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Communicator & Lync Sign-In Troubleshooting Tool (Version 3)

A major upgrade is now available to my popular OCS and Lync Sign-In Troubleshooting Tool. This is a small free tool to help troubleshoot client-side Communicator, and now Lync, sign-in issues (see The OCS 2007 Automatic Sign-In Troubleshooting Tool V2.0 for more information on previous releases).

A major upgrade is now available to my popular [...]

Curtis Johnstone, July 19th, 2011 | COMMENTS: 13 comments

The OCS 2007 Automatic Sign-In Troubleshooting Tool V2.0

I released a small free troubleshooting tool back in October 2008 to help diagnose Communicator automatic sign-in issues.  It queries all the possible DNS records that Communicator could use to connect to the OCS server, and displays all the associated matches on the client computer.

I have made some significant improvements based on feedback and rolled [...]

Curtis Johnstone, July 29th, 2009 | COMMENTS: 7 comments

Automatic Office Communicator Sign-In (Part 1 – The Correct DNS Service Location (SRV) Record)

Three items are key for automatic Office Communicator sign-in to work in an OCS 2007 environment:

Specifying the correct FQDN in DNS for the SRV record used for automatic sign-in.
Ensuring the correct Subject Name (and possibly Subject Alternative Names) are specified on the OCS certificate where the client connects (e.g. the certificate on the [...]

Curtis Johnstone, August 28th, 2008 | COMMENTS: 3 comments

DNS Records and Office Communicator Automatic Client Sign-In

Office Communicator client signs into OCS in one of two ways:

1) The OCS server hostname is manually specified in Communicator, or,
2) “Automatic Sign-In” via a DNS query on the SIP domain (the domain portion of the user’s SIP address) which returns the OCS server (or pool).

This is true for clients running both inside and outside [...]

Curtis Johnstone, August 19th, 2008 | COMMENTS: 11 comments

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