a Single Point of Contact

Related to my previous post on the presence survival guide this paper provides an in-depth look at the enhanced presence model developed for Microsoft® Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. This paper is targeted at IT and support professionals and includes the following topics:

• An overview of presence and enhanced presence features
• A system overview of the enhanced presence model, including architectural components
• The aggregation process used to collect presence input from multiple sources and determine a single presence status for a user
• The role of containers and categories in the enhanced presence model to allow users to control the type and amount of presence information that other users see

OCS 2007: Enhanced Presence Model White Paper

Matt :: Jan.30.2008 :: Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

Ever wanted to know more about the new enhanced presence model in OCS?  A little gem I found buried in a blog post back in 10/2007 is the Presence Survival Guide.  This jewel explains the basic information you need to understand presence, how it works, and how to use it to your advantage to make your time at work more productive.

Topics included:

• Presence overview
• Top five ways presence can help you
• What do the presence buttons mean?
• What are all the presence attributes that describe a contact?
• How to manually change presence information
• How presence is updated based on your Outlook calendar
• How presence is updated based your activity
• How presence is updated based your inactivity
• How to control presence to make it visible to some, but not to others
• How your Presence information appears to others based on access levels

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102067221033.aspx

Matt :: Jan.30.2008 :: Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

This page describes the Microsoft Unified Communications Open Interoperability Program for enterprise telephony infrastructure. Use this page to learn about the Open Interoperability Program, qualified SIP-PSTN gateways and IP-PBXs, and the process for telephony infrastructure vendors to join and participate in the program.

As Jen Trier Rasmussen posted yesterday, this page was recently updated.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb735838.aspx

Matt :: Jan.29.2008 :: Exchange, Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

The ISA Server product team has just published a guide on how to configure CWA 2007 for external access using ISA 2006.  For more options on configuring CWA with ISA check out the CWA Lab Deployment guide.

"The page that ISA Server 2006 publishes externally is the ISA Server 2006 page, which uses forms-based authentication. This means that we don’t have the Microsoft Communicator Web Access 2007 interface published. Some customers might want to offer their users a single-interface experience to access CWA 2007 through Internet and Intranet.

This post will explain the steps to achieve this goal on the Microsoft Communicator Web Access 2007 side as well as on the ISA Server 2006 side."

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/01/22/publishing-communicator-web-access-2007-through-isa-server-2006.aspx

Matt :: Jan.29.2008 :: Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

Originally posted here…

"System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2007 Release Candidate is now available. SCCP 2007 helps size and plan deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, with capacity planning models for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 coming soon. It provides you with the tools and guidance to help deploy while planning for the future by predicting the impact of change.  SCCP 2007 includes the following new capabilities:

• Plan for new server roles in Exchange 2007
• Select how you’ll cluster Exchange servers
• Add Disk IO background load for mailbox servers
• Model 64-bit processors "

The SCCP 2007 Release Candidate download is available on Microsoft Connect (https://connect.microsoft.com/programdetails.aspx?ProgramDetailsID=1265).

Matt :: Jan.18.2008 :: Microsoft :: No Comments »

Originally posted by Clive…you can check out his post for more details on what’s updated.

• Windows Client 2000/XP OS Management Pack
• System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Update
• Windows Server 2000/2003 OS Management Pack
• WSS 2.0 (2003) Management Pack
• Terminal Services 2000/2003 Management Pack
• Microsoft Information Worker Management Pack
• SPS 2003 Management Pack
• IIS 2000/2003 Management Pack
• Exchange 2003 Management Pack
• AD Management Pack 2000/2003 Management Pack

Matt :: Jan.18.2008 :: MOM, Microsoft :: No Comments »

Gotta love the Internet.  Thanks to my good bud Aaron for noticing this post from BrettJo who wrote about this new kit from Microsoft.  I personally have two LifeCams and have often thought wouldn’t it be great if this Call Button worked with my Office Communicator 2007 client?  Well my prayers were answered…

Microsoft Internet Communications – Office Communicator/Call Button Integration Support Kit BETA

Matt :: Jan.16.2008 :: Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

Microsoft released a refresh for the Vista SP1 RC.  Check out this link to get the update.

Matt :: Jan.11.2008 :: Microsoft, Vista :: No Comments »

Issue

So you’ve deployed OCS 2007 with Voice in your organization and know you need a way to keep track of all the phone numbers your have assigned to your voice enabled users.  One way of course to is to build a nice spreadsheet but that can be cumbersome to manage in a large environment where many people have their hands in the OCS environment.   

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just query AD to get the numbers?  I love playing around in Powershell and couldn’t help myself from tinkering with this issue.  Using ADExplorer I was able to locate the attribute on which to to base my query.

• msRTCSIP-Line

Prerequisites

1. Windows Powershell
2. Quest ActiveRoles Management Shell for Active Directory (free)

Solution

Get-QADUser -DontUseDefaultIncludedProperties -IncludedProperties ‘msRTCSIP-Line’,name -ObjectAttributes @{‘msRTCSIP-Line’='*’} | format-table name,’msRTCSIP-Line’

Of course you can modify the script to export the information to a CSV file or filter the results by OU very easily.  Bottom line though is it works. 

Happy scripting.

Matt :: Jan.09.2008 :: AD, Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

An update to the OCS 2007 Technical Reference document was just released.

However…yet again there is no reference to what has changed over the previous version. 

Please Microsoft…please add some language to let us know what’s changed.

Grab the update here…

Matt :: Jan.09.2008 :: Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »