Understanding Active Directory Naming Formats
Jeff SchertzThis basic article is intended to provide a background in different Active Directory user name and domain name formats and how they are used by applications for basic and integrated…
HDX SIP Registration with Server 2008 R2
As OCS 2007 R2 has officially supported running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 system for nearly a year now there are a growing number of deployments on this version. …
Exchange 2010 SP1 UM Unsupported with OCS 2007
Now before anyone has a heart-attack due to the title pay special attention to the fact that ‘R2’ is strategically left out. The full UM integration is still fine for…
Understanding the Strong Host Model – Revisited
A few months ago a technical writer on the Microsoft Communications Server team contacted me about updating own of my older blog articles for the purposes of publishing it on…
OCS R2 XMPP Gateway Deployment for Gmail
The purpose of this article is to serve as a lessons-learned addendum to the current primary resource for configuring OCS and GMail federation: the Communication Server team’s official blog post…
OCS Support for Windows Server 2008 R2
As promised, Microsoft has released supportability statements for various Communications Server versions when used with Server 2008 R2 hosts and domains. Yesterday two TechNet articles were released to address both…
OCS Protocol Documents
I typically don’t repost links to existing documentation, but occasionally I run across items that are not too well known and I feel this is a prime example. Just when…
OCS TechNet Forum Reorganization
This week Microsoft has begun the process to migrate all the current discussion forums for Unified Communications-related topics into a single category. As with any migration there is both an…
OCS Communicator Web Access Listening Port
During the deployment of an OCS Communicator Web Access Server there is a setting that is not covered in much detail in the documentation: the Communication Server Listening Port. No…
More on OCS Edge Server Certificates
There are a pair of related Office Communications Server 2007 topics I wanted to expand on from previous blog articles that I’m still seeing come up quite often in both…