Posts Tagged ‘OCS 2007 R2’

A couple of months back my workplace decided to embark upon OCS federation and the enablement of public Live Meetings, a little late to the party I know – but better late than never! 🙂 When we originally planned our deployment (3 or so years ago) we decided to use internal SIP addresses only (i.e. firstname.lastname@company.local) so as […]

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 at 17:17 | 1 comment
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+ For those that are running Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (update: or Lync Server) Edge Services without an externally published Communicator Web Access (CWA) or BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 (ahem – with SP3 applied) and would still like to use OCS/Lync IM and Presence for both iPhone and BlackBerry devices read on… This can be achieved using a FREE 3rd […]

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 at 11:42 | 14 comments
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You may be wondering why this is such a significant piece of news? (or not if you are already in the know!) Service Pack 3 for BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) v.5.0 delivers the highly anticipated BlackBerry device support for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Lync Server 2010. Until now R2 access was delivered via a […]

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 at 09:26 | 0 comments
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Remember Office Communications Server? Of course you do and luckily so do the folks at Microsoft, who have just released their latest batch of cumulative updates for OCS 2007 R2. Links to the KBs/download links can be found below: Client-side updates Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant Hotfix KB 2502321 – download Office Communicator 2007 R2 […]

Friday, March 11th, 2011 at 13:47 | 0 comments
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The IT folks at my workplace migrated another batch of users over to Communications Server, in favour of “Enterprise Voice”. These 60 Nortel TDM handsets were previously enabled for “Remote Call Control”, which have now been replaced with “Oak” devices – £100 cheaper than the previous TDM model and a lot easier to use/manage! Check out our handset […]

Thursday, January 27th, 2011 at 17:11 | 0 comments
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It’s not always straight forward quantifying the savings of UC, the benefits are far easier to get your head around. But when we deployed Communications Server 2007 R2 within our organisation we knew it would slash the extortionate conferencing charges we had been paying – our estimate was in excess of £50,000 per annum! During the […]

Friday, September 10th, 2010 at 21:27 | 0 comments
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