Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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 Smile the live messenger will come with a lot of new stuff!

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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Webcast from Teched

I can recommend the below list of Webcast on CS 14 from Teched, very good content and presenter and will bring you up to date on CS14

UNC320

CS “14”: What's New in Communicator “14” Experience & Backend

UNC311

CS “14”: Architecture

UNC313

CS “14”: Voice Architecture and Planning for High Availability

UNC312

CS “14”: Network Considerations

UNC314

CS “14”: Voice Deployment

UNC318

CS “14”: What's New in Conferencing Experience & Backend

UNC317

CS “14”: Management Experience

UNC321

CS “14”: Interoperability: Voice, Video, Conferencing, IM, & Presence

UNC316

CS “14”: Monitoring and Reporting

UNC315

CS “14”: Setup and Deployment

UNC208

CS “14”: What's New in Devices

Friday, June 11, 2010

New Communications Server14 site

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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

PS user

CS 14 is PowerShell

If you need to manage a Microsoft Communications Server “14” deployment, at some point you’re likely to find yourself in need of the Communications Server implementation of PowerShell. Whether you’re new to Windows PowerShell, Communications Server, or simply Communication Server’s version of PowerShell, this is the place to get started.

more information here

Thursday, June 10, 2010

RCC in CS 14

RCC (Remote call control) will be supported in CS 14, for old and new customers.

So if you believe that RCC is what you need when deploying CS 14 this is supported.

No it’s not the best users experience, because users can’t fully control the Voice part/media stream and when you are in different mode of communications, it’s could be a clumsy user experience, but if you just need click to call it’s working.

This blog from Jamie:  http://www.simonleyland.com/news/?p=1800  State it clearly that RCC is and will be supported.

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Customers who simply want to give some users the ability to control their existing PBX or IP PBX phones from Office Communicator may do so through our Click-to-Call feature (based on traditional CTI using what we’ve typically called Remote Call Control or RCC). Both new and upgrading customers will be supported for click-to-call with Communications Server “14” (CS “14”). The functionality remains the same as with previous releases, so it’s important to remember that Click-to-call users lose other Communicator capabilities including mobile voice. Finally, the integrations to the popular third party gateways like Corebridge, Estos and Genesys are still available, allowing companies to deploy Click-to-call solutions without needing to spend potentially significant amounts of money upgrading their IP-PBX.

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I would go for that, if I for some reason that I can’t think of Smile, and not would go for OCS enterprise Voice,

From my point of view, this is way better than CUCIMOC (softphone on softphone), and when I look at the new CS 14 client, and if there will be a CUCIMOC for that, it could be a very clumsy user experience!

Good link to BJ Haberkorn blog on CUCIMOC

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Office Communications Online Standard Service Description

Overview

Microsoft® Office Communications Online is a hosted, enterprise-class communications solution based on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Office Communications Online provides your organization with real-time communications capabilities including secure instant messaging and delivery of "presence" information. Presence enables users to see at a glance if someone is available online to receive an instant message. Your organization can purchase Office Communications Online as a standalone service from Microsoft Online Services or as part of the Business Productivity Online Suite—which includes Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint® Online, and the Microsoft Office Live Meeting service. This service description is intended to help IT professionals and describes the features that are included with the Standard offering of Office Communications Online.

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat Database Disaster Recovery

This document provides step-by-step instructions to restore your Office Communications Server 2007 R2 group chat database in cases where database corruption or database disk failures occur. If the group chat database becomes corrupted or is simply not available, you will need to restore the old database. In these scenarios, the database is restored on a separate Microsoft SQL Server instance. Compliance database restoration is not covered in this document.

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Friday, May 21, 2010

Hit me (Stats)

The number of hits I get on this blog.

This is a follow up on VoIPNorm Stats and yes I think I see the same kind of number of hits on a daily basis .

3225 is from 20 April to 20 may !

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5 x OCS Updates.

Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Runtime

Brief Description

Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Runtime is the deployment pre-requisite of applications built on Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Core.

 

Quick Details

File Name:
UcmaRuntimeWebDownloadX64.msi

Version:
6907.202

Date Published:
5/20/2010

Language:
English

Download Size:
14.5 MB

 

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Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Redist (64 Bit) Hotfix KB 982614

 

Brief Description

This download includes all available updates for Unified Communications Managed API 2.0 Redist (64 Bit).

