Posts Tagged ‘unified communications’

I have had several customers ask me about Exchange 2010 SP1 and whether I have had any issues with the installation. In response to several such requests, I thought I’d share my experience installing Exchange 2010 SP1 in my test lab. In this article, my lab consists of a single server running the following: Server […]

My blog site is moving into a personal site at a new location: http://blog.schertz.name. All current articles will stay online here, but any new content from me will be posted over at the new location. I encourage my readers to continue checking the PointBridge blog site as the UC team will be still be adding […]

Many organizations today have multiple offices throughout the country and sometimes extend globally.Often times, these offices will have groups of individuals that collaborate with one another based on teams, departments, or even project areas.The demands of collaboration across distributed environments can be challenging and it’s not uncommon for organizations to fly people cross country or […]

Background Let me explain what this means first and set some criteria for a statement like this. In the majority of cases this would involve moving little to no data which is usually the recommended approach for such a large cutover (a.k.a. flash cutover). Coexistence between on-premise mail systems and BPOS can be problematic and […]

We’ve recently assisted a number of clients in Exchange 2007 à 2010 upgrades. In each case, they’ve been using ISA or TMG to publish external Exchange services. For the most part, it’s been easy to find information on the subject: the MS Exchange team has a really nice write up on the ISA configurations for […]

The SAN cert strikes again! I have a new mantra: don’t ever use SAN certs with OCS. I know, I know. “It can be done / you have it working / it’s cheaper / it’s supposed to work”. I get it. But this week was the last straw for me and the SAN; specifically the […]

In a follow-up to some of the features I briefly mentioned in a previous article here is a more in-depth look at some additional new features currently in the CS ‘14’ beta software which have been covered in various presentations throughout TechEd 2010 this week. I’ve just scratched the surface with most of these topics, […]

Right now I’m down at TechEd 2010 in New Orleans, LA where the keynote address is in progress. Microsoft has now officially lifted the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) on all features and content which will be coming in the next release of Communications Server, which is still dubbed ‘Microsoft Communication Server 14’. The ‘14’ refers to […]

The purpose of this article is to serve as a lessons-learned addendum to the current primary resource for configuring OCS and GMail federation: the Communication Server team’s official blog post on the subject. Following the detailed steps in that article should get you to a working end-state, but if a specific deployment differs from the […]

As promised, Microsoft has released supportability statements for various Communications Server versions when used with Server 2008 R2 hosts and domains. Yesterday two TechNet articles were released to address both scenarios. Server 2008 R2 Domains Previously no version of Communications Server was supported when deployed in an Active Directory environment using either forest/domain functional levels […]

While I’m not at VoiceCon this year, I’ve been following the developments there closely. Public info about Wave 14 (the next version of OCS) is starting to trickle out. Some important info: Support for new standalone IP phones being unveiled by Polycom and Astra. I’ve been _begging_ for MS to incorporate more standalone devices for […]

I typically don’t repost links to existing documentation, but occasionally I run across items that are not too well known and I feel this is a prime example. Just when I though I had all of the OCS-related documentation stashed away in a folder I ran into an entire section on TechNet that contains some […]