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 screen shots in the blog post. Determine your needs...

This is a guest post from John Lamb of Modality Systems . John is an MVP and in a recent dialog about architecting a solution that addressed the lack of support for Archive Server clustering John mentioned having completed one. In John’s words: “We designed a very large EE Pool with 3-tier OCS Archiving...

Looking through the documentation I thought that I might just install these services on the CWA role given I would need that role for Dial-In Conferencing but in order to install the Monitoring Server Report Pack, you have to install on a server with SQL 2005 SP2 Reporting Services, guess which server...

Walter sent me an email today via the blog contact form and it was about Archiving levels. One of his colleagues had mentioned the idea that there were values of 0, 1, 2 and 3 controlling the amount of archiving. Admittedly I was not aware of the levels however it seemed reasonable because you would...