Simon Barratt

Upgrade pains

I have had Live Communications server running for about a year in pilot mode, whilst working on other projects.  Based on some glaring limitations, I have been putting off looking at it seriously and have been waiting for Office Communications Server 2007 to become available.  Now that it is, the first thing you try to do is grab the client to run in your existing environment, but before you get that far read this:

Note

If you deploy Office Communications Server and Communicator 2007, and configure users for enhanced presence, when a user logs into Office Communications Server using Communicator 2007, this account can no longer use previous versions of Communicator. The user can also not log on to Communicator Web Access or Communicator Mobile. Additionally, Communicator 2007 clients cannot log on to Live Communications Server 2005. Verify that any user whose client is upgraded to Communicator 2007 is hosted on an Office Communications Server.

Basically you cannot mix and match these products, there is no co-existance.  You have to build a new environment just to kick the tyres.

It really slows down the ability to test this stuff out!

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr