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So you want to receive faxes in your email. And because exchange 2007 says it will work you want to make it happen. Wow the neat thing is exchange will handle T.38 inbound faxing real well. The problem is how do you make it work. There are a lot of discussions...

So is time important in a Microsoft active directory Domain? Well we all know the answer to that. YES it is Kerberos must have time with in 5 min. most people that deal with active directory know this. And for most people when the create the Domain time...

WOW I had an epiphany today. I have attended a couple of presentations by Allen Shen formerly of Microsoft. And some presentations by Laura Chappell and both of them inspired me to really look at what is happening with Calls and Call control for OCS....

So you want to set up OCS to work remotely. you read the documentation and try to decide how you want to deploy the edge servers so you can have remote access. There appears to be a lot of confusion about what is needed and how it all works. so let me...

So you finally have live meeting up and running and you start to tell everyone it is working and available. The boss takes you up on using it for a meeting and comes back saying this sucks. Now you begin to wonder if it is all it is cracked up to be....

All I have been fighting a battle with vista that has been killing me and many others. There are tons of posts about this issue but i think I have found it and it is an age long problem that has been around for years but we often forget about it. How...

Microsoft has released a tool to assist in the design and layout of your OCS implementation. It will create topology designs and give recommended hardware requirements for your deployment. Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007

3/7/2008 Exchange UM with a PBX When setting up exchange um some things need to be considered. on the initial setup page for the dial plan with in exchange there are sevral options. And if you are not careful and select the wrong option UM will not work...

3/7/2008 Exchange UM with a PBX When setting up exchange um some things need to be considered. on the initial setup page for the dial plan with in exchange there are sevral options. And if you are not careful and select the wrong option UM will not work...

Call forking and Simultaneous ring are pretty much synonymous.

in a previous post I talked about call forking. So this week some presentations I went to started talking about simultaneous ring. Whet I discussed this with the presenters I found that sometimes these 2 terms are synonymous. However some times they are...

in a previous post I talked about call forking. So this week some presentations I went to started talking about simultaneous ring. Whet I discussed this with the presenters I found that sometimes these 2 terms are synonymous. However some times they are...

After working with the Microsoft Office Communications Server Team we have come to the resolution that the OCSDesigner included with the resource kit does not and will not work. Even though resource kit tools are generally released without support Microsoft...

Apperently there are some problems with this tool that is available in the resource kit. So far we have not been able to get it working either but we are trying some different configurations over the next couple of days in an attempt to get it working...

I just found that on the OCS PBX and gateway compatibility list that Cisco now has 2 routers listed the compatability list specifically lists supported IOS. Now I have not tested this yet but will be interested to see how well it works. This should be...