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Author: Publication date: October 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 We are excited to announce changes to the Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (PIC) license that provides instant messaging and presence federation to the Windows Live, AOL and...

Author: Nick Smith Publication date: Setember 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Following the release of Office Communications Server 2007 Sasa Juratovic posted a PowerShell script to retrieve user IM conversations form the archiving database. ( http://communicationsserverteam...

Author: Thomas Binder Publication date: September 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 As we all know, in the world of computers we have a binary system. Either something works (1) or it does not (0). And as all of us really know, there is another state, that we...

Author: Stéphane Cavin Publication date: August 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 When a user is an agent of a Response Group, he will receives voice calls via the Response Group Service. Because calls are not originally targeted at this user in particular...

Author: Martin Isaksen Publication date: June 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 In order to mark Audio and Video packets for DSCP in OC 2007 R2, the following steps has to be performed on Vista SP1 and SP2 PCs: Create and update the following key : (32 bit...

Author: Manjeet Garg Publication date: June 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 You Can Download Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 from the following Link - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BC08CDB7-98E9-47E5-AA63-EB17C2CE4592&displaylang...

Author: UC Partner Marketing Publication date: June 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Learn about new partner applications built on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The Silverlight player features 3 partner applications: Schlumberger’s...

We are pleased to announce official support for server virtualization for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Author: Jerome Berniere Publication date: May 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 We are introducing support for both a fully distributed virtualized...

The information listed below has been tested using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Upon completion of the install remember to reboot the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition Pool server to make sure that all the services start without an issue. Author...

This is an update to a post I made about a year ago to help you choose the AD store OCS uses for global settings. Author: Andrew Sniderman Publication date: April 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Quick note on terminology Active Directory has three stores...

Author: Bernd Ott Publication date: April 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 This article describes the steps taken by Office Communicator to establish a Communicator call between an OC client sitting on a typical home network, connected to the Internet using...

The purpose of this entry is to provide information regarding the various types of logging capabilities that exist within the numerous clients accessing the Office Communications Server Infrastructure. Author: Kent Tilger Publication date: April 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server...

It’s been a while since I wrote this blog on OCS 2007 media traversal. I’ve since left Microsoft to join a UC consulting company, but media traversal is still near and dear to me. This blog describes some of the improvements in media traversal that have been implemented in OCS 2007 R2. ...

This post addresses inconsistencies with how Communicator Web Access 2007 R2 (CWA) implements normalization rules in relation to OC and other OCS clients. Author: Jens Trier Rasmussen Publication date: March 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 OCS 2007 introduced...

There has been a change in SQL 2005 SP3 that can impact the installation of OCS 2007. This does not impact OCS 2007 R2. Author: Publication date: February 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 SQL 2005 SP3 has an update that changes a return code that the OCS...

Author: Rob Pittfield Publication date: January 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Another reason clients can have problems downloading the OCS Address Book is because the external download URL wasn’t set on initial installation. It’s an optional...

Author: Rob Pittfield Publication date: January 2009 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 RTManage.exe is a tool you can use to manually update the Roundtable device without requiring the OCS Software Update Server. Once you download and install the tool, the usage is...

With the recent release of the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) Program for Office Communications Server 2007 and as the Program Manager responsible for its launch this year I wanted to provide a little more information about the program, its focus and what you can expect should you attend one of the...

Author: Rob Pitfield Publication date: December 2008 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Once the QoE Service is installed and associated with a pool and Mediation Server it should start getting statistics. You’ll also need to exit Office Communicator or the Live...

Author: Rob Pittfield Publication date: October 2008 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 A common issue we see is clients getting an error stating “Cannot Synchronize Address Book”. It looks like this: There are several reasons clients could get this...

In our previous post, we introduced changes in Office Communications Server to enable Direct SIP with IP-PBX such as Cisco Call Manager. In this simple example, we provide a configuration of Direct SIP with Cisco Call Manager 4.2.1. Author: Francois Doremieux, Jerome Berniere Publication date:...

What’s changing? With the hotfixes released in August 2008, Microsoft is significantly improving the capability for Office Communications Server 2007 to exchange calls with SIP-based IP-PBX, in particular from Cisco. As a consequence, Microsoft now supports OCS deployments in Direct SIP with IP...

If you just want to try Communicator Mobile 2.0 without installing it on your Windows Mobile device, you can use a device emulator running on your desktop computer (or even running the emulator in a Virtual PC on your desktop machine J). This guide will instruct you, how to install all required components...

Author: Miru Gunarajah Publication date: August 2008 Product version: Office Communications Server 2007 R2 The Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 is a tool that takes a user through a set of interview questions regarding the proposed or current edge server deployment...

Multi-point Control Units for Web Conferencing and Audio & Video.. How do IT Admins determine if these servers are staying healthy? As I explained in my previous blog in order to implement a comprehensive monitoring plan, the real trick is how to tell proactively when MCU server health is starting...