PointBridge Blogs

For the longest time I was trying to figure out the relationship between Display Name, Internal Name, and Static Name in SharePoint. While Display Name and Internal Name were fairly easy to understand for me, the function of the Static Name eluded me for the longest time. If you have been reading my blogs, you […]

When deploying the Response Group service in Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and the Front-End services are hosted on a Windows 2008 Server there is an annoying little ‘glitch’ that rears it’s head during initial configuration. Basically, it doesn’t work. It apparently is not a problem with Server 2003 as I’ve not run across it […]

Now that the Exchange 2010 Beta is here I thought I’d take a closer look into some of the new features. While the list of proposed improvements is vast and sorely needed, there are a few little ones that most will appreciate, like being able to add AD attributes to disclaimer messages. I know, it’s […]

Today I came across another instance of an incremental search crawl that seemed to be stuck. The crawl had been running overnight for more than nine hours and had zero items in the crawl log. After digging through the event logs, I found a series of warnings saying "The index was paused." However, according to […]

Microsoft has just officially launched Office Communications Online functionality into the North American Business Productivity Online Suite – Shared (BPOS-S) offering. If you’ve already been using the Exchange, SharePoint, and Live Meeting services, then OCS is a welcome addition as now IM communication and Presence information is tied into the client application suite (Outlook, Office […]

Did you know that SQL Server Analysis Services includes very powerful data mining capabilities that can help organizations find hidden patterns in their data and unlock the data’s real value? These capabilities were introduced with Analysis Services in SQL Server 2000 and really came of age in 2005. With SQL Server 2008, Microsoft has introduced […]

I recently encountered an issue in which the nightly incremental crawl on our farm had been running for over 30 hours. These crawls typicall take 1 to 3 hours depending on the amount of content that has been added. The propagation status on the Search Administration screen showed that the crawl was stuck because one […]

Sometimes it seems like an incremental crawl can take forever. On our farm, an incremental crawl usually takes 1 to 3 hours, but yesterday it took over 26 hours to complete. When I noticed that it had been running for about 10 hours, I got concerned and started investigating. Looking on the Search Administration screen […]

Just a quick note worth mentioning: Microsoft has just released the downloadable version of the OCS 2007 R2 Product Documentation in the Complied Help Module (.chm) format. Anyone with a previous TAP/RDP version of the file from Connect should replace their with this updated copy as there are many new sections (the overall file size […]

There was a lot of talk at VoiceCon about taking a "Best of Breed" approach: use Cisco for the PBX, use Microsoft for e-mail, use SameTime to do IM (heck have ½ your users on SameTime, ½ on OCS), use google doc. Use openSER or asterisk or whatever! It should all work togther. All of […]

I discovered a bug with the R2 Dial-in conferencing… the good news is that it’s being fixed by MS as we speak (I wasn’t the only one to discover the bug!). There is a hotfix for the LiveMeeting client now. UPDATE: and now, thanks to a comment from Joel, I have the link to the […]

I’m mostly through the first day and a half of VoiceCon 2009 and have noticed a common thread running through the sessions: it’s important to understand your customer’s business. Duh! Well, actually it’s pretty impressive that a technology conference – VoiceCon – is laying this out so clearly. The technology is taking a backseat to […]