Microsoft is urging partners to drum up interest in unified communications by positioning the combination of Live Communication Server 2005 and Exchange as a solution that customers can deploy today.
In an internal Microsoft document viewed by CRN, Microsoft outlines its strategy for getting partners to sell unified communication solutions to existing Exchange customers. Microsoft's goal is for its U.S. partners to attach LCS to 35% of new and renewing Exchange client access licenses (CALs), according to the document.
While LCS 2005 doesn't require Exchange 2007, Office Communication Server 2007, the LCS successor that Microsoft plans to release this fall, does require the latest version of Exchange for VoIP and unified messaging features.
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