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Working with certificates
I never claim to know everything about certificates but I do feel I know a fair amount. In working with a customer issue we had some questions on whether the certificate would be trusted by the PIC partners given the intermediate authorities. When asking Read More...
LCS/OCS Coexistence and Migration (series?): Allow/Block list not in MMC
  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 Read More...
LCS 2003 and Vista
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 Read More...
Released: Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer
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 Read More...
Virtualization technology?
Here is a question I received today and I thought I would attempt to address it here - Hi Tom, Do you have any knowledge, or reference to anyone deploying LCS 2005 components on virtual servers? E.g. when deploying an Enterprise pool, is it possible to Read More...
Troubleshooting Convergence in MOC
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 Read More...
PIC: Which Entrust Certificate do I purchase?
Andrew from Entrust alerted us to a problem with our documentation around the Entrust Certificates that customers use with Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 and mostly with PIC. I asked Andrew to provide me with information I can share here for your Read More...
Tom, do I need a director?
Here is a recent email exchange regarding the use of the director, I hope that you are able to see the need and value for the Director given Dave's particular customer deployment. From: dave Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 To: Thomas Laciano Subject: Read More...
LCS - Determine which users are enabled for PIC
One nice thing about the blog and the IM technology is that I am able to establish contacts with many folks I would not normally have an opportunity to meet otherwise. / Edit December 12, 2007 Bobby Pena sent me the following email comment regarding the Read More...
Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.2 release - logging clarification
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 Read More...
Creating Certificates for LCS
The information below comes from one of our support staff, handling certificate service issues. Live Communication Server requires a certificate to enable TLS. To generate this certificate, find the scenario that best fits your situation. Run the following Read More...
UC post for Live Communications Server 2005 Address Book Service FAQ & Troubleshooting
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 Read More...
LCS: Carolina IT Professionals Group
Tuesday January 9th, 3 of us (Tom, Matt and Chad) will be presenting to the local Carolina IT Professionals Group for Live Communications Server. On the chance you are in the Charlotte, NC area please feel free to come by. Read More...
How do I determine what I post?
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 Read More...
Error 0x800700005 unable to open server certificate store
The above error was reported by a customer from his Access Proxy. The first thought was locked down permissions on the server to the certificate store but that was not the case. For this customer issue they were using a domain service account instead Read More...
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