http://www.ocspedia.com RSS Feed for OCSpedia.com http://www.ocspedia.com/archiving/Microsoft_Lync_Archiving_Feature.aspx?ArticleID=110 OCSpedia Team 11/11/2010 02:40:03 PM Microsoft Lync Server 2010: Few words about archiving server... http://www.ocspedia.com/fe/Microsoft_Lync_Access_Capability.aspx?ArticleID=108 OCSpedia Team 11/01/2010 02:40:03 PM External User Access Capabilities by User Type (Microsoft Lync): ... http://www.ocspedia.com/fe/Lync_Server_2010_Merge_Topology.aspx?ArticleID=107 OCSpedia Team 11/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Lync Server 2010: Merge 2007 or 2007 R2 Topology... http://www.ocspedia.com/abs/Microsoft_Lync_Address_Book_Server.aspx?ArticleID=106 OCSpedia Team 11/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Address Book Server in Microsoft Lync... http://www.ocspedia.com/fe/Microsoft_Lync_Topology_Changes.aspx?ArticleID=105 OCSpedia Team 11/01/2010 02:40:03 PM New topology changes in Microsoft Lync Server 2010... http://www.ocspedia.com/fe/Lync_Publish_Tpology_sql_error.aspx?ArticleID=104 OCSpedia Team 11/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Script result: ERROR_VALIDATE_BAD_SQL_VERSION ... http://www.ocspedia.com/fe/Install_Microsoft_Lync_Server_2010.aspx?ArticleID=103 OCSpedia Team 11/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Step by Step : How to install Lync Server 2010... http://www.ocspedia.com/misc/Lync_Server_2010_Call_Admission_Control.aspx?ArticleID=102 OCSpedia Team 10/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Call Admission Control is also known as WAN Bandwidth Management... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/DNS_Load_Balancer_Lync.aspx?ArticleID=101 OCSpedia Team 10/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Support of DNS Load Balancer... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Microsoft_Lync.aspx?ArticleID=100 OCSpedia Team 10/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Microsoft Lync: A New Name for a New Generation of Unified Communications Solutions... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Important_Lync_Server_Links.aspx?ArticleID=99 OCSpedia Team 10/01/2010 02:40:03 PM Important links for Microsoft Lync... http://www.ocspedia.com/misc/jan_updates.aspx?ArticleID=95 OCSpedia Team 10/01/2010 02:40:03 PM How to block Ask Questions and Chat feature in live meeting for all the users... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Disable_Live_Meeting_Transport_in_Outlook.aspx?ArticleID=97 OCSpedia Team 10/01/2010 02:40:03 PM How to disable live meeting transport in Outlook... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Windows_2008_R2_OCS_2007_R2_Support.aspx?ArticleID=96 OCSpedia Team 10/01/2010 02:40:03 PM OCS 2007 R2 is supported on Windows Server 2008 R2... http://www.ocspedia.com/misc/jan_updates.aspx?ArticleID=95 OCSpedia Team 01/13/2010 02:40:03 PM Latest cumulative updates for Office Communications Server and Microsoft Office Communicator has been released and available at following links... http://ocspedia.com/misc/rccvsev.aspx?ArticleID=94 OCSpedia Team 11/05/2009 12:40:03 PM We have received many mails to explain the difference between RCC and EV... http://www.ocspedia.com/misc/Certificate_Deployment_OCS2007_R2.aspx?ArticleID=93 OCSpedia Team 09/07/2009 12:40:03 PM Microsoft has released a document explaining the certificate requirement for OCS 2007 R2. This document is short and deals with almost every aspect of certificate requirement. OcsPedia.com recommends its readers to go through this guide. This is one of the best documents we have seen on certificate requirement for OCS. It can be downloaded from here... http://www.ocspedia.com/misc/Group_Chat_Deployment.aspx?ArticleID=92 OCSpedia Team 09/07/2009 12:40:03 PM Group Chat Server is an optional role of Office Communications Server to host the persistent chat sessions. During persistent chat sessions offered by Group chat server, along with all IM, files, Web links, and other data that were part of the ongoing conversation. Group chat server lets you create chat rooms to chat in more persistent way. With introduction of Group Chat, OCS now offers both persistent and non persistent way of chatting. This article talks about how to deploy the group chat server role... http://www.ocspedia.com/misc/Group_Chat_Communication_Flow.aspx?ArticleID=91 OCSpedia Team 08/31/2009 12:40:03 PM We have received many emails at uc@ocspedia.com asking for some questions regarding Group Chat Server... Following answers are provided as per our work experiemce and Microsoft UC consultants... http://www.ocspedia.com/misc/OCS_R2_Web_Scheduler.htm OCSpedia Team 08/18/2009 05:50:03 PM Its released and available here... