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Since Office Communications Server 2007 is released to manufacturing and organizations are deploying in their production environments it's very important to backup your OCS environment correctly. More information on this topic see:

Office Communications Server 2007 Document: Backup and Restoration Guide

Main chapters in these documents are:

Backing up your OCS environment globally by:

lcscmd /config /action:export /level:global,pool /configfile: <drive>:\<path>\<filename>.xml /poolname:[name of pool for which settings are to be exported]

Backup up your OCS environment at machine level:

lcscmd /config /action:export /level:machine /configfile:C:\Backup\OCS1Serversettings.xml /fqdn:ocspool1server1.contoso.com

Make sure these output files are correctly saved and available when needed.

Thanks to the UC-community!

My weblog traffic is ATH (All Time High). Thank you very much in giving me the attention to proceed with blogging about Unified Communications.

This week is a very short week because we and the entire company are traveling to Rome for a cruise for about 3-days. So in that 3 days i will be offline ofcourse ;-)

Short note about the MCTS exam 70-638. The beta is closed as i contact Prometric today.
;-( So i'm to late! Next week i will do the real exam (it can take up for 4 hours!)

So, again thank you very much!

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Register for Beta Exam 70-638: TS: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring

Subject Line: MCP Flash Special Edition: Register for Beta Exam 70-638
Requested Send Date: August 7, 2007

Register for Beta Exam 70-638: TS: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring

Beta Code = MOC07

You are invited to take beta exam 70-638: TS: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring. You were specifically chosen to participate in this beta because of your current Microsoft Certification status or previous participation with Microsoft Learning; this opportunity will not be offered to the general public. If you pass the beta exam, the exam credit will be added to your transcript and you will not need to take the exam in its released form. By participating in beta exams, you have the opportunity to provide the Microsoft Certification program with feedback about exam content, which is integral to development of exams in their released version. We depend on the contributions of experienced IT professionals and developers as we continually improve exam content and maintain the value of Microsoft certifications.

Please remember that participation in the beta process is completely voluntary and Microsoft makes no promises or guarantees regarding the beta exam process. You can expect to receive your score on the beta exam within 12 weeks of taking the exam, although in some instances, beta exams may take longer to score and your results may be delayed.

70-638: TS: Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007, Configuring counts as credit towards the following certification(s).
· MCTS: Office Communication Server 2007, Configuration

Availability
Registration begins: August 28, 2007
Beta exam period runs: August 28, 2007– September 14, 2007

Receiving this invitation does not guarantee you a seat in the beta; we recommend that you register immediately. Beta exams have limited availability and are operated under a first-come-first-served basis. Once all beta slots are filled, no additional seats will be offered.
Testing is held at Prometric and Pearson VUE testing centers worldwide, although this exam may not be available in all countries (see Regional Restrictions). All testing centers will have the capability to offer this exam in its live version.

Regional Restrictions: India
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Voice enabled in MOC2007RTM

Today, we enabled voice within our OCS2007RTM deployment. So we connect our voicegateway AudioCodes MP114 FXS/FXO to 2 analog lines and there we go. We use a per user defined policy and one location profile loaded in OCS. The default route is .*. So everything is a very nice experience especially in a working environment.

Here some printscreens of voice integrated in OCS2007RTM:

Incoming call:

Accept call:

Make a call:

Sometimes OCS is very difficult to troubleshoot. Make sure you use the OCSlogger.exe and snooper.exe tool to drill down your OCS logging and tracefiles. Excellent tools to work with!