Posts Tagged ‘Office Communications Server’

As you probably know Office Communication Server 2007 from Microsoft supports and can very easily be seutp for federation with the public IM providers. Yahoo, MSN and AOL are the supported protocols. Microsoft kindly provides the intial setup and it works. For MSN connectivity, you can add any "Live Enabled" email address to your contact […]

Today the topic is the way that PointBridge supports and encourages other users of Office Communication Server to communicate with us. We have turned on and support Open Federation. We have published the requisite DNS records and have the communication ports open to allow your OCS services to contact ours. The required DNS records are […]

I’ve been doing a lot of research into how you can extend OCS using the SDKs that MS makes available. Before I launch into my take on it, I have a couple points about the SDKs There are lots of SDKs The SDKs are very, very good – they are the building blocks that OCS […]

I had occasion recently to publish our OCS Addressbook service through ISA server 2006. This works, and now allows our users to fire up Communicator anywhere, and always be able to download a fresh copy of the OCS Offline Address book. The write-up provided by Microsoft helps with the setup of this. It walks you […]

I wanted to take a few minutes to provide an incomplete review of a couple of the new OCS-compatible IP phones. I’ve been using 2 different ones here at PointBridge: The "Tanjay" – aka the Polycom CX400 / Nortel 8540 The "Catalina" – aka the Polycom CX200 I’m not going to rehash all the bells […]

Just a quick blog entry here; it seems like every time I need to send another external party the link to download the LM2007 installation, I can never find it. Yes, the link itself is in the invitation email (although somewhat difficult to find) but those aren’t always handy when trying to create an impromptu […]

Here at PointBridge we have a group that works overseas in Pune, India. And since we use LiveMeeting and OCS internally we thought it would make sense to use OCS to save on international calls to and from India. But note: we don’t have a dedicated WAN connection to Pune: it’s all over the Internet. […]

I’ve written a bunch on my OCS 2007 CallManager 5.1 and Cisco Unified Presence Server (CUPS) 6.0.1 integration. For the most part – it’s all working great. My previous posts talked about resolving issues with shared line appearances (where your extension is on multiple phones). I was happy to clear that up. But now – […]

When configuring OCS user settings in bulk there are a limited numbers of options one can change when using the Office Communications Server 2007 Management Console. A range of user accounts can be selected and some options can be enabled/disabled like: Enhanced Presence, Federation, External access, PIC, and archival behavior. You can also set EV […]

I just ran into an interesting aspect of an Office Communications Server 2007 integration with Cisco CallManager & Cisco Unified Presence Server. I posted the following anecdote in on the technet forums in bits and pieces, so I thought I’d put it here as well. I have an OCS Ent pool integrated with Cisco CUPS […]

Although deploying Office Communications Server 2007 for use internally is quite straight-forward, things begin to get complicated when adding in the components used for external client connectivity. The most misunderstood portions of deployment seem to be the correct configuration of the reverse proxy, and the networking configuration of the Edge Server itself. OCS Edge Server […]

I have been burned 3 times by OCS when trying to bind multiple IP addresses to the same NIC. Here are the three scenarios: Trying to use the same NIC for the internal and external IP address on the Edge Server We had only 1 available nic, so I put both internal and external IPs […]