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2015 3

  1. Microsoft Skype/Lync Federation change for new IP address October 2 2015
  2. Skype for Business Services - PSTN!!!
  3. Prepending text in Excel cells

2014 6

  1. OT: Managing Lync Projects with Project, SharePoint and VSTF
  2. Keep that AOL PIC communication channel: How to Establish Direct Federation with AIM
  3. Lync team blog and NextHop blog have moved
  4. Missed Lync Conference 2014 this past February in Las Vegas?
  5. Trend - converting IM to audio
  6. May 9 8pm SIPFED IP Address change

2013 7

  1. Surface Pro and Function (FN) key lock
  2. End of week report? Great Outlook Search Folder solution
  3. Lync for Mac client version info for those preparing for Lync Server 2013 upgrades
  4. 6 years and finally a new #Lync Headset
  5. Important Lync for Mac 2011 update for meeting join issues
  6. LUMT - Lync User Management Tool from Stefan Plizga
  7. Lync for Mac 2011 Meeting Join Failure, update 14.0.4

2012 10

  1. OT: Mouse wheel Macro for Windows8
  2. NextHop post on Z-Hire tool for How to Automate the New Account Creation Process
  3. Lync 2013 Persistent Chat - Group Chat done right
  4. How does Lync QOE determine the connection as a VPN?
  5. PowerShell script to export #Lync tbxml to Visio and Excel
  6. Certificate Authorities and PKI: It’s like the mafia
  7. OT: Outlook and Direct Access problems, try /resetnavpane switch
  8. Lync Mobility Documentation References
  9. Lync for Mac reports the + as Character not valid in Phone tab
  10. OT: Even a 4 year old can find a product bug

2011 31

  1. Lync Online Dedicated, what does that mean?
  2. Ultimate Voice Promotion
  3. Even Dilbert gets Lync!
  4. Little tidbit on the R2 IM Only and No Voice text in 2415902
  5. Lync and OCS with PIC during December holiday season
  6. New role with Lync Online Dedicated #lync_d
  7. The Lync contact card shows me what time it is for you
  8. Who is configured for OCS and Lync Federation?
  9. Lync for Mac failing to sign in
  10. Lync for Mac and possible password issue with special characters
  11. How to present PPT from Lync for Mac
  12. Tracking the devices that work with Lync for Mac 2011
  13. Lync Group Chat video for NASCAR use with Hendrick Motor Sports
  14. Lync Voice Training so painful you appreciate it
  15. Office for Mac 2011 (Communicator) on MacOS 10.7 (Lion)
  16. OT: Enabling “Write” ability to a USB drive on Mac OS X 10.6
  17. Migrating your Mediation Servers to Lync Failing
  18. Workaround to Broadcast a Story in Group Chat
  19. Lync 2010 Group Chat Stress in Adoption and Training Kit
  20. OT: Quiet for a while, new baby!
  21. OT: Seth threw his lamb in the kitchen this morning
  22. URL Syntax to IM multiple people
  23. Lync Attendee Launch Failure
  24. Support for Service Pack Updates in Lync and OCS
  25. Understanding that LWA is not the new CWA
  26. MVP Solution for LyncAddContacts
  27. Upcoming Group Chat client/server support matrix
  28. Changing Group Chat message and story size limits–unsupported table modification
  29. Supportability Doc change: Edge Servers in Active Directory Domain
  30. Localized Languages for Lync Server and Clients
  31. Ducking? Music volume experience with incoming Lync call using Zune player

