Last week at Microsoft Tech·Ed Europe 2009 in Berlin several attendees came to the UC Booth and asked about the usage of the Internal Enterprise Extension flag in a OCS 2007 R2 normalization rule. Since it seems to be an interesting topic I wanted to...

Some time ago Rick Varvel create a very detailed guide on how to configure the Edge server role. Rick has now create a similar very detailed guide on how you can upgrade your Microsoft Office Communicator Phone Edition devices - http://blogs.technet.com...

The PreCallDiagTool is an application that reports expected audio quality as it relates to the network effect. The tool should be installed on any desktop or laptop PC that suffers from inconsistent network connection quality. The PreCallDiagTool can...

We recently released the R2 Phone Edition Deployment Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AE3E5B3A-1564-4DE5-8B29-A73275E52619&displaylang=en

Recently we released the 3.5.6907.31 version of the OCPE firmware. It’s available here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=565595be-6cf3-4a61-a1e4-12555749ca64 in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese...

We have recently released an update to OC 2007 R2 (3.5.6907.22). The fix is available here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971083/

We have made the documentation to OCS 2007 R2 available both as a Compiled Help Module (CHM) file and as individual documents - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e9f86f96-aa09-4dca-9088-f64b4f01c703

We have made the R2 release notes available http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60a6d84a-29c5-472b-bb3e-6caa39b745ed&DisplayLang=en . Included is Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Phone Edition Release Notes containing valuable...

Rick Varvel has published a very detailed and comprehensive guide on how to configure Remote Access for OCS 2007 R1 and R2. Well worth reading. Please take a look at it here http://blogs.technet.com/rickva/archive/2009/04/09/ocs-2007-r1-r2-remote-access...

This is an update to my my previous post on migration http://blogs.technet.com/jenstr/archive/2007/11/27/migrating-from-lcs-2005-sp1-to-ocs-2007-which-client-can-you-use-when.aspx . I’ve only updated the table. For the full details please refer to the...

It’s Saturday and we are busy in the lab. This is a tough day – first the 3rd written exam and then the Qualification Lab! It has been a good week with topics like Edge, Load Balancer, Architecture Case Study, Operations & Troubleshooting, Tools and...

So this is Saturday afternoon and we are all still plucking away in the lab. Yes, the first sentence is the same as my previous post on OCS Master, since we are continuing the work in the lab. This week has been a bit less stress full than last week,...

So this is Saturday afternoon and we are all still plucking away in the lab. It has been quite a challenging experience until now, but also very rewarding. 12 hour+ days with a mixture of presentations, discussions and lab work. Most of the participants...

You might experience that your Office Communicator Phone Edition powered devices are not updating to new firmware versions hosted on a OCS 2007 R2 enterprise edition pool running on Windows 2008. The cause could be that the device is not able to access...

One of the projects I’ve been working on this autumn has been the OCS Master program. My role has been to act as the interface between the component teams in the OCG Product Group – the folks developing OCS, OC, Live Meeting, Attendant, OCPE etc - and...

In our documentation we tell you to use the DHCP option 119 when you deploy Office Communicator Phone Edition (OCPE) powered devices. But why do you need it? It has to do with how the device can find a domain controller (DC) to talk to. You can sign in...

We have released a new update for Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition powered devices - http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952693 . The image version is now 1.0.522.101.

You might get the above error message when you try to call your voice mail hosted on Exchange 2007 SP1 UM from your Office Communicator Phone Edition (OCPE) powered device. The likely cause of the issue is a mismatch between the VoIPSecurity setting of...

What can you do if the Public Certificate you are using on your Edge server(s) is not trusted by Office Communicator 2007 Phone edition? The public certificate is not trusted because its corresponding Root CA certificate is not installed on the device...

As a user of OCS 2007 you have the ability to receive Missed Call Notifications. How the Missed Call Notification is generated depends on the configuration of the user in question. Let's examine the different options. Enterprise Voice with Exchange 2007...

We have released a new update for Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition powered devices - http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;949659 . The image version is now 1.0.522.71.

We just published a Deployment Guide for Office Communicator Phone Edition. Check it out at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ED9C55C3-51C9-46D0-B48A-D72BBE129B63&displaylang=en .

Sometimes, when you upload a new .cab file for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition or Microsoft RoundTable using the OCS 2007 Software Update Service Management Console Upload Software feature, the upload fails with an HttpException and the...

Exchange 2007 SP1 UM provides voice mail functionality for OCS 2007 users when they are Enterprise Voice enabled. How is it possible to provide Exchange 2007 SP1 UM fault-tolerance for these users? Exchange 2007 SP UM and OCS 2007 are integrated at the...

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 (OC) enables you to drive your presence from information in your Outlook calendar. If the Outlook calendar has a meeting OC will change your presence to be "In a Meeting". If the Outlook calendar has an appointment OC...