Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 3
Jeff SchertzThis blog post is part 3 of a multi-article series and is a continuation of this previous article: Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 2 Update: This process is identical…
Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 2
This blog post is part 2 of a multi-article series and is a continuation of this previous article: Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 1 Where Part 1 left off…
Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 1
Now that the general public has access to the Release Candidate software for Lync Server 2010 it is now appropriate to cover the deployment process in depth. The purpose of…
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…
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 R2 Planning Tool
In following the approach started with the Edge Server Planning Tool Microsoft has recently released a complete Planning Tool for Microsoft OCS 2007 R2. The tool walks the user through…
OCS Mediation Server NIC Configuration
So this blog is sort of a follow-up to Matt McGillen’s original article on the same subject. During a recent OCS deployment I was configuring a Mediation Server against a…
OCS R2 Administration Tools
There have been a few minor changes to the Administration Tools for OCS in R2. Firstly, the original release of OCS would automatically install the associated OCS Management console snap-in…
OCS 2007 Setup and Administration Delegation
I little used portion of the OCS installation wizard is the ability to delegate some access rights to specific user accounts so that remote or junior administrators can deploy OCS…
A Look at Forefront Security for OCS 2007
I finally had a chance to test drive the beta version of the upcoming Forefront Security release specifically for Office Communications Server 2007 (FSOCS). I deployed this in my lab,…