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New OCS 2007 R2 Cumulative Update available

by Uwin Young 28 September 2010 OCS

A new cumulative update dated 24 September 2010 is now available. Download and details are available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968802/ Included in this update is a fix for the Response Group Service issue mentioned in one of my earlier posts (click here to read the post) regarding the July 2010 cumulative update for OCS. Share this post:

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Remote Connectivity Tool to test OCS Edge Server

by Uwin Young 28 September 2010 OCS

Found a useful on-line tool that you can use to test remote connectivity to Edge server. The tool is still going through beta testing but does a pretty good job already. They are planning to enhance the tool to perform a deeper level of diagnostic and provide more detailed troubleshooting. The site https://www.testocsconnectivity.com/default.aspx where the [...]

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Snom joins Compatible Devices Program for Microsoft Lync 2010

by Uwin Young 27 September 2010 News

The Snom 300 is the first general purpose SIP phone certified to work with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. This device is the company’s most widely-deployed IP-based desktop business phone, providing traditional business telephony functions in addition to advanced functionality such as multiple lines, programmable keys, backup failover line identities, low power consumption, maintaining [...]

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Polycom HDX

by Uwin Young 20 September 2010 OCS

The Microsoft Unified Communication solution has a wonderful user friendly conferencing and Live Meeting capability. It is great for desktop to desktop conferencing and small boardroom conferencing, using the Roundtable device (Polycom CX5000), if you are looking for a cost effective flexible solution. For a high-end conferencing experience Microsoft have partnered with Polycom to offer [...]

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Response Group Service fails after applying the July 2010 cumulative updates

by Uwin Young 6 September 2010 OCS

Download of the July 2010 cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix (KB968802) is temporarily suspended. After applying the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 July 2010 cumulative updates to the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition servers the Response Group Service will have to be restarted when: New Response [...]

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Communicator Mobile for Nokia

by Martin Coetzer 16 August 2010 Anouncements

Ever wanted to logon to Office Communicator from your Nokia smartphone? Wait no more, Microsoft has released the new Communicator Mobile (CoMo) client for Nokia smartphones. You can download it here: http://www.getcomo.com/ Share this post:

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CDR Billing Application for OCS

by Uwin Young 23 June 2010 Anouncements

The OCS Monitoring server role stores all Call Data Records (CDR) and metrics in a MS SQL database. Microsoft have also supplied some standard reports that run in SQL Reporting Services. The level of detail of the stored data is exceptional and all tables are completely normalised. The one thing missing is a billing engine [...]

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ITPRO Africa Cape Town Event – 10 June 2010

by Nicolas Blank 29 May 2010 Exchange

We’re having our next free Cape Town based event. This time round we’ll have a particular focus on OCS integration and Windows 7. What can OCS integrate with, well darn near anything. To prove the point Uwin’s going to demonstrate integration from two extreme’s – Asterisk and Exchange 2010. One you would to be totally [...]

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Virtualization

by Uwin Young 18 May 2010 News

In a post on Microsoft’s Office Communications Server blog, Jerome Berniere, senior program manager in the Office Communications group, said the company would support both a fully distributed virtualized topology across several hypervisors and a single server virtualized topology. The topologies are supported on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and any Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP) [...]

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Office 2010 Information Worker Demo VM download

by Peter Johnson 10 May 2010 Anouncements

I came across this really useful download this morning. It’s a two machine Virtual Machine download of all of the major components of the Office 2010 Information worker infrastructure. Includes SPS 2010, FAST search,OCS,Exchange 2010, Project Server etc. I can imagine that this would be really useful for demoing and testing these solutions.  It’s nearly [...]

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