Professional Live Communications Server

Written by the only LCS MVP who probably knows more about LCS than anyone else in the world, Wrox’s Professional Live Communications Server 2005 is the ultimate guide to the newest core server from Microsoft.

Inside you will find everything needed to install, configure, and run LCS, integrate it with your existing infrastructure, and use it to build real-time collaboration, communications and presence solutions. Included are lessons learned in the trenches that only come from deploying LCS in a variety of enterprise scenarios. Topics include:
• Providing secure intra and extra-company instant messaging
• Understanding the value of presence
• Integration with Microsoft Office Solutions
• Integration with Active Directory
• Integration with SQL Server
• Configuring Message routes and ports
• Remote Access
• Testing

Table of contents :
· Providing secure intra and extra-company instant messaging

· Understanding the value of presence

· Integration with Microsoft Office Solutions

· Integration with Active Directory

· Integration with SQL Server

· Configuring Message routes and ports

· Remote Access

· Testing

Market Description :
A typical reader is an IT professional with knowledge of a Microsoft Windows Server environment and beginner level understanding of Active Directory.


About Author :
Joe Schurman is Microsoft’s only LCS Most Valuable Professional (MVP), in the US and is the leading LCS consultant internationally. Joe is considered to be the #1 consulting services resource by Microsoft Corporation and has been incorporated as the only non-Microsoft employee within the Microsoft Center of Excellence (COE) team.