MVP on Office Communications Server

Today, was the most beautiful day of my live (except the time of my unborn child). To avoid problems with my wife ;-)

I’m nominated for the MVP award in OCS for 1 year!

MICROSOFT MOST VALUABLE PROFESSIONAL

I would like to thank everyone who helped me to came so far. Together with my colleague Ton Stegeman where now both MVP in the Netherlands on different technologies Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Office Communications Server.

As far as I know we are the only Microsoft Gold Partner in the Netherlands who has two MVP’s on the payroll! 

In special thanks to: John Lamb (Modality Systems), Michael Dunn (Microsoft) and Menno Windsma (e-office) to make this real!

Stay tuned!

Presence in Lotus Notes - Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Automation API Sample

NOW AVAILABLE:DOWNLOAD

Quick Details

File Name:
PresenceforLotusNotes.msi

Version:
1.0

Date Published:
6/30/2008

Language:
English

Download Size:
4.9 MB

Exmaple 1:

This sample is designed to enhance the adoption of Microsoft Office Communicator and Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007 within organizations using IBM Lotus Notes. This toolkit focuses on the following objectives:

1. Allow Notes users to immediately experience Office Communications Server 2007 technologies working in their own environment

2. Support Notes developers to quickly integrate Office Communications Server technologies into their own custom Notes applications

Example 2:

Integrating OCS and OCS Speech Server

A couple of days ago Michael Dunn wrote an article about how to integrate OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 Speech Server. (see his post here).

After some investigation and some mismatches into my configuration my OCS Speech Server is up and running. The article of Michael Dunn is a good step into the right direction in integrating the OCS Speech server into your infrastructure.

When configuring OCS Speech server make sure you configure the following things:

1. Install a appropriate certificate for the OCS speech server (make sure you export the private key) when certsrv web enrollment is installed on your CA server you can ask for it through the webinterface. For assigning a certificate click properties in the server selection. (Speech Server Administrative Console)

 

2. Click and assign certificate select (select certificate). Make sure you select view certificate to make sure the certificate is in “ok” status. Restart your Speech Server services.

3. Create additionally an authorized host in your OCS Administrative Console. Fill-in the FQDN of your OCS Speech Server

 

Enjoy and it’s absolutely cool to integrate this into your existing OCS infrastructure. More information into the near future > OCS Speech Server Weblog 

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Getting/Setting presence protocols

About a month ago I downloaded all of the Microsoft Office Protocol Documents as a single zip file. I did the same today because I noticed that there were new version of these documents. More info see

Presence Protocols

Microsoft has just released a final version of their presence protocols (the one I used for presence subscription with UCMA). More information on the website of Marc Wetters from e-office. more info here