatives.
 Reduced cost of desktop management over third party softphone and unified communications
clients, similar to Office Communicator 2007.
For details about the technical aspects of the product, see TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/office/ocs/default.aspx.
Reduce communication infrastructure costs
There have been many investments made in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 to reduce the
communications infrastructure costs.
On-premises conferencing
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 reduces the cost of conferencing solutions. Administrators can
deploy an on-premises solution for audio, video, and Web conferencing that allows users to participate
in the conference over a VoIP connection, as well as over an audio bridge. Administrators can deploy
web conferencing capabilities on premises with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 or leverage
hosted Web conferencing depending upon the organization’s needs.
Run all communications on Active Directory
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is built on Active Directory Domain Services, allowing users to
leverage a single directory for communications management. Office Communications Server 2007 R2
minimizes deployment and management costs by consolidating directory management; it also provides
a foundation for the organization’s communication strategy that integrates with its collaboration and
productivity tool investments. From a single infrastructure, organizations can facilitate provisioning of
presence, software-powered VoIP, audio, video and Web conferencing, and IM.
Support for SIP trunking
This is a new feature for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. While the term “SIP trunking” is used in
many ways within the industry, we define “SIP trunking” as the use of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to
pass telephony traffic from the enterprise network edge to a network service provider over an IP
connection, without traversing TDM or circuit networks.
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 offers the capability for IT administrators to plug their current
on-premise communication solution directly into telephony service delivered entirely over using SIP
over IP. This allows connection to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) without any circuit