OCS

Welcome to Part 4 of this article series. In Part 1, we started off by discussing the goal of this lab. That goal is how to deploy a single Enterprise Edition OCS 2007 R2 Server which is connected to an x64 SQL Server 2008 Back-End Server. We first discussed what the lab setup is going […]

Welcome to Part 3 of this article series. In Part 1, we started off by discussing the goal of this lab. That goal is how to deploy a single Enterprise Edition OCS 2007 R2 Server which is connected to an x64 SQL Server 2008 Back-End Server. We first discussed what the lab setup is going […]

Welcome to Part 2 of this article series. In Part 1, we started off by discussing the goal of this lab. That goal is how to deploy a single Enterprise Edition OCS 2007 R2 Server which is connected to an x64 SQL Server 2008 Back-End Server. We first discussed what the lab setup is going […]

Now that Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 R2 is RTM, I thought it would be nice to create an article on how to deploy a single Enterprise Edition OCS Server which is connected to an x64 SQL Server 2008 RTM Back-End Server. This article will be based off the OCS 2007 R2 RTM version.  This […]

I have two retail copies of Office Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition that I don’t need.  These are copies that I have obtained from events and are not-for-resale copies.  But hey, what better way to get rid of them than to give them away in a contest! If you are not familiar with OCS 2007, […]

Microsoft has released an updated MSP Patch for Office Communicator 2007. This can be downloaded here and more information is available here. This is resolves the following issues: * KB958659 – When you use telephony mode=4, you can only manually set the URI information in Communicator 2007 * KB957793 – A Communicator 2007 client is […]

Whenever load balancing and/or redundancy is needed in Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007, a Hardware Load Balancer needs to be utilized (Windows NLB not supported). This is fine, but you may run into an issue where you cannot run the ABServer.exe (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\Server\Core\ABServer.exe). This issue is where the ABServer.exe thinks the […]

OCS R2 information is starting to be released.  The features look pretty neat.  I’ll update this post as more information becomes available. Dial-in audioconferencing. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 enables businesses to eliminate costly audioconferencing services with an on-premise audioconferencing bridge that is managed by IT as part of the overall communications infrastructure. Desktop sharing. […]

Two new IP-PBXs (Cisco CUCM 4.2, 5.1 and 6.1 and Seltatel) have qualified in the Open Interoperability program here.  The new support adds support only for DirectSIP but not Dual Forking.  Because of the enabled functionality for DirectSIP, you no longer need a supported Voice Gateway between an OCS Mediation Server and a Qualified IP-PBX […]

The Resource Kit states that external users cannot be re-directed to their correct pool without the use of a Director.  This is partially untrue.  Directors are always optional in any circumstance even if you have multiple pools with external access. After talking with Tom Laciano over at LCSKid as well as a PSS escalation engineer, […]