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With all of the new tools provided by Microsoft to support collaborative work ow, there might be some confusion about which technology to use. A range of interlocking communications technologies work with Outlook 2007 and the rest of the Microsoft

Of ce system applications to provide the means to dynamically collaborate with colleagues, customers, and the public. Each of the server and client applications addresses particular communications needs and capabilities, so examining what each program is designed to do can give you some guidance as to which to choose. The following list brie y describes the core capabilities and uses of these new applications and service offerings:

Use Of ce Communicator with Of ce Live Communications Server:

To establish instant messaging sessions with one or more members of your internal network. To facilitate quick phone connections between project members. To establish video conferencing between yourself and designated colleagues.

Use Of ce Live Meeting:

To create dynamic collaborative multimedia conferences with distributed groups of people who are not sharing the same network. To provide a simultaneous audio broadcast to a selected group of attendees for informational, marketing, or promotional purposes. To support dynamic and interactive cooperative work on documents between project members working from different locations.

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To support the development of documents with distributed project teams. To manage version control for content development.

Use Of ce Live Collaboration:

To create a Web-accessible location for your small business information. To provide an Internet-accessible point to share data with your customers, vendors, and partners.

Use Of ce Live Basics or Of ce Live Essentials:

To create a Web presence for your small business. To establish a domain name and related e-mail accounts.

Live Communications Server provides services to support real-time communications between clients, supporting capabilities such as instant messaging and audio and video communications. During installation, Live Communications Server must modify the Active Directory directory service schema and must make additions to the forest and domain before the

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service installation can be completed. Once installed, Live Communications Server is managed via a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. See the Live Communications Server documentation for details on installation and management. Live Communications Server supports cross-organization federation (matching account names in different organizations to the people using them), enabling users in partner companies to nd and communicate with people regardless of which company they are in. With additional licenses and provisioning (managing the con guration) of the connections, Live Communications Server can also perform federation with public instant messaging services such as MSN , AOL, and Yahoo. Of ce Communicator requires this server component to support its messaging and collaboration functionality. For corporate network environments, the Live Communications Server component must be installed and available to Communicator clients prior to operation.

Live Communications Server is managed using the Live Communications Server MMC snap-in component. This snap-in component is not con gured in the MMC console by default, however. To add the Live Communications Server console to your Administrative Tools in Microsoft Windows Server 2003, perform the following steps: 1. Click Start, Run, type MMC, and then press Enter. 2. Click File, Add/Remove Snap-In. 3. Click Add, and then select the Live Communications Server snap-in in the Add Standalone Snap-In dialog box. 4. Click Add, and then click Close. 5. Click OK to close the Add/Remove Snap-In dialog box. 6. Click File, Save, provide a name (such as Live Communications Server), and then click Save to save a link to the Live Communications Server console in Administrative Tools.

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The service that Live Communications Server uses might not start automatically the rst time after it is installed. To start the service (or check its status), right-click My Computer, and then choose Manage. In the Computer Management console, browse to the Services node under Services And Applications. In Services, locate the Live Communications Server service, and verify that the Startup Type is set to Automatic and the Status is set to Started. If the service is not started, right-click on the service, and then choose Start.