Deploying OCS 2007 in a Windows 2008 Domain
Jeff SchertzRecently 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…
Object Filtering with the Microsoft Notes Connector
Although I might be one of just a few currently working on the bleeding-edge technology of synchronizing Lotus Domino/Notes directories with Microsoft Active Directory via Exchange 2003, I figure I'd…
Converting a Mail-Enabled User into Mailbox-Enabled
I recently needed to create few thousand mail-enabled users in Active Directory for a project in which the original plan was to use a third-party mail migration product to later…
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…
Exchange 2003 Public Folder Replication Failures
On a recent project I ran into a unique problem regarding replication of public folder information in an Exchange 2003 organization. The problem was recently discovered after the migration of…
Searching AD for a User Account with a SID
There are a handful of tools and scripted solutions floating around for resolving SIDs to user accounts and the reverse, but here's a handy way to do this by simply…
Free System Page Table Entries and 3GB USERVA switches
In a recent migration project I needed to move nearly 2TB of mailbox data between Exchange 2003 servers in the same organization, to the tune of 100-200GB per day. The…
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…
OCS Edge Server Configuration Topologies
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…