Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

OCS 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Tool

by

Microsoft has released the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Tool. The Capacity planning and load simulation toolkit is for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and can be using for planning and sizing situations together with the planning guide. This release of the Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Capacity Planning Toolkit contains tools and documentation to simplify your hardware planning, provide you with increased knowledge and best practices for performance tuning, and improve your …

Read more

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 VHDs available

by

Microsoft has release Office Communications Server 2007 R2 as downloadable VHDs ready to use with Hyper-V for testing purpose. Start evaluating Office Communications Server today. Office Communications Server 2007 R2 delivers streamlined communications for your users so they can find and communicate with the right person, right now, from the applications they use most (like Office Outlook). Note: 1. This trial software is intended for evaluation purposes only. 2. There is no product support for …

Read more

Communicator 2007 – cannot synchronize address book

by

When this error is seen in the Communicator 2007 and Communicator 2007 R2 client, it can be a number of issues. Here’s a few steps to check: Validate the password for the service account (RTCComponentService) used on the AppPool “LSGroupExpAppPool” Make sure the AppPool is started “LSGroupExpAppPool” Make sure the default website running the /Abs – application has a SSL certificate applied and that it’s responding on port 443 (https) Shut down and restart the …

Read more

Communicator 2007 and Outlook 2007 integration error

by

Error seen in Communicator 2007 R2: There was a problem connecting to Microsoft office outlook. Your profile is not configured correctly. contact your system administrator with this information. It can be solved in several ways: Make sure the default Outlook profile matches the “profile” = e-mail used for signing into OCS, equal your sip address: Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows Messaging SubsystemProfiles Change DefaulProfile to your default profile name (Control Panel > Mail > Profiles)   Or …

Read more

Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

by

Microsoft has updated their release of the Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer (BETA). It can run these test for you: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Test Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Autodiscover Test Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Autodiscover Connectivity Test Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 RPC/HTTP Connectivity Test Inbound SMTP Email Test It is a great tool for troubleshooting your Exchange remote access solution: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/