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This means that as a member of any of these Universal Groups you can include other groups
and accounts from any domain in the domain tree or forest. You??™ll also be able to be assign
permissions in any domain in the domain tree or forest. Universal Group support, combined
with administrator delegation, greatly simplifi es management of your OCS 2007
deployment.
Enhanced In-Band Provisioning
You??™re also now able to customize your clients to meet the needs of your installation. Your
control over enabling or disabling features you want is centralized and can be chosen according
to your security policy and network infrastructure. This happens through in-band provisioning.
This also provides a way to confi gure all your roaming clients, those outside the reach of
your Group Policy. In-band provisioning is also now extensible. More settings are now
provided by the server too.
The big question in my mind after reading all about this in Microsoft??™s preliminary
literature was ???What??™s it used for???? The answer is simple. OCS 2007 uses in-band provisioning
to pass user identity and server confi guration information to the client. The information
conveyed in the user identity category is used to display the username and e-mail address in
the client. The server confi guration category contains such information as Address Book
Server download URLs, group expansion Web service URLs, console installation URLs, and
conference troubleshooting URLs.
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