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Official OCS/LCS product blog site

I jsut wanted to make sure everyone was aware of the official blog site at http://communicationsserverteam.com/ . Content is provided from many different resources from within Microsoft. I would definately bookmark this site! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:50 PM by chlacy | 0 Comments

Transitioning positions

I wanted to let everyone know that I am transitioning to a new position and will no longer be working on OCS/LCS issues. While I'm very excited to be taking on the role of Team Manager within the Exchange Support organization, I will miss working with Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:59 AM by chlacy | 0 Comments

A/V Edge and Publicly routable IP addresses (Part ii)

I happen to be part of an e-mail thread this week with several members of the product group and we were discussing the need for publicly routable IP address on the external interface of the A/V edge server. I wanted to share with you the information that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:50 AM by chlacy | 3 Comments

Dual Forking with Nortel CS1000

Many people have been asking for the capability to use OCS 2007 with their IP-PBX without the need of a media gateway. Nortel has been working closely with Microsoft to make this a reality with their CS1000 system. For more information, go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb735838.asp Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:09 AM by chlacy | 0 Comments

uploading handouts in Live Meeting 2007 fail

Handouts in LiveMeeting 2007 are a way to transfer files to members of a meeting. When the user attempts to upload a file to handout he will get the error Upload Failed. If you check the Pwconsoledebug.log you will find the following error. This log is Read More...
Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 4:12 PM by chlacy | 1 Comments

single ocs 2007 front end interop with lcs 2005

Here's another common problem I'm seeing when users attempt to setup interop between OCS 2007 and LCS 2005. With OCS 2007 we fully support an Enterprise Edition Front End server running without a hardware load balancer. However, with LCS 2005 we didn't. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 28, 2007 4:10 PM by chlacy | 1 Comments

A/V Edge Server with Load Balancer....still need public IP ADDRESS?

The question has been raised a few times, now that some enterprises are moving beyond the testing phase of OCS 2007 and into large scale production, about the need for a publicly routable IP address when using multiple A/V Edge servers behind a load balancer. Read More...
Posted Friday, December 21, 2007 8:23 AM by chlacy | 3 Comments
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Partition address book by Organizational unit

I happen to run across this rather unknown setting the other day while working with a customer and thought it was interesting. I'm not sure why anyone would use it, but thought I'd share the information because I'm sure someone out there has a need to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 04, 2007 8:46 AM by chlacy | 3 Comments

A/V does not work externally

I have seen several cases where the customer states that A/V works internally, but doesn't work externally. So, there are a few troubleshooting steps we can take to figure out the problem. First, are we using a publicly routable IP address on the external Read More...
Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 5:05 PM by chlacy | 3 Comments

Another excellent blog

I wanted to make you all aware of another excellent source of information. Jens has just sarted his blog and already has some great information. I've had to pleasure of working with Jens (virtually) on the OCS Beta for the past year and he has been a Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:00 PM by chlacy | 0 Comments

Troubleshooting Office Communicator Phone Experience (a.k.a. Tanjay) Update Server

From time-to-time there will be a need to update the firmware on the Tanjay. Do to this we utilize a server known as the Update Server. This is seperate from WSUS or SMS. The Update Server is a combination of a server role and a Sharepoint site. The information Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:41 PM by chlacy | 16 Comments

Configuring external web farm FQDN after you create pool

Many enterprises set up their OCS environment initially without plans to connect it externally and later decide that they do want to make OCS available externally. The natural tendency is to re-run the setup and check the box for external access. However, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:33 AM by chlacy | 2 Comments

Quality of Experience (QoE) paper published

Tom has posted about the QoE paper that has been published. Please read it at: http://blogs.technet.com/toml/archive/2007/07/27/quality-of-experience-qoe-paper-published.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 5:18 PM by chlacy | 4 Comments

Live Meeting console client-side logging

There are many differnt ways to troubleshoot any issue. I have found with Live Meeting (or web conferencing) connectivity issues the best place to start is with the pwconsole-debug log. I'm highlighting this log because many people don't know about its Read More...
Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 4:53 PM by chlacy | 0 Comments

New LiveMeeting user group

I was just informed about a new LiveMeeting user group that is getting started in the UK. The nice hook about the user group is they plan on conducting all of their meetings using LiveMeeting. So, you can attend meetings regardless of your physical location. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 10:49 AM by chlacy | 1 Comments
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