No. OCS is heavily AD dependent. The Edge server just protects the inside from the outside, similar to the edge server concept in Exchange.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: A new challenge for me... That makes me feel better. Is this amenable to setting up a standalone environment in the DMZ, so I don't have to tie it up with AD? I'm currently googling like mad, while having this conversation with y'all. Kurt On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 13:51, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > No. it's a different kind of edge server. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 4:49 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: A new challenge for me... > > New territory here. From what I've read, an Edge server normally refers to an > Exchange environment. Is what's being proposed here an extension of my > Exchange 2003 environment? > > Kurt > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 13:30, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes. Setup OCS2007r2. Then setup an Edge server. The Edge server >> will do Audio/Video conferencing. Microsoft strongly suggests you >> haev an ISA server in front but you can do it without an ISA server. >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Unknown. I have zero experience or knowledge of it. >>> >>> Will it work in a DMZ? The reason I ask is that for the folks out of >>> the country, the CEO is likely to want to videoconference with them >>> while they are at their homes - that is, the CEO would be in the >>> office, the others at their homes off-hours, at least some times. >>> Thus, they won't have a VPN connection - we have a SonicWall SSL VPN >>> unit here, which is not really amenable to forwarding a chat/video >>> session.. >>> >>> Kurt >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 13:02, Don Guyer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Will Office Communication Server take care of that? >>>> >>>> Don Guyer >>>> Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & >>>> Roach/Trident Group >>>> 431 W. Lancaster Avenue >>>> Devon, PA 19333 >>>> Direct: (610) 993-3299 >>>> Fax: (610) 650-5306 >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 3:58 PM >>>> To: NT System Admin Issues >>>> Subject: A new challenge for me... >>>> >>>> Our new CEO want her direct reports to use Live Messenger accounts >>>> for IM/chat, and a couple of them (out of the country) to have web >>>> cam conferencing. >>>> >>>> This, of course, means poking holes in the firewall and installing >>>> the client, both of which I'm not happy about. Does anyone have >>>> some arguments as to why this isn't a good idea? >>>> >>>> Along with that, does anyone have thoughts on something I could >>>> install (probably in a DMZ) to provide this service? >>>> >>>> Open Source is definitely not out of the question, as far as I'm >>>> concerned, but commercial is fine too. >>>> >>>> Kurt >>>> >>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>>> >>>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >>> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ >> <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
