Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway
Today Microsoft released the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway.
With an XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) Gateway it is possible to exchange basic IM en Presence information between an OCS environment, and XMPP based systems like Google Talk and Jabber. This OCS XMPP Gateway requires an additional server which is placed between the OCS Edge server and the XMPP system.
After the gateway is deployed OCS user can add or delete users of an XMPP environment as contacts, and communicate with users of an XMPP environment through one-on-one IM conversations. This is comparable with the concept of Federation between OCS based environments, but in this case limited to only Presence and IM.
The XMPP Gateway package and documentation can be downloaded at the following location:.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa560bfe-9960-473a-bfb8-53bff678cec4&displaylang=en