Palm Treo 750v upgrade WM6.0

Yes! And i have this phone....
If you have a Palm Treo 750v then Windows Mobile 6 Professional Updates have gone live today for the UK & Ireland at www.palm.com/uk/750update and for the Netherlands at www.palm.com/nl/750update.
After upgreading you see that HSPDA is available from scratch. It's also an PAN device for bluetooth. So great to download with 1.8mbps from my laptop.

Coming soon OCS Resource Kit Guide

Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit
Author Jeremy Buch, Rui Maximo, Jochen Kunert with the Microsoft OCS Team Pages 650 Disk 1 Companion CD(s) Level Published 12/12/2007 ISBN 9780735624061 ISBN-10 0-7356-2406-2

Upcoming OCS webcasts

Wednesday 5th Sept: Deploying and Configuring Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
Friday 7th Sept: Enabling Users and Installing Office Communicator 2007
Wednesday 12th Sept: Configuring and Using Conferencing in Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
Friday 14th Sept: Using the Management and Troubleshooting Tools in Office Communications Server 2007
Wednesday 19th Sept: Compliance and Archiving in Office Communications Server 2007
Friday 21st Sept: Exchange Server 2007: Configuring the Unified Messaging Server

Today e-office upgraded to OCS2007RTM!

Milestone!

Today I upgraded the entire OCS environment from e-office to RTM. We also have installed Microsoft Communicator Web Access. In the next couple of days users are migrated from LCS2005SP1 to OCS2007. More information on how to migrate read my blog or contact me by e-mail

Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook

Download link: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102368901033.aspx

Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007 download

Download location: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101733831033.aspx

Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit

Microsoft has posted the updated Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit Tools for free download. One cool tool is Snooper.exe which can help you parse SIP and C3P protocol logs, including those generated by OCSLogger.exe.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B9BF4F71-FB0B-4DE9-962F-C56B70A8AECD&displaylang=en

Microsoft Quality of Experience

Quality of Experience Monitoring Server

As part of its commitment to providing high-quality voice solutions, Microsoft also announced the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Quality of Experience Monitoring Server, a comprehensive tool to monitor voice and video quality. IT administrators can use the server to quickly troubleshoot voice and video performance issues, enabling them to effectively implement and manage solutions that provide superior audio quality. The server provides real-time updates, alerts and detailed analysis of network performance to accurately reflect users’ experience based on the endpoint they’re using. As a result, administrators can proactively address problematic issues that may arise while monitoring voice and video quality anywhere and anytime, without needing expensive network management solutions. More information about Microsoft’s approach to quality of experience is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05625af1-3444-4e67-9557-3fd5af9ae8d1&displaylang=en.

Upgrade OCS2007 Public Beta to OCS2007 RTM

We use OCS2007 Public Beta (PB) for a couple of weeks. Absolutely the most wonderful new product in my perspective.

As described earlier RTM is released and customers needs to upgrade Public Beta to RTM. Of course this is only for customers who deployed PB in the production environment. Public Beta is only supported in test environments. In our case we know that the Schema wasn’t changed at all from Public Beta bits. So we deployed it right away :-)

You can use these steps if the following is true:

1. You migrate from Public Beta to RTM eval (180 days) bits.
2. You do not need to backup users contact lists.
3. You are not migrating from existing pools.

In this post I will describe the steps to take for upgrading to RTM.
1. Backup your Active Directory and System States of your OCS2007 servers.
2. Backup your RTC databases (same for Standard and Enterprise deployments).
3. Submit your transaction logging in the RTC database.

4. If your OCS servers are running on Virtual Server 2005 (R2/SP1) snapshot your VHD's.

5. ATTENTION: there is no possibility to extract your contact list or custom groups. This is only in our case because we do not migrate users between Enterprise Pools. Due to schema changes (PB >RTM) this database cannot be re-used. It must be dropped and a new one created.

Public Beta:
Db schema version is 24
Db sproc version is 50

RTM:
Db schema version to 26
Setting Db sproc version to 56

6. Remove your current Enterprise Pool by clicking Remove Pool. Check "Force removal of Enterprise Pool". After removal your current users will be moved to "Unassigned Users".

7. Stop and disable all Office Communications Server services. After disabling restart your OCS server(s).

8. Remove through Add and Remove Programs “Office Communications Server 2007 Public Beta”.

9. Extract the OCS2007RTM evaluation bits (180 time bombed version) to your local hdd drive.

10. Open lcscmd and proces the following commands:
1. D:\setup\i386>lcscmd /forest /action:SchemaPrep
2. D:\setup\i386>lcscmd /forest /action:ForestPrep
3. D:\setup\i386>lcscmd /domain /action:DomainPrep
**Example: is my installation path. Make sure all commands are completed successful.

11. Create a new Enterprise Pool and configure it. You can reassign your old EE-pool certificate.

12. Add your OCS2007 server roles back into the configured pool and reuse your previous created Service Accounts. Of course you can create new SA-accounts if you want.

