Live Meeting hangs on Loading Image…

I we got a new installation of OCS and when testing out Live Meeting everything worked except for uploading and showing the whiteboard, all it does is hangs on Loading image…

If i did a validation it did not report anything so everything looked great.

After some searching i found out from this post that i had forgotten a IIS feature so all i did was to install Static Content to the IIS and a iisreset and pooffff like magic it works again.

OCS 2010 release date predicted by HP & Computerworld

HP has a “Microsoft product release chart” on its Large Enterprise Business page and it states that OCS 14 / 2010 will be released in Q4 of 2010 so in about a year from now,  i would have hoped for Q2 since i predict that its going to have some kick ass features.

Source http://h30458.www3.hp.com/us/us/ent/808787.html

However Computerworld wrote: SharePoint 2010 and OCS 2010 are expected to ship in May or June of next year, although Microsoft has not released an official ship date. about one week ago

You can read more in their article about Exchange 2010 here

No Exchange 2010 UM Voice Mail Preview in Swedish, yet..

I’m playing around with Exchange 2010 and integration with OCS for the lab and found out that the UM language packs in which MS expect to support Voice Mail Preview in the initial release is:

1. English (US)

2. English (Canada)

3. French

4. Italian

5. Polish

6. Portuguese

 

No Swedish as of now but there is a language pack for Swedish and all the features that only worked in English in the 2007 release now works, so at least we can control UM with voice now.

Polycom® CX300 Desktop Phone

I’m lazy to write something of my own about it and i haven’t tested the device, but i like it from the picture, here is the text from polycoms page.

  • Convenient dial pad and display
  • High definition audio for best possible voice and video calls
  • Full featured telephone peripheral for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2
  • USB, driverless plug-and-play installation

cx300-sm-a 


Features and Benefits

Integration with Microsoft Windows® XP and Microsoft Windows Vista™

  • Seamless unified communications experience without drivers or software

Ease of use

  • Convenient dial pad and 2 line monochrome backlit display
  • Plug and play operation to a USB port on the PC

Superior voice quality

  • Clear high definition wideband audio maximized the accuracy and productivity of real-time conversations whether handset, full duplex speaker phone or headset mode

Enhanced presence indicator

  • Presence status monitoring to efficiently route calls

link to product page

if you can read Swedish, Telekomidag wrote about it and stated that the price is around 1300 SEK + VAT

Microsoft Server Applications Supported on Windows Server 2008 R2

For my own reference, since i spent like 1 hour looking for this yesterday for my lab environment.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/supported-applications.aspx 

And regarding OCS 2007 R2 on Server 2008 R2 it says;

Microsoft Office Communications Server
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and later versions will be supported beginning Q1 2010.

UC Lab @ labcenter

My OCS / Exchange UM lab is now live at labcenter.se

We review and build OCS 2007 R2 from scratch with all its various roles including Exchange 2010 UM. The lab contains many practical exercises to bring up the basic functions such as IM, online meetings in Live Meeting, Federation and Desktop Sharing. After the basic functions we will also immerse ourselves in the Enterprise Voice, SIP trunks, SIP gateways and Exchange UM-role

So if you are waiting for the next step in your UC deployment or are in the planning stage or process of rolling out Microsoft Unified Communications in your organization i highly recommend you to get some practical  skills first by attending this lab.

http://www.labcenter.se/Lab/2055