OCS / LCS

I know what you are thinking. Phone systems have had call forwarding forever. Ah yes, this is true but typically it has been a strange combination of button pushes on a phone that would look like a Fatality move in Mortal Kombat.

That all changes with OCS 2007 as you can see below:


Point and click goodness, and not complicated. It just makes sense.
We need more technology like this. It is stuff like this that makes me excited for 2008.

Fixes new to this release

Error message when you try to change an IM conversation into a multiparty conference in Communicator 2007: "Your attempt to start a conference was unsuccessful."

Communicator 2005 client computers may send many DNS queries for the name of the Live Communications Server 2005 pool

Error message when you send an instant message to a distribution group that contains more than 100 members in Communicator 2007: " is too large to display"

Communicator 2007 does not release cached person objects after you search for contacts

The notification sound does not play in Communicator 2007 when you change the notification sound to a .wav file that resides in the Media folder

The translation of the word "free" is incorrect in the Polish version of Communicator 2007

You cannot type a special character in the password box in Communicator 2007

You can read about the changes here. You can grab the update here.