Comments on: Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Deployment – Part 4

By: Elan Shudnow

Elan Shudnow — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:21:54 +0000

Anything in Event Logs? It's kind of hard to answer a question like, "Archiving Server is not function properly" when there's nothing else to go off of. The only answer I can give back to a statement like that is, re-install it and follow all the steps properly.

As for importing Outlook Contacts. Communicator will show Outlook Contacts when doing a search. If those Outlook Contacts have an e-mail address, Communicator will attempt to do SIP communication with that address. If it's a valid SIP Address, Communicator can shiow presence information and you can add it to your Communicator contact list. You can actually add an Outlook contact this way without any SIP address to Communicator, but that's pretty useless as the process I just explained above won't work as it doesn't have an e-mail address/sip address associated with that so you obviously won't be able to IM this contact.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:33:56 +0000

Hi Elan,

I have Office Communicator 2007 Standard Server installed. Everything works fine but the Archiving Server is not function properly. I check on the Archive server status, it says running but nothing was being logged. The size and date on LCSlog is never changed.
Also, how can I import contacts from Outlook to Communicator client?

Thanks for your expert help!
Dan

By: anuj

anuj — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:06:03 +0000

It's a very gud blog sir but help me out i wanna deploy OCS 2005 in my college as a final year project and please help me out bcoz i can't find any other blog like this ……

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By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:01:29 +0000

Thank you, this solution solved the problem.

I’ve installed the administrative tools on my AD and worked.

Thank you again,

Regards,
Pablo Bertrão

By: Elan Shudnow

Elan Shudnow — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:01:06 +0000

Try installing the Administrative Tools provided on the CD. OCS 2007 R1 should install them as a part of the regular install process and OCS 2007 R2 needs to have the Administrative Tools manually installed.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:56:28 +0000

Elan,
(again)

By trying to install in another server, I got a very strange sympthom that I couldn’t find any answer.

I’ve installed succesfuly the OCS 2007 in a consolidate topology.
I have an SQL server, and AD/DNS succesfuly configured, and every services ( the 5 services of OCS) in a front-end server working well.

When I finished to install the OCS, I verifyed my active directory, right clicking in a user, and verifyed that the function “Enable user to Office Communications Server” does not exist, or not show up. And not this one, no one of the OCS functions have showed.

I’m running a WIN2K3. my backend is a SQL Server 2005 service pack 2.

I veryfied the services, restarted the AD and front end servers. Nothing make this function show up.

I verifyed on some sites that this problem may occur due to 64bit OS. But that was not my case.

Due you have some Idea why this is happening?

Thank you again,

Regards,
Pablo Bertrão

By: Pablo

Pablo — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:25:14 +0000

Very great posts!,
Thank for this material

Regards,
Pablo Bertrão

By: Elan Shudnow

Elan Shudnow — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:07 +0000

Thank you for your kind words. Please check out the following blog post which gives great instructions on creating the SRV record:
http://blogs.msdn.com/byrons/archive/2007/10/04/test.aspx

By: bharat c

bharat c — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:02:42 +0000

It is a very nice post .. thanks for helping us out.
I went to develop OCServer with my virtual server , i have completed most of the steps described above. but i got stuck at one step that is configure SRV for server.
when i try to create a SRV record i could not find _sipinternaltls service in dropdown list. how it could it possible? i have installed DC & OCS on diffrent VPC. Is this the problem to figure out _sipinternaltls?