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/Response_Group_Service.htm OCSpedia Team 05/24/2009 05:50:03 PM Response Group Service provides a wonderful way to create and configure one or more small response groups for the purpose of routing and queuing incoming phone calls to one or more designated agents. These response groups can be very useful for departments or workgroup environments... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/How_to_Save_Password_MOC.htm OCSpedia Team 05/24/2009 03:00:03 PM This article talks about how to enable save password option to MOC users... http://www.ocspedia.com/GroupChat/Group_Chat_File_transfer.htm OCSpedia Team 05/18/2009 02:17:03 AM This article talks about how to increase the size limit of group chat file transfer... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_Virtualization_Support.htm OCSpedia Team 05/18/2009 12:20:03 AM Office Communications Server 2007 R2 can be deployed onto Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, or onto any virtualization solution that is a certified partner through the Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) certified partners for the following workloads... http://www.ocspedia.com/GroupChat/Unable_to_sign_in_GC.htm OCSpedia Team 05/17/2009 07:00:03 PM This article talks about known group chat sign in issue and how to troubleshoot it... http://www.ocspedia.com/GroupChat/Group_Chat_Logging.htm OCSpedia Team 05/17/2009 07:00:03 PM This article talks about group chat logging... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_installation_Error.htm OCSpedia Team 04/25/2009 02:20:03 AM At times you might get following error while adding an OCS server in the pool. Installation log will come up clean but activation log will have the following error... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Pool_Creation_Error.htm OCSpedia Team 04/22/2009 06:10:03 PM At times you might experience a strange kind of login issue. Most of the users can login but one or few users can't. Most of the times you face this issue due to SIP related AD attributes issue. When problem users would try to login in MOC, they will get following error... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Pool_Creation_Error.htm OCSpedia Team 04/19/2009 04:25:03 PM This article talks about known pool creation errors in LCS or OCS infrastructure... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Update_Server_Check_List_R2.htm OCSpedia Team 04/14/2009 06:05:03 PM This article outlines the device updater component of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/Colocation_support_OCS_2007_R2.htm OCSpedia Team 02/08/2009 02:35:03 AM This article outlines the co-location policy of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/Ports_n_Protocol_OCS_2007_R2.htm OCSpedia Team 02/08/2009 12:10:03 AM This article outlines the required Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 ports and protocols... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/OCS_2007_R2_Standard_Edition.htm OCSpedia Team 02/07/2009 11:50:03 PM Few words about Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Edition... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/OCS_2007_R2_Enterprise_Edition.htm OCSpedia Team 02/07/2009 11:35:03 PM Few words about Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition... http://www.ocspedia.com/Archiving/New_In_OCS_R2_Archiving.htm OCSpedia Team 02/07/2009 10:55:03 PM New features in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Archiving Server... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/New_In_MOC_R2.htm OCSpedia Team 02/04/2009 07:00:03 PM New features of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/Required_IP_Sec_Exceptions.htm OCSpedia Team 02/04/2009 05:15:03 PM Following table presents the required IPSec exceptions for OCS 2007 R2 services... http://www.ocspedia.com/FE/New_Services_in_R2.htm OCSpedia Team 02/04/2009 04:50:03 PM Office Communications Server 2007 R2 front end server also includes the Application server. The OCS 2007 R2 Application Server has following services... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_SIP_Trunking.htm OCSpedia Team 01/29/2009 06:45:03 AM The purpose of a SIP Trunk in an Office Communications Server topology is to enable an enterprise to connect its on-premises voice network to a service provider offering Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) origination and termination. Relying on an independent server provider for PSTN connectivity eliminates the need to deploy and maintain IP-PSTN gateways... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/SIP_Trunking.htm OCSpedia Team 01/25/2009 02:30:03 AM SIP Trunking is a service that permits businesses that have a PBX installed to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) even to outside the enterprise network by using the same connection as the Internet connection.A SIP Trunk is a service offered by an ITSP to use SIP to setup communications between an enterprise PBX and the ITSP... