Pro LCS (eBook)

Live Communications Server (LCS) is a recent release in Microsoft's core server suite that enables unified communications across an office through a variety of devices, including phones, web conferences, and the Internet. This book provides straightforward technical information that only those with detailed knowledge of the problems customers have experienced in deploying and managing Live Communications Server can provide. The book is practical, guided, and comprehensive. It is written by a freelance LCS expert and a Microsoft product manager on the LCS team.

Rui Maximo has 12 years of experience shipping more than 10 commercial software products for IBM and Microsoft, from educational software to operating systems, mobile devices, and server products. Rui has been a lead program manager working in the Unified Communications Group since Live Communications Server 2003. He has been responsible for management of the Active Directory schema extensions; migration from Exchange 2000 IM; definition of supported topologies; design of the Admin Tools MMC, WMI, LcsSync, and MOM Pack; and work on VoIP before leading the Office Communicator Web Access Server product. He's played an important contributing role as a technical expert in developing the product's documentation, Microsoft Professional Exam for LCS 2005, and presenting at major conferences. Rui has been living in the Pacific Northwest and working at Microsoft for the past 10 years as a software design engineer and program manager.

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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. Create code art, visualizations, and interactive applications with this powerful, yet simple computer language and programming environment Learn how to code 2D and 3D animation, pixel-level imaging, motion effects, and physics simulations Take a creative and fun approach to learning creative computer programming