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Category Archives: OCS
Fixing interoperability problems between OCS 2007 R2 Public Internet Connectivity and AOL IM
One of the cool things you can do with OCS is connect your internal organization to various public IM clouds (MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, and AOL) using the Public Internet Connectivity, or PIC, feature. As you might imagine, though, PIC involves … Continue reading
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The OCS Edge Server: how many NICs do I need?
There are a lot of people out there who want to try to get around Microsoft’s recommended configuration for the OCS Edge Server roles. For whatever reason, they don’t like the thought of have two network interfaces, one on a … Continue reading
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Doing UC in the Pacific Northwest
I’ve been sitting on a cool announcement for several days now, and I’m happy that it’s now time to announce it. I’ve been working with a group of people to get a new user group for Unified Communications (UC) put … Continue reading
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Setting Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging codecs on a per-user basis? Genius!
I was completely floored to discover, via Paul, that you can control which codec the UM role uses to record voicemails on a per-user basis. This is seriously cool stuff, and if you can’t see why quite yet, let me … Continue reading
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Security and the OCS 2007 A/V Edge role
When people start digging into the specifics of the A/V Edge role in OCS 2007, they usually have a strong and immediate knee-jerk reaction something along the lines of, “No way!” (Mine was, “Oh, heck no!”) This reaction is usually caused … Continue reading
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Exchange protocol documentation now available
Per the announcement on Tuesday (08 Apr), Microsoft has released a lot of new documentation for various Exchange and Outlook-Exchange protocols. This is some cool stuff — just check out the list of what’s available. However, as the web site … Continue reading
New form of spam
I came across an interesting article yesterday on a new form of spam: using webmail providers’ Out-of-Office features to do a new type of backscatter spam. This is an excellent example of how unsecured messaging does not mix well with … Continue reading
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Webcast on Unified Communications
Tomorrow I’m going to be giving two webcasts for Quest on What You Need to Know about Microsoft Unified Communications – one at 9am EDT, the other at 2pm EDT. (Yes, that’s 6am and 11am here, so my morning tomorrow is … Continue reading
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Liveblogging the Unified Communications Voice Ignite conference, day 5
Last day. It’s been a blast, but my brain is getting full. (You can see my day 4 notes here.) 9:45: When you’re deploying a multi-site Edge server deployment, be aware that you can’t have multiple sites with the Access Edge role … Continue reading
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Liveblogging the Unified Communications Voice Ignite conference, day 4
Just 2 days left — on with Thursday! (You can see my day 3 notes here.) 09:57: The RTAudio codec suite is pretty cool. Finally found out why there’s all those new devices (like USB headsets) that are marked as Microsoft UC-compatible. Regular … Continue reading
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Fighting PKI inertia
I’ve noticed something for a while now — people are really reluctant to install a proper PKI system. If you’re a Windows-based organization, I have three words for you: Get over it. The Windows Certificate Service (WCS) is powerful and … Continue reading
Liveblogging the Unified Communications Voice Ignite conference, day 3
Good morning! Back for day 3. (You can see my day 2 notes here.) 09:13: Back when I first started doing OCS, the vision included “hybrid“ gateway devices which included the Mediation Server role functionality in the gateway. Well, they exist … Continue reading
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Liveblogging the Unified Communications Voice Ignite conference, day 2
Good morning! Back for day 2. (You can see my day 1 notes here.) 09:13: Talking about dialing requirements. Just heard the best explanation of E.164 I’ve heard — very simply, it’s a format for writing phone numbers that makes … Continue reading
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Liveblogging the Unified Communications Voice Ignite conference, day 1
Greetings from Sydney, Australia, where I’ll be spending the next week (along with Kevin) at the UC Voice Ignite event. (If you’re one of my readers and you’re here too, look me up.) I want to capture some neat bits … Continue reading
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