Tin Cups and String: The Convergent Microsoft UC Blog

Well, for me at least. Not sure what the deal is, and I’ve not put a lot of time into figuring it out, but what i can tell you is that I haven’t had Missed Call Notifications or Conversation History since 9/17/2009.

Now, on 2/11/2010, things started working…

Also, on 2/11/2010, the following patches were installed on my system:

• KB979099 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979099 - RMS related
• KB978262 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978262 - ActiveX Kill Bits related
• KB978251 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978251 - SMB vulnerability patch
• KB975560 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975560 - Quartz security related
• KB971468 - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971468 - SMB vulnerability again

Now, to me, on the surface, none of those looks like it would have an effect on my world. I did receive a MoC patch on 1/28/2010 though…

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976135

This rollup contains and leads to:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968625

“Description of a hotfix that applies the initial changes for the integration of Office Communicator 2007 R2 and the next version of Office after the Office 2007 release”

So, my question is:

Have you folks out in the aether applied this patch? Have you been running the 64 bit version of Office despite the pain of it not integrating with MoC so you can send frowns to Microsoft like I do about how it doesn’t integrate with MoC?

I did a brief search, and didn’t see anything out there about this patch fixing this issue, and I haven’t uninstalled the patch to see if it breaks the functionality that I’m currently enjoying. I’ll be testing more when I get back home, I’ve been traveling this week and am currently enjoying the benefits of a reasonably empty Delta flight with WiFi, which afforded me the time and opportunity to dig into this a bit!

FYI: Client version for Communicator is: 3.5.6907.83
Client version of Outlook 2010 64 bit is: 14.0.4536.1000 (64 bit)