May 2009 - Posts

How do OCS Address books work, and why is mine broken?
13 May 09 11:30 AM | andym | 0 Comments   

That is a very good question... A great link i eventually was able to get is at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb963980.aspx So... AD has all the info The user replicator shifts this info to the OCS SQL DB in the ABUserEntry table The ABServer Read More...

Setting up a quick OCS 2007 test environment
08 May 09 04:46 PM | andym | 0 Comments   

Perhaps virtualised for testing? Physical HW is obviously better Two W2k3 or W2k8 boxes Configure TCPIP appropriately on the two machines so they can chat using static IPs Name machines appropriately Promote one to a DC DC is a DNS server Install CA services Read More...

Windows Mobile not syncing with HTTP 500 internal server error and nextags showing problems with syncstate table
07 May 09 03:02 PM | andym | 0 Comments   

Odd one this, it seems a couple of the reasons this can be seen are down to a corrupt syncstate table, for whatever reason.. Also if we hit problems with limits on named properties we may fail with an internal server error 500 if something like iphone Read More...

OCS calling users when unlocking machine or switching from other apps
07 May 09 03:00 PM | andym | 0 Comments   

This has been brought to our attention as an intermittant issue but with more work has given a thorough reproduction around the keypressing actions in the OCS client. This behaviour is being investigated by the debug team and will be passed onto the product Read More...