PointBridge Blogs

In most cases, the sticky filters employed by PerformancePoint dashboards are quite useful. In the situations where you would like to not retain the last user selections, it can be a bit difficult. For example, I deployed a dashboard with filters that were passed to an SSRS report contained in the dashboard. I did not […]

Normally during the Exchange 2007 build process, generating the certificate requests is generally a no brainer. But a tiny, but not insignificant, comma threw a rather large monkey wrench into a recent engagement. This particular client had a contract with a large commercial certificate authority and the bussiness name the registered had a comma in […]

I’ve been using Exchange 2007 UM for quite a while now. It’s been great. I have had one qualm though: it drives me nuts that when I receive a forwarded VM from a co-worker, I can only open it with Windows Media Player because it’s like a regular e-mail with the WMA attached. It doesn’t […]

Let me take a minute (or several minutes) to address the dreaded "No phone system connection" (alternately, the "Cannot connect to the phone system") error when you are doing Remote Call Control (RCC) When you are integrating Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 with Cisco Unified Presence Server (CUPS), the default, generic message on communicator is […]

One of the biggest complaints I’ve seen with OCS was the large number of servers required when deploying all the components, even in consolidated scenarios. And although with new features come yet even more server roles, one change was made that actually helps reduce server footprint in smaller deployments. Monitoring Server With OCS 2007 to […]

Jamie Stark, an OCS Product Manager at Microsoft, is blogging this week from VoiceCon in Amsterdam as he and his team officially announce and release details of the upcoming Office Communications Server 2007 R2 release. You can find his updates here: http://nomorephones.spaces.live.com/default.aspx The scheduled keynote should have just wrapped up within the hour, so I’d […]

Recently I was looking into clustering Operations Manager 2007 and sizing the RMS (root management server) cluster disk resource came up. There’s very little documentation on this cluster resource disk and how to size it. After some research I found that this cluster disk resource stores the Health service state cache. The size of this […]

If you install Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 in a SCC or CCR configuration, offline address book generation will fail. The problem lies with changes made in Windows Server 2008 and how cluster files shares are created. In Server 2008 the file share for the cluster is only available, by default, using the […]

I little used portion of the OCS installation wizard is the ability to delegate some access rights to specific user accounts so that remote or junior administrators can deploy OCS components on server in a environment without actually needed to have full administrative rights. Launch the OCS 2007 Deployment Wizard and (depending on if it’s […]

At the moment I have a few too many OCS-specific telephony devices on my desk: a Polycom CX700 handset (aka the Tanjay), an LG-Nortel IP8540 handset (aka the Catalina), an LG-Nortel IP8502 Bluetooth headset, a couple generic USB headsets, and the latest edition: the Polycom Communicator CX100 speakerphone. On any given day I’m either working […]

This week Live Meeting stopped working for me and I couldn’t schedule meetings. Whenever I attempted to schedule a meeting I got the following errors. From the Live Meeting 2007 Application: An error occurred while attempting to open the options; An error occurred while attempting to Meet Now. From the Conference Add-in for Microsoft Outlook: […]

This tip has been around a while, but I still run into developers who don’t know it, so it’s worth a post. If you ever need to test connectivity or compose a valid OLEDB connection string, try this: Create an empty text file. Rename the extension from TXT to UDL Double click this file. The […]