This post comes courtesy of an MVP and partner in our voice program, John Lamb with Modality Systems ( www.modalitysystems.com ) Tom-LCSKID: Many partners and customers are reporting problems using the script used for configuring the Update Server. We...

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...

Partners and customers deploying Office Communications Server 2007 with enterprise voice still require a media gateway for a supported configuration. The definitive place to determine supported vendors, models and the qualification level (direct sip via...

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...

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...

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...

For those of you that had to put a lot of thought into the Make it Real customer scenario question during Voice Ignite, you will be glad to know that a tool now exists to help you with that initial estimate of servers required for a deployment. http:...

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 think given all that will come from our presentation on the topic that a series will likely result. The right place to start on this subject is the Migrating to Office Communications Server 2007 document.  I would like to call out that the...

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...

Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit In-depth technical information and tools for administering Communications Server 2007—from those who know the technology best Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring...

AudioCodes has published the instructions for a demo setup along with the necessary ini file for use with the device. I use the AudioCodes MP-114 in my personal lab and will document its configuration in the next deploy series posting (planned for second...

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...

I have continued playing with the deployment and have begun plugging in the AudioCodes MP114 VoIP Gateway and I realized I had not deployed Unified Messaging yet which has been typically deployed first for our customers participating in the Technology...

Chris sent me email today about their user group and the use of LiveMeeting to broaden their reach. You can get details from their site - http://livemeetinguser.org/ The Live Meeting User Group is a collaboration forum primarily aimed for Live Meeting...

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...

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...

While my topology is not complete to provide sample output I did get to the point of installing Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Quality of Experience Monitoring Server this week. This was not as easy as I had hoped for a few reasons - I am...

This site does not have every released component of the 2007 product but it is the one I have requested to be updated to include the missing items ( Deployment Validation , Update Service were the two I found missing at this time) http://technet.microsoft...

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...

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 happened to attend the demo of the proposed training that Thomas mentions on his blog . What I found most impressive was the involvement of Thomas and his peers of similar level to this training effort. The telephony training they planned to offer looks...

Communicator Mobile 2007 has released Please note that Communicator Mobile 2007 just like Communicator Web Access 2007 is still an IM only experience (CWA does offer control over the telephony settings but isn't a voice endpoint). I posted about the device...

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...

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...