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OCS PIC with AOL and corporate domains
So MSN/Live/Hotmail offers alternate domain names for corporate use (sometimes referred to as vanity names) and you can IM between OCS and MSN/Live/Hotmail with the following syntax username(contoso.com)@msn.com  ( original post ). AOL offers this Read More...
OCS 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
The long awaited release of the OCS 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 has been completed: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A1832431-54B7-4070-9B10-14EFB231FF0C&displaylang=en&displaylang=en Read More...
Another blog to watch - Elan Shudnow
<Sept 8 2009 rewording as Elan shared that some thought I meant director role as a job instead of about OCS. Now if I hear he got a raise or options, I expect to see a nice thank you gift. (grin)> Elan contacted me via my blog regarding how one Read More...
OT: Awesome search engine results for movie times
While I work for Microsoft, I am not blind to the fact that other software solutions exist and may be better or easier. There was a time when I did not use our sites for search. Live.com has improved greatly and today I experienced what I think a search Read More...
Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007
One of my main responsibilities is managing Microsoft Consultants to work with our customers and partners in our beta/TAP programs. With both consulting and support involved each group gains product familiarity early and helps prepare their organization Read More...
A missed MVP blog - PointBridge
In my role I am on a distribution group with our Most Valuable Professional's ( MVP ), which allows us to gain valuable insight into trends with deployment problems, questions or documentation items as well they share input on future product plans to Read More...
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...
Blackberry IM for OCS 2007
A team member shared this link (thanks Maureen) and she noted that while navigating the sight the links all referenced LCS until you go to the download section - <link> Edit August 5, 2008 - Matt McGillen has this post with what he learned about Read More...
Locking down annotations in OCS Meetings
This question came from our MVP's regarding the ability to prevent attendees from marking up the presentation. The presenter can do this in the following dialog. In the Attendees panel, select Permissions - Read More...
PowerShell for OCS 2007
I found this posting from Dmitry with an OCS 2007 PowerShell solution and thought I would pass it on - if you have other solutions please comment with links. Since Dmitry's post does a really good job of showing the UI, I won't repeat it here. PowerGUI Read More...
VoIP as you are marketing video
Check out the latest marketing video for VoIP as you are video. It is 15 minutes long and includes the Sklar brothers of Cheap Seats fame (or at least where I first learned of them)' http://preview.microsoft.com/video/videoDetails.aspx?video=17648162-1372-4eef-af74-a7362978bc09 Read More...
Live Meeting adm file
Looks like an adm file will be available for Live Meeting 2007 client and conferencing add-in. The article has been released 948741 here   In order to receive the actual adm file you will need to open a support incident. The process, at least when Read More...
Update Server problems with configupdateserver.vbs
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, Read More...
Work Number displays as '+' on Phone Edition and fails on attempted dial
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 Read More...
OCS Voice with Cisco gateways/routers
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 Read More...
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