This article describes how to use Asterisk to supply standardized, company-wide, on-hold music for all your Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 end-points (softphone or Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones). Configuring each end-point...

This article is a partner article to "Direct SIP: Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1" and focuses on the configuration requirements for the Mediation Server in Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The main steps include configuring CUCM as the...

The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit tool, Address Book Service Configuration Tool, provides Active Directory Domain Services attribute changes and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) configuration updates to the Address...

Companies that allow employees to remotely sign in to Microsoft Lync Server 2010 communications software from the Internet can be susceptible to denial-of-service (DoS) and brute-force attacks. Both types of attacks involve guessing users' passwords or...

This is part two of a two-part article that describes the many features of Microsoft Lync 2010 communications software that are available to users of Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and Microsoft Exchange 2010. Lync 2010 has now become...