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Russell Bennett has a great post entitled " To UDP, or not to UDP, that is the question… " over on the OCS Team blog. Everyone should read it as it does a great job of contrasting the two SIP transport types.
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The last two days of Tech-Ed went pretty quick though I was getting pretty tired towards the end. The crowds were also down some on Friday as some people evidently headed home (or took the day off). Thursday I worked the OCS labs again and on Friday I
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Nothing for Speech Server on day 2. In the morning I worked the MVP area of the Community Lounge. I had the opportunity to meet lots of people (some MVPs ans some former MVPs) and talk about the benefits of the MVP program. I love meeting people so the
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I recently blogged about the Planning Toll for Office Communications Server 2007. Well the planning tool is now available and you can now download it here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=06793661-CD69-4490-BB4B-E97DD271209D&displaylang=en
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I know some of you are struggling to figure out server roles, the amount of capacity, the topology and other specifics of how to install OCS 2007 in your enterprise. Well hang in there a little longer because help is on the way. For the last month or
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ScanSource is offering Dialogic Media Gateway Starter Kits at 50% off. The discount comes with free training and support. You can read all of the details at the link above and there is an 800 number to call near the bottom of the page. I've been very
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The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resouce Kit is now out. Get all the guidence you need on architecture, deployment, configuration and troubleshooting of OCS. I've already called my favorite book store and placed my order
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After work today I decided to play around wiht the gateway some more and I ended up in the logging menu. I found this on the Network Capture tab and decided to do a trace. After the trace finished it gave me the option of downloading the trace as a .pcap
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I spent about 20 minutes today during my lunch configuring the Dialogic Gateway. As a result I can now dial out from a soft phone and from OCS 2007 Speech Server. I can also make inbound calls and if no one picks up the phone after x number of rings the
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Yesterday DHL dropped a Dialogic Media Gateway off on my doorstep. So far all I've had time to do is plug it in and get it up on my network. Unfortunately these type of devices all seem to come with a factory set IP address of something like 10.12.13.74
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Version 3.0.6362.33 of the Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API SDK was released yesterday. This was originally released back in October but this release has some fixes - KB article 945712 You can get it here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b30306e4-7dc1-44d2-9a68-9b4a6fc5c2df&DisplayLang=e
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I will be out next week as I'll be attending the Unified Communications Voice Ignite event in Orlando Florida. That is only about 130 miles from my house so I'll drive down Sunday afternoon and drive home late Friday evening. I'm really looking forward
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The OCS forums have moved to http://forums.microsoft.com/unifiedcommunications/default.aspx?siteid=57 If you try the old location you will get errors. I'm not sure if the old one is supposed redirect to the above link or not but I know the above link
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I blogged yesterday about my initial experiences with my new AudioCodes VoIP Gateway. Well, today I started configuring the gateway. The first step was to configure an IP address for the gateway and there are four ways of doing this. Use HTTP to access
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Want a really cool screen saver? Go to the VoIP as you are Microsite and click " The Future is Flexible " on the orange ribbon. You can use it to impress your co-workers and help spread the word about Office Communications Server. I've been using it for
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