The information below comes from one of our support staff, handling certificate service issues. Live Communication Server requires a certificate to enable TLS. To generate this certificate, find the scenario that best fits your situation. Run the...

Office Communicator 2007 offers a few user defined areas, the Note, your location and Custom Presence. I am focusing on the Custom Presence as a colleague (Liam) had a question that led us into this discussion.  CustomState is discussed in the Microsoft...

For those of you that have deployed LCS/OCS and are now working on your PIC (Public Internet Connectivity) setup, you may want to know what we will be asking you to provide for a reported problem. We are still working on this information so you might...

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...

Update February 8, 2011 – Changing the article title to Lync Web App as we tend to discuss reach as an experience and not any specific client experience. Update February 4 2011 – Turns out Jens has an article with more depth on the Lync Web App - http...

Disclosure - the content for this post comes from Jason on our escalation services team. He has provided permission to post. March 30 - Forgive the delete and repeat posting but the images were on internal links. This should be resolved now. Issue Some...

October 21 - Microsoft Lync for Mac 2011 client update released today This update addresses two known issues: Lync for Mac sign-in into Office 365 Installation of Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 causes Lync for Mac to become inoperable The Lync for Mac client is...

Introduction Installation ISSUE: Installation Prerequisites cause problems when not addressed. In addition to the software and hardware requirements specified in the Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 Planning and Deployment Guide , the...

So I was contacted in IM today by a past colleague (Hey Steve) now doing some consulting and he brought up this issue and trying to find the value as well as some background. The issue came up with a customer who wanted to have what is referred to...

NetMeeting FAQ - Information current as of October 4, 2005 Q: Will NetMeeting ship in Windows Vista ? A: No. Microsoft is not developing new versions of the NetMeeting feature and NetMeeting will not ship as part of the next major OS release...

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...

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated April 29, 2005 New subject as I will post another entry that is more specific to the Windows Messenger client and...

This post is about the ports in use for Windows Messenger and Live Communications Server. VERY IMPORTANT: only the IM traffic goes through the LCS server, all other traffic is peer to peer. Firewalls and Windows Messenger Options exist for using...

I went through and reviewed my original postings about the Deployment Series and my initial approach after I completed the archiving server install. Oh well an undocumented bonus item, in the end I need to have the entire solution deployed including some...

As noted in the comment (thank you) the update is here - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2587147 With the recent release of MacOS 10.7 Lion customers are experiencing issues with Office for Mac 2011 including Communicator for Mac 2011. For those new...

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...

Henry pointed out that my original post on Custom Presence was helpful up to the point of actually using it and couldn’t figure out why only https was working. I have not found this documented and in fact there is no KB article on it so I will start that...

What I post below comes from my teammate Jason, I have been trying to get him to start blogging with me. If you find this information useful send me an email with the subject: GET JASON A BLOG! Windows Messenger 5.0/5.1 (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft...

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...

Remember in the opening post about this project I mentioned running since Beta 2, well it has been since Beta 1, wow it has been a LONG time running an unreleased product. I have not played with LCS 2005 in probably 6-8 months. Truth be told I began this...

Forgive the multiple postings, Dennis kindly alerted me that the images were not displaying. As I was doing this with a VPN to our corporate network the images displayed as I could connect to the source location. Jason Epperly has given permission to...

Sometimes you are reminded that you didn't document something you thought you did. Turns out that I wasn't even the one to write this up the first time but Gary did while he was on the team (since moved to ISA support). As of October 11, 2005 all EASI...

LCS 2005 – Why no NLBs ? There are a couple of reasons why we are recommending a 3rd party LB for LCS2005 EE deployments (particularly those that for large number of clients): 1. The traffic patterns and hold times are different when compared...

A quick modification to this post is that the analysis is accurate and this is current behavior. Bug/By Design are just semantics but we don't build the DNS query for a single label suffix for the SIP-URI. At this time, the solution is to not use Automatic...

Customers ask questions regarding the configuration of time out values for LCS and their Hardware Load Balancers. There are 2 partner load balancer solutions of which we have documentation on at the http://office.microsoft.com/livecomm site. ...