• Evaluation
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Feature Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Business Value of Presence
  • Instant Messaging Etiquette Guide

• Planning and Overview
• Live Communications Server 2005 Planning Guide
• Live Communications Server 2005 Technical Overview
• Getting Started Resources
• Live Communications Server 2005 Online Help
• Live Communications Server 2005 Standard Edition Lab Quick Start
• Live Communications Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Lab Quick Start

• Tools and Downloads
  • Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Capacity Planning Toolkit
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Capacity Planning Toolkit
  • Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Resource Kit
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Resource Kit
  • Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Microsoft MOM 2000 Management Pack
  • Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Microsoft MOM 2005 Management Pack
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Microsoft MOM 2000 Management Pack
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Microsoft MOM 2005 Management Pack

• Partner Documentation
  • Deploying Live Communications Server 2005 and the F5 BIG-IP System
  • Protecting Live Communications Server 2005 with VERITAS Backup Exec Software
  • HP Server and Storage Guidelines for Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005
  • Load Balancing for Live Communications Server 2005: WebMux Delivers Improved Reliability, Availability and Scalability
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Load Balancing with Foundry Networks ServerIron Platform

• Live Communications Server 2005 Deployment Series
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Deployment Overview
  • Live Communications Server 2005: Updating to Service Pack 1 and Enabling Public IM Connectivity
  • Upgrading Live Communications Server 2005 Evaluation to the Full Released Version
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Active Directory Preparation
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Standard Edition Deployment Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Enterprise Edition Deployment Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2003 Upgrading and Coexistence
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Address Book Service Planning and Deployment Guide
  • Live Communications Server Access Proxy and Director
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Proxy Deployment Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Address Book Service Planning and Deployment Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Deploying Archiving
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Deploying a SIP/PSTN Gateway
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Command-Line Deployment

• Additional Technical Resources
  • Deploying Office Live Communications Server 2005 at Microsoft
  • Deploying Intelligent Instant Message Filter
  • Windows Messenger 5.1 Planning and Deployment Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Active Directory Schema Extensions
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Configuring Certificates
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Security Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Reference Guide
  • Live Communications Server 2005 Enterprise Pools and Windows 2003 Network Load Balancing
  • Download all Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Documents
  • Download all Live Communications Server 2005 (without SP1) Documents

This document presents an overview of the new features that are incorporated in Live Communications Server 2005 with Service Pack 1, covers the benefits of Live Communications Server, and provides examples for organizations to see the value that can be realized from these new methods of real-time communication.

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This document describes the business value of presence within an organization and how this vital information is integrated into the applications used by most information workers.

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This guide provides a set of guidelines and best practices to help you use instant messaging effectively in an enterprise context and to mitigate the risk of unwanted communications.

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This guide describes the planning process for deploying the real-time communications features offered in Live Communications Server 2005. It explains how to plan for capacity and high availability, and how to design the right topology for your organizational needs.

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This document provides a high-level technical overview of the principal features and components that make up Live Communications Server 2005, as well as the services and protocols on which it depends.

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Use the Assistance Center topics for step-by-step instructions on administering and managing Live Communications Server.

Use this lab quick-start guide to deploy Standard Edition Server and an Access Proxy. This short document provides the step-by-step instructions you need to configure these servers and connect to clients in your lab or clients located outside your network.

Use this lab quick-start guide to deploy an Enterprise pool, a Director, and an Access Proxy for remote user access or federation. This short document provides the step-by-step instructions you need to configure these servers and clients in your lab or clients located outside your network.

This toolkit provides a set of tools and documentation to simplify capacity planning for Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1.

This document provides an overview of the Live Communications Server deployment process, the methods available for deployment, and an overview of the other documents in the Live Communications Server 2005 Deployment Series.

This document guides you through the process of upgrading from Live Communications Server 2005 evaluation version to the Live Communications Server 2005 full released version.

This document guides you through the process of updating your Live Communications Server 2005 infrastructure to Service Pack 1 and enabling public IM connectivity.

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This document guides you through the process of preparing your Active Directory schema, forest, and domains for Live Communications Server 2005.

This document describes how to deploy Standard Edition Servers. It includes procedures for configuring DNS and client connectivity.

