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 [...]

Have you ever been in that situation where someone tells you that the meeting invite for LiveMeeting 2007 is confusing.  If you are a cloud LM user then you get to edit that message.  But if you really like OCS 2007 R2 and just want to edit that darn thing, what can you do because [...]

Nothing overly special about this command and it’s been out there in several places.  The problem is I can never find it when I need it.  Why would you need it?  Let’s say you made a change to the address normalization file and the next morning that one really important person wanted to make a [...]

I recently implemented static routing on a Quintum Tenor DX via called number in a downstream gateway deployment. It’s not difficult, but there are a couple checkboxes you have to tick to get it working right. It’s a quick little trick that may come in handy at some point. (Note: I used the OCS 2007 [...]

One of the most useful features (for me) of Communicator under OCS 2007 R2 is the ability to do a joint desktop sharing session/conference call. Recently, my ability to do this with one of our key office staff just stopped working. We’d be in a voice call, add in desktop sharing, and after about 5-10 [...]

In a recent Voice Ignite training course (taught by Richard Luckett and Chris Olsen) I was tasked with decrypting SIP signaling messages over TLS. Troubleshooting SIP over TLS is essential in diagnosing OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 voice-related problems. After some research and troubleshooting the process identified to perform the task is fairly simple. [...]

Microsoft announced Exchange 2010 a few minutes ago, and lifted the majority of the NDA clauses that myself and Doug have been dutifully following while at the Exchange Ignite training this week in Orlando, FL.  We’ve got servers spinning up, and we’ll be dropping an Exchange 2010 demo event in the very near future. 
A few [...]