Friday, January 29, 2010

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway Hotfix KB 979311

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Issues that this update fixes
  • You may have problems when you establish a connection with a stream that is initiated by ejabberd. This issue occurs because "<?xml version=1.0”>" appears before the actual stream.
  • XMPP federation to gmail.com works. However, XMPP federation to googlemail.com does not work.

Monday, January 25, 2010

AudioCodes livemeeting on roadmap for OCS W14

image I was attending a Livemeeting today with Audiocodes.

On the agenda was Audiocodes roadmap for OCS W14.

There is some great and interesting news, and if you like to know what Audiocodes will do in OCS w14 timeframe go to this like for the recordings.

And also look at Msgoodies blog on this subject!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Description of Update Rollup 2 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

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Issues that the update rollup fixes
Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2 fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

961525 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961525/ ) Exchange Server 2003 may generate duplicate journal reports in a mixed Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 environment

969230 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969230/ ) The "age limits" function of a public folder do not work as expected in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

969948 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969948/ ) A Computer that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that has the Client Access Server (CAS) role installed becomes slow when a user tries to open a folder that contains many items

970817 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970817/ ) An appointment is displayed incorrectly as an all-day event if you use a mobile device to synchronize the calendar in Exchange Server 2007

971177 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971177/ ) The Auto Attendant 'Business Hours' schedule is not updated in Exchange Server 2007 when the DST setting is changed

971349 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971349/ ) Exchange Server 2007 users intermittently cannot access an Exchange Server 2003 user's Free/Busy information in Office Outlook 2007

971889 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971889/ ) When Unified Messaging-enabled users call Outlook Voice Access on Exchange Server 2007 to play voice mails messages, there is a delay before the voice mail message is played

972705 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972705/ ) The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 log or database experiences abnormal growth

972744 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972744/ ) When a user sends e-mail messages to a remote domain, some e-mail messages are queued on an Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport server or Edge server

973165 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973165/ ) A return address is split into two separate and incomplete addresses when a recipient replies to a specific message in Exchange 2007

973486 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973486/ ) Some message parts are not readable when Exchange Server 2007 must convert the message part encoding from binary or from 8 bit to 7 bit

973969 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973969/ ) Incorrect exceptions are generated for a recurring iCalendar message when an Exchange Server 2007 server processes an SMTP message that contains the iCalendar message part

974155 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974155/ ) OWA does not highlight misspelled words in an Exchange Server 2007 CAS proxy environment

974161 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974161/ ) Some attendees cannot receive a meeting cancellation notification when the appointment recurrence pattern is changed by using EWS in Exchange Server 2007

974312 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974312/ ) Unread messages are marked as "read" when Exchange Server 2007 processes the EXAMINE command

974344 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974344/ ) You still receive an error message when you run the Test-OwaConnectivity command after you apply hotfix KB957485 in Exchange Server 2007

974401 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974401/ ) Store sessions are not released when you run the Add-PublicFolderClientPermission cmdlet or the Remove-PublicFolderClientPermission cmdlet in public folders on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2007

974450 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974450/ ) A new accepted domain that is added does not work in an Exchange Server 2007 organization

974679 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974679/ ) Returned folder names include a question mark when you check the folder names of an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox

974775 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974775/ ) The EdgeTransport.exe process crashes intermittently on an Exchange Server 2007 server

974843 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974843/ ) Exchange Server 2007 performance counter "Messages queued for submission" shows incorrect value

974897 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974897/ ) You receive an NDR you try to send messages through your Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 account

974946 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974946/ ) Exchange Server 2007 OWA users receive an error message when the users change the display line for the search results on the address books

974999 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974999/ ) The "Task Owner" field is not set when you create a task in Outlook Web Access

975050 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975050/ ) A call transfer fails by using key mapping in a mixed Exchange Server 2007 UM server and OCS 2007 environment

975165 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975165/ ) EWS proxying requests fail after you run Availability Service requests in a CAS to CAS proxying scenario in Exchange Server 2007

975213 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975213/ ) You cannot log on to your mailbox and you receive an error in an Exchange server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007 coexist environment

