A picture that speaks for itself
Dennis Lundtoft Thomsen comment and i fully agree with him.
“It’s good woork and highly needed/useful, but there are a few errors in it though” http://msgoodies.blogspot.com/2010/01/comments-on-ocs-2007-r2-workload.html
Matt Landis have a really good blog, and what difference him from the others are that he have made some video reviews.
Like these ones
Check out Matt Landis blog at: http://www.windowspbx.blogspot.com/
If you do the mistake of writing in the wrong URL during setup or forget to do it, here is a guide of how to change it, so that content download and livemeeting works externally.
Error message when you try to use the Live Meeting console to connect to Communications Server 2007: "Live Meeting cannot connect to the meeting."
To configure the external Web farm FQDN, follow these steps:
1.
Log on to the computer that is running Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition or Communications Server 2007 Enterprise edition by using an account that is a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group or that has equivalent permissions.
2.
Click Start, click Run, type wbemtest, and then click OK.
3.
In the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box, click Connect.
4.
In the Connect dialog box, type root\cimv2 in the Namespace box, and then click Connect.
5.
In the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box, click Query.
6.
In the Query dialog box, type the following in the Enter Query box according to the edition of Communications Server 2007 that you are using, and then click Apply:
For Communications Server 2007 Enterprise pool
Select * from MSFT_SIPGroupExpansionSetting where backend="server name\\sql instance"
For Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition
Select * from MSFT_SIPGroupExpansionSetting where backend="(local)\\rtc"
7.
In the Query Result dialog box, double-click the result.
8.
Select ExternalDLExpansionWebURL, and then click Edit Property.
9.
In the Property Editor dialog box, click to select the Not NULL option.
10.
In the Value box, type the external Web farm URL in the following format, and then click Save Property:
https://externalurl.domain.com/GroupExpansion/service.asmx
11.
Click Close two times.
12.
In the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box, click Query.
13.
In the Query dialog box, type the following in the Enter Query box according to the edition of Communications Server 2007 that you are using, and then click Apply:
For Communications Server 2007 Enterprise pool
Select * from MSFT_SIPDataMCUCapabilitySetting where backend="server name\\sql instance"
For Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition
Select * from MSFT_SIPDataMCUCapabilitySetting where backend="(local)\\rtc"
14.
In the Query Result dialog box, double-click the result.
15.
Select ExternalClientContentDownloadURL, and then click Edit Property.
16.
In the Property Editor dialog box, click to select the Not NULL option.
17.
In the Value box, type the external Web farm URL in the following format, and then click Save Property:
https://externalurl.domain.com/etc/place/null
18.
Click Close two times.
19.
In the Windows Management Instrumentation Tester dialog box, click Query.
20.
In the Query dialog box, type the following in the Enter Query box according to the edition of Communications Server 2007 that you are using, and then click Apply:
For Communications Server 2007 Enterprise pool
Select * from MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting where backend="server name\\sql instance"
For Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition
Select * from MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting where backend="(local)\\rtc"
21.
In the Query Result dialog box, double-click the result.
22.
Select ExternalURL, and then click Edit Property.
23.
In the Property Editor dialog box, click to select the Not NULL option.
24.
In the Value box, type the external Web farm URL in the following format, and then click Save Property:
https://externalurl.domain.com/abs/Ext
25.
Click Close two times.
26.
Click Exit.
source
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938288
If you receive an error in wbemtest saying “error code 0x800407d0” make sure that the account is a member of RTCUniversalServerAdmins
So a new live meeting add-in is available and now in a 64 bit version, so you can use it if you have the beta of Outlook 2010 64 bit. And that’s great for me and lot of other beta junkies.
There is was also an updated LiveMeeting going from 8.0.6362.143 to 8.0.6362.149 (its not there anymore?) its back
Download the Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook
Windows Phone, and I’m glad to be back.
I got a HTC HD2 and wooaaw i really like it, the only bad things about it so far is…. MICROSOFT come oooon… what’s up with the marketplace? if I’m in Sweden i have like 70 apps in total. And after being a year away from WM in the land of Apple and android app store i think i can title myself an app junkie.
