I jsut wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the official blog site at http://communicationsserverteam.com/ . Content is provided from many different resources from within Microsoft. I would definately bookmark this site!

I wanted to let everyone know that I am transitioning to a new position and will no longer be working on OCS/LCS issues. While I'm very excited to be taking on the role of Team Manager within the Exchange Support organization, I will miss working with...

I happen to be part of an e-mail thread this week with several members of the product group and we were discussing the need for publicly routable IP address on the external interface of the A/V edge server. I wanted to share with you the information that...

Many people have been asking for the capability to use OCS 2007 with their IP-PBX without the need of a media gateway. Nortel has been working closely with Microsoft to make this a reality with their CS1000 system. For more information, go to http://technet...

Handouts in LiveMeeting 2007 are a way to transfer files to members of a meeting. When the user attempts to upload a file to handout he will get the error Upload Failed. If you check the Pwconsoledebug.log you will find the following error. This log is...

Here's another common problem I'm seeing when users attempt to setup interop between OCS 2007 and LCS 2005. With OCS 2007 we fully support an Enterprise Edition Front End server running without a hardware load balancer. However, with LCS 2005 we didn...

The question has been raised a few times, now that some enterprises are moving beyond the testing phase of OCS 2007 and into large scale production, about the need for a publicly routable IP address when using multiple A/V Edge servers behind a load balancer...

I happen to run across this rather unknown setting the other day while working with a customer and thought it was interesting. I'm not sure why anyone would use it, but thought I'd share the information because I'm sure someone out there has a need to...

I have seen several cases where the customer states that A/V works internally, but doesn't work externally. So, there are a few troubleshooting steps we can take to figure out the problem. First, are we using a publicly routable IP address on the external...

I wanted to make you all aware of another excellent source of information. Jens has just sarted his blog and already has some great information. I've had to pleasure of working with Jens (virtually) on the OCS Beta for the past year and he has been a...

From time-to-time there will be a need to update the firmware on the Tanjay. Do to this we utilize a server known as the Update Server. This is seperate from WSUS or SMS. The Update Server is a combination of a server role and a Sharepoint site. The information...

Many enterprises set up their OCS environment initially without plans to connect it externally and later decide that they do want to make OCS available externally. The natural tendency is to re-run the setup and check the box for external access. However...

Tom has posted about the QoE paper that has been published. Please read it at: http://blogs.technet.com/toml/archive/2007/07/27/quality-of-experience-qoe-paper-published.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

There are many differnt ways to troubleshoot any issue. I have found with Live Meeting (or web conferencing) connectivity issues the best place to start is with the pwconsole-debug log. I'm highlighting this log because many people don't know about its...

I was just informed about a new LiveMeeting user group that is getting started in the UK. The nice hook about the user group is they plan on conducting all of their meetings using LiveMeeting. So, you can attend meetings regardless of your physical location...

When deploying OCS 2007 in a environment where you wish to have remote users (i.e. users outside of your network) still be able to use the services you will need to deploy an Edge Server. The Edge Server was known as the Access Proxy in LCS 2005. Much...

Well, the OCS 2007 Public Beta was released this week and it appears that downloads have been very strong. If you are interested in downloading the Public Beta, go to http://www.microsoft.com/uc and you can register for it there. For those that are verterans...

Yesterday it was announced publicly that the Office Communications Server 2007 beta will be released this month. I have been working on the beta of OCS as a support engineer since December and I can tell you that we are taking unified communications to...

Microsoft has recently released Office Communications Server 2007 to private beta. OCS will be the replacement to Live Communications Server, which was first released in 2003 and has since seen a 2005 and 2005 SP1 version. So, how does this play in the...

Many times while troublshooting problems with LCS it is helpful to be able to get logging from both the server and the client. The following is a list of registry setting to enable logging from the client side. For Windows Messenger 5.0/5.1 use...

Hello and welcome to my blog! I hope that this site will be a place where you can find and exchange information with the growing community of Unified Communication users. First, let me introduce myself. My name is Chad Lacy and I'm a Support Engineer...