This document describes how to deploy an Enterprise pool, a group of front-end servers connected to a Live Communications Server 2005 Back-End Database. It includes procedures for configuring DNS and client connectivity.

This document guides you through the process of planning and deploying Live Communications Server 2005 Address Book Service. Address Book Service is a new server role in SP1 that enables your Communicator 2005 client to download updated address book information for your organization.

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This document describes the methods you can use to upgrade from Live Communications Server 2003 to Live Communications Server 2005. It also discusses considerations for coexistence.

Federation and remote user access scenarios share the need to provide end-to-end security for SIP traffic traversing the Internet. To meet this need, Live Communications Server 2005 provides the Access Proxy. This document provides information about deploying this server in your environment.

This document guides you through the first deployment of a Live Communications Server 2005, Proxy. It includes instructions about installing, activating, and configuring a Proxy and configuring the Proxy in a branch office.

This document guides you through the process of planning and deploying Live Communications Server 2005 Address Book Service. Address Book Service is a new server role in SP1 that enables your Communicator 2005 client to download updated address book information for your organization.

This document describes how to deploy Live Communications Server 2005, Archiving service. You can use this service to archive instant message conversations or gather usage statistics for your Live Communications Servers and users.

This document describes how to deploy a SIP/PSTN gateway for Live Communications Server 2005.

This document explains how to use the command line utility, LcsCmd.exe, to prepare Active Directory and deploy Live Communications Server 2005. LcsCmd.exe provides a method for remote installation and deployment of Live Communications Server 2005.

This document contains a detailed overview of how Microsoft IT deployed and manages Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 to provide its employees with a real-time communications and instant messaging solution.

This document guides you the deployment of Intelligent IM Message Filter to help protect your IM environment from common viruses. You can use IM filter to block file transfers and hyperlinks in an instant message conversation.

This document guides you through the steps in evaluating and deploying the Windows Messenger 5.1 for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005.

This download contains the Live Communications Server 2005 XML Schema used to extend the Microsoft Active Directory directory service.

This document describes how Live Communications Server uses certificates, which certificates and topologies are supported, and explains how to set up certificates for each server role in Live Communications Server 2005.

This document describes best practices and recommendations to help secure your Live Communications Server 2005 deployment.

This document provides background and reference material for administrators who are deploying or have deployed Live Communications Server 2005. It includes details about new Active Directory classes and objects, permissions, and other information.

This document describes the steps needed to configure Windows Server 2003 Network Load Balancing (NLB) for a Live Communications Server 2005 deployment.

This download contains the technical documentation set for the initial release of Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1.

This download contains the technical documentation set for the initial release of Live Communications Server 2005 without SP1.

This toolkit provides a set of tools and documentation to simplify capacity planning for Live Communications Server 2005.

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This Resource Kit provides a set of tools and utilities to help you deploy, operate and monitor Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1.

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This Resource Kit provides a set of tools and utilities to help you deploy, operate and monitor Live Communications Server 2005.

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The Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 management pack monitors the health of home servers of Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 on Windows Server 2003, and alerts IT administrators upon critical health conditions indicating degraded performance.

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The Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 management pack monitors the health of home servers of Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 on Windows Server 2003, and alerts IT administrators upon critical health conditions indicating degraded performance.

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The Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 management pack monitors the health of home servers of Live Communications Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003, and alerts IT administrators upon critical health conditions indicating degraded performance.

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The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 management pack monitors the health of home servers of Live Communications Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003, and alerts IT administrators upon critical health conditions indicating degraded performance.

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This document describes how to configure Live Communications Server and the F5 BIG-IP system to intelligently direct traffic for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with the F5 BIG-IP® application traffic management device.

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This white paper describes how to design and deploy a comprehensive data protection plan (backup, restore, and disaster recovery) for Live Communications Server 2005 using the next release of VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows Servers.

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This whitepaper presents Live Communications Server 2005 configurations that support up to 125,000 users. Configurations presented include HP servers, storage, scalability considerations and availability considerations when planning your deployment.

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This whitepaper explains how to incorporate load balancing using WebMux to assure maximum availability of service in directing traffic in Live Communications Server 2005.

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This whitepaper explains how to deploy and configureFoundry’s ServerIron load balancing with Live Communications Server 2005 topologies.

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