OCS installs a set of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes that expose a wealth of information on everything from global settings about an OCS deployment, OCS user settings, or configuration information about a particular server. These classes can be used to programmatically gather configuration information, manage an OCS environment, and automate administrative tasks using a [...]
There are several administrative uses for manipulating user contacts – the two primary uses are backup & restore, and inserting a standard set of contacts for an organization or department. There are two options available to import and export user contacts which I explain below.
1) Command Line Tool (DBIMPEXP.EXE)
DBIMPEXP.EXE is a little-known tool which can [...]
It was brought to my attention last week that the OCS 2007 PowerPack is in the running for SearchExchange.com’s best Exchange Unified Communication Product! If you’ve found this Powerpack useful and want to vote for it, you can by visiting SearchExchange.com’s web page: here. The pack has been downloaded over 3400 times now! Thanks to [...]
At the heart of OCS administration is enabling or disabling a particular user for OCS 2007 and setting various OCS features (a.k.a. provisioning a user). This can be done through the OCS Administrative Console, but many administrators ask how to do it through the command line so that this functionality can be integrated with existing [...]
In June I released an OCS 2007 PowerGUI powerpack. PowerGUI is a graphical interface to powershell, and I built the OCS powerpack to help the community use and manage Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The powerpack has recently been updated (last week) to support the latest version of PowerGUI, and several bugs were fixed.
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