In case you missed it, Microsoft recently released a support article which details a supported scenario for:
1) Installing OCS 2007 R2 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server.
2) Installing OCS 2007 R2 into a Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory (i.e. at least one DC was upgraded to Windows Server 2008 R2).
Prior to this, OCS [...]
Microsoft officially released more details today on the next release of OCS (further to the previous post on OCS in 2010 – The UC 14 Wave). The details were made in a keynote presentation by Gurdeep Singh Pall (VP Communications Group, Microsoft) at VoiceCon 2010 in Orlando.
The next release is code named “Microsoft Communications Server 14” (notice [...]
April 4, 2011 Update: BES 5.0 SP3 has been released which adds support for Microsoft OCS 2007 R2. SeeBlackberry Support for OCS 2007 R2 and Lync is Now Available for more information.
A quick post regarding the availability of a native BlackBerry client that works with OCS 2007 R2.
A representative from RIM recently confirmed that a [...]
Many times I have had issues with starting the OCS services on a consolidated front-end starting (fortunately, this has been mostly confined to lab environments). For the benefit of others, here are the 4 most common reasons for OCS service logon failures that I have experienced:
The OCS Service Logon Accounts Have Expired.
Event log errors 7000 [...]