Make Your Mark.

Brendan Carius Senior Consultant - Microsoft Consulting Services On-Premise Conferencing Delivering Enterprise-Class Voice, Video, and Web Conferencing with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 UNC311

Make Your Mark. Describe the conferencing capabilities of Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Overview of the Conferencing architecture Explain the infrastructure needed to deliver conferencing capabilities with Office Communications Server 2007 Describe best practices to plan and deploy the conferencing capabilities of Office Communications Server 2007 Session Objectives and Agenda

Make Your Mark. Deliver on-premise Web conferencing Data collaboration, audio, video, IM, others Complete solution out-of-the-box Start delivering on enterprise voice roadmap Deliver foundational capabilities for voice deployments Integrated deployment & management Office Communications Server Goals Build on Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Continued advancements in Presence, Manageability, etc. Carry forward existing investments in HA, PIC, and Federation

Make Your Mark. OCS 2007 Feature Set Overview Voice Presence/IM Conferencing Developer Manageability Outside Access Web Conferencing Audio/Video Conferencing PSTN Conferencing Ad-Hoc & Scheduled Public IM Connectivity Rich Presence Group IM Federation External & Anonymous Access Web Conferencing Edge Server Audio/Video Edge Server High Availability High Scale Guided Setup Delegation Diagnostics Policy In-band Provisioning Client Version Check CDRs Compliance PSTN connectivity (Mediation Server) Exchange UM integration Inbound Routing Dial Plans & Outbound Routing SIP-based (internal and external) Communicator Web Access AJAX APIs – Presence Server Managed APIs

Make Your Mark. On Premise Conferencing Major new feature in OCS 2007 Enterprise meetings hosted on internal servers Scheduled and ad-hoc Multimedia Audio – VoIP and PSTN Video Instant Messaging Data - Content/Application Sharing Conference Room Devices

Make Your Mark. User Types Internal Users Have Active Directory credentials Connect from the internal corporate network External Users Remote Users Have Active Directory credentials Connect from outside the corporate network Federated Users Have Active Directory credentials in a federated enterprise Anonymous Users User without trusted Active Directory identity

Make Your Mark. User Roles Organiser Authenticated enterprise user Creates the meeting Automatically a Presenter in the meeting Presenter User authorised to be a presenter Designated in advance by Organiser or by another presenter in meeting Attendee User invited to attend a meeting May be promoted to Presenter during meeting

Make Your Mark. Meeting Security and Access Meeting Types Open Authenticated Closed Authenticated Anonymous Allowed OCS Admin sets policy on allowed meeting types per Organiser Edge Servers must be deployed for remote users access

Make Your Mark. Meeting Creation Schedule conference Outlook Web tool Downloadable from microsoft.com Ad-hoc conferencing in OC Select multiple contacts Add contacts to 2 party call Ad-hoc conferencing in Console ‘Meet Now’ Invite people via /meeting link

Scheduling a Conference Demo

Make Your Mark. Conferencing Clients - Communicator UC Endpoint IM/Presence, Voice, Video Typically ad-hoc conferences Good for interactive discussions

Make Your Mark. Conferencing Clients - Console Data sharing, voice, video Presentation type meetings

Make Your Mark. RoundTable Devices Conference room solution 360 o surround audio and video USB connection to local PC for IP media Standalone PSTN speakerphone

On Premise Conferencing Demo

Make Your Mark. OCS 2007/LM 2007 Comparison Feature OCS 2007LiveMeeting ‘07 Max meeting size OCX ConsoleXX Web Client (PSTN audio only)X IP Audio XX PSTN Audio bridge XX Video (Webcam & Roundtable) XX Application Sharing XX Rich Media Presentations XX Scheduling from Outlook XX Personal Recording XX Server Side Recording X Bridged IP-PSTN Audio Meetings X Breakout Rooms (PSTN audio only) X

Make Your Mark. OCS Pool UC Conferencing Clients CommunicatorConsole Front-End Server Focus Conference manager Aggregates conference state Focus Factory Provides instances of Focus MCU Factory Monitors MCU health Provides MCU instances to Focus Conferencing Architecture

Make Your Mark. Front-End Server OCS Pool UC Conferencing Clients CommunicatorConsole IM Conferencing Server Multiparty IMs Telephony Conferencing Server PSTN Audio via ACP Web Conferencing Server Data/Application Sharing AV Conferencing Server IP Audio mixing IP Video switching ConferencingServers Conferencing Architecture

Make Your Mark. Front-End Server Backend SQL server ConferencingServers OCS Pool UC Conferencing Clients CommunicatorConsole Backend SQL Server Stores conferencing state data Conferencing Architecture

