<Feb 13 Edit appended to end of post> Just to prove that knowledge of the past doesn’t replace proper planning, I got caught in the Schema update because while my Domain was operating at Windows 2003 functional level, my forest was not. The online...

April 22 Update: New blog post about the decision tree on server team site - http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/04/13/409.aspx Very important: (from the R2 help file) If you decide to migrate your global settings to the Configuration...

I am going to work through the deployment as we suggest our partners to do. We provide them a planning workbook (currently discussing to be released as part of document set) and the planning tool. The planning workbook is designed to provide an overview...

Update Sat December 27 - My colleague Thomas Binder in Austria noted some discrepancies in the documentation around the terms database and instance, so I wanted to note where I found the information to say that unique instances was the supported configuration...

OCS 2007 R2 will be reaching RTM, so I should document the deployment for you. Let me give some brief personal background and then deployment background. My current title: Senior Program Manager, Early Deployment and Readiness, Microsoft Unified Communications...

Scott blogged about the AOL update for the root authority and where to get the update for your LCS and OCS Edge Servers. http://blogs.msdn.com/scottos/archive/2008/12/02/office-communicator-clients-cannot-communicate-with-contacts-homed-on-aol.aspx  ...