Communicator 2007 hangs on shutdown/logoff – FIXED!

Communicator 2007 hangs on shutdown/logoff – FIXED!

msRTCSIP-UserDomainList

I’ve recently used the MigrateOcsGlobalSettings VBS script to move the RTC Service schema entries from the System partition to the Configuration partition in preparation for an R2 installation. I wasn’t familiar with the msRTCSIP-UserDomainList attribute needing to be set. Where there are users, there needs to be an entry in this attribute. The CN=Configuration,DC=domain,DC=local and [...]

Always Check the Routing

I just finished troubleshooting a problem that I should have solved sooner than I did!
A very simple installation of OCS 2007: a single standard pool and a single consolidated edge server. They didn’t have a PKI structure and oddly didn’t want one, so we used GoDaddy for the internal certs and Thawte for the public [...]

Automatically Strip + on Mediation Server

It might be useful in a Cisco direct SIP environment to automatically strip the + from all outgoing SIP communication from an OCS Mediation server.
To do this, create a text (XML) file called MediationServerSvc.exe.config and place it in the location of the MediationServerSvc.exe file. It should be in the ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\Mediation [...]

Enable URLs in Communicator

Just a quick note for machines not a member of the domain that want to participate in URL send/receive in the Communicator 2007 client. You will need the following registry setting to enable clickable URLS…

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Communicator]
“EnableURL”=dword:00000001

The above text can be copied into notepad and named with a .REG extension and run on [...]

OCS AD Attribute Anomaly

Just a quick note to document the bizarre occurrence of an AD attribute causing OCS Forest Prep state to show not ready…
The environment had LCS 2005 running and OCS was installed in parallel.
I was ready to activate the Mediation Server, after having the pool installed for a few days,
Technorati Tags: OCS,2007,Active Directory,attribute,DisplaySpecifiers,Prep state
and it said [...]

Exchange 2007 UM – Can’t get to voice mail

I just resolved an issue where the OCS Front-End and the Exchange 2007 UM server wouldn’t talk with each other. Communicator or Phone Experience would not connect to Exchange UM.
Here is a debug from Phone Experience dialing Voice Mail…
Result-Code: 0xc3e93f30 SIPPROXY_E_INVALID_EDGE_PROXY_HEADER
…and…
SIP 480…
ms-diagnostics: 15007;reason=”UM server did not respond to request”;source=”OCS001.company.net”;dialplan=”Test.company.net”;
umserver=”ex07.company.net”;appName=”ExumRouting”
The Exchange server would produce this event, [...]