OOF again

at this moment I'm out of office. I will return on the 18th of August. Lots of upcoming news after this summer. Nice Speech enabled applications completely integrated with MOSS and OCS presented in the new TaaS (Telephony as a Service) event organized by e-office and interoute.

More solutions for our working environments in the 21st century. Also our new UCC packages which make your organization ready within 20 days to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007. Stay tuned on the corporate website of the Microsoft Team of e-office for more technical information.

e-office will become Value Added Reseller (VAR) for StartReady UC appliances! We can deploy this UC appliance worldwide in every state and city!

For everyone happy holiday and stay tuned after the summer period. Greetz Joachim Farla, Marc Wetters and the whole Microsoft Team of e-office m.

How to configure your BES server to support OCS on your Blackberry’s

For a connection between the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and OCS2007 we need to install BES 4.1 Service Pack 6 and choose to install the BlackBerry Collaboration Service and select Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 during the installation of SP6.

Some prerequisites are that Message queing is installed on the Windows 2003 SP1 or higher. Office Communicator Web Access is required. Enhanced Presence needs to be turned on in OCS. Windows authentication should be used in IIS. Form based authentication is not supported.

You need to install OC client 2.1.10c on the BlackBerry Smartphone.

Choose to install the BlackBerry Collaboration Service and select Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

Fill in the OCWA host and choose for HTTPS and HTTP. HTTPS is recommended both for security and stability of the connection. When HTTP is choosen the collaboration service will open up 3 concurrent connections, where HTTPS will open up only 1 concurrent connection.

Look at the final screen of the SP6 installation. We now have a BlackBerry Collaboration Service installed!

If you ever would like to change the OCWA hostname or change HTTP to HTTPS, then go to the BlackBerry Server Configuration panel and go to the Collaboration Service tab.

Now the BES is all setup for the OCS 2007 connection let’s try to log on to the communicator client on the BlackBerry.

Fill in the correct credentials and sign in.

The client is connecting

We’re connected to OCS!

Now let’s chat with someone.

Let’s look at the other options available during a conversation.

And some more options for example call the person you are chatting with..

Specials thanks to my colleague Robert Nijbroek who work for the BlackBerry support team at e-office. All credits to his work for writing this article. Connect with him at linkedin!

Tygo Finn Farla

The MVB-baby is born! On the 25th of July we (Priscilla Pille and Joachim Farla) became parents of Tygo Finn Farla (First name: Tygo). We are very happy and proud. You can email Tygo on tygo.finn@live.nl (sorry for the Dutch lines ;-)

and now the end result: (deep sleep sssssssst ;-)

and wake up

It’s absolutely an amazing feeling to have this little guy! Everyone who support us thank you very much.

BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 v2.1.10 releashed

Downloading BlackBerry Client for use with Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 v2.1.10

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In the next post we will explain how to prepare your BES server to fully support OCS functionality on your Blackberry’s.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Phone Edition update 1.0.522.101

Quick Details

File Name:
UCUpdates.exe

Version:
1.0.522.101

Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB952693

Date Published:
7/30/2008

Language:
English

Download Size:
10.8 MB

This upgrade fixes a great list of issues see this KB-article

Download here