Monthly Archives: October 2009

OCS Patches Released

Posted on October 30, 2009 by

Today a number of new patches were released including updates for OCSPE (Phone Edition), OCS and Communicator. Included in the Communicator update is a fix for the audio quality issue I wrote about here. As always please test all patches in a non-production environment. Continue reading →

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PCMS Best Practices Seminar – shameless self promotion

Posted on October 21, 2009 by

For those of you in the southern Ohio area this seminar may be of interest. My company (PCMS) will be holding our annual best practices seminar October 29th, 2009 at the Cintas Center. This years seminar features presentations from a number of our partners (Microsoft, Symantec, VM Ware) and yours truly will be co-presenting on UC with Travis Swank from Microsoft. Continue reading →

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MS09-056 (KB 974571) may break OCS 2007 R2

Posted on October 14, 2009 by

This morning I had a customer call that had applied patches and OCS wasn’t working. A quick google lead me to :

http://projectdream.org/wordpress/2009/10/13/kb974571-crypto-api-update-may-break-office-communications-server-2007-r2-installations/

I uninstalled 974571 for the customer and rebooted and they were back online.

I haven’t done any further testing as of yet, but as this is a big deal I wanted to get the word
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Troubleshooting Live Meeting

Posted on October 8, 2009 by

During the past few months I’ve had a number of calls to troubleshoot Live Meeting connectivity issues, then earlier this week I worked with someone on the MSDN forums on the same topic. In most cases lately the issues have actually been DNS related, but I’ve also seen firewall and configuration issues cause this. The one common thing I see is most folks don’t know where to begin in troubleshooting their issues. Since this is a common issue, and something I’ve seen a number of search queries lead people to my site on, I thought it would be appropriate to share a few things I do when troubleshooting Live Meeting. Please keep in mind, the things I’m sharing are things that have helped me correct issues, there may be better ways to troubleshoot out there, if you know of one I’d encourage you to share. Continue reading →

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