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Looking for Troubleshooting Help? Easy as 1-2-3

1) Search; 2) Ask; 3) Contact Microsoft from the revised Office Communications Server and Client Troubleshooting and Support page.

You know it; we know it: Stuff happens. There are times when an unforeseen confluence of circumstances causes problems in your deployment (which only an hour ago was running perfectly): Interaction with some piece of new hardware or software, the need for some atypical set of system configurations, some update in settings that seems likes it should just work, or some set of recent network or other events--not to mention, some very "creative" end user behaviors.

When stuff happens, you want answers. We want to help. The revised Office Communications Server and Client Troubleshooting and Support page design is streamlined to make the process of finding an answer faster and easier:

1) Search to find out quickly whether your issue, event, or error message has been addressed in a KB article or other documentation.

2) Ask community experts (both inside and outside of Microsoft) who may have experienced similar issues or can provide insight.

3) Contact Microsoft Support if you still cannot get the answer you need.

 

Adam Dudsic

Site Manager

Published Friday, November 20, 2009 9:35 AM by ocsteam
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Comments

 

Jamie said:

Help required with OCS R2.

I have a OCS 2007 R2 installed, except when I installed it i set the domain to ( ie  costenco.inc)  now I need to get  costenco.com to work.  I added the domain to available domains on the server, but cannot connect any users to it.  I changed certain users to costenco.com but it always say server temp. unavailable.
November 24, 2009 1:32 PM
 

jerryscole said:

Hello OCS Team,

I just wanted to say that I really like this product...BUT (you knew that was coming)

Your installation procedure, especially on Windows 2008, is somewhat nightmarish. Exchange installs used to keep me up at night but now OCS 2007 R2 installs do. That should change. I expect better as a MS enterprise customer.

Also you're behind the curve on 2008 R2 support. PSS tells me you still don't support it officially...come on! What's the delay. I need to stay on an old operating system and old domain functional level for your product??? Unacceptable!

Please make improvements in the deployment space of this product post-haste...that will make awesome.
November 28, 2009 10:48 PM
 

jerryscole said:

Oh yes and while I am here...this link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/dd450353.aspx

which you supplied in this posting basically leads you to technet articles about every product but OCS. I did a search for "service not starting" and get a littany of articles about Sharepoint! WHAT?!
November 28, 2009 10:51 PM
 

Adam Dudsic [MSFT] said:

Jerryscole,

Is there any other information that you can provide about the problem, or perhaps new information you've discovered while troubleshooting--e.g., error codes, event log IDs, error message text, recent software/hardware changes...?

I'd like to determine whether we have content that can help you. If so, I'll post the URLs and then investigate why it's not showing up in search. If not, I'll enter a content request.
November 30, 2009 8:31 PM
 

jerryscole said:

Hi Adam,

Sorry for the delay in responding. I did a generic search for "service" for example as I was trying to find why an OCS service would not start and was presented with results for Sharepoint. Specifically, Sharepoint was inserted into the "Current Refinements" filter. I though that was strange, why was Office Comm Server not added to the filter.

I have a screen shot which I will gladly send if you have a location to send it to.
December 5, 2009 8:33 PM
 

Adam Dudsic [MSFT] said:

Hi Jerry,

Try again now; you should get better results.

The problem was an incorrect a query parameter value that was being sent to the search engine.

Thank you for pointing out the issue. We're also going to try to make some additional improvements in the next couple months to return additional results.

Adam
December 11, 2009 8:30 PM
 

Deepali said:

Hey,
Does Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway have APIs that can be used to retrieve presence information? I want to write a separate application that acts as a "watcher" using the API to get presence information for users. Is that possible with XMPP Gateway?

Thanks,
Deepali
January 5, 2010 7:18 PM
 

jpitt123123 said:

mee too searching for trouble shooting help...????????/
January 6, 2010 10:46 PM
 

matt.longe said:

How fast is the response time?
January 8, 2010 6:50 PM
 

jasonjgy2000 said:

Hey i am installing the enterprise edition of ocs 2007 R2. I am using Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 as the front end and Windows Server 2003 x86 standard Sp1 as the sql backend. now when i am creating the enterprise pool, the process is failing the error log says that i am not authenticated when ocs is trying to talk to the back end database.
January 12, 2010 4:41 AM
 

golfer_kuno said:

hello, we had to change the internal certificate on our FE and EDGE OCS and now external OC clients cannot talk to our server anymore. no errors on the edge server but the client is getting an error about not being able to connect to our external edge server.

from FE there is an error "could not establish application endpoint with OCS on server.domain.com:5061" ... again only external users are having issues after we replaced out internal certificate (we added another info under SAN).

thanks in advance.
January 13, 2010 8:00 PM
 

xcitech said:

Hello!

I installed the LM client and the outlook add-in. But everytime when I start Outlook 2007 with this add-in, Outlook crashes. Someone already experienced the same problem?

Thanks in advance for your help.
January 14, 2010 2:01 AM
 

xcitech said:

forgot to mention:

when I disable the add-in, outlook works again.

OS: xp, sp3
Office 2007 sp2
January 14, 2010 2:19 AM
 

GaryJo said:

I found it useful to contact Microsoft when problem happens.I was troubleshooting a problem that happened in my office last week.I took help of resources at Microsoft and they really helped me out of it.
January 22, 2010 4:33 AM
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