Have you ever installed an Office Communication Server and wanted to verify your remote access was setup and configured properly? Or what if you get a call or an escalation regarding a service or connection not working? How do you verify whether the issue Read More

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 Read More

Please forgive the posting of the Q&A information. While there was nothing confidential it was prepared for discussions with customers. For additional information regarding virtualization support for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, please contact Read More

DrRez on Twitter is the micro-blogging voice of the Microsoft Insider team (programmers, writers, and field consultants) that produced Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit and Programming for Unified Communications Using Office Read More

  Notification   In an effort to provide enhanced capacity and service reliance, Windows Live Messenger will soon be adding additional IP addresses used for PIC/Federation traffic.  Some organizations have chosen to restrict this type Read More

  Check out the new Virtual launch site of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 at http://www.ocsr2launch.com/.  The site is packed with useful and entertaining content for you to explore: ·         Read More

There has been a change in SQL 2005 SP3 that can impact the installation of OCS 2007.  This does not impact OCS 2007 R2.    SQL 2005 SP3 has an update that changes a return code that the OCS 2007 install was not designed to handle.  Read More

  RTManage.exe is a tool you can use to manually update the Roundtable device without requiring the OCS Software Update Server.  Once you download and install the tool, the usage is via the command line.  All you need to do is connect Read More

Let me direct your attention to a post from Dmitry Sotnikov about an OCS and PowerShell Webcast http://dmitrysotnikov.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/ocs-powershell-webcast/ Here is just the first paragraph of his post: The Swiss IT Pro User Group team Read More

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will launch on February 3rd 2009. We are trying something new this time and will do the launch through a website that mimics a live event.  The website will include: keynote, breakout sessions, customers evidence Read More

So you are not going to get exactly what you want but the question from Aaron, Elan and Mark was the fact that the guidance to give a customer collocating their Archiving database with their SQL backend for OCS was rather vague. In the OCS Planning Guide Read More

The announcement for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 has been made and you should begin to see more information being blogged as well as posted on the Microsoft site. One thing to have administrators thinking about is interoperability of a mixed Read More

In light of  the OCS R2 public announcement, the OCS Technical Product Management team has recorded a series of videos with the latest additions to the product and the value those bring to the customers. The videos are posted at the TechNet Edge Read More

In our previous post, we introduced changes in Office Communications Server to enable Direct SIP with IP-PBX such as Cisco Call Manager. In this simple example, we provide a configuration of Direct SIP with Cisco Call Manager 4.2.1. Read More

In early 2007, Cisco was touting their three year lead on Microsoft in UC.  Now, Cisco seems to have decided they were running in the wrong direction - and perhaps even in the wrong race. In the last month, Cisco has added two new software pieces Read More

As a part of the broad initiative across Microsoft to support 64 bit versions across many of its product lines, the next release of OCS will support 64-bit operating systems only. This decision will help meet customer demand and is a natural progression Read More