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A client of mine recently decided to move to Lync 2010 - from OCS 2007 - after having a chat with the technical specialist from MS. They were very happy with OCS 2007, but were keen on the hi-def video/voice, integrated client and dial-in conferencing (yes, they didnt go 2007 R2 just for that feature)…
Continue readingYears ago, we had a couple of clients that were really interested in OCS 2007 PIC, but thought it would of been ever so much more awesome (yes, english is my first language) if they were also able to do AV conferencing with these clients - but alas, different protocols meant this was a no…
Continue readingSo as most nerds would already know, OCS "14" has been re-named Microsoft Lync Server... and with it comes a new home for the OCS Team blog.... http://blogs.technet.com/b/nexthop/ I attended the OCS/Lync Ignite last week in Sydney (or syd-a-knee if you are president of the IOC). It was the first time i'd gone to anything…
Continue readingI had heard last year that this would drop in April - but it now looks like H2 2010... still, now that its been announced, maybe the very open release date will be met :-) http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/2010office/imageGallery.aspx As per the pictures, looks like the social connector stuff is a focus with outlook.... seems to be…
Continue readingSo, one of the major issues with OCS 2007 R2 archiving services is the lack of a built-in tool to actually view the data - not everyone has the inhouse skills to write an SQL query or nice little tool to view this data. I noticed over on the OCS blog, some of the OCS…
Continue readingJust noticed this one over at the OCS blog https://www.testocsconnectivity.com/ these tools really do speed the testing process once implemented - and help track down issues faster... good stuff MS.
Continue readingA while back i wrote about this patch which killed OCS... (which the OCS team have now fixed) I got an email today from one of my guys saying that it also killed USMT... sure enough, i just ran into the same thing.... The SMSTS.log reports Failed to import the client certificate store (0x80092024) OSDSMPClient…
Continue readingSo i dilligently installed the latest round of patches from patch tuesday (patch wednesday in australia) and found my OCS 2007 R2 on 2008 x64 had an issue with the front end service not starting. The logs displayed the following message: "The evaluation period for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 has expired. Please upgrade…
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