Most of the readers of this blog will have used and possibly setup SSL on a web site. If you really, really know what you are doing and do it all the time, managing digital certs is relatively straigtforward. But for over-worked admins who DON'T do...
Earlier this year, Microsoft confirmed that it would now support OCS 2007 in a virtualised environment . This has been a big ask by clients pretty much ever since OCS was launched. Just about every time I’ve taught OCS in the past couple of years, as...
Microsoft has released an OCS R2 learning Portal – you can find this at: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/ocs2007/r2/default.mspx . It contains some training resources for OCS R2. However, the page is both already out of date, and is short on links...
I’m just back to the UK after a month on the road, topped off by a week in Redmond attending an OCS Voice Ignite Train-The-Trainer session. Last week was a week in geek heaven. We spent a lot of time exploring the inner workings of OCS. In particular...
This past week, I was teaching OCS Voice Ignite in Munich and a colleague (superstar Robin Edwards). During the week, we chatted about how to configure OCS’s Address Book service. This is a topic that comes up a lot in our OCS training, especially as...
Every year, like many of you, I submit proposals for TechEd. In recent years, they’ve been less than successful – the competition is very fierce and there is so much great content to choose from. I almost have to feel sorry for the Microsoft folks having...
I read an very interesting post over on James O'Neill's blog . It was interesting both because it talked PowerShell, but also because it talked about OCS and the neat PowerShell code James had written to support OCS 2007. As part of...