2010 35

  1. Mobility and Lync Server 2010
  2. Group Chat Client Logging
  3. Mac Meetings - Desktop Sharing and Join Experience
  4. FYI–E911 for Lync Webinar
  5. OCS 2007 R2 Managing User Contact Lists via script
  6. OCS 2007 R2, Lync Server 2010 and SQL server versions
  7. Group Chat Presence Polling (R2)
  8. TechNet Wiki–R2 Firewall Port Settings
  9. OT: Ground breaking for 2 women’s services organizations
  10. Group Chat Install With Visual C++ 2008 SP1
  11. Communicator for Mac 2011
  12. OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat–SIOPS?
  13. Addition to Phones and Devices for Communicator / Lync
  14. Lync 2010 Upload Presentation without interrupting active presenter
  15. Upgrading Lync Server 2010 Release Candidate to RTM–No
  16. OT: Let Me Bing That For You
  17. Good example of needing to understand Windows Domain principles: AD Groups with Group Chat
  18. Group Chat R2 Certificates–To add client auth or not?
  19. Group Chat File upload issue
  20. Group Chat counters – Active Endpoints, Active Users and the difference
  21. OCS 2007 R2 Capacity Planning - StressConfig and OU names
  22. Adding new blog to follow - Premal
  23. Group Chat CU5 – User Colors Sproc modification required
  24. Hard to find DVT tool document
  25. OCS SE install? Management Studio Express
  26. Group Chat CU5 – Documentation updates pending
  27. OT: Canvas for OneNote
  28. OT: Typhoon The Art of Thai Cuisine
  29. Released Doc: Hardware Load Balancing with Office Communications Server 2007 R2
  30. OT: 7zip, PAL and PocketMod
  31. OCS 2007 R2 Reporting – PowerView from Unify2, Inc.
  32. Feedback around protecting OCS
  33. Communicator and Mac Messenger Video Protocol support – H.263
  34. W14 work slows the blog posting
  35. CoMo display issue on Samsung Omnia II

2009 46

  1. Group Chat Database Sizing Tool (xls) released
  2. Microsoft Certified Masters – OCS
  3. Where are OC 2007 R2 Recent Contacts stored?
  4. OCS 2007 R2 and Windows 2008 R2 – what is the status?
  5. UCVUG Dec ‘09: Response Groups
  6. ToninoF launches blog with Office Communicator SIP Trace Analysis – Registration
  7. The value of history and your elders
  8. Innovative web page using pictures with presence - Wortell
  9. Urgent: Known issue under investigation with KB974571 and LCS/OCS
  10. UC How To and UC Adoption and Training Kit
  11. Looking for information on upgrading OCPE (Tanjay)?
  12. OCS End User Experience – my devices are bad…
  13. Updated article for UC Clients in Application Virtualization environments
  14. UC World - On Demand Why UC? Why Now? A Conversation with Gurdeep Singh-Pall
  15. OC 2007 R2 and PIC with AIM Express
  16. 0-1-492 in Communicator Web Access 2007 R2 on Windows 2008 (French)
  17. OT: The glorious empty inbox <ahh>
  18. Group Chat – plugging others blogs…
  19. Archiving high available beyond just a cluster (OCS 2007)
  20. OT: Bellevue Art Fair / Festival
  21. New OCS Book under construction, your input valuable
  22. OT: Three Cups of Tea
  23. R2 Stress Tool error with wma file
  24. OT: New personal laptop experience
  25. OCS R2 MMC Find users : Could not create the query dialog
  26. Great post (and site) to read about Reverse Number Lookup with a legacy PBX.
  27. R2 Capacity Planning tool run through and XML file problem
  28. Can’t find the Dial-in Conferencing E-mail Templates?
  29. OC R2 hyperlinks converted to lowercase
  30. UC Developer? Want a sandbox to play in?
  31. DrRez on Twitter – More info
  32. R2 Content Online including Migration from OCS 2007
  33. UCVUG Kickoff Meeting
  34. Communicator R2 Custom Presence not working?
  35. R2 Capacity Planning Tool Released
  36. Customers/Partners developing business solutions with R2
  37. OT – Live Messenger on Windows 7 (beta)
  38. Monitoring Server generates error when viewing reports
  39. TextAnalysisTool.Net – Fantastic tool for analyzing large log files
  40. R2 not working as expected with PIC and EASI domains
  41. OT: Viewing/Sorting/Grouping Outlook Inbox
  42. Guest post: LCS 2005 Admin tools on Vista x64
  43. OT: Juice IT in Seattle
  44. IP-IP Gateway Configuration Notes - external resource
  45. OCS 2007 R2 – Add Enterprise Edition Server
  46. OCS 2007 R2 – Archiving and Monitoring

