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Information about Teams, Skype for Business, Lync, OCS, and Exchange UM.
Issue with Federation Only Working in One Direction
I ran into this issue with a couple of customers recently while troubleshooting federation issues....
Author: dodeitte Date: 04/13/2010
OCS 2007 R2 Supportability Statement for Windows 2008 R2 Released
The following KB articles have been released addressing what steps need to be taken for support of...
Author: dodeitte Date: 03/30/2010
How to Change the Sort Order of Contact List Groups
Office Communicator allows you to create groups to sort your contacts. You can also arranged those...
Author: dodeitte Date: 03/08/2010
Sample OCS Archiving Report Available
Update 6/2/13 - Sample Lync Server Archiving Report is now available! Click here for more...
Author: dodeitte Date: 02/19/2010
Do I Really Need to be a Domain Admin to Install CWA?
This question came up from a customer who was looking to install CWA without having to be a member...
Author: dodeitte Date: 12/10/2009
What Rights in SQL are Needed for DBAnalyze to Work?
I see this come up a lot when doing OCS Health Checks. Part of the Health Check is looking at...
Author: dodeitte Date: 11/23/2009
Options for Hyperlinks in Communicator 2007
I get a lot of questions on how to enable hyperlinks in Communicator or how to remove the underscore...
Author: dodeitte Date: 11/09/2009
OCS 2007 R2 Cumulative Server Update Installer Released
You can use this tool to automatically install the latest patches for each component. To use, run...
Author: dodeitte Date: 11/09/2009
File Size Restrictions in OCS Web Conferencing
This question comes up when talking about the OCS hosted Live Meetings when customers are trying to...
Author: dodeitte Date: 11/09/2009
Do NOT Apply KB974571 to LCS/OCS Servers
Update - Please see the "Known issues that affect this security update" section in KB974571...
Author: dodeitte Date: 10/13/2009
LCS Services Fail to Start After Running the Global Settings Migration Tool
I ran into this problem recently. I was doing a migration from LCS 2005 SP1 to OCS 2007 R2 and as...
Author: dodeitte Date: 10/13/2009
Issues with Group Chat File Upload
I ran into a couple of issues getting the file upload feature to work in Group Chat. I followed all...
Author: dodeitte Date: 10/07/2009
Changes to PIC Licensing
From the PressPass announcement: Microsoft is changing its public instant messaging connectivity...
Author: dodeitte Date: 10/01/2009
XMPP Gateway Released
Overview The eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) Gateway for Office Communications...
Author: dodeitte Date: 10/01/2009
Configure the Domains that User Replicator Searches
Update 6/19/12 - Updated post with cmdlet for Lync Server 2010. A common issue that occurs in a...
Author: dodeitte Date: 09/24/2009
How to Verify if Schema Prep Completed Successfully
Update 5/3/15 - Added Skype for Business Server 2015 greenfield schema version.Update 11/26/12 -...
Author: dodeitte Date: 09/24/2009
Live Meeting 2007 Group Policy Template
I get asked a lot if there's an .adm template for Live Meeting and where to download it. You can...
Author: dodeitte Date: 09/23/2009
Office Communicator Call Button Integration Support
Background Microsoft headsets and webcams currently launch Windows Live Messenger when the Call...
Author: dodeitte Date: 09/21/2009
Error when Configuring Delegated Setup
I had a customer run across this issue recently. When trying to use LCSCmd to configure delegated...
Author: dodeitte Date: 09/03/2009
Installing IIS Role Services for OCS 2007 R2
UPDATE 7/28/10 - I added the ServerManagerCmd commands to make it easier to install the IIS role...
Author: dodeitte Date: 09/03/2009
Installing KB911996 on an LCS 2005 SP1 Enterprise Edition Front-end with SQL Installed
I ran into this issue while trying to migrate a customer to OCS 2007 R2. When they originally setup...
Author: dodeitte Date: 08/19/2009
OCS 2007 R2 Web Scheduler Released
Overview Web Scheduler is a 64-bit tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It...
Author: dodeitte Date: 08/19/2009
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Site Resiliency White Paper Released
Brief Description This white paper provides guidelines and best practices for Microsoft Office...
Author: dodeitte Date: 07/31/2009
OCS 2007 R2 Updates Released - July 2009
Here is a list of all of the July 2009 OCS R2 Updates: 971296 Description of the update package for...
Author: dodeitte Date: 07/31/2009
OCS Remote Connectivity Analyzer
Similar to the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer, the OCS Remote Commectivity Analyzer will help...
Author: dodeitte Date: 07/31/2009
OCS 2007 R2 Updates Released - June 2009
You'll want to pay special attention to these if you are running the evaluation version of OCS 2007...
Author: dodeitte Date: 06/12/2009
Tanjay Unable to Update after Rolling Back to R1 Code
I ran across this issue awhile back. I had a Tanjay running version 1.0.522.101. I updated it to the...
Author: dodeitte Date: 06/12/2009
Issue when trying to Remotely Manage OCS 2007 R2 on Windows 2008
I've seen the following trip up a couple people when trying to manage an OCS 2007 R2 server...
Author: dodeitte Date: 06/05/2009
How to Move OCS Enterprise SQL Database to another Server
The first step is to stop all of the OCS services on all of the servers in the pool. Next you will...
Author: dodeitte Date: 06/05/2009
OCS 2007 R2 and Windows 2008 Domain Controllers
Burried on page 329 of the OCS 2007 R2 Planning Guide is this important note about Windows 2008...
Author: dodeitte Date: 06/01/2009
Do I really need ports 50,000-59,999 open in OCS 2007 R2?
This is copied straight from the TechNet article posted here,...
Author: dodeitte Date: 05/31/2009
KB971083 - Communicator 2007 R2 hotfix rollup package: May 2009
The May hotfix rollup for Communicator 2007 R2 was released. You can read more about the fixes and...
Author: dodeitte Date: 05/26/2009
"The input file is not a valid PKCS#7 file."??
I ran across this issue while trying to process an offline certificate request on a OCS 2007 R2 Edge...
Author: dodeitte Date: 05/26/2009
OCS 2007 R2 Virtualization Support
Take a look at the following post that describes what roles we support virtualized....
Author: dodeitte Date: 05/13/2009
OCS 2007 R2 Supported Server Role Collocation
I just wanted to quickly point out this article on TechNet that does a really good job of showing...
Author: dodeitte Date: 05/10/2009
How to Change the Shared Folder Location for an OCS Enterprise Pool
If you need to change the location where you originally configured the OCS shares, there are a...
Author: dodeitte Date: 04/22/2009
Exchange 2010 Beta Released
The Exchange 2010 Beta was released just the other day. I encourage everyone to read more about all...
Author: dodeitte Date: 04/16/2009
How to Force User Replicator Regeneration
If you are troubleshooting a User Replicator issue, here's an easy way to force User Replicator to...
Author: dodeitte Date: 04/16/2009
How to Determine What Version of LCS or OCS You Have Installed
Here's an easy way to figure out exactly what version of LCS or OCS you have installed. For LCS or...
Author: dodeitte Date: 04/16/2009