975255 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975255/ ) Event 2104 and event 2147 are continuously logged in an Exchange Server 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) environment

975404 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975404/ ) An attachment of a meeting request cannot be opened when you use a CDO application to accept a meeting request in Exchange Server 2007

975844 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975844/ ) The misspelled word of a message loses its custom format when an Exchange Server 2007 user writes the message in OWA

975903 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975903/ ) The RemoveDelegate operation of EWS fails, and then a "500 internal server" error response and event ID 4999 are logged in an Exchange Server 2007 server

975916 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975916/ ) The custom form of a meeting request is removed in the recipients' calendar in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

975918 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975918/ ) When an IMAP4 client sends a FETCH (bodystructure) request to a server that is running the Exchange Server 2007 IMAP4 service, a corrupted response is sent as a reply

975946 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975946/ ) An S/MIME message is not verified and is rejected when BizTalk Server 2006 uses the Exchange Server 2007 version of ExSMime.dll to parse MIME messages

975990 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975990/ ) Messages that have duplicate message IDs are deleted when they are archived to an Exchange 2007 mailbox

976025 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976025/ ) The free/busy information of an Exchange Server 2007 user is not displayed

976106 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976106/ ) Microsoft Exchange Transport services crashes with StackOverflowException when Message Journaling is enabled on Exchange Server 2007

976107 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976107/ ) You receive the warning "Failed to update recipient" when you run the Update-addresslist cmdlet in Exchange Management Shell on Exchange Server 2007

976137 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976137/ ) Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging incorrectly plays a nonbusiness hours greeting when someone call during holiday

976195 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976195/ ) You cannot edit a transport rule if one or more of the recipient addresses are disabled or removed in an Exchange Server 2007 server

976653 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976653/ ) The Cluster Administrator shows that the mount operation fails and error 1003 is logged even though the database is mounted in an Exchange Server 2007 CCR or in a SCC environment

976787 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976787/ ) The Calendar Month View displays a numeric date and not an abbreviated month name when you set the Regional Settings to Japanese or to Korean in Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2007

976794 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976794/ ) When you edit an e-mail message in OWA, the font changes to the default Internet Explorer font

976946 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976946/ ) The message delivery time is incorrect when you send e-mail messages by using an IMAP4 client together with the APPEND command in Exchange Server 2007

977085 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977085/ ) An incorrect value for DumpsterMessagesDeleted is reported in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

977091 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977091/ ) The time for an updated meeting request is incorrectly shown in an exception instance of a recurring meeting request on an Exchange Server 2007 environment

977181 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977181/ ) The EXOLEDB component is not initialized successfully when you start Exchange Information Store Service on an Exchange Server 2007 server

977223 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977223/ ) A move operation on a folder fails when the "ptagProvisionedFid" attribute is invalid in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

977261 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977261/ ) One or more errors occur when you set the Message Access logging level to Expert in an Exchange Server 2007 SP2 server

977355 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977355/ ) Non-ASCII characters in a display name of a forwarded message are shown with "?" when the display name of a contact is in East Asia characters in an Exchange Server 2007 environment

977412 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977412/ ) Error message when you use the WebDAV protocol to connect to an Exchange Server 2007 server: "Error 1000"

977425 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977425/ ) The "Proxy server name" field is incorrectly shown in OWA in an Exchange Server 2007 CAS-to-CAS proxy environment

978593 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978593/ ) Windows Server 2008 VSS backup plug-in fails to backup Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 databases that reside on a volume mount point

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Workload Architecture Poster

I often get the question: how does the Communication flow in OCS, because i have firewall between my internal networks. My answer is normally: it depends on what you are doing.

But now there is a drawing to show together with the list of ports, nice J

This poster of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 describes the traffic flow of protocols and ports used in each workload. Communications Server 2007 R2 supports the following workloads: IM and Presence, Conferencing, Application Sharing, and Enterprise Voice. These filtered views can assist you in architecting your deployment of Communications Server 2007 R2. The different server roles are described along with server certificate requirements. Firewall and DNS configuration requirements are also described.

