Monthly Archives: June 2008
The following events might be observed on the OCS Front End Server
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Event Type: ErrorEvent
Source: OCS Distribution List Expansion Web ServiceEvent
Category: (1024)
Event ID: 62009
User: N/A
Computer: OCS Front End
Description: Address Book Request web service could not be started.
Exception information : Access denied.
Cause: Startup errors.
Resolution: Check the events prior to this to resolve the service startup issue.
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Event Type: Error
Event Source: OCS Distribution List Expansion Web Service
Event Category: (1024)
Event ID: 62009
User: N/A
Computer: OCS Front End
Description: Address Book Request web service could not be started.
Exception information : Access denied .
Cause: Startup errors.
Resolution: Check the events prior to this to resolve the service startup issue.
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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: LSASRV
Event Category: SPNEGO (Negotiator)
Event ID: 40960
User: N/A
Computer: OCS Front End
Description:The Security System detected an authentication error for the server ldap/DCserver.domain.com/domain.com@domain.com. The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was “The user account’s password has expired. (0xc0000071)”.
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The Event 40960 shold provide an error code that can be translated into the cause of the problem. in this case it was cased by the component account was expired
Regards,
Rasmus
Joachim Farla at http://unified-communications.blogspot.com has found an Unified Communications Appliance Box that contains Office Communications Server 2007, and is able to integrate to Active Directory and Exchange.
Check out his article here:
http://unified-communications.blogspot.com/2008/06/startreadycom-appliances.html
Enjoy,
Rasmus
Microsoft has releasd 2 updates for LiveMeeting. The LiveMeeting update is a bug fix, and also adds new funcinality to the client. Also the Outlook add-in is updated with an bug fix and also adds ner functionality via an “Meet now” button.
Update for the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client
Read more at Microsoft Knowledge Base:
952579 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952579/) Description of the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client update package: June 4, 2008
Update for Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook
Read more at Microsoft Knowledge Base:
952578 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952578/) Description of the update for the Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook: June 4, 2008
Also check out this article about added .adm templates for Group Policy control for the 2 clients:
Description of the administrative template (.adm) file for the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client and the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948741
The MS OCS team has released news that the PIC partners MSN and Yahoo! has changed public IP adresses.
There are no need for changes if you do not have restrictions you port 5061 traffic.
Read more here:
http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/05/23/193.aspx
Regards,
Rasmus
As i promised in an earlier post, heres some features of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 product coming this fall (http://it-proknowledge.blogspot.com/2008/05/ocs-product-roadmap.html)
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Features:
The most exiting feature, is the “one number calling” concept. It has been introduced in the original Unified Communications wave in the fall of 2007, but in the R2 build, it should be here. What to expect is not to say, but as I understand it will be a more simplified process of calling UC enabled users. I expect there to be more logic in OCS to how one person can be contacted.
LiveMeetin dial-in is another requested feature, which should allow users to have a choice of using the LiveMeeting client audio or dialing direct to the meeting to get Audio access.
We will see more presence information in more applications
The Communicator Web Access will be upgraded to allow application sharing the within the web application (however this is done…..)
We are also looking at an “attendant console” which will be some kind of switchboard for forwarding calls and so on. This is a feature often used by a front desk or service desk, and will give them the joy of presence information and VoIP.
Also a telephony queue system should be included, and will give people dialing in to the system, access to a touchtone menu to have their calls forwarded to the right department/person and so on.
There is a lot more, but I am still working on what’s is for. I will keep updating as I get more information.
Please keep stopping by, as I will soon release information about the Office Communication Server 2009 features
Please note that this information is based on second hand information, and has not been confirmed by Microsoft.
Regards,
Rasmus
UPDATE: (January 2009)
Check out the real features of R2 and see screenshots:
http://it-proknowledge.blogspot.com/search/label/OCS%202007%20R2
