Unified Communications - My Demo Environment

I have not posted for a while - since RTM of OCS things have been very busy.

Lots of people ask me what I am running in my demo environment. Well I run all  my servers on one laptop in VPC.

The laptop I run on has 2Gb of Ram and running the servers in VPC is not lightening quick but allows me to run the demo fairly well.

There are 4 servers in the environment

1 OCS 2007 Standard Edition

1 Exchange 2007 server (32bit Eval version) running the following roles ( MBX, HT, CAS and UM)

1 MOSS 2007 server - not totally necessary but allows me to show Message Records Management and presence in Sharepoint

1 Mediation server - this allows me to break out to analog phones to show integration with existing telephony

I also have an audiocodes box that allows the analog phones to integrate with OCS

I intend to post the configurations and how I have set them up so that you can do the same if need be

This allows me to show pretty much everything that needs to be shown Presence/IM/Video and voice.

If anyone has seen my demos you will know that I am more and more not using this environment as I am able to do everything if not more with my production laptop connecting back to the Microsoft servers. But every now and then I need this when Internet access is unavailable.