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DNS Load Balancing in CS14

by Uwin Young 10 September 2010 CS14

Keith Hanna has written an article detailing DNS Load Balancing in CS14. The article can be found here on the Microsoft TechNet site.  The short version is that multiple IPs are associated with a pool which Communicator caches and connects to at random.  In the event of a failure it will select another IP. On [...]

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Tagged as: Microsoft, OCS, SQL

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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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Tagged as: Microsoft, OCS, SQL, UC

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ADMT 3.2 released

by Peter Johnson 21 June 2010 Active Directory

Active Directory Migration Tool 3.2 has been released: Here’s the link on the Microsoft Site: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20c0db45-db16-4d10-99f2-539b7277ccdb   New features:   1.) Now runs on Server 2008 R2 2.) Requires SQL Server 2005 Express SP3, SQL Server 2008 Express SP1 or SQL 2005 or      later installed before installation. 3.) Managed Service account migration   Deprecated features [...]

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Tagged as: Active Directory, download, Exchange, Microsoft, Server 2003, SP3, SQL

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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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Communities, Launches, Parties and TGIF

by Nicolas Blank 14 May 2010 News

It’s been a busy week in IT PRO land. TechDays was held in Cape Town along with the SQL 2008 R2 Launch party, SQLCape launched at the same time – who? SQLCape a rocking band of data lovers who use words like BI, OLAP and OLTP and look you in the eye while they share [...]

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Tagged as: Cape Town, itpro, SQL, SQL 2008, SQL 2008 R2, UM

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Cape Town’s SQL Server User’s Group Debuts

by Lee Greene 10 May 2010 -SQLCape

Cape Town’s SQL Server User’s Group appropriately named SQLCape will be debuting during TechDays tomorrow. Please check this space for updates and new information regarding the official launch. A huge Thank you to Nic Blank and ITProAfrica for the huge amount of support! Thanks! Share this post:

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