Make Your Mark. EdgeServers DMZ Front-End Server Backend SQL server ConferencingServers RemoteUsersRemoteUsers AnonymousUsers FederatedUsers OCS Pool UC Conferencing Clients CommunicatorConsole Access Edge Server SIP Conference join, control, media negotiation Web Conferencing Edge Server PSOM Data/App sharing AV Edge STUN/RTP Audio/Video Conferencing Architecture

Make Your Mark. Conferencing Data Flows FocusFocus Conferencing Client CCCP/SIP Web Conf Server IM Conf Server AV Conf Server CCCP/HTTP SIMPLE/SIP SDP/SIP PSOM Focus Factory SQL Backend SchedulingClientSchedulingClient CCCP/SIP (*) ODBC MCU Factory CCCP/ HTTP (*)

Make Your Mark. 1)Scheduling client Creates a Conference 2)Focus Factory Stores conference State in Backend 3)Conferencing Client joins Conference 4)Focus Validates the conference and enforces policies 5)Focus requests MCU Factory for a MCU/Conferencing Server 6)MCUFactory which maintains health heart beats with the MCU allocates a MCU 7)Focus Bootstraps the MCU 8)Conferencing Client Establishes Media session with the MCU Conference Architecture - Data Flow Back-end Database Focus Factory Scheduling Client Conferencing Client Focus MCU Factory Conferencing Server

Make Your Mark. Simplest Possible Deployment Scenario Small to Medium Business Model Single Server All OCS components on a single server Goals Simplicity Requirements AD Standard Edition ADAD SQL DB Focus IM Conf Server AV Conf Server Web Conf Server Telephony Conf Server IIS Server

Make Your Mark. ADAD Enterprise Edition Front-End Servers: Consolidated Enterprise Pool: Consolidated Basic High Availability Scenario Medium to Large Businesses Model Separate OCS roles and SQL Load balancing Goals Improved performance High Availability Requirements AD, HW Load Balancer

Make Your Mark. ADAD Enterprise Pool: Expanded Enterprise Edition Front-End Servers: Expanded IIS Servers A/V Conf Servers Web Conf Servers Active Passive High Scale, High Availability Scenario Large Businesses Model Separate Front Ends, IIS Servers, A/V Conf Servers and Web Conf Servers roles and SQL Load balancing Goals High performance High Availability Requirements AD, HW Load Balancer

Make Your Mark. Scalability Goal for OCS is meeting sizes of up to 250 Most meetings are % less than % less than 100 For meetings of 250+ recommend LM Service Dedicated high end infrastructure Specialized support OCS usage model is based on 5% of user base to be in conference concurrently Scale is complex! 1 X 1000 user conference != 10 X 100 user conferences Unqualified head to head comparisons make no sense What codecs, video switching modes etc, etc

Make Your Mark. TopologyServer RequiredMax Users Standard Edition Server 1 SE Server5,000 Enterprise Pool: Consolidated Config 4 FE Servers (running all roles) 1 SQL Server 30,000 Enterprise Pool: Expanded Config Mid Range SQL Server 4 FE Servers 2 Web Conf Servers 2 A/V Conf Servers 2 IIS Servers 1 SQL Server 50,000 Enterprise Pool: Expanded Config High Perf SQL Server 6 FE Servers 4 Web Conf Servers 4 A/V Conf Servers 2 IIS Servers 1 SQL Server 125,0000 User Supported per Topology

Make Your Mark. Tested A/V Conference Profiles ScenarioProfile# UsersBandwidth Small Conferences35 X 3 users (Audio) 11 X 5 users(Audio) 65 X 3 users(A+V) 21 X 5 users (A+V) Mbps Small and Medium Mix18 X 3 users (Audio) 16 X 5 users (Audio) 5 X 10 users (Audio) 3 X 25 users (Audio) 1 X 50 users (Audio) 35 X 3 users (A+V) 19 X 5 users (A+V) 8 X 10 users (A+V) 8 X 25 users (A+V) 2 X 50 users (A+V) Mbps Large Conferences4 X 250 users (Audio) 8 X 250 users (A + V) Mbps

Make Your Mark. Conferencing Policies Administrator sets policy for Organisers Allowed to invite Anonymous users Maximum number of participants Allowed to organise Web Conferences Use native format for PowerPoint Support for program/desktop sharing Allowed to do recording Can allow attendees to record Allowed to organize VoIP conferences Allowed to organize Video conferences

Make Your Mark. Administrator Config Options Administrator can configure Organisation name in meeting invite URL in meeting invite for client download Maximum scheduled meetings per user (1000) Maximum length of meetings (24 hrs) Length of time a meeting can persist without local enterprise user present (10 min) Length of time after meeting when content is deleted (14 days) Media Encryption level (Required)

Make Your Mark. High Quality Media Right provision the network Audio 45kbps per stream All user receive audio; only active talkers send Video 300kbps per stream All user receive video; only 1-2 send Ensure max latency of 150ms QoS DiffServ – Optional RSVP – Not required IPSec Add policy to exempt media traffic

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