Office Communications Server 2007 Edge Planning Tool

It's great to see more and more planning tools coming out of the OCS team. Well done folks!

The original post can be seen here: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/08/29/248.aspx

Currently I see the largest issue being the lack of support for all supported topologies. Checkout the statement from the blog entry:

Topologies

Currently the tool only supports the Consolidated, Single-Site and Scaled Single-Site topologies.
The tool does not support the Remote Site Edge Topology (either scaled or un-scaled).
In order to get around this, users should use Single-Site or Scaled Single-Site to configure your primary Edge data center.

 

Otherwise the reporting for different teams, the interview style questions are all great.  This isn't meant to be a replacement for BPA and as such won't connect to your live OCS to gather config info. that would make it a real pain when trying to architect for several different customers or sites even.