Live Communications Server 2005
by Microsoft

Live Communications Server 2005 from Microsoft

Live Communications Server 2005 provides real-time collaboration features within your existing infrastructure and familiar desktop applications.

Live Communications Server 2005 provides a manageable and scalable enterprise-grade real-time communication solution for your organization. Extending from the same Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions (SIMPLE)-based industry standard platform as Live Communications Server 2003, now Live Communications Server 2005 will enable better business decisions even faster than previous versions by allowing you to share presence, instant messaging (IM), and real-time communication capabilities with partners, customers, and suppliers.

Find and Communicate with People Instantly to Increase Productivity
Increase productivity with integrated presence and real-time communication to locate people and share information quickly.

• Instantly find and collaborate with local and remote users to share critical and time-sensitive information. Presence awareness within your desktop and line-of-business applications eliminates delays in locating and communicating with key work partners.
• Enable remote users to access security-enhanced presence and instant messaging (IM) solutions without requiring Virtual Private Networking (VPN). Provide mobile workers with access at home or on the road.
• Collaborate with business partners and other organizations as easily as co-workers while protecting sensitive business information. Combine IT-controlled access to other organizations and public IM networks (MSN, America Online [AOL], and Yahoo) combine with safe user lists and encryption to enable broader communications and increased security.

• Improve the security of your collaboration infrastructure. Live Communications Server 2005 allows users to share Microsoft Office and other applications from work or home with encrypted IM and voice- and video-enhanced collaborative sessions.
• Allow users to find and communicate with people without interrupting their workflow. Real-time communication capabilities within Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Word, and other familiar Office programs indicate presence to accelerate team collaboration dramatically.

• Improve business efficiency by enabling information workers to find and communicate with people in a security-enhanced enterprise-grade real-time communications environment. Live Communications Server provides presence awareness from your familiar Microsoft Office and line-of-business applications to eliminate delays in locating and communicating with co-workers and business partners.
• Get a manageable and scalable solution with seamless integration among Live Communications Server 2005, the Microsoft Office System, and the Microsoft Windows Server System infrastructure.

• Authenticate users and provide Kerberos and NT LAN Manager (NTLM) capabilities for single sign-on. Integration with Microsoft Windows Active Directory consolidates your network, server and IM user resources to give you more security and control over your network.
• Provide a real-time collaboration solution that can scale up as your company grows. Extend real-time communications to customers, partners, and suppliers while scaling to over 100,000 users with Enterprise Edition and approximately 15,000 users with Standard Edition.
• Increase uptime for your enterprise communications. Advanced architecture using Microsoft SQL Server offers future growth and data recovery capabilities, which guard against unscheduled downtime and data loss.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal controls. Use SQL-based logging and searchable conversation logs in Live Communications Server to allow internal auditing of IM transactions.

• Get your organization up and running quickly. Take advantage of new deployment tools that simplify the introduction of enterprise-grade instant messaging into your Windows environment.
• Save time and reduce training costs by using familiar Windows GUI-based administration tools to manage users, servers, and global settings. Live Communications Server integrates with your existing Windows-based management tools including Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Microsoft Management Console (MMC), and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to reduce server management and training requirements.

• Add real-time capabilities to your information gathering solutions. Separate client and server application programming interfaces (APIs) enable innovative new applications.
• Introduce new ways of using presence enabled real-time communication. Take advantage of the vibrant partner ecosystem to complement and enhance your Live Communications Server solution.