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Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) for OCS 2007

A nice post from the OCS team that covers the new Master program for Office Communications Server 2007.

With the recent release of the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) Program for Office Communications Server 2007 and as the Program Manager responsible for its launch this year I wanted to provide a little more information about the program, its focus and what you can expect should you attend one of the forthcoming deliveries or ‘rotations’ as they are termed.

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The post covers the following topics:

Who is the program targeted at?
What do I get for my money?
Will I learn how to make phones ring?
So what will I learn?
How do I get the experience necessary?
What about that Voice Specialisation Exam?
How will I benefit?
What are the tests?
What if I fail?
Once I’m a Master what’s next?
How will the program evolve?
Where do I sign up?

Office Communicator Mobile (COMO) v2.0.468.0

Overview

Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile (2007 Release) extends the reach of Office Communications Server 2007 to information workers who use Windows Mobile powered devices. Communicator Mobile provides presence and communication features that are similar to the desktop version of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 when users are away from their desks.

Issues fixed

Communicator Mobile 2007 crashes when you try to sign in to Office Communications Server 2007 R2.

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

OCS 2007 R2 has “RTM’d”

If you haven’t heard, Microsoft Office Communications server 2007 R2 was Released To Manufacturing (RTM) on the 19th of December.

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Matt :: Dec.23.2008 :: Microsoft, News, OCS :: No Comments »

Office Communicator Hotfixes (2005 & 2007)

Two new updates were released for Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC) 2005 & 2007. Get them both here.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Hotfix KB 957465 – v 2.0.6362.111
Microsoft Office Communicator 2005 Hotfix KB 949280 – v 1.0.559.232

Matt :: Dec.20.2008 :: Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

How to setup Exchange 2007 to use wildcard certs for Outlook Anywhere

A colleague brought this post from the Pro-Exchange blog in Belgium to my attention. Ilse lists the steps in detail (with screenshots) that are required to get Outlook Anywhere and Autodiscover to work with a wildcard certificate. Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 4 added support to the POP and IMAP services for wildcard certificates so we are covered here.

The key item to take away from his post is that you cannot use the Enable-OutlookAnywhere cmdlet to set the external hostname to *.comany.com. The command will fail with an invalid hostname error. The missing step to getting this to work is to use the Set-OutlookProvider cmdlet to set the parameters for the Autodiscover service so that the proper Outlook Anywhere settings are returned to the client. Microsoft has a section in the Exchange 2007 documentation that references the steps that Ilse is illustrating.