Posts Tagged ‘OCS’

The purpose of this article is to serve as a lessons-learned addendum to the current primary resource for configuring OCS and GMail federation: the Communication Server team’s official blog post on the subject. Following the detailed steps in that article should get you to a working end-state, but if a specific deployment differs from the […]

As promised, Microsoft has released supportability statements for various Communications Server versions when used with Server 2008 R2 hosts and domains. Yesterday two TechNet articles were released to address both scenarios. Server 2008 R2 Domains Previously no version of Communications Server was supported when deployed in an Active Directory environment using either forest/domain functional levels […]

While I’m not at VoiceCon this year, I’ve been following the developments there closely. Public info about Wave 14 (the next version of OCS) is starting to trickle out. Some important info: Support for new standalone IP phones being unveiled by Polycom and Astra. I’ve been _begging_ for MS to incorporate more standalone devices for […]

I typically don’t repost links to existing documentation, but occasionally I run across items that are not too well known and I feel this is a prime example. Just when I though I had all of the OCS-related documentation stashed away in a folder I ran into an entire section on TechNet that contains some […]