So i like to download the apps but i really never use more then 5% of the apps installed i think, but its fun to have and not so easy to explain if you haven’t been addicted. After some days i finally give in and started to walk down the dark path of internet and guess what. All these media reports about iphone having xxxxxxx numbers of apps and android have xxxxx i found out some really good pages and forums that we are not suppose to use for some legal reason but heeey there was ALOT and i mean LOTS of apps there. So if you just see to the number of apps, i think its equal amongst the platforms. Iphone however have more quality games and some really good apps to use in the daily life. But there is some really good to Windows phone out there to, so if MS could just fix the limitations of Marketplace i read about in some dev forums and all the developers start to add them to marketplace the platform is for sure going to get some new life again.
Back to the device, the screen is beautiful – really beautiful and coming from WM before and always hacking my phone with some homecocked roms i know it can be some restarts to get going. So the first restart i started to wait… for 1-2-3 5 seconds and the device was restarted, so the speed of the device is fst.
Windows mobile 6.5 is also a good update but like 2 years to late. So what i hope for now is that WM7 will have zune in it and some other cool stuff and I’m never going to leave u again.
Today i had the chance to play around with Direct Access and OCS 2007 R2 and i did not get it to work and from what i understand it shouldn’t. OCS 2007 R2 does not support IPV6 and Communicator does not even try ipv6 when doing the dns query.
So a workaround is to use the edge server and come in from the internet.
I have tried to find some info regarding this on the internet but there is not so much out there so if anyone have any experience around the topic please leave a comment.
A comment from randy that i think i should include in the post.
Randy Wintle says:
The ocs team will actually probably recommend using the edge. IPSEC can be a burden on the voice capabilities of OCS, so you are better off seperating any communicator traffic from using the direct access connection and going over the edge interface.
May sound strange, but really thats the best way to go
OCS Servers
OCS Clients
Exchange Servers
Exchange Clients
And all the other products
So i don’t have to write that much more then, for a fair and really good comparison about the pros and real cons that i also felt with my iPhone, head over to jschurman’s blog and the post Mobile Unified Communications – Why I switched from an iPhone to Windows Phone
978161 Office Communicator 2007 R2 crashes when you receive an incoming instant message notification
978162 A hyperlink is converted to plain text format when you input the hyperlink into an Office Communicator 2007 R2 conversation window
978163 You cannot call a user by using the Actions button in Office Outlook 2007, but you can call the user through Office Communicator 2007 R2
Version: 6907.83
Knowledge Base (KB) Articles: KB976135
Date Published: 1/7/2010
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 976135
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=515d6dba-4c6a-48bb-a06a-d99c5742676d
Version: 6907.83
Date Published: 1/7/2010
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Hotfix KB 977338
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e5924bf9-b042-4c53-b4a6-79c7e5c9749b
Updates:
Version: 6907.83
Knowledge Base (KB) Articles: KB968802
Date Published: 1/7/2010
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 968802
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b3b02475-150c-41fa-844a-c10a517040f4
KB not Available yet
Office Communicator Phone Edition (2007 R2)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=565595be-6cf3-4a61-a1e4-12555749ca64
Ok so I’m back from my winter holiday and its really cold back home, anyway lots of time are going to be spent inside at the computer until its ok to go out again, so today i created a “UC Event calendar” focusing on all the UC events that I’m interested in. So the theme will be the same as the blog.
The events will be shown in the blog to the left and on a shared Live calendar, that you easily can add to your Outlook or rss reader.
For a HTML view go here
To add it to Outlook this is the link webcal://cid-5158d41880c3d04d.calendar.live.com/calendar/UC+Events+Calendar/calendar.ics
And as a RSS click here
I started to look at different solutions to share the calendar but i decided to keep it simple in the end. But if anyone know a better way of sharing it and to get more functions please send me a email.
If you have an event you would like to add to the calendar just send me an email and i will add it.