Friday, April 03, 2009

Is Microsoft's technical documentation gettting worse?

I've been assigned a new project, recently, trying to assess Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and I've been digging through the TechNet information. I'm just doing an inital pass, really, nothing in depth, and the documentation is kind of depressing. They have several reference topologies and these little case studies scattered about and they are just pitiful. The reference topolgy diagram is missing some important info - like the number of employees that the topology was designed for? Kind of important to know if the diagram is applicable to 5,000 users or 50,ooo users but that is not there.

I wanted to find out just a few things:
  • Is virtualization supported (hyper-v or vmware)
  • If so, which roles are good candidates for virtualization
  • As you move from simple to complex or small to big, which role can be combined onto one server and which should never be.
Isn't that fairly basic information? Or am I expecting too much for something that is new?

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