2008 28

  1. OCS 2007 R2 – Preparing the Environment
  2. OCS 2007 R2: Migrating Global Settings
  3. OCS 2007 R2 – Planning: Workbook and Tool
  4. Deploying OCS R2 – SQL
  5. PIC: December 2008 AOL updates root authority
  6. OCS Address Book publishing without ISA
  7. LCS OCS Archiving levels
  8. OCS PIC with AOL and corporate domains
  9. OCS 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
  10. Another blog to watch - Elan Shudnow
  11. Working with certificates
  12. Blackberry IM for OCS 2007
  13. Locking down annotations in OCS Meetings
  14. PowerShell for OCS 2007
  15. VoIP as you are marketing video
  16. Live Meeting adm file
  17. Update Server problems with configupdateserver.vbs
  18. Work Number displays as '+' on Phone Edition and fails on attempted dial
  19. OCS Voice with Cisco gateways/routers
  20. Messenger for Mac 7 compared to Office Communicator 2007
  21. Office Communicator fails to make TLS connection to LCS
  22. Interact 2008 - Invite from Gurdeep!
  23. Planning Tool for OCS 2007
  24. Interact 2008
  25. LCS/OCS Coexistence and Migration (series?): Allow/Block list not in MMC
  26. LCS 2003 and Vista
  27. OCS Resource Kit Book released!
  28. AudioCodes MP-114 Demo Toolkit for OCS

2007 48

  1. OC - Custom Presence States
  2. OCS Deployment Series: Preparing for Exchange Unified Messaging
  3. LiveMeeting User group with global reach
  4. Another great blog on OCS, OC and Exchange 2007
  5. Troubleshooting Office Communicator Phone Experience (a.k.a. Tanjay) Update Server
  6. Deployment Series: OCS QoE Monitoring Server deployment
  7. Office Communications Server 2007 Content and Documentation
  8. OCS Deploy Series: Archiving Server
  9. OC Phone Edition wireless in the mountains!
  10. OCS Training from Global Knowledge
  11. Communicator Mobile 2007
  12. Single Download for Documentation
  13. Released: Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer
  14. Gentle reminder of what is important
  15. Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.3
  16. Quality of Experience (QoE) paper published
  17. Just how big is the Office Communications 2007 release?
  18. Deployment Series - Time for RTM
  19. Publicly routable IP address and new blog to watch
  20. Resource: The Definitive Guide to Successful Deployment of VoIP and IP Telephony
  21. OT: Seth
  22. Virtualization technology?
  23. Appear Offline - where did it go?
  24. Troubleshooting Convergence in MOC
  25. New VoIP As You Are Site
  26. OCS Deploy Series: Phase 1 (SE) Take 2 - Complete
  27. OCS Deploy Series: Phase 1 (SE) Take 2
  28. VoipWithoutBarriers Marketing site
  29. OCS Deploy Series - Virtual Machine woes
  30. OCS 2007 Strategic Hardware Partners - Gateways for voice
  31. OCS Deploy Series: Phase 1 - Pesky VMs and loopback adapter
  32. OCS Deploy Series: Phase 1 - Standard Edition
  33. Microsoft Response Point beta
  34. Deploying Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Public Beta Series
  35. PIC: GoDaddy certs... Resolved!
  36. PIC: Which Entrust Certificate do I purchase?
  37. Microsoft: Breaking VoIP Barriers
  38. OCS 2007 Public Beta
  39. VoiceCon 2007
  40. Tom, do I need a director?
  41. Communicator Tab Sample: Maps
  42. LCS - Determine which users are enabled for PIC
  43. Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.2 - How to Log (MSN, not SIP)
  44. Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0.2 release - logging clarification
  45. Off the LCS Topic: Daylight Savings changes coming
  46. Creating Certificates for LCS
  47. UC post for Live Communications Server 2005 Address Book Service FAQ & Troubleshooting
  48. LCS: Carolina IT Professionals Group

