Controlling the msRTCSIP-OptionFlags attribute for OCS
Jeff SchertzWhen configuring OCS user settings in bulk there are a limited numbers of options one can change when using the Office Communications Server 2007 Management Console. A range of user…
OCS Edge Server Configuration Topologies
Although deploying Office Communications Server 2007 for use internally is quite straight-forward, things begin to get complicated when adding in the components used for external client connectivity. The most misunderstood…
Enabling Custom Phone Number Normalization with the Address Book Service
The current Office Communications Server 2007 documentation doesn't go into very much detail regarding the configuration and behavior of Phone Normalization in the Address Book Service. I won't be going…
OCS Edge Server Requires Separate Internal and External Interfaces
I recently ran into a deployment problem for a customer where we attempted to use just two network interfaces for a single Edge Server configuration. If you follow the deployment…
DNS Lookups with OCS Automatic Configuration
Between the OCS 2007 Deployment documentation, official Resource Kit, and blog/forum posts I've seen some discrepancies regarding the exact names (and order) of lookups performed by an Office Communicator 2.0…
Renaming an OCS Standard Server
…is not a good idea. In a production deployment a second server should be built using the desired server name, and then all OCS users moved over to it. Or…
ISA 3-Leg Perimeter Network with Private IP Subnet
In a future blog entry I plan to walk through many of the steps needed to setup a virtualized test environment running on a single, uni-homed host. Throughout the process…