During my experience of joining the UC escalation team, one thing I needed to do was get ramped up on the SIP protocol used by our products.  Coming from the Exchange world, I was very familiar with client to server networking over many protocols.  Exchange Server even offered IM at one time...

  Microsoft readies Office Communicator 2010 beta Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 12:17 pm As I’ve blogged before, the next release of Microsoft’s Office Communications Server is in development, with a final release slated for the last calendar quarter of 2010. But it looks like testers are going to be...

Office Communicator 2007 R2 The Following Office Beta Editions Contain Office Communicator 2007 R2 Professional Plus Instant messaging at work will be a snap for you with Microsoft Office 2010, and so will all the related functions of your Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 application...

So a question I get quite often is ‘is there a Communicator client for the Mac’? The answer is yes, sort of . Actually, the application is called Microsoft Messenger for the Mac and handles both Windows Live and Office Communications Server accounts. For the purpose of this post, I will only be focusing...

Often during OCS deployments, there are failed installations or servers get removed without proper deactivation. This results in objects being left in Active Directory (AD) that reference the old server name. This can sometimes lead to problems when customers try and reintroduce the same server / pool...

Having been on the Unified Communications team for over two years now, I thought it might be time for me to join the blogging community. When I first arrived on the team, many of my peers already were publishing blogs and not being as comfortable with the product, I didn’t feel qualified to post one...