I run Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 and use it to do nightly backups of the family computers.  A few months ago I bought a new HP laptop for my use and joined it to WHS for nightly backups.  At first they failed until I did some research and...

  I recently worked on a case with a customer who needed assistance in configuring the Client Version Filtering for OCS 2007 R2 EE.  For those unfamiliar with this feature here’s a few links that cover the capabilities: Microsoft Office Communications...

Introduction Microsoft has added the ability to enhance the Manager/Delegate experience used in Outlook and Exchange scenarios to now include the ability for the delegate to also schedule Office Live Meetings on the manager’s calendar. In this write-up...

MSN PIC connectivity has been restored. Users may need to sign out and back into their client before seeing successful conversations/presence. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Microsoft Customer Service and Support, Lync/OCS and Windows Live Messenger teams are currently investigating a possible loss of service for enterprise Lync and OCS customers who federate with Windows Live Messenger. The appropriate teams are actively...

Check out the NextHop UC Blog Roll at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/ee410018.aspx . From their site its “Your one-stop source for blog highlights and links from dozens of the very best blogs about Unified Communications.”

This is the one week reminder that the scheduled additional IP Address is on track for implementation on Friday, March 26, 2010. For organizations restricting this traffic to specific IP addresses the updated list in the KB below MUST be in place by March...

This is the four week reminder that the scheduled additional IP Address is on track for implementation on Friday, March 26, 2010. For organizations restricting this traffic to specific IP addresses the updated list in the KB below must be in place by...

Reference my original blog on an Additional Windows Live Messenger PIC/Federation IP Address Tomorrow’s planned added capacity has been postponed for technical reasons and to provide additional time for administrators to update their firewall settings...

Here are some easy steps that can be used to verify if two Windows machines trust the issuing certificates used to negotiate MTLS (Mutual Transport Layer Security) between each other. Some OCS examples of this could be: Front-End servers that need to...

Notification In an effort to provide enhanced capacity and service reliance, Windows Live Messenger will soon be adding an additional IP address used for PIC/Federation traffic. Some organizations have chosen to restrict this type of traffic to specific...