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I’ve posted quite a few times about Office Communications Server 2007, Cisco CUPS, Cisco CallManager and remote call control. I’ve had some bumps and bruises along the way, but now I am happy to report that… it works! CUPS and OCS are now playing nicely. The magic ingredient? Upgrade to CUPS 6.0.4. One of my […]

Up until now, RIM/BlackBerry has not released a client that works with OCS 2007 (although they’ve had an LCS 2005 client for some time). But quite recently, RIM have posted a BlackBerry client for OCS and it’s available on the RIM site. Out at a customer, we downloaded the client, installed on their BB devices […]

Overview Custom Field Types are a powerful SharePoint feature that allow you create your own field types for use in list definitions. When creating a Custom Field Type, you can customize not only the data types that are stored in the list field, but also the user interface and validation logic for the field as […]

We have all been there… SharePoint isn’t working right and the Event Viewer has nothing. A few of my personal favorite errors are; Unknown Error There are no more files Your search cannot be completed because of a service error. Try your search again or contact your administrator for more information. Sorry, no screenshot of […]

If you’ve made the mistake of goofing up the webfarm FQDN question during the OCS setup, you know it can be a pain. The trick, as I’ve complained about before, is that when the OCS installer asks people to put in the "External Web Farm FQDN" lots and lots of people get confused and think […]

A tip for enjoying communicator Phone Edition with Office Communications Server… It’s fairly well documented that you may have some problems logging into a Tanjay/Polycom CX700/Nortel/WhatEverYouWantToCallit communicator Phone Edition if you try to login like this: Sign-in Name: matt.mcgillen@corp.contoso.com UserName: matt.mcgillen@corp.contoso.com So the docs say to not log in with the UserName as I show […]

I just ran into an odd error installing Office Communications Server 2007 in a pretty restricted AD. I wasn’t around for the initial install / schema extension, so I’m not able to verify what permissions were or weren’t applied to the installation account, but it seems like something kept the service accounts from being assigned […]

The other day I received an email from a coworker which was protected by Information Rights Management and I realized I could not open it using my Windows Mobile device. We are running Rights Management Server internally and with my laptop on Vista, the IRM components are built-in and all integrated seamlessly. The first time […]

I ran into a 6 GB+ mailbox recently. And to boot, it had roughly 140,000 items in the inbox. Ponder that a little to yourself. What kind of impact do you think such a mailbox would have on your Exchange server? No matter how overbuilt it is, you’ll notice that in terms of memory usage, […]

Summary: Social networking in the enterprise is coming fast. There are a number of reasons for the sudden interest. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) provides a platform for social networking in the enterprise. This platform can be used for social networking that is focused on both internal and external business needs and strategies. It’s time […]

Recently I’ve seen this topic popping up more often in the TechNet forums and decided to try it myself. I ran through the install in a fresh lab with Windows 2008 Active Directory (2003 Forest functional level and 2008 Domain functional level) and a single Windows 2003 SP2 Member Server. I had read some posts […]

I wanted to post a follow-up to the same OCS related topic as before – I am still dealing with certificate requests and I had to deal with an external certificate request for OCS/Exchange 2007 as I was not getting the Communicator 2007 intergration that I we needed from the locally issued certificate we generated […]