There was an internal question about the ability to use Windows Active Directory Groups for securing Group Chat channels. Not finding it in the Group Chat content* I switched to my lab and created a group including the user that I first confirmed had...

A recent customer issue had the question asked of why a new certificate with Client Authentication in the Enhanced Key Usage (EKU) in addition to Server Authentication fixed an issue for the Group Chat Administration Console connecting successfully. I...

In testing Group Chat with an XP workstation for a customer, I found I could not upload a file successfully. The truth is that I haven’t been able to do this for a while but ignored it. I could not ignore it this time as I had to confirm as much functionality...

We are working on an effort to provide some guidance on monitoring the health of a Group Chat deployment and included are these two counters: MGC:SERVER - 01 - MGC Server Networking.\MGCSERVER - 003 - Active Endpoints MGC:SERVER - 01 - MGC Server Networking...

There was a customer topology which included the same OU name as shown in this simple example Edit - June 14, Keith Hanna of MCS shared the customer issue, his profile is here on Next Hop - Keith Hanna Domain Ou = northamerica Ou = sales Ou = marketing...

Premal Gandhi of our escalation team has started a blog which can be really valuable given he sees the issues that are most problematic which tend to give all of us our most valuable learnings. Due to the type of issues he receives you won't likely find...

Today's post comes courtesy of Wes Glockzin , Support Escalation Engineer in Texas, wesglock at microsoft dot com. The following is a synopsis of an issue I had and things I learned with customer that is using three OCS 2007 R2 Edge servers load balanced...

Did you deploy Group Chat CU5 and expect the User Colors functionality, I did and so did others, we appear to have an undocumented stored procedure change to communicate. We are investigating whether it truly is undocumented or if a later update has the...

We had a question regarding the whereabouts of the OCS Deployment Validation Solution document. I found it with a helpful hint from Rui by downloading the 2007 version of the tool - DVT.MSIT - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3596A10D...

I saw an email this morning sharing notice of this solution. I have not used it because I install an Enterprise pool given I install all roles which makes it easier in the long run. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express Microsoft SQL Server Management...

The release of Group Chat CU5 was eagerly anticipated by many, however our content was either confusing or inaccurate and we are working to fix that. Here is what we know to be wrong, the change we are making and whether it is in process or under discussion...

Yesterday I was reviewing the Office labs Productivity Future Vision video and in reviewing the site I stumbled across Canvas for OneNote . I am a big fan of OneNote, the concept of a Notebook with Sections and Section Groups with Pages is very logical...

I am in Redmond, WA attending the CS ‘14’ Airlift and for dinner Monday we went to Typhoon - http://www.typhoonrestaurants.com/specials.htm   I had the Curry Roma – Shrimp and scallop dumplings wrapped in a sheet of egg noodles, with a delicate green...

May 3 – The document has been pulled in order to address some last minute edits. I expect an update for ETA this week based on the schedules of those involved. For those of you that were looking for content around load balancing OCS 2007 R2, the doc you...

I enjoy following Scott Hanselman’s blog, he turned me on to PocketMod and a few months ago I tried 7zip based on his post about the tools he uses. I highly recommend you take a look as it covers a full gamut of tools. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2009UltimateDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows...

I reached out to Unify 2 a few weeks ago about their PowerView solution which they state provides “a comprehensive reporting/billing solution for OCS”. I was impressed with the offering and asked if they would share the deck so that I could include some...

Duplicating the post from http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2010/03/25/792.aspx   Our friends on the Forefront Server Protection team are conducting research to understand what applications you would like to protect, and how you would like...

The question that was asked: How come Communicator works with the Polycom HDX solution but not Mac Messenger? Office Communicator supports both RTVideo and H.263 and it is the later codec that the Polycom HDX solution works with today. The codec is the...

The cycle of product release has impacted my posting again as I am working with the next client/server for OCS which means I don’t get to post content about the release. I always point people to the public site on microsoft.com to avoid ever saying anything...

We had a customer report an issue to their local Microsoft Consultant when running Communicator Mobile on a Samsung Omnia II device. The display has a black background which causes a problem trying to view the content typed, also in Black. The workaround...

A few weeks ago we released the Capacity Planning for Group Chat document and very quickly our MVP community began to question the validity of such a doc with no ability to actually gauge the requirements for the size of the database. Today we have released...

The updated list of Microsoft Certified Masters and Architects has been posted. If you are looking for the upper echelon of knowledge, skills and talent then this is the crew for you. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/master.aspx#meet

A customer question was raised about wanting to delete the Recent Contacts entry list for users due to some alias changes and migrations. Nobody knew the answer right away and I was pretty sure it would be in the backend database somewhere. Turns out...

This is quite easily the most active topic of discussion we have going right now, internally, customers, MVP’s, Master’s, Moms and Dads, it seems everyone wants to know. The problem is that the answer is simple despite each group trying to tweak the discussion...

The Microsoft Unified Communications Virtual User Group (UCVUG) will be hosting it's quarterly meeting on December 8th, 2009 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time (-5 GMT). This event will be broadcast online via Microsoft Live Meeting. Please register if  you...