 

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Additional Windows Live Messenger PIC/Federation IP Address

Notification

In an effort to provide enhanced capacity and service reliance, Windows Live Messenger will soon be adding an additional IP address used for PIC/Federation traffic.  Some organizations have chosen to restrict this type of traffic to specific IP addresses, as referenced in Microsoft KB 897567 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/897567).  With this in mind we want to give you advanced notice of our intended change if you have configured your enterprise network in this manner.

Please ensure your enterprise firewall configuration is updated with the full list of Windows Live Messenger addresses below on or before Friday, February 2, 2010.  Windows Live Messenger will NOT enable the additional IP addresses until on or after February 2, 2010 (Pacific Time) to ensure your services will not be disrupted by this change.

IP address for Windows Live Messenger PIC/Federation:

64.4.9.181
64.4.9.245
64.4.50.110 (Additional new IP address)
65.54.52.53
65.54.52.245
65.54.227.249

For more information please reference Microsoft KB 897567, or for further assistance, please engage Microsoft Customer Support Services via http://support.microsoft.com.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Client Group Policy Documentation

Overview

When deploying Office Communications Server 2007 R2 clients, one way system administrators can provide the appropriate registry settings for each user is by defining Group Policies using an administrative template (.adm) file. Administrative template files contain specific information about which Group Policies the application implements, where policies are stored, and how to configure policies.
This download package contains the Communicator.adm file and a spreadsheet that documents the Group Policy settings for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 clients, including Office Communicator 2007, Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat.

 

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Hotfix KB 976135

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Quick Details

File Name:
communicator.msp

Version:
6907.83

Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB976135

Date Published:
1/7/2010

Language:
English

Download Size:
9.9 MB

 

Issues that this hotfix package fixes
  • 978161 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978161/ ) Office Communicator 2007 R2 crashes when you receive an incoming instant message notification

  • 978162 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978162/ ) A hyperlink is converted to plain text format when you input the hyperlink into an Office Communicator 2007 R2 conversation window

  • 978163 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978163/ ) You cannot call a user by using the Actions button in Office Outlook 2007, but you can call the user through Office Communicator 2007 R2

This cumulative update, together with update 969696 and update 969821, fixes the following issue:
  • 971628 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971628/ ) When a delegate tries to use the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook to schedule a live meeting or to schedule a conference on behalf of a manager, the delegate's information instead of the manager's information displays in the conferencing request

    Note This problem was originally fixed by the following updates:

    • 969695 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969695/ ) Description of the update for Communicator 2007 R2: July 2009

    • 969696 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969696/ ) Description of the update for Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook: July 2009

    • 969821 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969821/ ) Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2: July, 2009

This cumulative update also includes the following previously released updates:
  • 976045 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976045/ ) Error message when you try to add a contact to Outlook in Communicator 2007 R2: "Cannot connect to Microsoft Office Outlook to add a contact because Outlook is not responding"

  • 976046 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976046/ ) Hyperlinks are converted to lowercase if you send them in an instant message as text in Communicator 2007 R2

  • 976048 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976048/ ) Error message when you log off, restart, or shut down a computer that is running Communicator 2007 R2: "End Program - Communicator"

  • 976050 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976050/ ) When you answer an incoming call on a device that uses a simultaneous ring number, Office Communicator 2007 R2 generates a missed call notification

  • 976051 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976051/ ) The Communicator 2007 R2 screen freezes intermittently for several seconds when you are in an audio or a video conferencing session

  • 976052 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976052/ ) The display name of a contact is unresolved when you send a meeting request in Communicator 2007 R2

  • 976054 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976054/ ) Audio skips in Communicator 2007 R2 during Communicator calls or during Public Switched Telephone Network calls on a computer that is running Windows Vista

  • 971843 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971843/ ) Enterprise administrators cannot both set and enforce the Personal Information Manager settings for Outlook Integration to be able to turn off Outlook Integration for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

  • 972085 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972085/ ) Error message when you start Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2: "Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the message request. Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and set it as the default mail client."

