OCS Edge on Server 2008 – The Strong Host Model
Jeff SchertzThe typical OCS deployment these days is using Windows Server 2008 instead of Server 2003 for the host OS now since R2 and Server 2008 have been out for some…
OCS Certificate Deployment White Paper
Microsoft has just released a new white paper on using certificates with Office Communications Server. Although entitled “OCS 2007 R2 Deploying Certificates” it actually covers both 2007 and 2007 R2…
OCS Deployment Log Tips
These are some pretty basic notes, but worth calling out for the benefit of users new to the OCS Deployment Wizard. Troubleshooting deployment issues is pretty common and the logs…
OCS R2 CWA Single Certificate Configuration
Although I find it best practice to deploy two separate certificates on an OCS R2 Communicator Web Access server, there are times when using a single certificate for both server-based…
OCS Services Hang on Startup
In a recent deployment OCS 2007 R2 Enterprise Edition was deployed to a physical server running Windows Server 2008 that began to exhibit problems immediately after the first reboot. Basically…
Managing Certification Authority Certificates for OCS
Typically in a basic deployment there are times when Windows workstations and servers which are not members of the internal Active Directory domain need to communicate with OCS servers. This…
OCS Service Startup Shutdown Order
Typically when restarting services in Windows most people use the Services snap-in or the net start/stop commands, but the OCS Management console offers a simple way to stop and start…
OCS R2 Edge Topologies Explained
Byron Spurlock has blog article that briefly talks about the different topologies for Edge servers in R2 but I wanted to go into a little more detail and highlight a…
OCS Dial-In Conferencing: Unable to Join Conference Calls
In keeping with this month’s apparent theme of troubleshooting Live Meeting and Audio Conferencing problems for external users, I ran into yet another weird one. This time we have a…
AV Edge Authentication Connection Errors
Just a quick note regarding an error I recently ran across. A client was experiencing problems with Dial-In Conferencing after a recent deployment and during troubleshooting the issues I ran…