01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page iii Professional Live Communications Server Joe Schurman Randy Thomas Bob Christian 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page i Professional Live Communications Server 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page ii 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page iii Professional Live Communications Server Joe Schurman Randy Thomas Bob Christian 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page iv Professional Live Communications Server Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN-13: 978-0-471-77321-4 ISBN-10: 0-471-77321-2 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1MA/RT/QW/QW/IN No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page v I would like to dedicate this book to my wife, Christy, and our kids, Paige, Bailey, and Davis, who have been so patient with me throughout this whole process. I have traveled most of the world during the writing of this book and they have been so awesome, even during my really busy days, and I couldn’t be happier to have them in my life. — Joe Schurman 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page vi 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page vii About the Authors Joe Schurman Joe Schurman is the co-founder of Connected Innovation and is a member of the Microsoft Unified Communications Readiness team for Microsoft. As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Live Communications Server, Joe is deployed globally to provide training for Microsoft employees, partners, and customers in each region of the world. Joe has authored several whitepapers, has developed many Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 readiness kits, provides global speaking engagements, sales and technical training world tours, Microsoft TechNet webcasts, and has developed the Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 certification program, due out later this year. Joe’s articles and com- ments have been featured in Pocket PC Magazine, Waggener Edstrom, AMR Research, Wainhouse Research, and several other publications. Joe is also a black belt in Chinese Kung Fu as well as a United States National Kung Fu judge. Randy Thomas Randy Thomas started his IT career as a support person for a company in Houston, and then was blessed enough to get an opportunity to become a consultant for a content management company dur- ing the tech boom. He traveled around the world for them for a long time, thanks to an incredibly understanding spouse and children. He thanks his wife, Abbie, and two daughters, Samantha and Emma, for being so gracious while he was always gone. After moving to Washington, D.C., he was granted some very nice government projects building CM and Portal solutions with high security. He had pretty much lost all passion for the IT industry until the day he started working with Live Communications Server and all that goes with it. He then began traveling around the world speaking about and training people on Live Communications Server and unified communications. Randy also spends a lot of time on the newsgroup sites where he tries to help as many people in the community as possible. Currently, he lives in The Woodlands, Texas, where baby number 3 is on the way. 01_773212 ffirs.qxp 5/26/06 6:16 PM Page viii