OCS

The main point of this article was to clear up some confusion as to how connectivity to a PIC provider works with multiple SIP domains as PIC providers ignore Subject Alternative Name (SAN) names in a certificate.  So if we have multiple SIP domains, how exactly do we achieve PIC federation with multiple SIP domains?  Well, read on and I'll tell you!Public IM Connectivity … [Read more...] about Public IM Connectivity and Multiple SIP Domains

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, configured our ISA box, and prepared our Edge Servers.In this Part, I will go through the part of the configuration of our Consolidated OCS Edge Server using a separate NIC for each Edge … [Read more...] about Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Deployment – Part 5

Now looking at my title, many of you may be thinking, ok so what... we have an Enterprise Issuing CA.  Now here's where a lot of people get confused with Enterprise CA vs Windows Enterprise.  An Enterprise CA means that your server is an issuing CA and stores/retrieves information directly from Active Directory while a Standard CA does not.  Another difference is that an … [Read more...] about Communicator Web Access (CWA) requires Server 2003+ Enterprise Edition CA

So in my organization, we've had Enterprise Voice with Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 set up for quite a while and we have been adopting the usage of it more and more as time goes on. So I told someone to call my Mobile Phone number via Communicator 2007 and they said they didn't see my Mobile Phone number.  I definitely thought this was odd as Active Directory (AD) has … [Read more...] about Phone Numbers not displaying for some Communicator 2007 Users

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 Server which is connected to an x64 SQL Server 2005 SP2 Back-End Server. We first discussed what the lab setup is going to be using VMware Workstation, and then proceeded to the configuration of our Enterprise … [Read more...] about Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Deployment – Part 4