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Auth_Type_inter_Forest.htm OCSpedia Team 01/17/2009 02:40:03 AM Office Communications Server is deployed in one forest, a resource forest that hosts Office Communications Servers but does not host any logon enabled user accounts. Outside of the resource forest, user forests hosts enabled user accounts but no Office Communications Servers. Within the resource forest, a corresponding disabled user account or contact exits for each user account in the user forests... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Voice_tab_disabled_Outlook.htm OCSpedia Team 01/11/2009 12:20:03 AM In this case, all voice mail tab settings are visible, but these are disabled. you can't make any change in the settings. You can still access the voice mail through the Outlook Voice Access. You can also make the changes in voice setting using Outlook Web Access. Follow the following steps to resolve the issue... http://www.ocspedia.com/MediationServer/VOIP_Configure_RCC.htm OCSpedia Team 12/29/2008 12:20:03 PM Remote Call Control often referred as RCC, is a way to let Microsoft Office Communicator ability to control your PBX phone. This article talks about how to configure the LCS\OCS setup for RCC... http://www.ocspedia.com/MediationServer/What_IS_RCC.htm OCSpedia Team 12/22/2008 01:15:03 PM Remote Call Control often referred as RCC is a way to let Microsoft Office Communicator ability to control your PBX phone... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Public_IM_Connectivity.htm OCSpedia Team 12/14/2008 03:35:03 AM This article talks about Public IM Connectivity. It talks about the PIC, benefits of PIC, Licensing, Price, supported domains and limitation around it... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/AOL_Changes_Root_Cert.htm OCSpedia Team 12/07/2008 02:20:03 AM AOL has changed their root certificates on their SIP Access Gateway at approximately 12/2/2008, 4:00 AM EST. As a result, the America Online Root CA 1 certificate, which can be obtained from https://pki-info.aol.com/AOL/, needs to be in the trust list of all LCS/OCS PIC servers connecting to sip.oscar.aol.com by 12/2/2008, 4:00 AM EST... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/CISCO_UCM_OCS.htm OCSpedia Team 11/23/2008 10:20:03 AM This document describes the simultaneous ring feature interoperability and documents the steps and configurations necessary for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco UCM) Release 7.0(1) to interoperate with Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS)2007 Enterprise Edition. It aims to provide a good understanding of what works and what does not work in terms of the feature interaction between a Cisco UCM device and Microsoft Office Communicator. It also provides guidance to deployment participants regarding the limitations, expected behaviors, and known issues. Please note that this document does not address performance and scalability, which are part of a broader criteria for a deployment-ready solution... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Instant_Buddy_List_Manager.htm OCSpedia Team 11/08/2008 7:00:03 AM When you take decision to migrate your users from Sametime to LCS\OCS, the most important piece of migration is migration of buddy list from Sametime to LCS\OCS. This article aims at providing information about Instant Buddy List Migrator from Instant Technologies... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS-SameTime.htm OCSpedia Team 11/08/2008 6:45:03 AM By default Sametime and LCS\OCS don’t work together. It means a Microsoft office Communicator (MOC) user can’t communicate with the Sametime user. You need to use third party solutions to enable the same. This article aims to provide information regarding this topic. It also covers migration from Sametime to LCS\OCS... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_2007_MOM_2005.htm OCSpedia Team 10/26/2008 9:30:03 PM Monitoring Office Communications Server 2007 using MOM 2005 SP1 simplifies the task of an OCS admin to ensure that the OCS 2007 server is doing fine. The Office Communications Server 2007 management packs for MOM 2005 generate alerts from service states, events, performance counters, and other instrumentation that is exposed in Office Communications Server. In addition, MOM 2005 provides a variety of notification options for operators... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Web_Conferencing_Solution.htm OCSpedia Team 10/26/2008 6:25:03 PM Web conferencing is a way to join in the meeting from web (internet or intranet). Using web conferencing you can share documents, presentations etc.  Now web conferencing is rapidly becoming a way to organize the meeting in corporate. This is definitely increasing the efficiency of employees in order to share the data, while they are located at different locations. This also gives you ability to have audio and video communication during the meeting (depending on application and edition). This article talks about different software which provide the web conferencing feature... