Oct28
During the migration process from Vista to Windows 7, some of the settings for Communicator can get corrupted. This does not happen for new installations of Windows 7, but only situations where user state is migrated. Screen pop-ups for incoming calls do not appear. Uninstalling and Reinstalling Communicator does not fix the problem – additional registry keys and file paths need to be removed. Th...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 11:09.
Oct22
Some of the benefits we receive from our internal Microsoft Unified Communications deployment include:
•Reduced cell phone bills. •Reduced long-distance costs with toll bypass. •Reduced PBX maintenance at Catapult’s headquarters. •Elimination of PBX maintenance at branch offices. •Elimination of “physical” phones in all of Catapult’s cubicles. •A highly mobile workforce that can make & ...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 22 Oct 2009 12:57.
Oct15
The front-end service will not start, and the access-edge service will not start. The only fix is to uninstall KB 974571.
For more info, see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974571
Update (10/28/2009) - Microsoft released a fix to resolve this issue and it has been documented in KB 974571....
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 15 Oct 2009 08:11.
Oct11
Windows 7 comes with a new feature called ‘Windows XP Mode.’ This feature just RTM’d (Released to Manufacturing) on October 1st and is now available for Download on MSDN or Technet. It will be freely available to all owners of a Windows 7 Professional license on October 22nd. Windows XP Mode is a feature that allows Windows XP applications to run on Windows 7 if they cannot otherwise run n...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Sunday, 11 Oct 2009 09:53.
Oct9
I spent some time today configuring a SNOM VoIP telephone to work with our OCS environment.
The benefits of the SNOM phone over other UC handsets include dialpad and standalone network operation (does not require USB connection, but instead plugs directly into a network cable). This is desirable because sometimes applications running on the laptop can cause Communicator from having all of t...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Friday, 9 Oct 2009 07:20.
Oct4
Tony Northrup, author of the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit described a problem with his Dell D820 laptop that anyone who owns a Dell laptop should read. To summarize, any headset plugged into the analog headset and microphone port may introduce background noise (static) that can be eliminated by using a USB headset instead. He attributes the root cause to poor quality sound cards in the D820 lapto...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Sunday, 4 Oct 2009 08:27.