Updates for Communications Server 2007 R2 - September 2010

There's a new update available for OCS 2007 R2.

KB968802

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Lync 2010 - Official

OCS is now branded as Lync.

There's a official post from the OCSTeam here and OCS homepage on microsoft has also been updated to reflect the new name.

More Lync related downloads available

A few more downloads are now available on Microsoft.com since yesterday.

Microsoft Lync 2010 SDK Release Candidate (RC)
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Planning Documents
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Getting Started
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) System Requirements
Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Lab Deployment Guide

CS 2010 branded as Lync?

There's been some gossips around a possible branding of CS 2010 as Lync 2010.

There was even a blog, that looks like a hoax, talking about Lync. The blog does not have a lot of information and there's a few old OCS 2007 R2 screens as well so it doesn't look very legit.

But last Wednesday a RC of "Lync Server 2010" showed up on Microsoft Downloads and yesterday the Lync Server 2010 Planning tool (RC) was also released there.

I've tried the Planning tool and... it does look like a Planning tool for the new Communications Server 2010. :-)

Nothing has changed yet on CS "14" homepage but i've found this support page with a mix of Communicator, OCS 2010, Communications Server 2010 and Lync labels.

Now, i need to download and try that Lync RC. :-D

Communications Server 2010 - Documentation

Looks like some documentation is finally hitting TechNet. There's only 5 articles so far, and most of them have been around for a while since TechEd but now we can find them all in one place.

You can find them in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770144.aspx