13. Start all OCS2007RTM services.
14. Check your login procedure with MOC and check your DNS (SRV) settings. Make sure you run the validation wizard for all your Edge Roles.

There you go.

Upgrade OCS2007 Public Beta to OCS2007 RTM

We use OCS2007 Public Beta (PB) for a couple of weeks. Absolutely the most wonderful new product in my perspective.

As described earlier RTM is released and customers needs to upgrade Public Beta to RTM. Ofcourse this is only for customers who deployed PB in the production environment. Public Beta is only supported in test environments. In our case we know that the Schema isn't changed at all from Public Beta bits. So we deployed it right away :-)

In this post i will describe the steps to take for upgrading to RTM.

1. Backup your Active Directory and System States of your OCS2007 servers.
2. Backup your RTC databases (same for Standard and Enterprise deployments).
3. Submit your transaction logging in the RTC database.
4. If your OCS servers are running on Virtual Server 2005 (R2/SP1) snapshot your VHD's.
5. ATTENTION: there is no possibility to extract your contactlist or custom groups. This is only in our case because we do not migrate users between Enterprise Pools.
6.

Webcast Reminder

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 21, 2007

What: A webcast with Microsoft Corp. executives to highlight the general availability of Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Meeting, part of Microsoft’s unified communications portfolio, which also includes Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Who: Bill Gates, Microsoft chairman, and Jeff Raikes, president of the Microsoft Business Division

When: Tuesday, Oct. 16, 9:15–10:30 a.m. PDT

Where: Via live webcast

Webcast Information: Information about the webcast will be available at http://www.microsoft.com/uc/launch closer to the event date.

Collaborating for The Future of Technology

I love this session.

Microsoft and Cisco: Collaborating for The Future of Technology
View an on-demand Webcast of a conversation between Cisco Systems, Inc. Chairman and CEO John Chambers and Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer discussing the future of the technology industry and their shared vision for addressing today’s customer requirements.

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0708/30851/MS_Cisco_Alliance_MBR.asx

OCS2007 legal upgrade path

Just for the record but very important for installing Office Communications Server 2007 in your production environment.

At this moment there are 2 OCS2007 bits available:

(1) bits located at MSDN (MSDN product key)
(2) bits located at the Microsoft download site (180 days time bombed)

When installing the MSDN-bits in your production environment there is NO supported upgrade scenario available. This means uninstall your complete environment and reinstall with the correct RTM bits (licensed version)

When installing the RTM-bits evaluation (180 days time bombed) in your production environment there is an legal upgrade path to RTM Full licensed. After 180 days you will upgrade the RTM eval bits with the RTM full licensed bits in an in place upgrade (your configuration settings will be saved)

Additional information on RTM availability:

RTM full licensed bits are only available for TAP participants and customers with an enterprise agreement. Should your organization not have a current enterprise agreement in place with Microsoft, General Availability of the OCS 2007 and MOC 2007 RTM software is scheduled for September 2007.

Schema.ldf in OCS2007PB and RTM

During your schema preparation of deploying Office Communications Server 2007, schema.ldf on your installation source (ISO) is the preconfigured file to upload your Schema attributes within your Active Directory Services Schema.

Today i had an interesting question about: Is there any difference between the Schema attributes extensions in OCS2007PB (Public Beta) and OCS2007RTM (Released to Manu.)

The answer is "yes" but only #descriptions#. Line 3336 and 3390

Line: (3336) Public Beta:

##############################################################
# Adding msRTCSIP-SourceObjectDN to RTCUserPropertySet
##############################################################

now in RTM:

##############################################################
# Adding msDS-SourceObjectDN to RTCUserPropertySet
##############################################################

Line: (3390) Public Beta:

##############################################################
# Make msRTCSIP-SourceObjectDN GC'ed and indexed.
##############################################################

now in RTM:

##############################################################
# Make msDS-SourceObjectDN GC'ed and indexed.
##############################################################

SQL2005SP2 Performance Can Degrade with OCS2007RTM

Today i was reading the Readme of OCS2007RTM. There was an interesting part in that overview.

SQL Server 2005 SP2 Performance Can Degrade Over Time
Issue: When running SQL 2005 SP2 on the back-end server of an Enterprise pool, over time performance can degrade and the total CPU usage increases. This is a known issue with SQL Server 2005 SP2. For more details, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927396

Workaround: Use one of the following two options:

Option 1

Use the following steps to add a SQL trace flag for T4618

1. Open SQL Server Configuration Manager: Point to Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, point to Configuration Tools, and then click SQL Server Configuration Manager.

2. Select RTC SQL server instance in SQL Server 2005 Services, right click on the instance and then click Properties.

3. Click the Advanced Properties tab and Edit Startup Parameters.

4. Append ;-T4618 to the end of the Startup Parameters list (note that startup parameters are separated by semicolons).

Option 2

Or manually add the following registry value:

Name | Value

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\{0}\MSSQLServer\Parameters\SQLArgN | -T4618

(where N is the next SQL parameter number and {0} is the SQL instance name found under the following key below that maps to the RTC instance)

Name | Value

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\Instance Names\SQL

I did implement option 1 and the overall performance was significally better.

