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Lync 2010 Media Bypass with and without Voice Resilience

September 27, 2010 by Elan Shudnow 21 Comments

General Overview Media Bypass is an excellent new feature in Lync 2010, the successor to Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2.  Currently, when an OCS Endpoint such as Communicator or Tanjay utilize Enterprise Voice, they must utilize RTAudio which an OCS Mediation Server must then transcode to G.711 which is the codec utilized on the […]

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Forcing Address Book Updates in Communicator 2007 R2

January 20, 2010 by Elan Shudnow 23 Comments

Yes, this is old news and there’s about 462 blog entries (ok, that’s a made up number, but there are a lot) about how to force Communicator 2007 R2 to do an Address Book (Galcontacts.db) update.  These blog entries will talk about the July 2009 update for Communicator 2007 R2 and how it introduced a […]

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OCS 2007 R2 Standard Edition Front End Automated Backups

January 18, 2010 by Elan Shudnow 13 Comments

OCS 2007 R2 Standard Edition Front Ends utilize SQL 2005 Express with SP2 for storing its databases.  Unfortunately, with SQL Express, you will have to backup using SQL Server Management Studio or find an automated way.  This article will detail the steps I utilize to make backing up easier and automated. For information on how […]

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OCS 2007 R2 Load Balancing – Response Group Service Unavailable

October 19, 2009 by Elan Shudnow 3 Comments

I ran into an issue where we had two OCS 2007 R2 Front End Servers behind an F5 Load Balancer.  We kept getting “This service is temporarily unavailable” from our Communicator Clients after we configured the Communicator 2007 R2 Response Group Tab.  For those that are unfamiliar with this tab, it is a web based […]

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Audio/Media Negotiation

August 29, 2009 by Elan Shudnow 56 Comments

Read the Lync Server 2010 version of this article here. There are several ways in which we can utilize Audio/Video streams in Office Communications Server (OCS) R2.   The same “should… but not verified” work the same in OCS 2007 R1.  There aren’t really any places out there that describe how the media session works in […]

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Create Pool – Run on OCS or SQL Server?

June 1, 2009 by Elan Shudnow 10 Comments

The guidance around where to create your pool and why can be quite confusing. If you look at the OCS R1 requirements for deploying an Enterprise Pool, it tells you the following: If you are using a 32-bit version of SQL Server, log on to your Office Communications Server Back-end Database server as a member […]

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Deployment – Part 2

March 18, 2009 by Elan Shudnow 48 Comments

Welcome to Part 2 of this article series. In Part 1, we started off by preparing our servers in preparation for OCS Group Chat Installation. We created our services, created our SQL Database, and assigned permissions. In this Part, I will go over the installation of our Group Chat Server and Administrative Tools. Part 1 […]

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Deployment – Part 1

March 8, 2009 by Elan Shudnow 18 Comments

Now that Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 is RTM, and that I have already created an article series on how to deploy OCS R2 Enterprise Edition Front End Servers and Edge Servers here, I thought it would be nice to create an article on how to deploy a Group Chat Server with Compliance which […]

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Default Gateways and Multihomed Edge Boxes

February 1, 2009 by Elan Shudnow 12 Comments

I seem to encounter this issue quite often and felt this topic warrants a dedicated blog post.  The basic point of this post is to explain that you cannot have more than one default gateway on separate NICS on a multihomed server!  Well, technically you actually can, but things won’t work correctly. Now I am […]

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Deployment – Part 5

January 20, 2009 by Elan Shudnow 151 Comments

Welcome to Part 5 of this article series. So far in this article series, we have deployed an Enterprise Pool, configured our Pool, set up DNS, tested connectivity with Communicator 2007 R2, configured our ISA box, and prepared our Edge Servers. In this Part, I will go through the part of the configuration of our […]

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Chicagoland consultant focused on Azure IaaS, PaaS, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, ARM and Powershell.

Previously a 6x Microsoft MVP in Exchange Server then Lync Server.

My hobbies include watching sports (Baseball, Football and Hockey) and participating in my 14 year old Stepson’s sports.

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