There is a new capability in R2 CWA to initiate or join an audio conference.  Here’s how it works. Vivian is logged onto CWA as a remote user.  Amy and Hao are on her buddy list – they’re both logged onto Communicator either inside or outside Read More

  This article describes the steps taken by Office Communicator to establish a Communicator call between an OC client sitting on a typical home network, connected to the Internet using a NAT router and another OC client placed on the company's internal Read More

The information listed below has been tested using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition R2 supports the use of non default TCP\IP port configurations for network access to its pool Read More

  This is an update to a post I made about a year ago to help you choose the AD store OCS uses for global settings.    Quick note on terminology Active Directory has three stores often referred to as Naming Contexts –Schema, Domain Read More

Rick Varvel, a Microsoft Principal Consultant has just started his blog and his first post is fantastic. Here is the link to his post - http://blogs.technet.com/rickva/archive/2009/04/03/Configuring-A_2F00_V-Edge-Service-for-NAT.aspx OCS Team Read More

  Administrators, users and troubleshooters value the possibility in Outlook 2007 to get status about the connections: by holding the ctrl key while right clicking the Outlook icon in the notification area and choosing “Connection Status” (see also Read More

  It’s been a while since I wrote this blog on OCS 2007 media traversal.  I’ve since left Microsoft to join a UC consulting company, but media traversal is still near and dear to me.  This blog describes some of the improvements in Read More

  The purpose of this entry is to provide information regarding the various types of logging capabilities that exist within the numerous clients accessing the Office Communications Server Infrastructure.   At the very highest level the Read More