When OCS2007R2 installs, the default container for global settings in the configuration container in AD, whereas your LCS installation was put into the System container of the root domain. Again the document highlights all the reasons for this, but essentially for co-existence and speed, you will need to move your LCS settings from their current... Continue Reading →
Why go Cloud
I attended the VMware virtualization forum 2010, which had a slight storage focus this year, so I hoped I would gain a little more knowledge. On the whole I enjoyed it, as with all these things, some talks were better than others. That’s natural, some people are better at public speaking than others. I attended... Continue Reading →
LCS 2005 Standard to OCS2007R2 Standard: Part 4 LCS Certificates
Ok, TLS is paramount in LCS to OCS communication. I'm not trying to teach you LCS, but if you were like me and once the thing talked 5060 on TCP, you dusted your hands and got on with something else, then you need to review your LCS certificate situation. Firstly then, check and if needs... Continue Reading →
LCS 2005 Standard to OCS2007R2 Standard: Part 3 Internal CA and LCS 2005 Patches
If you've only ever used your installed Windows/AD CA rarely for base certificates, then you'll almost certainly need to do some work on it for both Windows 2008 and of course the subject of this post, OCS. We have a windows CA, most SMB's will, but it's a vanilla install. We have a tiered setup... Continue Reading →
LCS 2005 Standard to OCS2007R2 Standard: Part 2 – Groundwork
What follows is my rough guide ad thought process for upgrading LCS2005 to 2007R2 I've got less than 500 users and for cost savings, i am going for a Standard edition installation I haven't written this set of bloags as a 'how to install' as such, but my hope is it will smooth the way.... Continue Reading →
Luke Darby 