We just had our 3rd child (Sophia, Zachary, Seth), you can't really see him but it is the only picture I have on this computer with all 3 kids.

Last night and early this morning I am faced with a difficult decision - start over again or push past the current problems. I posted that I failed to save some undo disks which caused me to have to reprep the entire forest again but the server I have...

update May 17. It looks like there were some problems with this effort (not sure of the details). You can try it every once in a while, it should not come up to the microsoft.com/uc page. http://www.voipwithoutbarriers.com/ Allow the popup - its...

I did not intend for such a long time to complete this series but I guess the nice thing is that it does show what happens when you take this task on as an extra task to your schedule. The problems with the original set of VMs will have to be addressed...

The Microsoft UC site has received a new look for our current campaign. The direct link for the VoIP As You Are site. When you select an item from the orange tape, note the dialog box icons at the type for some PBX humor.

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...

Are you a small business customer? Are you a partner and provide services to the small business community? Update April 19th - Eric Swift put a much better explanation of the two technologies http://blogs.technet.com/uc/archive/2007/04/18/making-sense...

I was able to get my DTAP enabled for configuring this setup so that it is available to me on the public internet. That makes sharing logs for failed setup and wizard actions really hard. I enabled the loopback adapter on my host machine and then added...

If you are deploying OCS 2007 with the voice technology and mediation server role, here are the gateway vendors you want to be communicating with for a supported gateway. http://www.microsoft.com/uc/pdgtrials/default.mspx Update November 14, 2007 ...

I am not quite sure how I received the notice for this, but as it is a free ebook offer I figure this is a great (free) way to review. I like to review material that presents a general or non-product specific view in the hopes of learning what is good...

Chad and I work together so his blog will be another great one to monitor. As we are in the same site we will attempt to avoid duplication of post topics! http://blogs.technet.com/chlacy/archive/2007/06/18/publicly-routable-ip-address-needed-for-a...

RTM is scheduled and on track for end of month so I will begin working on taking the deployment I have and upgrading to RTM bits when they become available. There appears to be work with AudioCodes to make a demokit for OCS available that matches the...

Deleting content of post as it was supposed to go on the family blog (Live Writer allows you to choose the blog and I didn't change it).

The team I am on has been handling 3 distinct projects this year - handling critical LCS customers, driving the OCS 2007 TAP (technology adoption program) (my role) and the Best Practice analyzer. This Friday we reached the RTM milestone and you may now...

As the product grows, the ability to get all the documentation at one time is one of my personal desires. Here is the link for the UC Documentation Server and Client. I have requested that the download be updated to include everything which would include...

February 11 update: Friday Feb 8th I was requested to attend and co-present a troubleshooting session with Byron. I look forward to the opportunity to meet with you and listen to your successes and challenges driving the product to improvement as a result...

I was contacted by Ian Fischer with an interesting question regarding LCS 2003 and Vista. I now need to support Vista clients and I have found out  that Messenger 5.1 doesn't work on it.  It crashes constantly.  I run LCS 2003 and need...

http://www.terrygold.com/t/2007/09/wireless-in-the.html This really grabbed my attention for a few reasons - 1) I have wanted an old 1977 FJ for a while 2) My wife would probably allow #1 but she really loves the new FJ Cruiser TRD Edition (amazingly...

I added Chad's blog to my links but I want to be sure you are monitoring it because he is the only other person I know of handling support issues doing a blog for this technology. Here is the troubleshooting post http://blogs.technet.com/chlacy/archive...

The project I have been working on this year with Office Communications Server 2007 was with our Technology Adoption Partners (TAP), and that includes both customers and partners. Jens Trier Rasmussen was one our Microsoft Consultants (MCS) involved to...

Looks like an adm file will be available for Live Meeting 2007 client and conferencing add-in. The article has been released 948741 here   In order to receive the actual adm file you will need to open a support incident. The process, at least when...

The post below comes courtesy of one of the partners in our voice program. I took the liberty of modifying the format of his email alias to reduce spam. He provided permission to include the details of his auto signature. I am also retaining the use of...

I had a partner ask the question of the differences between the 2 clients and I didn't know, so you can thank Henry for finding it. From the link , look to the left navigation for these other items - Getting Started Overview What's new for corporate accounts...

So the fact that I am going to Interact 2008 (Interact '08) didn't really get you interested, maybe an invite from our Corporate VP of Unified Communications Group Gurdeep Singh Pall will. http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/03/14/124.aspx...

This question came from our MVP's regarding the ability to prevent attendees from marking up the presentation. The presenter can do this in the following dialog. In the Attendees panel, select Permissions -