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ucspotting 38 days ago
As much as I would like to catalog the story so far around KB974571 as fiction, the truth is that it resembles more to a horror movie. Before going any further, I would like to say that Microsoft recommends thorough testing of any software patch/hotfix before applying them in a Production environment . Having said that, I would like to invite you all to read Best Practices for Applying Service Packs, Hotfixes and Security Patches. The above mentioned TechNet article states the following: The basic rules are: "The risk of implementing the service pack, hotfix and security patch should ALWAYS be LESS than the risk of not implementing it." And, "You should never be worse off by implementing a service pack, hotfix and security patch. If you are unsure, then take steps to ensure that there is no doubt when moving them to production systems." Whether you’re superstitious, religious or a devoted fan of Murphy Laws, the naked ...ucspotting 100 days ago
Although on-premises web conferencing meetings organized with Office Communications Server (OCS) are not perishable products (and thus they don’t require a “best-before date”), there is some configuration involved around meeting life-cycle that I would like to explore a little bit further. Suppose you organize a web conference using the Live Meeting client or the Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Outlook. You invite some attendees and during the meeting some content is generated and uploaded (e.g. PowerPoint slides, polls, whiteboard, etc.). Three weeks after this specific meeting has occurred, you want to review some of the annotations that were made on the slides and some of the brainstorming carved on the whiteboard. “No problem”, you think. After locating the appointment on the Outlook Calendar, you click the “Join the meeting” hyperlink, but suddenly the following error pops-up: The meeting has ended or the information you entered was not recognized. ...ucspotting 148 days ago
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… there was a device called Microsoft RingCam: RingCam: an inexpensive omnidirectional camera and microphone array designed for capturing meetings. Hummm, could this be the missing link in Microsoft RoundTable evolution? Can you notice the “subtle” differences on the video capturing head? Oh well, at least the computer screen display didn’t change a lot from those early days: After some thorough investigation, I realized that Microsoft RingCam was developed as part of the Distributed Meetings project from Microsoft Research: “ The project was initiated in 2001 in the Communication, Collaboration, and Multimedia Processing group in Microsoft Research with Anoop Gupta as group manager. Later Anoop Gupta toke the position of Bill Gates technical assistant and the research group was merged with Signal Processing Group in Microsoft Research with group manager Rico Malvar. The new ...ucspotting 181 days ago
Chances are that, if you live in one of the green countries from the picture below (courtesy of Wikipedia), and if you tried to setup the OCS 2007 R2 Edge server role, you probably felt the frustration, combined with a little bit of despair and asked yourself at some time: “Am I going nuts?”, “Did I suddenly lose my skills?” or “Did I fell into a wormhole and I am now living in a parallel Universe?”. Why only the green countries? I will explain in detail shortly, but in order not to create too much suspense, let me just say that these countries use a comma "," as the decimal separator and not a period ".". I've been planning on blogging about this issue for some months now, but for one reason or another, I didn't manage to do it until now. Meanwhile, some other people decide to share their experiences about the very same issue, writing them in some blog posts that I would like to recommend: A/V Authentication Service can't be reached...due to ...ucspotting 183 days ago
In a previous post, How to upgrade Polycom CX700 1.0.452.0 using the OCS 2007 R2 Device Update Service, I asked if someone could lend me an Office Communicator Phone Edition (OCPhone) with firmware version 1.0.199. Well, Minsoo Park from LG-Nortel (kudos for him) was kind enough to lend me one IP Phone 8540 with this old firmware version, so that I could test the OCS 2007 R2 Device Update Service is capable of upgrading it. My first step was to provision the Device Updater with an appropriate firmware version (3.5.6907.9) for the LG-Nortel IP Phone 8540, which I immediately approved. There was no need to modify the Client Version Filter, since I was already allowing OCPhone software version 1.0.199 and higher to connect to my OCS pool. As soon as I plugged the device in and signed in with valid credentials, I noticed it was requesting the Address Book files, but there was no sign of it willing to contact the update service. #Software: Microsoft ...
