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It’s March 5th, 2009. I have been absent as a contributor to the SharePoint blogging world for a large number of months. Not double digits, mind you, but approaching. I have been an irregular blogger. That’s not the same as infrequent. At PointBridge we track our most frequent bloggers and post their names on our […]

In following the approach started with the Edge Server Planning Tool Microsoft has recently released a complete Planning Tool for Microsoft OCS 2007 R2. The tool walks the user through a set of Yes/No questions asking which features or roles of OCS are desired, followed by how many sites comprise the network environment, how many […]

I just finished integrating OCS R2 with a Cisco CallManager deployment. Everything was working as expected (this was an upgrade from R1). But because this was R2, I was eager to test out the new OCS dial-in conferencing service. So I provisioned myself a bridge number and PIN and dialed in using a Cisco 7941 […]

So I admit it, I ‘Google’ stuff. I’ve used it for years as my default search engine; I love the maps component especially. It’s quick, well put together, and pretty bug free. It’s probably the only piece of mobile software I used regularly on my Windows Mobile phone (Blackjack II, meaning no GPS) so the […]

So I’ve spent a good portion of time I didn’t have in the first place messing around with trying to get a stable laptop. For two years I was using a Dell D820 with Vista and after getting SP1 to resolve most of the major annoyances it was a pretty solid machine. Save for the […]

It works!! (I’m tempted to just put an <EOM> here!) I have to admit, I was skeptical that the AV edge server would actually work through NAT. The first I heard of NAT being supported was back in October on Jeff’s blog. But even in Jeff’s post, he pointed out some stuff that left room […]

So this blog is sort of a follow-up to Matt McGillen’s original article on the same subject. During a recent OCS deployment I was configuring a Mediation Server against a IP-PBX system that is to be tested for eventual certification. In doing so I made sure to configure all aspects of OCS to strict best […]

There have been a few minor changes to the Administration Tools for OCS in R2. Firstly, the original release of OCS would automatically install the associated OCS Management console snap-in on each server role, but in R2 the management tools must now be installed manually. (One caveat is that the Group Chat Server Configuration Tool […]

Corporate Performance Management (CPM) is a complex and multi-faceted subject area. ln the Microsoft sphere most people understand the major components to be: · Planning – Process by which an organization establishes what should happen. Planning can be separated into two distinct activities: o What are the key performance indicators (KPI’s) that describe success? § […]

Just a quick note here from Microsoft about the upcoming public launch of OCS R2: (There’s a link on the site right now that will conveniently add a calendar item and reminder to Outlook. ) The virtual event experience will be available at www.OCSR2LAUNCH.com on Tuesday February 3rd 2009. The event will open with a […]

There are are couple issues related to System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 that I’ve addresses in a recent deployment I’ve been meaning to blog about, but was waiting on a couple responses back from Microsoft for confirmation. One is related to the externally-published Enrollment Server certificate and the other issue tackles the problem of […]

Continuing my series of posts about provisioning sharepoint elements programmatically through object model, today I would like to show how to provision a view associated with a list programmatically (as opposed to using CAML). One can create as many views as you want in addition to the default view. The views will be accessable through […]