Deploying the Lync 2010 Mobility Service
Jeff SchertzNow that the Lync 2010 Mobility Service has been out for a week there has been ample time, relatively speaking, to dissect the documentation, run through multiple installation attempts, and…
Polycom DMA and Lync Integration
The past video conferencing integration articles have primarily discussed the Real-time Media eXperience (RMX) platform, but the Distributed Media Application (DMA) also supports direct integration with OCS and Lync and…
Certificate Requests in Windows Server 2008
The primary function of this article is to serve as a reference guide for submitting offline certificate requests against either a private Windows Enterprise Certificate Authority (CA) or various public…
Lync Phone Edition Incompatible with Wildcard Certificates
As discussed in this previous article I am not a big fan of wildcard certificates. Here is another reason why. Lync Phone Edition devices do not support the use of…
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…
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 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…
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…