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Configuring a cisco hardware load balancer with OCS 2007
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:38 PM

Hello folks, I've just read at Harold Wong's Blog Site that there is a document explaining how to use a cisco load balancer with OCS 2007. Here is the document at cisco website: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Verticals/ansmsocs.html Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong/archive/2008/07/02/configuring-cisco-hardware-load-balancer... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

Filed under: Articles, Office Communications Server

Conferencing in Office Communicator
Monday, June 09, 2008 9:55 PM

The Communicator Team has blogged how to use the conference resource in OCS 2007 and there some examples how to start a conference from Outlook Client as well. Conferencing was a large investment for OCS and OC in the 2007 release. We define conferencing as a conversation having three or more participants in it. This can be IM, Audio, Audio/Video, data (Live... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

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Changing Live Meeting invation information in OCS 2007
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:03 AM

Hello folks, We can change the company name and URLs information that comes with the live meeting invitation in OCS 2007. Let's see how to change the default settings, as follows: Open Microsoft Office Communicaton Server 2007 console Expand Forest - <Domain name> Expand Standard Edition Servers Expand <OCS Pool Name> Right click on < OCS Server... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Tips, Office Communications Server

MAC Messenger 7.0 has been released
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:50 PM

Built for corporate Mac users on Office Communications Server 2007, Messenger for Mac 7 gives co-workers new ways to communicate easily with each other in different locations or time zones. Additionally, personal users will find a few improvements for managing their contact lists. Read more at source: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

Filed under: Downloads, Office Communications Server

Where should we store the OCS Global Configuration?
Monday, April 21, 2008 9:54 PM

Hello folks, During the OCS Forest preparation we have the option to choose where we are going to store the OCS Global Configuration (as shown in the figure below). Andrew Sniderman ( http://communicationsserverteam.com/articles/142.aspx ) blogged some tips to help you to decide which is the best solution for your deployment. His post can be found at http://communicationsserverteam... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

Filed under: Office Communications Server

OCS tabs in the Active Directory Users and Computers on a x64 server
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:57 AM

Hello folks, If you just open Active Directory Users and Computers (dsa.msc) on a x64 server the OCS tabs will not show up. Then, how can we enable it? We can execute the 32 bits version of the Active Directory users and Computers, using the following command: dsa.msc -32 Best Regards, Anderson Patricio Technorati : Active Directory users and computers , OCS... Read More...

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OCS support for MAC users...
Friday, April 11, 2008 10:34 PM

Hello guys, This news came up during the blogger's lunch at Interact 2008. MS folks announced during the blogger's lunch that the MAC users will be able to play with OCS 2007, they will be able to do that through a new version of MAC Messenger, here are some features that this new version will have: GAL Search Instant Messaging P2P voice and video Rich... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Office Communications Server

Microsoft Communicator Phone Edition Deployment Guide
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:16 PM

Communicator Phone Edition is an intelligent IP phone designed to get the most out of Microsoft's unified communication platform. Combining advanced network voice performance, user-driven design, up-time reliability, high-quality sound, and the enhanced communication and collaboration of Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007. This document describes... Read More...

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Communicator 2007 package update
Friday, April 04, 2008 2:30 PM

Hello Folks, There is a new package update for Communicator 2007, this package fixes the following issues: 949894 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949894/ ) Presence functions are disabled in Communicator 2007 when you use a time zone that includes a negative partial hour on a client computer 948733 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948733/ ) Error message when... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

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OCS and Exchange Web Services
Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:43 AM

Hello folks, The UC (Unified Communications) initiative integrates Exchange Server 2007, OCS, Office 2007 and so forth.. Some of the OCS clients are able to get information from Exchange 2007 web services. The communicator team have blogged about how this integration works by Communicator client. In the Unified Communications (UC) world 2 types of clients access... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

Filed under: Exchange Server 2007, Office Communications Server

Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007
Friday, March 07, 2008 8:46 PM

Hello folks, The planning tool provides you prescriptive guidance to get you started with planning your Office Communications Server 2007 topology. The tool asks you a series of interview questions about the features that you are interested in, as well as information about your organization. Based on the answers you provide, the planning tool draws out a recommended... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

Filed under: Downloads, Tools, Office Communications Server

Communicator and Exchange – Special considerations for deploying Communicator in an Exchange environment
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:47 AM

In this post the Office Communicator team explains the integration resources between Office Communicator 2007 and Outlook 2007/Exchange Server 2007. The Office Communicator team has built a rich set of integration points with both Outlook and Exchange. Communicator Presence can be found throughout Outlook (Presence is the colored bubble that appears next to a... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

Filed under: Tips, Exchange Server 2007, Office Communications Server

Using IIMF on OCS 2007
Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:51 AM

Hello Folks, In OCS 2007 we have the IIMF (Intelligent IM Filter) built-in into the product. In this post we are going to enable the IIMF feature to filter URL in a OCS 2007 Standard Edition, as it follows: Open Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Expand Forest Expand Standard Edition Servers Right click on server name and click on Application Properties... Read More...

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OCS 2007 Documentation download
Friday, December 28, 2007 12:16 PM

Hello folks, OCS 2007 has a bunch of documentation waiting to be read but sometimes it is a tough task to get the documentation piece by piece. We can download each document in this page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bb629431.aspx however we can download all together in a single download, as it follows: All Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | 1 comment(s)

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OCS 2007 Documentation updates
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:04 AM

Here are some quick descriptions to some other helpful docs in the OCS Library that will help with your Office Communications Server 2007 deployments. Technical Reference http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=959CB709-D81E-4DDE-821F-0411DFCFC073&displaylang=en Security Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2D1EA693... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

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OCS 2007 Best Practice Analyzer
Thursday, November 22, 2007 2:22 PM

The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Office Communications Server 2007 servers and topology. Overview The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer Tool is a diagnostic tool that gathers configuration information from a... Read More...

by Anderson Patricio | with no comments

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