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_2007_R2_Press_Release.htm OCSpedia Team 10/22/2008 6:42:03 PM Office Communications server 2007 is already doing wonder when it comes to IM, live meeting and AV conferencing (with all additional concepts like communicator web access, archiving etc…). If one thing I ever wanted to have great improvement at, is the voice thing. It’s already good but somewhere I thought it’s not as great as other features are. I went through so many sources and concluded that the next release of OCS (OCS 2007 R2) is coming up with some real time great improvements and new features as far as voice support in OCS goes... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Geomant_SMS_Plug_in_OCS.htm OCSpedia Team 10/22/2008 3:30:03 PM Isn’t it great to have this feature in Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC 2007)? Certainly… yes! Recently I stumbled over an application which can help you having this feature in MOC. The application is provided by Geomant. It provides an SMS plug-in for OCS 2007. Geomant's SMS for Microsoft Communicator enables SMS Text message to be sent directly from Microsoft Communicator... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_Phone_device_Missed_Call.htm OCSpedia Team 09/30/2008 10:30:03 PM We have seen so many times that the customer would not get missed call notification or voice email on the OCS Phone device. Though Microsoft office communicator will keep receiving missed call notification. So the missed call notification and voice emails are shown in MOC 2007 but not on OCS Phone devices... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/How_to_use_absconfig_tool.htm OCSpedia Team 09/06/2008 07:00:03 AM Its been always an interesting topic to discuss about the scope of users who would be shown in the address book search. Suppose you have an organization where OCS is deployed but not all of the users are enabled for OCS. You have broadly three categories of users... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_2007_Permissions.htm OCSpedia Team 09/02/2008 05:55:03 AM This article talks about the required permission for the OCS 2007 administrators... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/All_About_OCS_Ports.htm OCSpedia Team 09/02/2008 02:45:03 AM This article talks about the ports used in OCS 2007 deployment... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/MOC2k7_Outlook_Integration_Error.htm OCSpedia Team 08/17/2008 06:35:03 PM There are some shared DLLs between Office Communicator and Office Outlook. This article talks about them and it also talks about the well known "Outlook Integration Error"... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/How_To_Uninstall_OCS_SE.htm OCSpedia Team 08/16/2008 10:45:03 PM This article talks about how to uninstall the OCS Server... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/How_OCS_Selects_UM_Server.htm OCSpedia Team 08/16/2008 09:10:03 PM This article talks about how does OCS Server select Exchange UM server for voice mail functionality... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Connect_Phone_Device_OCS.htm OCSpedia Team 08/02/2008 06:40:03 PM This article talks about how to connect OCS Phone device (Tanjay) to OCS Server... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/How_to_Know_Version_of_OCS_LCS.htm OCSpedia Team 08/02/2008 05:35:03 PM This article talks about how to find out the version of installed OCS or LCS Servers. Sometimes its really tricky to find out if we have installed beta version or released version of OCS Servers... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Archive_Message_SQL_Query.htm OCSpedia Team 08/02/2008 05:02:03 PM When we install and activate Archiving server, "LcsLog" is the database which gets created at the SQL Server. If users are enabled for archiving, the messages exchanged between them will be archived in this database. This Article talks about few scripts what you can use in order to get those archived messages... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Inbound_Call.htm OCSpedia Team 7/27/2008 07:02:03 PM This article explains the steps involved when an external PSTN caller makes call to the internal user... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Reverse_Name_Lookup.htm OCSpedia Team 7/27/2008 01:32:03 PM Reverse number look-up is the process of mapping a user’s number to a corresponding SIP-URI for the purpose of routing calls over the IP network to multiple user endpoints. In this article we are going to discuss about the inbound and outbound calling with respect to Reverse Name Lookup... