Monthly Archives: October 2010

Microsoft Lync Released to Manufacturing

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Last night Microsoft announced that Lync Server 2010 had reached RTM on their Unified Communications Group Team Blog 

So check out the full RTM announcement on the Unified Communications Group Team Blog and tune in here; http://www.microsoft.com/lync for the worldwide launch event on Wednesday, November 17, 2010 where you can watch live demos of the final product, see examples from the more than 100 new Lync certified devices and hear from customers who have deployed early releases of Lync 2010

Private CA certs and #WP7

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My first lesson on Windows Phone 7. One one of my lab exchange servers I have a privately CA signed  certificate and to get ActiveSync going on a phone you need to import the CA cert, right.

So how do we do this on a Windows Phone 7 device?

  1. First on you’re locale Client (PC, Laptop) open the mmc and load the snap-in for Certificates, select Local computer;
    Go to Trusted Root Certification Authorities – Certificates
    Find your RootCA Certificate
  2. Export this Certificate as a DER-coded-binary X.509 (CER) on your local Computer
  3. Send it via Mail (another Mail-account Hotmail for example) to you’re WP7
  4. Sync the Mail Box and open the attachment
  5. Install this Certificate by open it from the device
  6. Restart the device
  7. Now test you’re Sync with the EAS Account

Sunday reading

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Its raining and the first snow has already been on a visit here in Stockholm

So something warm to drink and some reading might be a good Sunday

 

Office 365 Beta Service Descriptions:

Microsoft Exchange Online Beta Service Description – Final.docx

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Microsoft_Lync_Online__Beta_Service_Description_Final.docx

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Microsoft_Office_Professional_Plus_Beta_Service_Description_Final.docx

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Microsoft_Office_Web_Apps_Beta_Service_Description_Final.docx

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Microsoft_SharePoint_Online_Standard_Beta_Service_Description_Final.docx

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Explaining the licensing changes for #Lync

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Notable changes on the server side licensing

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With the release of Lync Server 2010, you no longer require a license for the Edge Server. The only Server Role that now requires a license is the Front End Server Role servers. This is a great benefit as customers are now able to scale their infrastructure with fewer server licenses. 

 

Notable changes on the device side licensing

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On the devices front there are also some news, all IP Phones connecting to Lync Server 2010 require a license. 

Some examples to make this clear: 

Lets say a user has 2 computers, one mobile and one desk phone = User CAL

A kiosk computer or a computer that more than one person use = Device CAL

A phone in a conference room or a common area phone = Device CAL

 

Notable changes on the CAL side licensing

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Then we have the user CALs previously there was a standard CAL and a enterprise CAL.

Now there is also a PLUS CAL to get the full feature set and to be able to use all of the amazing features in Lync. The PLUS CAL is basically the phone features that has been stripped out from the enterprise CAL (the price has been reduced a bit on the enterprise CAL). The reason to this might be that a lot of customers complained that the enterprise CAL was to expensive and included features (enterprise voice) that they where never going to use but they wanted “Live Meeting”.

Some examples to clarify:

A user that only wants im / presence & Lync one to one calls. = Standard CAL

A users that only wants to host meetings = Standard and Enterprise CALs

A user that wants it all (the above & Enterprise Voice) = has to have it all = Standard, Enterprise and the PLUS CAL

A phone in a conference room or a common area phone = Standard and PLUS CAL

Reference and more details can be found on:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/pricing-licensing.aspx

Adoption Reporting Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 R2

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The Adoption Reporting Tool for Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 R2 is a tool provided by Microsoft® that enables Office Communications Server administrators to easily measure usage and adoption of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in their enterprise.

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Mobile #OCS clients

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Windows Phone / Symbian

COMO

 

iPhone

iDialog

iMoc

 

Android

AndrOCS

A new address book error that only some Russian got so far–and me? #OCS

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So at first I got some reports that users could only see some people and some groups when they searched for someone. And if I deleted a group and then searched for it MOC did not find it. Downloading the address book seemed fine and MOC did not report any problems.

And when trying to run "ABServer.exe -SyncNow" I got the error “Triggering Address Book Server synchronization pass – function not available when RTCSRV service is not running. Start the RTCSRV service."

And yes the service was started, port 135 was open and then I found this: http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1939-2-new-recently-discovered-issues-with-Server-2008-R2-and-OCS-2007-R2-ABServer-errors-and-moving-users.html

(the servers was Windows server 2008 RTM and NOT R2)

Create a new DWORD registry entry at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\DisableLoopbackCheck set to the value of 1.

Well after this regfix and after a reboot “ABServer.exe –SyncNow” actually seemed to start since it didn’t give anything in the command promt. But checking the event log showed this.

Log Name:      Office Communications Server
Source:        OCS Address Book Server
Date:          10/11/2010 4:51:05 PM
Event ID:      21015
Task Category: (1008)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      ocfe.domain.se
Description:
Unable to access WMI Settings.  The Address Book Server will stop.
Exception: COM error code 800407D0 returned – ‘SELECT * FROM MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting WHERE Backend = "(local)\\rtc"’. Check inner exception for details.
Exception type: ManagementException
Cause: May be a permission issue or may be because the Address Book Server has not been installed correctly.
Resolution:
Re-run the activation wizard.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="OCS Address Book Server" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="50160">21015</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>1008</Task>
    <Keywords>0×80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-10-11T14:51:05.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>68327</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>Office Communications Server</Channel>
    <Computer>ocsfe.domain.se</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>COM error code 800407D0 returned – ‘SELECT * FROM MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting WHERE Backend = "(local)\\rtc"’. Check inner exception for details.
Exception type: ManagementException</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

So Google showed that at least one more had got the same problem but as usual no solution.

http://www.google.se/#hl=sv&q=%22Unable+to+access+WMI+Settings.++The+Address+Book+Server+will+stop%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=9164a363d5a04bdd

 

 

Solution

The simple solution was to just update everything to CU 7 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/ee695846.aspx