Migrating your OCS Federated Partner Settings to Lync

During the edge migration stage of an OCS to Lync migration, you will likely need to re-establish existing OCS federated partner settings on the new Lync Edge pool.

If you have previously established direct federation connections between OCS and many federated partners that you explicitly allow, the thought of having to manually re-enter these federation settings [...]

Curtis Johnstone, January 24th, 2012 | COMMENTS: Leave a comment

Lync 2010 Mobility Service and Documentation Available

Details posted on InsideLync: Lync 2010 Mobility Service and Documentation Available for more information.

Curtis Johnstone, December 9th, 2011 | COMMENTS: Leave a comment

Quick Tip – External Contacts with Lync Coexistence

I was involved in a recent Lync migration where a new Lync pool was deployed side-by-side with an OCS 2007 R2 pool. Several pilot users were moved to the new Lync pool and the OCS 2007 R2 edge server was still being used for external Lync and OCS user services.

Everything worked as planned except the [...]

Curtis Johnstone, December 6th, 2011 | COMMENTS: 2 comments

Microsoft Lync Remote PowerShell Administration

A new post on InsideLync.com – Microsoft Lync Remote PowerShell Administration (http://blog.insidelync.com/2011/08/remote-lync-powershell-administration/).

Curtis Johnstone, August 18th, 2011 | COMMENTS: One comment

New RoundTable Firmware Upgrade

A new firmware update for the Microsoft RoundTable was released on June 15, 2011.

You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17500.  It is just over 18 Mb.

The list of issues it addresses can be found in KB article 2559123: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2559123.

Curtis Johnstone, June 21st, 2011 | COMMENTS: 2 comments

Configuring User Federation, Remote Access, and Public IM in Lync

If you have existing scripts for OCS user configuration that are being re-purposed for Lync, this blog post might be helpful: http://blog.insidelync.com/2011/05/configuring-user-federation-remote-access-and-public-im-in-lync/.

Curtis Johnstone, May 31st, 2011 | COMMENTS: Leave a comment

Integrating OCS 2007 R2 and Polycom Telepresence

A quick tip to anyone integrating the Polycom HDX 8000 video conferencing unit with Microsoft OCS 2007 R2.
When you create the OCS 2007 R2 user to be used for the Polycom HDX 8000 (aka Conference Room User), a key requirement is that this OCS 2007 R2 user CANNOT be fully enabled for Enhanced Presence (by [...]

Curtis Johnstone, May 6th, 2011 | COMMENTS: 2 comments

New OCS 2007 R2 Updates & Microsoft Federated Edge Server IP Address Change

A new round of OCS 2007 R2 client and server updates were released today – collectively known as OCS 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 8 (CU 8).  Note: some links will not be available until late next week.

Client Updates

Office Communicator 2007 R2
KB Article 2501722
Microsoft Download Link

Group Chat Client 2007 R2
KB [...]

Curtis Johnstone, March 11th, 2011 | COMMENTS: 4 comments
 
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