How to Cheat at Administering Office Communicator Server 2007 or How We Became Posthuman

How to Cheat at Administering Office Communicator Server 2007

Author: Anthony Piltzecker

Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 is Microsoft's latest version of Live Communications Server 2005. The product provides management for all synchronous communications that takes place in real time. This includes instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP), and audio conferencing and videoconferencing. It will work with your company's existing telecommunications systems without major hardware upgrades. This means your business can deploy advanced VoIP and conferencing without tearing out its preexisting legacy telephone network.
How to Cheat at Administering Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 provides the busy system administrator with any easy-to-access reference that provides step-by-step instructions on how to install, configure, manage and troubleshoot Communicator across the network. It is the perfect tool for those who simply need to complete a task without reading through lots of theory and principles.

• Get Inside Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Learn what's new in OCS 2007, compare the previous editions, understand OCS 2007 server roles, plan an OCS 2007 installation.
• Install the First OCS 2007 Front-End Server Address the prerequisites, prepare active directory, install and configure OCS 2007 Enterprise Edition, and verify the installation summary.
• Configure the Edge Server Install the Edge Server, work with certificates, deal with security issues, and test the Edge Server.
• Configure the Mediation Server Install the Configuration Server, configure dialing rules, configure users for voice functionality, and test voice functionality.
• Configure Archiving Address compliance requirements,understand archiving topology, and install the Archiving Server.
• Configure Conference Servers Understand on-premises conferencing, use on-premises conferencing, understand Microsoft RoundTable, and install conferencing.
• Integrate OCS with PBX and IP-PBX Systems Use a gateway, configure Cisco CallManager as a Gateway, and understand CSTA/SIP gateways.
• Integrate OCS with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Master Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging and architecture, Configure Exchange 2007 UM, and Combine OCS with Exchange 2007 UM.
• Upgrade to Office Communications Server 2007 Plan your migration from LCS 2005 to OCS 2007, upgrade perimeter servers, upgrade director servers, upgrade front-end servers, perform user migration, and remove LCS 2005 from the network environment.

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How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics

Author: N Katherine Hayles

In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the "bodies" that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans "beamed" Star Trek-style, others view them with horror, seeing monsters brooding in the machines. In How We Became Posthuman, N. Katherine Hayles separates hype from fact, investigating the fate of embodiment in an information age.
Hayles relates three interwoven stories: how information lost its body, that is, how it came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from the material forms that carry it; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist "subject" in cybernetic discourse, along with the emergence of the "posthuman."
Ranging widely across the history of technology, cultural studies, and literary criticism, Hayles shows what had to be erased, forgotten, and elided to conceive of information as a disembodied entity. Thus she moves from the post-World War II Macy Conferences on cybernetics to the 1952 novel Limbo by cybernetics aficionado Bernard Wolfe; from the concept of self-making to Philip K. Dick's literary explorations of hallucination and reality; and from artificial life to postmodern novels exploring the implications of seeing humans as cybernetic systems.
Although becoming posthuman can be nightmarish, Hayles shows how it can also be liberating. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, How We Became Posthuman provides an indispensable account of how we arrived in our virtual age, and of where we might gofrom here.

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Hayles (English, UCLA) investigates the fate of embodiment in an information age. Ranging widely across the history of technology and culture, she relates three interwoven stories: how information came to be conceptualized as an entity separate from material forms; the cultural and technological construction of the cyborg; and the dismantling of the liberal humanist subject in cybernetic discourse. From the birth of cybernetics to artificial life, she provides an account of how we arrived in our virtual age. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

What People Are Saying

Donna J. Haraway
Hayles shows us 'how information lost its body' in order that we might better know how to keep disembodiment from being written once again into dominant concepts of subjectivity. How We Became Posthuman is a powerful prophylactic against our most likely alien abduction scenario—to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information.

Gregory Benford
An incisive meditation on a major, often misunderstood aspect of the avant-garde in science fiction; the machine/human interface in all its unsettling, technicolor glories...I recommend it highly.
— (Gregory Benford, author of Timescape

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Prologue
1	Toward Embodied Virtuality	1
2	Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers	25
3	Contesting for the Body of Information: The Macy Conferences on Cybernetics	50
4	Liberal Subjectivity Imperiled: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetic Anxiety	84
5	From Hyphen to Splice: Cybernetic Syntax in Limbo	113
6	The Second Wave of Cybernetics: From Reflexivity to Self-Organization	131
7	Tuning Reality Inside Out and Right Side Out: Boundary Work in the Mid-Sixties Novels of Philip K. Dick	160
8	The Materiality of Informatics	192
9	Narratives of Artificial Life	222
10	The Semiotics of Virtuality: Mapping the Posthuman	247
11	Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Be Posthuman?	283
	Notes	293
	Index	325