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I recently needed to create few thousand mail-enabled users in Active Directory for a project in which the original plan was to use a third-party mail migration product to later mailbox-enable and then migrate data in from another directory. But as plans changed I found that we were going to need to manually convert a […]

Last week I found Xobni through an RSS Feed. I installed the application and passed it on to a few coworkers. After using this application for over a week and having a number of coworkers install and enjoy the tool I thought I would pass the word. Upon installation Xobni will search through your email […]

A while ago, I posted some thoughts about OCS as a conference bridge and commented on some shortcomings. In the months in between I’ve had a lot of conversation with people about the topic and figured it was about time to revisit the subject. First off, I should state that OCS 2007 itself, in its […]

When I was troubleshooting some hosted LiveMeeting connectivity issues for a client, I decided to run a sniffer trace of the whole process. It turned out to be really useful to see how the client connected – especially what ports and protocols are used. Below is a step-by-step of what I saw happening. If you […]

Blended project teams – combinations of internal and external resources – provide in many cases the best possible team for implementing solutions based on new technologies like SharePoint 2007. As the person responsible for a new SharePoint implementation, why would you look outside your organization to build your project team? You’d do so to fill […]

I’ve posted quite a few times about the Cisco CUPS and OCS integration. I last left off awaiting a Beta copy of CUPS 6.0.3 to see if it would resolve my major issue: original calls being put on hold when an admin answered a second call. And I’ve got an answer: CUPS 6.0.3 definitely does […]

This blog is basically a heads up for those deciding to split up roles across many servers when upgrading from Exchange 2003. One of the processes you need to move over is the OAB generation. While this is pretty straightforward I ran into a minor quirk in the new 2007 environment. The documentation for this […]

Recently I came across an issue that was new to me. I don’t have a lot of experience working with Outlook forms because I’ve always been in the infrastructure world and frankly never had a need or admittedly a desire to design any forms. Anyway, to my point, a user came to me and wanted […]

OK, I know the title of the song is Twist and Shout. When I played bass in my high school rock band, I was always amazed at how difficult it was to play this simple, 3-chord song really well. (I think it’s the syncopation). Sometimes the seemingly simple things have some added hidden intricacies. Here’s […]

Let’s say that you are going to deploy OCS for a 50 person organization with the following requirements: Internal and external IM (like PIC or federation) Integration to your PBX Archiving Internal and external LiveMeeting / voice conferencing / audio conferencing To meet these requirements, you need, at a minimum OCS Standard Edition Server OCS […]

I am a huge SharePoint fan in the original sense of the word. Yes, I am fanatic about SharePoint. Ask my teammates at PointBridge, our clients, or for that matter my friends or family. You should know at the outset that I am heavily invested in SharePoint. I have been working with it since before […]

(This post is a more in-depth follow-up to my original blog entry on the subject: Enabling Custom Phone Number Normalization with the Address Book Service.) I recently took a short hiatus from the OCS TechNet discussion forums while concentrating on an Exchange project for the past few months. While catching up on threads, I’ve noticed […]