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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 [...]

July 29th, 2009 | Tags: communicator automatic sign in, communicator dns, communicator login, microsoft communicator sign in, microsoft ocs automatic sign-in, OCS Automatic Sign-In, OCS Certificates, ocs dns, ocs login, Office Communications Server Automatic Client Sign-In, Office Communications Server Certificates, _sipinternaltls | Category: Client, Communicator, DNS, Debugging, Pools | One comment

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 [...]

August 28th, 2008 | Tags: communicator automatic sign in, communicator dns, communicator login, microsoft communicator sign in, microsoft ocs automatic sign-in, OCS Automatic Sign-In, OCS Certificates, ocs dns, ocs login, Office Communications Server Automatic Client Sign-In, Office Communications Server Certificates, _sipinternaltls | Category: Client, Communicator, DNS, Debugging | One comment

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