Quick Details

File Name:
UcmaRedist.msp

Version:
6907.202

Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB982614

Date Published:
5/19/2010

Language:
English

Download Size:
4.0 MB

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Communicator 2007 R2 Help Documentation

Brief Description

Download help documentation for Office Communicator 2007 R2.

Quick Details

File Name:
lcc_help.chm

Version:
1.0

Date Published:
5/19/2010

Language:
English

Download Size:
308 KB

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Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Help Documentation

Brief Description

Download help documentation for Office Communicator 2007.

Quick Details

File Name:
lcc_help.chm

Version:
1.0

Date Published:
5/19/2010

Language:
English

Download Size:
319 KB

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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Scheduler Hotfix KB 980374

Brief Description

This download includes all available updates for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Scheduler.

Quick Details

File Name:
WebScheduler.msp

Version:
6907.196

Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB980374

Date Published:
5/19/2010

Language:
English

Download Size:
1.1 MB

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Google buys VOIP engine behind Yahoo, AOL, WebEx, Lotus conferencing

One interesting thing to note about GIPS is its customer list. On its site, GIPS touts Yahoo, IBM Lotus, AOL, WebEx and Baidu as customers. All of those companies compete with Google products. For instance, Yahoo uses GIPS VideoEngine PC product to deliver real-time voice over Yahoo Messenger. Is that really going to last when Google owns GIPS? It’s the same story for AOL Instant Messenger. Simply put, Google will own the technology powering video and voice on the biggest IM clients. On the Google Apps front, WebEx uses GIPS VoiceEngine and so does Lotus Sametime. On the China front, Baidu also uses GIPS technology.

 

If I was Cisco, IBM, Yahoo, AOL, maybe this is the time to find or maybe develop a new codec! ;)  

GIPS CEO Emerick Woods said:

Google has been a valued customer of GIPS for many years and has greatly contributed to the development and innovation of our products to date. We have always respected their position in the industry and share the common vision of accelerating next generation innovation in the web-based solutions for real time communications.

You may have many questions regarding this announcement but for now, until the successful completion of the offer, it will be business as usual for us here at GIPS. You will continue to interact with the same team members and can expect the same level of support and commitment that you have received in the past. Google has informed us that nothing will change for current and prospective customers of GIPS. Following the completion of the Offer, Google intends to continue servicing GIPS’s customers in accordance with existing contracts while offering them the opportunity to transition to new offerings developed by Google. Although we will not have more significant details until the process is complete and full integration efforts are underway, we will keep you informed throughout as events arise.

In other words, Google will continue servicing GIPS existing contracts, but after that rivals may be on their own.

source for this information: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-buys-voip-engine-behind-yahoo-aol-webex-lotus-conferencing/34590?tag=nl.e539

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Description of the cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Mediation Server: April 2010

Issues that this update package fixes
This cumulative update fixes the following issues:
  • 981218 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981218/ ) A call is dropped when a media time-out occurs on the gateway side of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Mediation Server

  • 981250 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981250/ ) The Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Mediation Server does not send a response to the PSTN gateway when the Mediation Server cannot contact the front-end server

This cumulative update also includes the following previously released updates:
  • 972772 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972772/ ) Video is not displayed after you enable Quality of Service (QoS) at the pool level in Communications Server 2007 R2 and you enable QoS on a client computer

  • 972770 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972770/ ) An update package enables Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Mediation Server to include a diversion header in the re-invite after the server processes a 302 redirection

  • 968954 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968954/ ) Communications Server 2007 R2 front-end server does not recognize a 504 error message that is sent by Communications Server 2007 R2 Mediation Server after you install update 956829

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Description of the cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant: April 2010

Issue that this update package fixes
This cumulative update fixes the following issue:
  • 981416 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981416/ ) Office Communicator 2007 R2 audio becomes choppy during attendant console calls or Public Switched Telephone Network calls

This cumulative update also includes the following previously released update:
  • 972402 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972402/ ) Office Communicator 2007 R2 runs concurrently with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant

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