MOC2007 and OCS2007 RTM released @ MSDN

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 (English) is released at MSDN on 8/17/2007 6:32:39 PM

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition (English) is released at MSDN on 8/17/2007 6:22:44 PM

Our new home!

For the last couple of days now they are working on my new house in Vleuten (The Netherlands)

Congrats to "op t hoog". Especially to Dave and Henk! The are great people!

Number of hours teenagers spend online..

There is an interesting post by Mark Deakin a buddy of mine about how many hours teenagers spend online:

http://blogs.technet.com/markdea/archive/2007/08/14/how-many-hours-a-week-are-you-online.aspx

Thanks Mark!

Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2

Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2 has been released as a community technology preview for subscribers of MSDN and TechNet Plus.

AudioCodes rocks!

AudioCodes makes it possible to test your OCS2007(RTM) (Enterprise Telephony) environment with a free AudioCodes gateway MP-114 2 FXS/2FXO!!!!
1 month for free!

For more information see: http://cardero.textdrive.com/~netbytes/thx1138/nieuwsbrieven.php?nid=65&aid=00002692
(Language Dutch) for more information in english do not hesitate to contact me directly.

Topic's UC event e-office

As you can read in my previous post we organize an UC-event on 27th of september. We also demonstrate the new development platform behind OCS2007. OCS2007 comes with a bunch of API's. More information on that see: http://blogs.msdn.com/jcalev/archive/2007/05/07/introduction-to-the-ucma-api-part-1-api-overview.aspx

We will demonstrate 2 very nice capabilities of OCS2007. We will also integrate our stuff within MOSS2007.

Topic 1: Automated bot which will integrate with the Enterprise Search of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Short description of functionality: search within MOSS2007 looking for IT competence (so looking for people with knowledge of for example "IT infrastructures") The automated bot will re-publish this to the end-user. There is no logical access between the end-user (anonymous) and your MOSS "internal" infrastructure. So great for internet facing websites which you can create with the new version of SharePoint (2007 aka MOSS)

Topic 2: Sending SharePoint alerts through IM

Short description of functionality: No, alerts emailed from SharePoint within you inbox but managed by IM. We will build functionality in it to choose whether or not receive alerts through email. So it's the decision of your information worker. IM messages will be pushed by OCS2007! We will build our code to finally deliver an Timer Job for SharePoint.

So....stay tuned on this blog! We will publish our demo material (code)

Subscribe event @: http://www.e-office.com/eog/nl/website.nsf/wwwVwContent/l4sessieunifiedcommunications.htm

Location of this event: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=duwboot+20,+houten&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.418008,92.285156&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=cent&om=1

Its ShowTime!

Today a get tipped by a Microsoft Information Worker Consultant that there are 2 nice OCS2007 "Its ShowTime" video's online.

http://www.microsoft.com/netherlands/technet/itsshowtime/sessionh.aspx?videoid=605
Language: Dutch

If there are any interesting chapters and you are "English" ofcourse i will translate it for you!

Message for all federated users with MS

DescriptionAll OCS services will be down for the RTM upgrade.
Affected Users: All companies that Federation with MS will be affected during this upgrade.
Scheduled Downtime: Friday 8:00am – Saturday 9:00pm services will be down intermittently during the OCS upgrade.

Services Affected:
· IM and Presence
· UC Telephony
· OCS – Collaboration
· Communicator Web Access
· Federation & PIC

Impact: All services will be impacted during the upgrade.

Next Update Date: If work window is not done at the completed time then an update will be sent out at 08/11/07 9:00pm PDT. If the work finishes early, then we will send out an All Clear as soon as it is done.

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UC session @ e-office Netherlands

On 27th of September we organize an UC session for all our customers and people who are interested in the capabilities of OCS2007. All information presented is based on our vision "Working Easier".

Agenda:

13.00 - 13.30 hour: coffee and tea
13.30 - 14.00 hour: introduction of unified communications & collaboration
14.00 - 15.00 hour: demo unified communications
15.00 - 15.30 hour: pause
15.30 - 16:00 hour: discussion about experiences
16:30 - 17:30 hour: wrap up and after snack!

Subscribe @: http://www.e-office.com/eog/nl/website.nsf/wwwVwContent/l4sessieunifiedcommunications.htm

Location of this event: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=duwboot+20,+houten&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.418008,92.285156&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=cent&om=1

OCS webcasts & RTM Eval Bits

STAGE 1: DISCOVER STAGE 2: ASSESSSTAGE 3: DEPLOY

Test the RTM evaluation versions of OCS2007 and please feel free to contact me if you had any questions.

You can download it here:

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Trial Download
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Trial Download

Webcasts and Videos
Microsoft Unified Communications Overview
Overview of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007
Scenarios for Using Microsoft Office Communicator 2007
Unified Communications Devices for Communications Server 2007
Understanding Office Communications Server 2007 Architecture
For more webcasts, please click here