After OCS is deployed and the Office Communicator and Office Live Meeting clients are being rolled out to your users, the next question you will likely have is how do I configure the Communicator client for users so that it is tailored for my environment? This can be a challenging task in an diverse environment.
Practically, [...]
New updates are available for the Office Live Meeting Console and the Live Meeting Outlook Conferencing Add-In. Both updates replace version 8.0.6362.140 (which was the July 2009 update) with 8.0.6362.143.
The Live Meeting Console:
Download the Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 client
Description of the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client update package: September 2009
This update addresses a problem [...]
I have heard and read some confusion lately regarding the availability of a Microsoft Office Live Meeting Web Access client. To clarify, there is such a client, but it cannot be used for on-premise OCS deployments; only for the hosted Microsoft Office Online Live Meeting Service.
There are some key features not currently available in the [...]
December 9, 2011 Update: The server-side bits for the new Lync mobility functionality are available. See Lync 2010 Mobility Service and Documentation Available. The Lync clients for the iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Mobile 7 will be released shortly.
November 17, 2010 Update: Microsoft announced at the Lync Launch event that a Lync client for the [...]
I have heard this many times lately, and wanted to get the word out as a one of the best user features in the Microsoft Communicator R2 client, and remind people that it is a peer-to-peer feature when there are 2 participants, so you do not have deploy the OCS R2 backend to use it. [...]
I recently looked at deck hardcopy of Microsoft UC (Communicator, Live Meeting, and Conferencing) Flash Cards. I wasn’t expecting much, but they were actually very well done: nicely formatted, easy to understand, and have client-side pictures to help end-users. They are described as “Cool Tips and Quick Tricks for Using Microsoft Unified Communications”.
These could be [...]
If you have never heard of SIP Trunking, here is a quick high level explanation. OCS R2 includes support for SIP Trunking, and in a nutshell this allows OCS R2, and therefore your R2 users, to have voice interoperability with the public phone system (PSTN) without any IP-PSTN gateways or other PBX equipment. A SIP [...]
The root cause of Office Live Meeting audio and video issues typically fall into one of these categories: Network conditions, Client side specific issues, or problems on the OCS server. While network conditions are often assumed to be the culprit, many end-user client factors like audio and video device drivers can equally affect audio and video [...]
Many people are not aware, but Microsoft has a free tool (officially categorized as a resource kit tool), called the Office Communications Server 2007 Web Scheduler (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=96B42DC8-E769-4EFD-B7A6-ECA03058F8AD).
August 20, 2009 Update: OCS 2007 R2 – Web Scheduler Now Available for Download. The OCS Web Scheduler now works for R2 is has been released as a web [...]
Microsoft released an update to the Live Meeting client, and to the Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook on December 19, 2008. It addresses some issues that were commonplace in many deployments. You may have missed the update because they are not part of Windows Update. A full list of the issues addressed is detailed here: [...]