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	<title>IIS &#038; Exchange Digest &#187; Communications Server</title>
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	<description>Blogging and Evangelising about Microsoft Internet and Unified Communications technology by Peter Schmidt [MVP].</description>
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		<title>OCS 2007 R2 updates Released</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2010/07/ocs-2007-r2-updates-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released the latest Cumulative update 6 for OCS 2007 R2.
OCS 2007 R2 Server: 

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 &#8211; KB 968802 – Download
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Back-end database update &#8211; KB 2032834 &#8211; Download (not live yet)      
   
OCS 2007 R2 Client:

Office Communicator 2007 R2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WP about OCS and supported virtualized environments</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2010/06/wp-about-ocs-and-supported-virtualized-environments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft released this nice whitepaper some time back, that defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor technologies.
Read and download it here.

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		<title>OCS 2007 R2 Workload Architecture</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2010/04/ocs-2007-r2-workload-architecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released another one of their “famous” Architecture Posters, this time it cover the Wordload Architecture of Office Comunications Server 2007 R2.
These posters always gives a great overview of the technology and the components.
This poster of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 describes the traffic flow of protocols and ports used in each workload. Communications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCS Remote Connectivity Analyzer</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2010/01/ocs-remote-connectivity-analyzer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2010/01/ocs-remote-connectivity-analyzer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The OCS team has now made a Remote Connectivity Analyzer, like we know from Exchange. The tool is a great way of verifying that your remote access is configured properly.
The Office Communications Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer is a great tool for performing testing, troubleshooting, and diagnostics on OCS 2007 &#38; OCS 2007 R2 deployments. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCS Cumulative Server Update</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/11/ocs-cumulative-server-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Microsoft released a cumulative server update for OCS 2007 R2, it contains all the OCS 2007 R2 hotfixes. So basically one installer with all OCS hotfixes, that was also needed.
Download the installer here: KB968802 &#8211; it contains a list of all the updates (October Patches) and more information about updating.
 See Dennis post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCS 2007 R2 Web Scheduler</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/09/ocs-2007-r2-web-scheduler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/09/ocs-2007-r2-web-scheduler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago Microsoft released the OCS 2007 R2 Web Scheduler to web, available as download. It was originally scheduled to be part of R2 ResKit, but has now been Released To Web.
Web Scheduler is a 64-bit tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It provides a Web-based alternative to the add-in for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deploying Certificates in OCS 2007 whitepaper</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/08/deploying-certificates-in-ocs-2007-whitepaper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/08/deploying-certificates-in-ocs-2007-whitepaper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released a new and very useful whitepaper on deploying certificates in OCS 2007.
Certificates with OCS has always been a bit tricky and documentation on OCS and certificates has always lacked, until now.
Rick Kingslan, with the help of a series of excellent people, has now created a whitepaper called “Deploying Certificates in Office Communications [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCS – MSN PIC for free</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/07/ocs-msn-pic-for-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/07/ocs-msn-pic-for-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good news, Microsoft has announced a license change to the Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 for the MSN PIC (Public IM Connectivity) license, which is needed to communicate and federate with the public MSN/Windows Live network from your OCS environment. The MSN PIC license is now free is you have an active Software Assurance (SA).
Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCS 2007 Document: Edge Server Deployment Guide</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/ocs-2007-document-edge-server-deployment-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/ocs-2007-document-edge-server-deployment-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago Microsoft released an updated version of the Office Communications Server 2007 Edge Server Deployment Guide.
This document guides you through the deployment of edge servers in your Office Communications Server 2007 topology. You typically deploy edge servers after you have deployed Office Communications Server in your internal network.If you need to communicate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCS 2007 R2 (RTM) Resource Kit Tools</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/ocs-2007-r2-rtm-resource-kit-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/ocs-2007-r2-rtm-resource-kit-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Resource Kit Tools for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (version 6907.0) was released in February 2009. 
You can use the set of deployment, technical tools and references to complement the product documentation delivered in R2. Supported platforms to run the ResKit Tools are Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008.
Note that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCS 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/ocs-2007-r2-capacity-planning-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/ocs-2007-r2-capacity-planning-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Tool. The Capacity planning and load simulation toolkit is for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and can be using for planning and sizing situations together with the planning guide.
This release of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Toolkit contains tools and documentation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Office Communications Server 2007 R2 VHDs available</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/office-communications-server-2007-r2-vhds-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/office-communications-server-2007-r2-vhds-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has release Office Communications Server 2007 R2 as downloadable VHDs ready to use with Hyper-V for testing purpose.
Start evaluating Office Communications Server today. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most (like Office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communicator 2007 – cannot synchronize address book</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/communicator-2007-cannot-synchronize-address-book/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/communicator-2007-cannot-synchronize-address-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OCS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When this error is seen in the Communicator 2007 and Communicator 2007 R2 client, it can be a number of issues.
Here’s a few steps to check:

Validate the password for the service account (RTCComponentService) used on the AppPool “LSGroupExpAppPool”
Make sure the AppPool is started “LSGroupExpAppPool”
Make sure the default website running the /Abs – application has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communicator 2007 and Outlook 2007 integration error</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/communicator-2007-and-outlook-2007-integration-error/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/04/communicator-2007-and-outlook-2007-integration-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Error seen in Communicator 2007 R2:
There was a problem connecting to Microsoft office outlook. Your profile is not configured correctly. contact your system administrator with this information.
It can be solved in several ways:

Make sure the default Outlook profile matches the “profile” = e-mail used for signing into OCS, equal your sip address:

Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forefront Security for OCS available</title>
		<link>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/03/forefront-security-for-ocs-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iis-digest.com/2009/03/forefront-security-for-ocs-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communications Server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has released Forefront security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) as RTM.
FSOCS provides fast and effective protection against IM-based malware for OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 environments by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. FSOCS also helps reduce corporate liability by blocking instant messages containing inappropriate content.
This release includes:

64bit support
Support for OCS [...]]]></description>
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