  • 972087 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972087/ ) In Communicator 2007 R2 when you use Tanjay to call a user, you hear both the ringing and the audio from the user side

  • 972090 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972090/ ) Your voice is discontinuous when you use Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 to make a call on a Windows 7 or a Windows Server 2008 R2-based remote computer

  • 972091 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972091/ ) Error message in Communicator 2007 R2 when you try to join a conference call from Outlook: "Can't open the program because Office Communicator or Office Communications Server Attendant is already running on your windows user account"

  • 971845 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971845/ ) You cannot use a set of features in Office Communicator 2007 R2 that integrate secure delegation for the local Outlook 2007 calendar

  • 971846 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971846/ ) Video frames are not displayed in Office Communicator 2007 R2 on a Windows XP-based computer

  • 972093 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972093/ ) Error message when you try to adjust the volume during a call in a Communicator 2007 R2 conversation window on a computer that is running Windows XP: "Cannot adjust the speaker volume"

  • 972097 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972097/ ) Error message when distribution group expansion fails in Office Communicator 2007 R2: "Cannot save a local copy of your distribution groups."

  • 972099 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972099/ ) A "Meet Now – Invite by Email" HTML e-mail message that is generated by Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 has unreadable text in the message body

  • 972403 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972403/ ) Network performance issues that are caused by Global address list (GAL) file downloads or by GAL delta file downloads in Office Communicator 2007 R2

  • 971844 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971844/ ) No calling party name appears in Communicator 2007 R2 when a Private Branch Exchange telephone user calls a Communications Server 2007 R2 user

  • 971078 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971078/ ) An Automatic Update download is not initiated on a computer that is running Office Communicator 2007 R2 build 3.5.6907.9

  • 968504 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968504/ ) Description of the Communicator 2007 R2 update for Microsoft Online Services

  • 968623 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968623/ ) You experience one-way audio when LG-Nortel IP8540 or Polycom CX700 phones are used in an Audio Video call on Windows XP

  • 968624 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968624/ ) Error events occur when you disconnect a computer that is running Communicator 2007 R2 from the network: "Event ID: 3" or "Event ID: 7"

  • 968625 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968625/ ) Description of a hotfix that applies the initial changes for the integration of Office Communicator 2007 R2 and the next version of Office after the Office 2007 release

  • 968628 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968628/ ) Communicator 2007 R2 stores the Actual Remote Number (The number that is dialed) for outgoing calls to a remote party

  • 968631 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968631/ ) The font in the Conversation window is very small when you run Office Communicator 2007 R2 on a Windows Vista-based computer that has high DPI (120 DPI) with Internet Explorer 8 installed

  • 968632 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968632/ ) You cannot click the password field and enter a password when you sign in to Office Communicator 2007 R2

  • 968634 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968634/ ) Description of Office Communicator 2007 R2 update to support Polycom roundtable devices

  • 968690 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968690/ ) In Office Communicator 2007 R2, User A gets a failure-to-deliver message after sending an IM to User B even though User B receives the message

Unified Communications Enhanced Presence Schemas for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Overview

The Unified Communications Enhanced Presence Schemas are intended for application developers who are interested in publishing or subscribing to enhanced presence within the Microsoft unified communications application framework while maintaining interoperability with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2. The accompanying XML Schema Definition (XSD) files are provided as an application development tool.
The enhanced presence model provides finer control over published presence information. Unified communications clients, other than Communicator, need to understand these presence data types if they are to interoperate with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2.

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Sunday, January 3, 2010

No excuse for not buying Certified devices

Okay with some of the last releases from certified device vendors there is no excuse for not buying certified devices.

And one of the reasons for not going on OCS with Voice (price on new device) is significant lower now than it was , and I think it might be even lower in 2010.    

Find all certified devices here

Example on price:

Plantronics .Audio 615M  http://www.voipsupply.com/plantronics-audio-615m-headset $37.70

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Jabra Biz 620 Mono ttp://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=A3013871&cs=04&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=39888&lid=1022050  $44.99

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And remember you can still give the “I need my old phone user” this “IPT look a like” usb phone and still get all the OCS features: http://www.polycom.com/products/voice/desktop_solutions/microsoft_optimized_devices/communicator_cx300.html

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And while we wait for OCS wave 14 (the real replacement of the PBX/IPT)  have a look at Voipnorm opinion on UC devices here