Next week I’ll be attending the (Office) Communication Server Wave “14″  airlift in Seattle/Redmond. Microsoft already announced they are dropping the “Office” part from the product, so the new name will be “Communication Server”.

If there is more information that’s available outside the NDA, I’ll share it.

For those who are also joining the airlift, hope to see you there!

Described by the UC Guys, you can now install OCS 2007 R2 on the latest Microsoft OS, Windows 2008 R2.

Screenshots of the new OCS 14 (Lync) are released by Microsoft. ZDNet has a nice article about the new OCS version.

More screenshots of the new communicator client can be found here.

Version 8.0.6362.143 of the console and add-in brings improvements and fixes that include:

• Improvements to text display on PPT slides in recordings
• Users using IE browser with security setting is set to “Do not save encrypted pages to disk” on Vista machines will be able to join meetings successfully
• Custom text displays correctly when meeting scheduled with Outlook Add-In

From the KB articles follow the link to download the new versions:
KB 974251 : Description of the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client update package: Sept 2009
KB 974252 : Description of the update for Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook: Sept 2009

For those of you who administrate an OCS or LCS environment, please read the following. It seems an issue has come up with a patch that came available during the last patch releases, regarding KB 974571. As described by Doug Deitterick’s blog, it’s recommended to NOT apply this patch. If you install the patch it’s possible your OCS / LCS servers believe they are in an evaluation mode.

You’ll see events like this one :

Event Type:        Error
Event Source:    Live Communications Server
Event Category:                (1000)
Event ID:              12290
Date:                     10/13/2009
Time:                     8:28:57 PM
User:                     N/A
Computer:        �
Description:
The evaluation period for Microsoft Office Live Communication Server 2005 has expired. Obtain the released version of this product and upgrade to the non-evaluation version by running setup.exe

A solution now is to uninstall the patch.

For more information, I refer to this link.

Before requesting or renewing a Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 certificate, you need to install the LCS Resource Kit (download).

In the resource kit is a tool Continue reading »

After replacing a certificate for Live Communications Server 2005 (LCS), I replaced the certificate in the properties of the server. After starting the service, I noticed it stopped again and Continue reading »

I tried to login to OCS Web Access (OCS 2007 R2), but I received the following error :

Cannot sign in because the server is temporarily unavailable.

I logged on to the Web Access server and saw that all services where running. With IIS manager I also noticed that the webservice was running and had the correct certificate. I started the Management console for “Microsof Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Communicator Web Access”. Here the information stated that the Continue reading »

When you install the communicator client on a workgroup machine or when Kerberos authentication is not working you probably would like to have the option to save the password in the MOC client.
This option is available if you add the following Continue reading »

The licensing of federation between OCS and Windows Live has changed.

For more information about this change see the Unified Communications blog.