About

The main purpose of this blog is to ad to the practical information online about implementing OCS 2007.

Trying to learn about OCS 2007 can be a challenge when following Microsofts 1000+ pages of roadmaps, technical overviews, planning and deployment guides.

I will be doing an actual implementation of OCS 2007 and try to describe what steps I go through, what kind of issues I run into on the way and how I solve them. I hope this will be useful to people who would like to learn about OCS without having to swot up on it being thrown from one Microsoft guide to the other, never finishing one document before another one would come up as more important. (I am not saying that the Microsoft documents are bad, but in total they do take up a vast amount of pages, they can be overwhelming when first starting out with OCS, and they are filled up with references taking you to yet another document)

For me this will be very useful as a way of internalizing my understanding of OCS having to describe everything. It will further be a good documentation when the OCS environment is finally up and running. 

Surely there will be things that I will not succeed in describing well enough, important issues to be put forward that I do not run into, and therefore do not describe without a reminder. This brings me to the most important thing about the blog. My hope to create a helpful dialogue and knowledge sharing with, and between people interested in OCS.

To target as many people as possible I will be writing in English although this is not my native language. Please bear with me if I use the wrong words or grammar, but do let me know in cases where it interferes with the understanding of a post.