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Explore_Dbimpexp.htm OCSpedia Team 7/26/2008 02:18:03 PM Dbimpexp.exe is a tool which helps us exporting and importing contact list of a particular user or every user. we can use this tool on both editions (Standard edition and Enterprise Edition) of LCS and OCS servers... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Per-User_Reports.htm OCSpedia Team 7/25/2008 10:02:03 AM We can use the OCS 2007 graphical user interface to find out user reports. This is particularly useful when you want to know how many contacts are added for the user, how many places the user is logged in, which version of OCS client is the user using etc...Suppose there is a user with SIP URI xcha@ocsdom.local. You want to find out following information regarding this user... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/IMFilter_FileTransfer.htm OCSpedia Team 7/20/2008 7:05:03 PM If you want to disable file transfer using office communicator and at the same time you want to let Live Meeting client users to transfer the files then how to achieve this! Obviously we can... we will discuss about how to do in this article.... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Nortel_Conf.htm OCSpedia Team 7/10/2008 9:20:03 PM While Nortel Multimedia Conferencing can be deployed as a standalone audio/video-conferencing solution, the Nortel and Microsoft Innovative Communications Alliance has enabled Nortel to deliver a robust and proven IP audio-conferencing solution that can be seamlessly integrated into a Microsoft desktop environment. Multimedia Conferencing can be easily integrated with the Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 and Office Communications Server 2007 for a truly collaborative unified communications environment... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_WebCasts.htm OCSpedia Team 7/9/2008 3:05:03 PM A great collection of technical resources about OCS 2007. this page contains link of so many important OCS 2007 webcasts and documents what is essential to learn for any unified communications professional... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OcsConfigureTelUri_wsf.htm OCSpedia Team 7/7/2008 4:20:03 PM Any organization having good number of employees will always have tough time manually populating Line URI field for all of the users. OCS resource kit has a script OCSConfigureTelURI.wsf which helps an OCS admin to complete this task without putting much effort... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/ISa2006sp1release.htm OCSpedia Team 7/05/2008 1:20:03 PM And the wait is over...finally ISA server 2006 sp1 is released and it does have ability to sense SAN in the certificate. The OCS admins using ISA 2006 to publish web components (reverse proxy) were waiting for it patiently http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Phone_Device_Root_CA.htm OCSpedia Team 7/05/2008 11:20:03 PM Since communications between Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition and Office Communications Server 2007 is encrypted (by TLS and SRTP), therefore the Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition needs to have trusted root CA of the certificate configured on the office communications server 2007. This article talks how telephony devices get Root CA certificate from the Active Directory... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Custom_Status.htm OCSpedia Team 6/28/2008 7:20:03 PM Ever wondered how to add additional status info in office communicator? Are you bored to set the same status information? Do you really need to set the status info which is not in built in office communicator? Microsoft office communicator gives you option to set your own status info in office communicator with little effort... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Reverse_Proxy.htm OCSpedia Team 6/27/2008 11:03:03 PM Reverse Proxy is a virtual OCS Edge server role ehich extends three functionalities to the OCS remote users... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/MacOCS.htm OCSpedia Team 6/14/2008 7:20:03 PM Macintosh OS and OCS 2007 clients: There are three different OCS 2007 clients what an OCS user can use on Macintosh operating system... http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/Win2k8OCS2k7.htm OCSpedia Team 6/4/2008 4:21:03 PM http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/PublicIP_AVEdge.htm OCSpedia Team 6/4/2008 4:21:03 PM http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/OCS_64bitOS.htm OCSpedia Team 6/4/2008 4:21:03 PM http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/LMTracing.htm OCSpedia Team 6/4/2008 4:21:03 PM http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/DisableEH.htm OCSpedia Team 6/4/2008 4:21:03 PM http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/CUPS_OCS.htm OCSpedia Team 6/4/2008 4:21:03 PM http://www.ocspedia.com/Misc/ClientTracing.htm OCSpedia Team 6/4/2008 4:21:03 PM