2006 27

  1. How do I determine what I post?
  2. Error 0x800700005 unable to open server certificate store
  3. December TAP Summit for OCS 2007
  4. Supportability Meetings
  5. Off Topic: Ms. Dewey
  6. How do you add a user that doesn't have a Passport domain?
  7. Mac Messenger 6.0 released
  8. Mac Messenger 5.1.1 problem with Communicator
  9. New Unified Communications blog started
  10. Test Post using Writer beta
  11. The Vouchers have been claimed
  12. Gaim as a client alternative
  13. LCS: SQL 2005 and Windows R2 now supported!
  14. Test for technical bulletins
  15. Communicator Mobile the silent refresh
  16. Apologies for not monitoring comments better
  17. PIC: How one simple underscore can throw everything into a fit
  18. Trillian client no longer in Google Pack
  19. LCS: AS35: Introduction to Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005
  20. Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile Product Support Guide
  21. Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile has RTM'ed!
  22. OC: Multiparty IM messages generate new window after 10 minute idle period
  23. MSN and AOL item: New IM Worms Delete Files, Hijack PCs
  24. LCS PIC - What to do when AOL, MSN, Yahoo! have problems?
  25. Pink in honor of Sophia's birthday
  26. LCS: Impact of NetMeeting being retired in Vista (Peer to Peer behavior)
  27. LCS: Symantec to acquire IMLogic

2005 22

  1. LCS/OCS PIC: Provider details and troubleshooting
  2. LCS PIC - unable to add PIC contacts in Office Communicator
  3. LCS CWA - Registry values to enable tracing on the CWA server
  4. LCS CWA: Communicator Web Access
  5. LCS PIC: How to determine if you are having a provisioning problem with MSN
  6. LCS RTC - An official product team blog
  7. LCS tool for web server component
  8. Office Communicator and Windows Messenger Logging
  9. LCS 2005 SP1 and SQL 2000 SP4 is supported!
  10. LCS - Hardware Load Balancers and time out values
  11. A bit of insight into the role of Beta Engineer with LCS "Budapest"
  12. LCS 2005 SP1 Public Internet Connectivity (PIC) and Certificates
  13. LCS - using the same SQL server for the backend database and Archiving
  14. LCS 2005 User Replicator FAQ
  15. LCS 2005 User Replicator FAQ
  16. LCS 2005 - Reasons why NLB is not recommended but instead a Hardware Load Balancer
  17. LCS - Mobile device client announcement
  18. LCS - Windows Messenger port information for IM, File Transfer, Audio and Video
  19. Creating a new SQL instance for LCS 2005 Archiving
  20. Certificate handling differences with Windows Messenger 5.0 vs. 5.1
  21. Windows Messenger Autoconfiguration with LCS and domain names SRV queries
  22. LCS haitus (sort of) February 7 - April 7

2004 11

  1. LCS 2003 and Windows Messenger failing when set for Automatic Configuration with single label domain names
  2. LCS 2005 SE backup and restore WMI error and event 30961
  3. LCS 2003: Windows Messenger on XP clients signed out overnight using Kerberos
  4. Using Tabs to convert Windows Messenger 5.0 into an email client (and other things)
  5. LCS Sending Alerts
  6. LCS Presence - Aggregate behavior vs Exchange IM
  7. LCS Presence - Outlook, Sharepoint, etc.
  8. LCS 2003 & Windows Messenger 5 Connectivity
  9. LCS 2003 Certificates
  10. LCS - TCP Secondary connections and Messenger through a firewall (TCP or TLS)
  11. Live Communications Server (introduction)