OCS Edge Server Configuration Topologies

November 28, 2007 by · Leave a Comment 

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 portions of deployment seem to be the correct configuration of the reverse proxy, and the networking configuration of the Edge Server itself. OCS Edge Server […]

Enabling Custom Phone Number Normalization with the Address Book Service

November 17, 2007 by · 1 Comment 

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 into any details regarding customization of normalization rules and how they operate, as the purpose of this blog entry is just to understand how to […]

OCS Edge Server Requires Separate Internal and External Interfaces

November 9, 2007 by · Leave a Comment 

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 documentation for the Office Communications Server 2007 Edge server, you’ll see that they require the Edge server to have up to four separate network interface […]

DNS Lookups with OCS Automatic Configuration

November 7, 2007 by · 3 Comments 

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 client when attempting to connect to an Office Communications Server when utilizing Automatic Configuration.  Specifically I’ve seen reference to the automatic fall-back of looking for […]