August, 2010

When running Office Communications Server Setup to create an Enterprise pool, the Create Enterprise Pool Wizard requires a SQL Server instance as shown in Figure 1. This is a database instance that the Enterprise pool uses as its back-end server. After the SQL Server instance field, the wizard provides an example that can be confusing. The reason is that unless you plan to reuse an existing instance, most installations are new installations. The language in the wizard might make you think that you need to specify a database instance name that is to be created or that you have to create the instance yourself.

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This article provides instructions for upgrading Office Communicator Phone Edition devices from build 199 to 522 and then to 6907 by using the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Device Update Service. There is also a brief description of the naming...

There is much to think about in the design of your network perimeter for Office Communications Server-several services are offered in the perimeter network through the Edge Servers. The primary goal when implementing a split-brain DNS solution is to provide...

What is the use and value of the Director role? To be clear, the Director role doesn't exist. You won't find this server role in the Communications Server 2007 and 2007 R2 Setup. A Director is simply a Standard Edition Server or Enterprise pool that has...

If you find yourself frequently using Remote PowerShell to start up Communications Server Management Shell, you might have thought about how nice it would be to have a handy desktop shortcut to do this. If you have thought that - or even if you haven't, but now that we mention it it sounds like a pretty useful thing - take a look at this script.

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This article discusses a Microsoft Windows Script Host deployment script that provides a complimentary or a complete solution for deploying or upgrading Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2, the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 client, and the Conferencing...