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URL Syntax to IM multiple people
The following is the result of a discussion on Twitter started by @twkisner The question was how to...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 04/05/2011
Lync Attendee Launch Failure
Scott Stubberfield, Microsoft Consultant and Microsoft Certified Master for OCS shared the following...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/03/2011
Support for Service Pack Updates in Lync and OCS
I was able to publish an article on the topic of support for Service Packs on the Next Hop blog. I...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/02/2011
Understanding that LWA is not the new CWA
With the release of Lync it is likely you have assumed that LWA means Lync Web Access just like CWA...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/28/2011
MVP Solution for LyncAddContacts
For those looking for contact management with Lync, we have a solution from Jeff Guillet of...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/25/2011
Upcoming Group Chat client/server support matrix
As customers were beginning to upgrade OCS 2007 R2 deployments with Lync, the question of support...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/09/2011
Changing Group Chat message and story size limits–unsupported table modification
Posts like this always give me concern because in the effort to be helpful I am providing...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/04/2011
Supportability Doc change: Edge Servers in Active Directory Domain
One of our customers in reading the documentation found they were likely to be blocked as the...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 02/03/2011
Localized Languages for Lync Server and Clients
I had to gather this information internally and have seen some recent questions in social forums...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 01/26/2011
Ducking? Music volume experience with incoming Lync call using Zune player
One of our MVP’s, Brian asked a question regarding the experience of volume when using the PC...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 01/14/2011
Mobility and Lync Server 2010
With the release of Lync Server 2010 a common request is around the mobility offerings. Unless...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/20/2010
Group Chat Client Logging
The R2 Group Chat client defaults to a very verbose logging level. While logging enabled as a...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/20/2010
Mac Meetings - Desktop Sharing and Join Experience
As a reminder, the Communicator for Mac 2011 client is for OCS 2007 R2 and provides a corresponding...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/16/2010
FYI–E911 for Lync Webinar
Because my blog is hosted by Microsoft I need to be clear and state that I am sharing the below...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/16/2010
OCS 2007 R2 Managing User Contact Lists via script
With the launch of Lync Server 2010 another blog was created for Lync PowerShell topics, however...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/16/2010
OCS 2007 R2, Lync Server 2010 and SQL server versions
At this time we do not support OCS 2007 R2 or Lync Server 2010 with databases on SQL 2008 R2. I am...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/10/2010
Group Chat Presence Polling (R2)
We are working on a new blog post for NextHop on monitoring an OCS 2007 R2 deployment with Group...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/08/2010
TechNet Wiki–R2 Firewall Port Settings
I suspect this will be some welcome news for people working with OCS 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010,...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 11/01/2010
OT: Ground breaking for 2 women’s services organizations
My wife and have supported the Charlotte Rescue Mission, which provides drug and alcohol...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/21/2010
Group Chat Install With Visual C++ 2008 SP1
For those of you with Visual C++ 2008 SP1, you might encounter an issue installing Group Chat which...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/13/2010
Communicator for Mac 2011
Updated November 10 with more details on Mac Messenger 8.x for Hotmail. Updated November 7 with...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 10/07/2010
OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat–SIOPS?
Has the term SIOPs (Standard Input Output Panels) been mentioned in regards to Group Chat and you...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/24/2010
Addition to Phones and Devices for Communicator / Lync
With the OCS product there has been one vendor that we have heard a request to support more than any...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/23/2010
Lync 2010 Upload Presentation without interrupting active presenter
I joined an internal meeting today with multiple presenters and I was asked whether I had content to...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/20/2010
Upgrading Lync Server 2010 Release Candidate to RTM–No
Once we post the bits for a pre-release product like we did with the Release Candidate (RC) of ...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/16/2010
OT: Let Me Bing That For You
I found this neat resource today when I asked someone a question when they weren’t the right team...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 09/09/2010
Good example of needing to understand Windows Domain principles: AD Groups with Group Chat
There was an internal question about the ability to use Windows Active Directory Groups for securing...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 08/30/2010
Group Chat R2 Certificates–To add client auth or not?
A recent customer issue had the question asked of why a new certificate with Client Authentication...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 08/23/2010
Group Chat File upload issue
In testing Group Chat with an XP workstation for a customer, I found I could not upload a file...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 07/20/2010
Group Chat counters – Active Endpoints, Active Users and the difference
We are working on an effort to provide some guidance on monitoring the health of a Group Chat...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 06/25/2010
OCS 2007 R2 Capacity Planning - StressConfig and OU names
There was a customer topology which included the same OU name as shown in this simple example Edit -...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 06/09/2010
Adding new blog to follow - Premal
Premal Gandhi of our escalation team has started a blog which can be really valuable given he sees...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 06/08/2010
Group Chat CU5 – User Colors Sproc modification required
Update October 25, 2010 with SQL table information at the bottom of the post Did you deploy Group...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/11/2010
Hard to find DVT tool document
We had a question regarding the whereabouts of the OCS Deployment Validation Solution document. I...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/10/2010
OCS SE install? Management Studio Express
I saw an email this morning sharing notice of this solution. I have not used it because I install an...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/07/2010
Group Chat CU5 – Documentation updates pending
December 3, 2010 update: The content on Technet has not yet been updated but I raised an urgent...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/05/2010
OT: Canvas for OneNote
Yesterday I was reviewing the Office labs Productivity Future Vision video and in reviewing the site...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 05/04/2010
OT: Typhoon The Art of Thai Cuisine
I am in Redmond, WA attending the CS ‘14’ Airlift and for dinner Monday we went to Typhoon -...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 04/27/2010
Released Doc: Hardware Load Balancing with Office Communications Server 2007 R2
May 3 – The document has been pulled in order to address some last minute edits. I expect an update...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 04/21/2010
OT: 7zip, PAL and PocketMod
I enjoy following Scott Hanselman’s blog, he turned me on to PocketMod and a few months ago I tried...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 04/15/2010
OCS 2007 R2 Reporting – PowerView from Unify2, Inc.
I reached out to Unify2 a few weeks ago about their PowerView solution which they state provides “a...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/29/2010
Feedback around protecting OCS
Duplicating the post from https://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2010/03/25/792.aspx Our...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/25/2010
Communicator and Mac Messenger Video Protocol support – H.263
The question that was asked: How come Communicator works with the Polycom HDX solution but not Mac...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/18/2010
W14 work slows the blog posting
The cycle of product release has impacted my posting again as I am working with the next...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 03/09/2010
CoMo display issue on Samsung Omnia II
We had a customer report an issue to their local Microsoft Consultant when running Communicator...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 01/04/2010
Group Chat Database Sizing Tool (xls) released
A few weeks ago we released the Capacity Planning for Group Chat document and very quickly our MVP...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/15/2009
Microsoft Certified Masters – OCS
The updated list of Microsoft Certified Masters and Architects has been posted. If you are looking...
Author: Tom Laciano Date: 12/08/2009