I honestly haven't found a straight answer to this question. Does it connect via Edge or not? Well, the short answer is yes! When I first installed Office it was almost a surprise when it installed a mac version of Communicator, pleasantly surprised too. I installed it, got it working on the lan and then... Continue Reading →
Check the basics
You live and learn, my Dad always said it to me as a kid. As ever, it's true. I'd spent an annoying 2 hours last night going over and over settings of an OCS Edge server, I'd re-run the setup, and found nothing to modify/add/change, I'd checked certificates a couple of times. Reboots of clients... Continue Reading →
LCS 2005 Standard to OCS2007R2 Standard: Part 5 Moving LCS to the Configuration container
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 →
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 →
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