Monthly Archives: January 2010

One way messages with federated partner and ID 504 in Communicator

Posted on January 22, 2010 by

Since the blog I did on Live Meeting troubleshooting I have seen a lot of queries leading people to the site for troubleshooting OCS. I’ve also seen a ton of questions on the subject on the MS forums. All this has lead me to the conclusion that OCS troubleshooting isn’t that easy to get a handle on. With that in mind I’m writing this post on troubleshooting federation. First and foremost, this article is about troubleshooting a mistake I made during a deployment recently, and if you ask any PSS engineer they will tell you 80% of the problems they face with OCS are based on the same thing: human error/configuration error. As I said in my last troubleshooting post, I’m no expert on troubleshooting OCS, but hopefully this post will help someone out there. As always I encourage you to share your stories and methods if you think they may help someone else.
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A certificate gotcha that got me, again…

Posted on January 13, 2010 by

As everyone who’s ever looked at OCS knows, you need certificates to make it work. Although certificates aren’t really too difficult once you have the hang of it, they seem to be a tough hurdle for a lot of IT folks to get over. I’m not going to attempt to explain PKI today, but I thought I might share a story about a gotcha that got me, twice. Hopefully my pain (although it was only a few minutes of troubleshooting this time) will help someone else. Continue reading →

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I’m no scripting guy….but

Posted on January 8, 2010 by

While working with Kevin Re, one of my clients at an OCS shop, he shared a very cool script with me and has agreed to allow me to post it online. Kevin’s script queried for the next 5 available phone numbers in an OCS environment and output them on screen; this helped him streamline new user creation. It also dumped all of the OCS users and their extensions into a TXT/CSV that can be used for other company phone number lists. After seeing this script in action I thought it would be great to take this script and expanded on it just a bit. Continue reading →

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