Posts Tagged ‘Office Communications Server’

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 most common reasons I have seen for uninstalling Office Communications Server 2007 from an environment are typically to remove a pre-release beta version or test deployment, or to start from scratch after a botched deployment. In either scenario it’s often desired to completely remove all aspects of OCS and start fresh. This approach is […]

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’ve run across a couple situations where enabling users for OCS via the Management Console proved to be a bit cumbersome, typically when wanting to only select a certain subset of accounts among a list of thousands. So I set off to figure out how to easily perform the same action by manipulating the AD […]

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 […]

I recently delivered a webinar on the business and technical benefits of Office Communications Server: OCS 2007 In Action Presentation As I went through my preparation for the presentation, I realized that what I was really doing was creating a presentation that addressed the most common questions and concerns I’ve heard from various people/customers. A […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]