In this blog I cover a wide range of topics, from OCS/Lync and Unified Communications to my experiences working with Cisco hardware
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Exchange 10 exchucutil.ps1 OS
Recently, I ran into an issue running exchucutil.ps1 on an Exchange 2010 server. After poking around I found the solution. From the Exchange Powershell browse to c:\program files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts. Then enter .\exchucutil.ps1 !!!! I hope this helps someone because at the time I could not find anything.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Group Chat
I have written a document that covers a working group chat server installation. I have reproduced the success almost ten times. I had a hard time finding the smae4 type of data a few months ago. If anyone wants the data just email me at jaybrummett@hotmail.com and i will send the doc to you next week. I need to publish, but I am good at OCS, not blogging.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Prerequisites to Install for WSUS on Server 2008
Hello Again:
I hope you find this before pulling your hair out. To get WSUS installed on server 2008 make sure these additions are made.
Server 2008 requirements
Install IIS
Windows Auth
Static Content
ASP.Net
6.0 Management Compatibility
Then Install:
Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=70410
I hope you find this before pulling your hair out. To get WSUS installed on server 2008 make sure these additions are made.
Server 2008 requirements
Install IIS
Windows Auth
Static Content
ASP.Net
6.0 Management Compatibility
Then Install:
Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=70410
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Exchange 2010 IIS Requirements
I admit! I recently wasted a bunch of my time!
I was installing Exchange 2010 Beta and ran into a lot of errors about IIS features not being installed. As I progressed through one error, another would pop up. I decided it would be nice to list all of the IIS settings needed to host the four Exchange server roles: Mailbox Role, Client Access Role, Hub Transport Role, and Unified Messaging Role.
I hope this saves you some time!
Web Server
Common Http Features
Static Content
Default Document
Directory Browsing
HTTP Errors
Application Developement
.Net Extensibility
Health and Diagnostics
HTTP Logging
Requist Monitor
Security
Basic Authentication
Windows Authentication
Digest Authentication
Request Filtering
Performance
Static Content Compression
Dynamic Content Compression
Management Tools
IIS Management Console
IIS Management Scripts and Tools
Management Service
IIS 6 Management Compatibility
IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
IIS 6 Management Console
I was installing Exchange 2010 Beta and ran into a lot of errors about IIS features not being installed. As I progressed through one error, another would pop up. I decided it would be nice to list all of the IIS settings needed to host the four Exchange server roles: Mailbox Role, Client Access Role, Hub Transport Role, and Unified Messaging Role.
I hope this saves you some time!
Web Server
Common Http Features
Static Content
Default Document
Directory Browsing
HTTP Errors
Application Developement
.Net Extensibility
Health and Diagnostics
HTTP Logging
Requist Monitor
Security
Basic Authentication
Windows Authentication
Digest Authentication
Request Filtering
Performance
Static Content Compression
Dynamic Content Compression
Management Tools
IIS Management Console
IIS Management Scripts and Tools
Management Service
IIS 6 Management Compatibility
IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility
IIS 6 Management Console
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Unified Communication All Begins With Presence……..
Unified Communication All Begins With Presence……..
the jellybean or whatever you want to call it. This feature is often overlooked, but to get to the heart of Microsoft’s Unified Messaging, you must start with presence. To an admin this is pretty much a black box, just don’t touch it and presence will work. To an end user this is a great feature. From standard office applications, to business critical servers, presence is the feature that unifies all of them. To expand on this, there is a software development kit (SDK) that can be used to integrate presence into homegrown applications.
You ask “What this has to do with anything?”. The answer is that the true defining characteristic of unified communications is presence. There would be no real time communication without knowing a person’s availability. In fact, communicating without presence is email.
Recently, I was doing a technical demonstration of Microsoft’s Office Communications Server R2. The audience was not the standard fair of IT decision makers, but instead it was a bunch of geeks. I can say this because I am one, just ask my wife, she shot down the idea of an f5 in my home lab. The attendees asked a lot of questions but not one about return on investment (ROI). The questions based around comparing features to other available products. Voice was compared to Vonage, Skype, and Cisco Call Manager. Instant Messaging was placed in the same bucket as MSN Messenger, AOL, and Yahoo. While some IM applications do have presence built in, it does not spill into other applications. Even twitter and Facebook were compared. Web conferencing was compared to a plethora of available services, including Microsoft’s own LiveMeeting. All of these different options could provide the abilities of the OCS suite, but no one can offer these features as a whole. They would have to be mixed and matched to create all the features of OCS. These products should not be confused with a unified solution.
I have to admit that I was caught off guard with the questions. Usually, my attendees are wowed by enterprise voice and on premise web conferencing. In this situation that was not the case. In the end I realized something, if I have to explain unified communications, I better focus on presence. You can lead with any of the OCS suite of features, Instant Messaging, web conferencing, and enterprise voice, but PRESENCE is the true hero of Office Communications Server. Unified Communications is Presence, and Presence is Unified Communications.
Jay
the jellybean or whatever you want to call it. This feature is often overlooked, but to get to the heart of Microsoft’s Unified Messaging, you must start with presence. To an admin this is pretty much a black box, just don’t touch it and presence will work. To an end user this is a great feature. From standard office applications, to business critical servers, presence is the feature that unifies all of them. To expand on this, there is a software development kit (SDK) that can be used to integrate presence into homegrown applications.
You ask “What this has to do with anything?”. The answer is that the true defining characteristic of unified communications is presence. There would be no real time communication without knowing a person’s availability. In fact, communicating without presence is email.
Recently, I was doing a technical demonstration of Microsoft’s Office Communications Server R2. The audience was not the standard fair of IT decision makers, but instead it was a bunch of geeks. I can say this because I am one, just ask my wife, she shot down the idea of an f5 in my home lab. The attendees asked a lot of questions but not one about return on investment (ROI). The questions based around comparing features to other available products. Voice was compared to Vonage, Skype, and Cisco Call Manager. Instant Messaging was placed in the same bucket as MSN Messenger, AOL, and Yahoo. While some IM applications do have presence built in, it does not spill into other applications. Even twitter and Facebook were compared. Web conferencing was compared to a plethora of available services, including Microsoft’s own LiveMeeting. All of these different options could provide the abilities of the OCS suite, but no one can offer these features as a whole. They would have to be mixed and matched to create all the features of OCS. These products should not be confused with a unified solution.
I have to admit that I was caught off guard with the questions. Usually, my attendees are wowed by enterprise voice and on premise web conferencing. In this situation that was not the case. In the end I realized something, if I have to explain unified communications, I better focus on presence. You can lead with any of the OCS suite of features, Instant Messaging, web conferencing, and enterprise voice, but PRESENCE is the true hero of Office Communications Server. Unified Communications is Presence, and Presence is Unified Communications.
Jay
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