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Script - to create users in AD and enable it for Office Communications server

I wrote a simple script to automate the process of user account creation in AD and to enable them...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 08/20/2009

OCS VOIP call gets dropped when caller ID is blocked

In an OCS VOIP deployment, call routing works fine. But it breaks down when the caller ID is blocked...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 05/30/2009

PSTN user cant join dial-in conferencing

Recently I worked on an issue where internal users could dial into conferencing atendant, but PSTN...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 05/08/2009

The Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Toolkit

The Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Toolkit provides a set of tools and...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 04/24/2009

Explore OCS 2007 R2 - Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Dial-in Conferencing

This is one of the best features in the new release of Office Communications Server. There was Audio...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 01/17/2009

Explore OCS 2007 R2 - New Attendant console

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Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 01/17/2009

Message when attempting to manage OCS 2007 R2 users through the OCS 2007 Admin tools

Summary=============================Enterprises can have mixed deployment of OCS 2007 and OCS 2007...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 01/10/2009

Outlook Integration Error - Microsoft office Communicator 2007!

During my job as unified communications engineer, one of the frequent problems I encounter is...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 12/16/2008

How does OCS select Exchange UM Server...

When any external or Internal user calls a user in OCS-UM enabled environement, The OCS Server...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 08/16/2008

Outlook DLLs and Microsoft Office Communicator

There is a seamless integration between Exchange and OCS. so the exchange client (Outlook) and OCS...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 08/12/2008

Commands to Prepare and Verify Schema, Forest and Domain

Just to make it available handy... How to prepare schema for LCS\OCSLCScmd.exe /forest...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 07/29/2008

Normalization of phone number at the client end or server end?

Normalization of the dialed number into E.164 format has been an interesting thing always! I am not...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 07/25/2008

Migration from LCS 2003 to OCS 2007

Note: Its strongly recommended to migrate LCS 2003 setup to LCS 2005 sp1 before migrating to OCS...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 07/25/2008

How to enable “Appear Offline” presence status in office communicator?

This artcile talks about how can you enable your MOC 2007 to have the status "Appear Offline". Once...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 07/08/2008

How to find out the SIP URIs of users connected on one particular OCS Front End server

There might be situation that you would like to know the SIP URIs of the users, which are connected...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 07/02/2008

Inter forest LCSOCS deployment without identity integration application (MIIS, IIFP etc...)

Well... there are some Microsoft customers who would like to have two different forests. They'll use...

Author: ram.ojha@microsoft.com Date: 06/29/2008