Uninstalling OCS 2007
Jeff SchertzThe most common reasons I have seen for uninstalling Office Communications Server 2007 from an environment are typically to remove a pre-release beta version or test deployment, or to start…
Deploying OCS 2007 in a Windows 2008 Domain
Recently I've seen this topic popping up more often in the TechNet forums and decided to try it myself. I ran through the install in a fresh lab with Windows…
Programmatically Enabling Users for OCS 2007
I've run across a couple situations where enabling users for OCS via the Management Console proved to be a bit cumbersome, typically when wanting to only select a certain subset…
More on OCS Phone Number Normalization
(This post is a more in-depth follow-up to my original blog entry on the subject: Enabling Custom Phone Number Normalization with the Address Book Service.) I recently took a short…
Controlling the msRTCSIP-OptionFlags attribute for OCS
When 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…
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…
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…