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Where are OC 2007 R2 Recent Contacts stored?

A customer question was raised about wanting to delete the Recent Contacts entry list for users due...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/20/2009

OCS 2007 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 – what is the status?

This is quite easily the most active topic of discussion we have going right now, internally,...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/19/2009

UCVUG Dec ‘09: Response Groups

The Microsoft Unified Communications Virtual User Group (UCVUG) will be hosting it's quarterly...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/17/2009

ToninoF launches blog with Office Communicator SIP Trace Analysis – Registration

One of the first projects I had when joining this team was working with a team of top level...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/02/2009

The value of history and your elders

Today as part of a program I am participating in I was able to hear from Bill Buxton, Principal...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/15/2009

Innovative web page using pictures with presence - Wortell

One of our Microsoft Gold Certified Partners has a great page showing their team with images for...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/14/2009

Urgent: Known issue under investigation with KB974571 and LCS/OCS

October 15 Update: Main blog post has been updated to reflect the addition of Known Issues in the...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/14/2009

UC How To and UC Adoption and Training Kit

I found these resources a few months back and failed to blog about them for some reason. These...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/09/2009

Looking for information on upgrading OCPE (Tanjay)?

Rick Varvel, Microsoft Consulting Services comes through with another great paper. I mentioned his...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/06/2009

OCS End User Experience – my devices are bad…

I had a meeting today with my team of which we all work remote (Washington State, Colorado, Ohio,...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/02/2009

Updated article for UC Clients in Application Virtualization environments

See article Support for the Microsoft unified communications clients in Application Virtualization...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/29/2009

UC World - On Demand Why UC? Why Now? A Conversation with Gurdeep Singh-Pall

In the event you have not heard about UC World, allow me to share the site and information on one of...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/29/2009

OC 2007 R2 and PIC with AIM Express

October 1, 2009 Update - The issue has been resolved. Please do note the details below as some have...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/11/2009

0-1-492 in Communicator Web Access 2007 R2 on Windows 2008 (French)

We had some discussion among our MVP and OCS Master’s teams about 0-1-492 errors with CWA. Benoit...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/09/2009

OT: The glorious empty inbox

Like many I receive a good amount of email, as well due to Xobni, I found I also send a lot of email...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/04/2009

Group Chat – plugging others blogs…

I am preparing for a presentation on Group Chat installation to the UCVUG next week and what I am...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 08/13/2009

Archiving high available beyond just a cluster (OCS 2007)

This is a guest post from John Lamb of Modality Systems. John is an MVP and in a recent dialog about...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 08/05/2009

OT: Bellevue Art Fair / Festival

I am in Washington for 1 of the 2 yearly events bring our consulting, sales and support members from...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 07/26/2009

New OCS Book under construction, your input valuable

For those who caught an earlier post we have a Twitter account providing valuable OCS information at...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 07/22/2009

OT: Three Cups of Tea

I follow a few blogs where it is a mix of professional and personal and I am always intrigued when...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 07/20/2009

R2 Stress Tool error with wma file

One of our partners had the following problem which they were able to resolve, it warrants being...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 07/15/2009

OT: New personal laptop experience

So I finally purchased a new laptop to replace our existing Toshiba Satellite Pro. The system is...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 06/30/2009

OCS R2 MMC Find users : Could not create the query dialog

We had an internal question about a deployment where an upgrade from OCS 2007 to OCS 2007 R2 was...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 06/29/2009

Great post (and site) to read about Reverse Number Lookup with a legacy PBX.

We posted about Paul's blog on https://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/06/05/518.aspx and I...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 06/05/2009

R2 Capacity Planning tool run through and XML file problem

I have had the distinct pleasure or misfortune to have used the LCS 2005 SP1 capacity planning tools...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/19/2009

Can’t find the Dial-in Conferencing E-mail Templates?

We had a question asked internally today about these templates. Turns out the online documentation...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/14/2009

<Edits <April 19, 2010> The more content I put up here the harder it becomes to monitor any...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/14/2009

UC Developer? Want a sandbox to play in?

I am not a developer nor do I play one on TV, but I have good news for those of you that are...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/13/2009

DrRez on Twitter – More info

I was chatting with a friend last night in our documentation team and he mentioned DrRez. I checked...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/06/2009

R2 Content Online including Migration from OCS 2007

The Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation has been online for a while although really...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 04/22/2009

UCVUG Kickoff Meeting

Please see the below link for the kickoff meeting for the Unified Communications Virtual User Group....

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 04/10/2009

Communicator R2 Custom Presence not working?

Henry pointed out that my original post on Custom Presence was helpful up to the point of actually...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 04/08/2009

R2 Capacity Planning Tool Released

For those of you working with earlier product versions you will recall we had a Capacity Planning...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/31/2009

Customers/Partners developing business solutions with R2

When LCS was first introduced we used the terminology of the product being a presence platform and...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/27/2009

OT – Live Messenger on Windows 7 (beta)

Today Karsten has been added to my list of heroes with an answer to an annoying problem – Live...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/24/2009

Monitoring Server generates error when viewing reports

<Update May 11, 2009 - Thomas Binder was kind enough to point out this troubleshooter on Technet...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/12/2009

TextAnalysisTool.Net – Fantastic tool for analyzing large log files

From my bio and posts you may have caught on to the fact I have supported this product since LCS...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/11/2009

R2 not working as expected with PIC and EASI domains

Morten sent a question via the comments about a problem with R2 and trying to add PIC users with...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/23/2009

OT: Viewing/Sorting/Grouping Outlook Inbox

I just returned from a week of vacation, I went skiing 3 days with a buddy at Snowshoe Mountain and...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/23/2009

Guest post: LCS 2005 Admin tools on Vista x64

Today’s post comes courtesy of Nate Smyre from Willis Information Services The steps I went through...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/12/2009

OT: Juice IT in Seattle

I am attending TechReady8 this week which brings members of the field (consultants, sales, premier...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/02/2009

IP-IP Gateway Configuration Notes - external resource

Chris was kind of to share his blog post on IP-IP Gateway configuration:...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 01/27/2009

OCS 2007 R2 – Add Enterprise Edition Server

I knew this one going in and I am always dismayed when I encounter it but I wanted to call it out...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 01/05/2009

OCS 2007 R2 – Archiving and Monitoring

Looking through the documentation I thought that I might just install these services on the CWA role...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 01/02/2009

OCS 2007 R2 – Preparing the Environment

<Feb 13 Edit appended to end of post> Just to prove that knowledge of the past doesn’t replace...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/29/2008

OCS 2007 R2: Migrating Global Settings

April 22 Update: New blog post about the decision tree on server team site -...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/29/2008

OCS 2007 R2 – Planning: Workbook and Tool

I am going to work through the deployment as we suggest our partners to do. We provide them a...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/29/2008

Deploying OCS R2 – SQL

Update Sat December 27 - My colleague Thomas Binder in Austria noted some discrepancies in the...

Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/23/2008

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