1993 University of North Carolina at Charlotte graduate, planning to attend Miami of Ohio University for a masters in Recreational Sports. This is not as lame as it sounds, the plan was to be in a college setting handling intramural and club sport programs...

Updated November 10 with more details on Mac Messenger 8.x for Hotmail. Updated November 7 with answer re: Enterprise Voice and a question about forums you use - Updated October 26 with a Volume License reference below I have received a new Macbook...

We have posted a FAQ for the Address Book Service to the UC Blog . If you have further questions and clarifications on the topic feel free to comment my blog or the UC blog. This post was created based on internal discussions from the field and support...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ok so this took far too long for something really so simple, really the SE deployment is simple. In fact it is too simple for the customer who will deploy EE at some point because of the multiple servers, fqdn and certificates. This is a screen shot of...

Edit - adding the actual url :) http://blogs.technet.com/uc Sometimes a delay is a good thing and with the RTC blog never really getting off the ground there was room for improvement. Having such a big delay means we now get to focus a bit more...

October 1, 2009 Update - The issue has been resolved. Please do note the details below as some have mistaken other problems for this. A quick heads up on an issue we are looking to resolve. Currently if an AOL user is signed in to AIM Express an OC...

The Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation has been online for a while although really only the client content. The server content has been loaded this week. I will share that due to logistics around the site the R2 content exists in the Server...

We welcomed our 4th child Ethan (third son) to the family which means the blog and twitter accounts will be quiet for about 1 month.

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...

The question that was asked: How come Communicator works with the Polycom HDX solution but not Mac Messenger? Office Communicator supports both RTVideo and H.263 and it is the later codec that the Polycom HDX solution works with today. The codec is...

May 3 – The document has been pulled in order to address some last minute edits. I expect an update for ETA this week based on the schedules of those involved. For those of you that were looking for content around load balancing OCS 2007 R2, the doc...

Yes we listen to your feedback about lacking support for various topologies or technologies and yes we work on it. For everyone who called support and spoke to our team you heard the "not supported" answer. What you have to remember is we feed that information...

Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.2, released Jan 30, 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/misc/messenger60_download.xml I would like to let you know that the logging paragraph, included below, implies...

Determining my posts - The complexity of an issue and how much information can be shared to shed light on a subject. For example I have a customer issue with phone normalization. What looks like an easy post starts to be come complex with ABS and Communicator...

I have run a version of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 since beta 2 and have been itching to share some more product information and hopefully valuable technical information for those working with the product. There are some customers and...

Messenger for Mac 6.0.3 has released to the web . Allow me to share one item for those of you aggressive enough to be playing with Office Communications Server 2007 - this is not the client for Mac allowing you to experience the new rich presence. So...

Kevin posted the RTM announcement by Jeff Raikes and I wanted to provide the list of products that are included in this sign-off: Office Communicator 2007 Office Communications Server 2007 Office Live Meeting Console 2007 Communicator Web Access 2007...

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...

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...

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:...