Determining Health and Wellness of an OCS Deployment – Web Conferencing and MCUs Multi-point Control Units for Web Conferencing and Audio & Video.. How do IT Admins determine if these servers are staying healthy? As I explained in my previous Read More

Determining Health and Wellness of an OCS Deployment – IM and Presence As an IT Admin, how do you know when end user experience will start to suffer and which Performance Monitor counters should you be monitoring to ensure your users continue to Read More

 What is Enhanced Presence? OCS 2007 allows its client applications to publish and subscribe to Enhanced Presence information. The enhanced presence infrastructure includes categories and containers. State, note, contact information, or calendar Read More

    The Prep Forest step requires a decision on the location for OCS Global Settings – you can choose to store these in the System container in the root domain (default and recommended) or the Configuration partition which is replicated Forest-wide. Read More

    Sometimes, when you upload a new .cab file for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition or Microsoft RoundTable using the OCS 2007 Software Update Service Management Console Upload Software feature, the upload fails with an HttpException Read More

For organizations that want to consolidate multiple SQL instances on the same physical server, this configuration is now supported for Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 and Office Communications Server 2007.  Both of these products make use of Read More

The first thing I do when I’m talking to customers is tell them about the Helper button on the Normalization rule creation screen as shown below: It takes you here:  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HP102218261033.aspx There are enough Read More

Overview Automatic configuration allows Communicator to find and connect to the appropriate LCS server without manually entering a server name into its settings. Communicator has special requirements for DNS and certificates to make this work properly.  Read More