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

Cisco and Microsoft are competitors in the unified communications space, with very different visions and product approaches – I don’t think that’s going to come as a surprise to anyone.   Nor should it be a surprise that many customers have 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

Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server R2 have two multi forest topologies that have been tested by and are supported by Microsoft. One of these topologies is the Office Communications Server Resource forest \ User forest topology Read More

Hooray! Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway Has Been Released This article walks you through setting up the XMPP Gateway and configuring it to work with Jabber XCP 5.4. For those who have been anticipating this release, I am happy Read More

Important edit October 7- the original post stated Windows 2008 R2. This is incorrect we do not support that version at this time. The correct version should be Windows 2003 or Windows 2008. Check out the following figure. That's no illusion-it's an Read More

We are excited to announce changes to the Office Communications Server Public IM Connectivity (PIC) license that provides instant messaging and presence federation to the Windows Live, AOL and Yahoo! public IM networks. Starting October 1, 2009, the following Read More

Following the release of Office Communications Server 2007 Sasa Juratovic posted a PowerShell script  to retrieve user IM conversations form the archiving database.  (http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/01/14/69.aspx) With the Read More

As we all know, in the world of computers we have a binary system. Either something works (1) or it does not (0). And as all of us really know, there is another state, that we all loath, "works sometimes" (1.5). Recently I ran into a problem with my Read More

The 32 bit version of the PreCallDiagnostic tool is complete and is now live on the Microsoft Download Center.  Customers can now access the download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f16ab4c2-353f-4c9b-b353-22a656c03c9b.  Read More

We have released a document that we believe many of you have wanted to see for quiet some time. One document that covers the certificate requirements for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The OCS 2007 R2 Deploying Certificates.doc can be downloaded Read More

When a user is an agent of a Response Group, he will receives voice calls via the Response Group Service. Because calls are not originally targeted at this user in particular, no missed call notification will be generated. This behavior has been designed Read More

The Office Communications Server 2007 R2 team is happy to announce release of the Web Scheduler as a web download. The Web Scheduler provides a basic scheduling experience. Some of the main features of the Web Scheduler are: Authentication using Windows Read More

More than 8 months in the making, we're pleased to announce that Group Chat QFE1 is released as has the Group Chat SDK.  This is a strategically important release, as it provides key features and performance enhancements that elevate OCS Group Chat Read More

In this post we will explain why it’s important to not ring the user’s additional number for Response Group calls, and how that is accomplished. The main goal of the Response Group Service is to route calls to individuals. Enabling simultaneous ringing Read More

Learn about new partner applications built on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The Silverlight player features 3 partner applications:   ·         Schlumberger’s extension of Petrel, a software 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

We are pleased to announce official support for server virtualization for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. We are introducing support for both a fully distributed virtualized topology across several hypervisors and for a single server virtualized 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

  April provided a substantial number of updates for the R2 server roles and the first place to start is with this KB - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968802. The plan of record is to have these available on Microsoft Update during the week of 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

  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

We have released the R2 MOM/SCOM Pack today - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0fca3752-76d4-42f3-9241-a663e40c1e2c&displaylang=en   Below is the original post when we knew it would be delayed: While working Read More

The December fix for Office Communicator 2005 is the minimum requirement for the OC 2005 client to connect to Office Communications Server R2.  Please note that there is also mention of the server side fix for Live Communications Server 2005 SP1 Read More