This year I will be attending Tech-Ed North America 2010. The event will be held at the borders of the Mississippi in New Orleans, near the French Quarter. So the location could be worse.
Until today 809 sessions are scheduled, but of course my focus will be on the Unified Communications related stuff, like Exchange 2010 and the fresh new “OCS Wave 14” or Communications Server 2010 suite.
So stay tuned for the latest from New Orleans starting at the 7th of June 2010.
More info can be found at: http://northamerica.msteched.com/default.aspx
Last week Microsoft released cumulative update 5 of Office Communications Server 2007 R2.
This package consists of updates for the OCS Servers, Communicator, Attendant Console, Communicator Phone and OCS Group Chat.
The most easiest way to apply the necessary server updates is to download the Cumulative Server Update Installer "ServerUpdateInstaller.exe" and run this on all your OCS Servers.
The installer will automatically detect and update the appropriate OCS components.
There is also an update released for the OCS SQL Database called "OCS2009-DBUpgrade.msi". This update is not part of the update installer and needs to be downloaded and installed separately.
Before you install this update, the Office Communications Server Front End Service (rtcsrv) has to be stopped. After stopping the service run one of the following commands:
OCS Standard Edition: OCS2009-DBUpgrade.msi
OCS Enterprise Edition: OCS2009-DBUpgrade.msi POOLNAME=<ocspoolname>
The updates can be found on the following locations:
Office Communcations Server 2007 R2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=b3b02475-150c-41fa-844a-c10a517040f4
Office Communicator 2007 R2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=515d6dba-4c6a-48bb-a06a-d99c5742676d
Office Communications Server Attendant Console R2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=36beb56d-072e-4a92-b781-a1e8a548a5ac&displaylang=en&displaylang=en
Office Communicator Phone Edition R2:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=565595BE-6CF3-4A61-A1E4-12555749CA64&displaylang=en
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Group Chat:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5924bf9-b042-4c53-b4a6-79c7e5c9749b&displaylang=en