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I see this come up a lot when doing OCS Health Checks. Part of the Health Check is looking at information from DBAnalyze. If you get the following error, more than likely the account you're trying to use doesn't have the necessary rights to the SQL databases:
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I get a lot of questions on how to enable hyperlinks in Communicator or how to remove the underscore '_' from the beginning of hyperlinks in Communicator. There are a couple of options available to control the way hyperlinks appear in IM conversations
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You can use this tool to automatically install the latest patches for each component. To use, run ServerUpdateInstaller.exe with elevated permissions. I would recommend creating a folder and put ServerUpdateInstaller.exe in there, as it extracts each
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This question comes up when talking about the OCS hosted Live Meetings when customers are trying to decide how much space to allocate to the Web Conferencing shares. There is an article on TechNet that talks about the recommended space to allocate per
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Update - Please see the "Known issues that affect this security update" section in KB974571 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974571/ ) for information on resolving this issue. <Removed rest of post, as the above KB article contains all relevant information>
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I ran into this problem recently. I was doing a migration from LCS 2005 SP1 to OCS 2007 R2 and as part of the R2 prep we were moving the global settings to the Configuration Partition. We followed the steps outlined in this TechNet article ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819962(office.13).aspx
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I ran into a couple of issues getting the file upload feature to work in Group Chat. I followed all of the documentation found on TechNet ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd441213(office.13).aspx ), which unfortunately leaves out some important
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From the PressPass announcement: Microsoft is changing its public instant messaging connectivity (PIC) license requirements for Office Communications Server connectivity to the Windows Live and AOL public IM networks. Now, customers with Office Communications
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Overview The eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) Gateway for Office Communications Server allows Office Communications Server users to communicate with users who use an XMPP-based IM and presence provider such as Google Talk and Jabber.
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There are a couple of ways to verify if the OCS schema prep completed successfully. The quickest way is to run the following LCSCmd after running the prep schema step: LCSCmd.exe /forest /action:CheckSchemaPrepState If the report shows everything as successful,
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This question comes up a lot, especially when installing on Windows 2008...What IIS role services do I need to install? The answer is pretty simple for Windows 2003. You need to only install the following IIS services: ASP.NET World Wide Web Service But
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Overview Web Scheduler is a 64-bit tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It provides a Web-based alternative to the add-in for the Microsoft Outlook messaging and collaboration client for the purpose of scheduling a meeting using Office
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Brief Description This white paper provides guidelines and best practices for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 site resiliency. Overview Using backup and restoration procedures for site disaster recovery as described in the Microsoft Office
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Here is a list of all of the July 2009 OCS R2 Updates: 971296 Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Application Sharing Server: July 2009 971289 Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007
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Similar to the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer, the OCS Remote Commectivity Analyzer will help administrators troubleshoot Edge server issues. Give it a try at: https://www.TestOcsConnectivity.com
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