Polycom Announces New Strategic Relationship with Microsoft for End-to-End Unified Communications.

See the Polycom Press Release http://www.polycom.com/company/news_room/press_releases/2010/20100809.html

And this video this video

Product Development

The roadmap entails Polycom developing a broad base of solutions for Microsoft Communications Server “14” and beyond, including:

· New and next-generation Polycom CX series endpoints optimized for Microsoft UC, featuring Polycom’s market-leading HD video and voice technologies

· New, innovative room-based video systems designed specifically for enabling direct integration with Microsoft Communications Server “14”

· Additional interoperable solutions between Polycom’s existing and future video conferencing solutions

Important update: Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2

This is actully not just a fix/patch, it’s an update, I have missed the “call via work” from the normal dialpad for a long time, now this works on Windows 6.5, sorry dont know for all other mobiles.

Download here and description here: and remember that you always can download directly from the phone here http://getcomo.com

New version is:6906.29

Issues that this hotfix package fixes

• Provides home screen support for new home screens in Windows Mobile 6.5+ phones.
• Provides integration within the phone dialer for Windows Mobile 6.5+ phones.
• Enables Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 to recognize when the phone is roaming and by default prevents Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 from signing in to roaming networks.
• Provides additional support for joining conference calls from a Windows Mobile appointment. To do this, press Menu, and then press Join Conference.
• Lets users log on by using a user name in the user@example.com format, in addition to the domain\user format.
• Enables the functionality by which callbacks are now automatically accepted when the user uses the Call via Work option.
• Resolves the problem in which the Microsoft Installer (.msi) installation fails on a Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3)-based computer. In this situation, users should install Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 by using a (.cab) installation.
• Fixes the problem in which AT&T FUZE devices that are set for a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) connection cannot handle voice and data at the same time. In this situation, calls that use the Call via Work option fail unless the device is reverted to 3rd Generation (3G) by disabling HSDPA.

CS 14 Public Instant Messaging Connectivity (Voice and Video)

In CS 14 and the new not yet released Live Messenger IM between O”CS” and MSN / Live is like today, but Audio and Video will be supported as well between Live messenger and OCS.

Then the user experience will be like a full Unified solution, this will be a great add on to Microsoft Unified Communication because there is x million MSN/Live users out there all ready, and a lot of minor company’s is using Live messenger as there Presence and IM tool.

I am on the CS 14 and the new Live messenger “dog food” internally in Microsoft, it’s very nice and it’s working the live messenger will come with a lot of new stuff!

Get more information here

New Communications Server14 site

Here

CS 14 UI-to-PowerShell Mapping

On this page you can see the mapping between the CS 14 UI mapping to the PowerShell , that’s perfect!

example:

The User Search Dialog

To access the User Search dialog in the Communications Server Control Panel, click the Users tab.

The Results pane of the User Search dialog corresponds to the properties and parameters of the following cmdlet:

· Get-CsAdUser, which is used to retrieve information about all your Active Directory user accounts:
Get-CsAdUser

· Get-CsUser, which is used to retrieve information about only those Active Directory user accounts that have been enabled for Microsoft Communications Server “14”:
Get-CsUser

The User Search dialog (and the Results pane) is shown below, along with the corresponding parameter names found in Get-CsAdUser and Get-CsUser

OCS and CS1000 integrations problem (no SIP-GW-ID)

When connecting OCS and Nortel CS1000 you can run in to problem regarding your patch level on the CS1000.

Please be sure that your Cs1000 has installed all the right Patches, use the “dep list” from Nortel

I had a problem here regarding a customer that’s has a running OCS/CS1000 enviroment, but suddenly some problem started accruing after CS1000 patch install.

The MCM log had stuff like this:
MediationServer 503/504 handler: there is no "sip-gw-id" parameter in the stored INVITE
”504 server time out” and ”no sip-gw-id”.
ProcessRequestFromGateway: there is no "sip-gw-id" parameter in the incoming INVITE

The problem is no/missing sip-gw-id in the invite.

Working (incl sip-gw-id):
x-nt-ocn-id: <sip:8987;phone-context=cdp.udp@doamin.org;user=phone>;sip-gw-id=CS1000

Not working:
x-nt-ocn-id: <sip:8987;phone-context=cdp.udp@doamin.org;user=phone>

To fix this, you need the SigServer patch p25226_1.spm it was disabled after installing and other patch.

Export GalContacts.DB to CSV RegKey

I was testing new normalizing rules in Company_Phone_Number_Normalization_Rules.txt but to be sure when the Communicator get's the right GalContact.db, I found this information.

You don't need to see GalContact.db in notepad, you can export it to CSV :)

Create the following reg key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Communicator
Dword: DumpContactsToCsvFile
Value= 1

sign out and back in again
You can find the Contacts.csv file directly from MOC, select Tools -> View Received Files.

Remeber to set DumpContactsToCsvFile back to 0 or delete it.