Lync Server 2010 Deployment – Part 4
Jeff SchertzThis long overdue follow-up article on the Lync Server deployment series focuses on bringing what is currently in place for internal users to allowing external access and providing a channel…
Understanding the Strong Host Model – Revisited
A few months ago a technical writer on the Microsoft Communications Server team contacted me about updating own of my older blog articles for the purposes of publishing it on…
OCS R2 XMPP Gateway Deployment for Gmail
The purpose of this article is to serve as a lessons-learned addendum to the current primary resource for configuring OCS and GMail federation: the Communication Server team’s official blog post…
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 Edge on Server 2008 – The Strong Host Model
The 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 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…
External Live Meeting Only with OCS
One of the biggest cost-saving benefits of Office Communications Server 2007 has been the integrated Web Conferencing features, a.k.a. Live Meeting. Many companies currently pay for off-site host conferencing services…
First Look at the Edge Planning Tool
Microsoft has just released a really neat tool that threatens to make obsolete all of my OCS Edge-related blog material :) Seriously, as complicated as it can be to design…
Clarification on OCS Edge Interface Support
A question that comes up almost weekly in the TechNet discussion forums is: "Can I use only one network card in my Edge server?" Background A definitive answer has always…
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…