Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book ( OAB ).  This has also been the source of some recent work for myself...

Written by Joe Lefort, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In my last article, Why You Need To Understand NAT When Setting Up Lync or OCS ,  I talked a fair bit about the edge and NAT. I thought this article would be all about the STUN and TURN...

Written by Chandrasekar Natarajan , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. In a typical ASP.NET application, using a User Control is pretty straight forward, we just need to map the control to an ObjectDataSource and bind its settings. But in Microsoft SharePoint...

Written by Joe Lefort, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Microsoft Lync and OCS are fairly easy to set up if all you want to do is have internal IM/presence and conferencing. The moment you decide to open your SIP domain up to the outside world...

Written by Alexander Windel, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Let’s say you want to create a disaster recovery (DR) plan for a common, shared enterprise IT service such as e-mail or document collaboration in your organization. One of the results...

Written by Rhoderick Milne , Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. The venerable Personal Storage Table (PST) file has been present in Microsoft Exchange environments for many years.  In some ways its success has lead to its downfall.  With the...

Written by Frank Plawetzki, Senior Microsoft Premier Field Engineer. Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book) . One affected public-folder based OAB distribution...