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TECHGENIX TechGenix reaches millions of IT Professionals every month, and has set the standard for providing free technical content through its growing family of websites, empowering them with the answers and tools that are needed to set up, configure, maintain and enhance their networks. Hardware Component. Recommended Minimum. Network adapter. Hard drive. It allows you to have pseudo-real-time conversations and still perform other tasks at the same time without wasting a phone call or using an e-mail which is most definitely not real time.
For example, a colleague of mine once used IM software to eliminate international phone calls between his San Diego office and a Tijuana branch office. Microsoft tried unsuccessfully to break into the corporate IM marketplace with Conferencing Server, an Exchange add-on. However, that product was marketed through the wrong channels, bundled with the wrong products, and was a little buggy, in my opinion. Enter Microsoft Live Communications Server.
This product replaces the now defunct but still supported Conferencing Server. In retrospect, Microsoft realized that IM was related more to Microsoft Office than any other product.
I'll provide an overview of the major features of LCS, some benefits, drawbacks, and its competition. I'll also provide some information on actual installations of LCS in the corporate marketplace. Multiparty conversations with up to 32 persons —A user can chat with more than one person at a time. This is important in a corporate environment. LCS allows for up to 32 persons. Extensible development capabilities —There are lots of client and server APIs that developers can take advantage of in order to create other customized communication applications that work with LCS.
Moreover, it offers an integrated presence-awareness feature that allows users to know if other users are connected online, busy, or offline. The presence-awareness feature can easily be tied to other Office products and other applications through an API.
This is consistent with other Microsoft products and not unexpected. Additionally, important features such as encryption and Active Directory integration make it more appealing to IT departments.
Drawbacks A perceived benefit to some, the tight integration with other Microsoft products can be a negative to others as it makes independence difficult.
Additionally, the cost which you'll see in the next section is a bit steep and may not be palatable for small businesses, which often resort to using the free, public IM services and sacrifice the functionality and control of a product such as LCS.
Here is a link to the most current licensing and pricing models Microsoft has available for LCS. Case studies As a reviewer of technology, I like to see other companies' successes and failures with a product before I implement it.
In the case of LCS, there are quite a few reputable and large companies that have had great success with this product. I have provided some info on two of them below. As a result of its international presence and employee population of over , and, more importantly, the inherent project-oriented structure of DoD contractors, Lockheed Martin needed an IM solution that was robust, scalable, secure, and reliable.
In LCS, they found such attributes and implemented the product in For more details, read the full Lockheed Martin case study. Siemens A very large telecommunication, medical, and power company among many things , Siemens benefited from LCS software by using the extensibility of LCS to develop its own product, which heavily leveraged LCS.
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