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August 2007 - Posts

OCS 2007 on a 64-bit server
..and missing those fancy ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) controls for enabling users to your pool? Fear not, just run this to get them visible: mmc /32 dsa.msc . Yeah, I'm a keyboard junkie amongst other vices, but this was something I really Read More...
OCS 2007 Standard Edition - 10 insights from the field
I, for one, have been struggling a bit when it comes down to understanding what's happening with OCS 2007 (Office Communications Server 2007, RTM'd some time ago). Having played with LCS 2005 (Live Communications Server 2005) quite a bit, I've been eagerly Read More...
Dogfooding: Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta
One of the 'perks' at Microsoft is the ability to dogfood things - i.e. installing every piece of alpha, beta, gamma and whatnot version of software that interests you. And then observing if your laptop still boots, or not. I was asked recently "What's Read More...
MOSS 2007 and SPS 2003/SPS 2001 migration tools public release
I just got a note that the following migration tools for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) have been released via CodePlex: SharePoint 2003 Data Extraction Tool: http://www.codeplex.com/SPMigration/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=6766 Read More...
OCS 2007 launch date confirmed!
OCS 2007 will be officially launched October 16th - see details and link to webcast here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/aug07/08-21UCGVCFMA.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases Read More...
Upgrading from OCS 2007 RC to RTM
It's possible to upgrade your existing Release Candidate installation of OCS 2007 to RTM. Alternatively you can do a clean installation (RTM bits here here and Office Communicator bits here ). Should you go ahead with upgrade, here's a few tips you should Read More...
Testing Office Communicator remote connectivity against Access Edge server - tip #1
Recently I was working with a customer, where we had to deploy Office Communications Server 2007 (Release Candidate at the time) to their production environment. As it turned out when setting up Access Edge-role in their DMZ, remote Office Communicator Read More...
How to specify internal and external servers for Live Meeting with OCS 2007?
OCS 2007 (Office Communications Server 2007), which was just released to RTM, finally has Live Meeting Conferencing built-in. You can use the Live Meeting client or the web frontend to attend your meetings. Because of the nature of OCS, you can deploy Read More...
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