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LCS: AS35: Introduction to Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005

posted Friday, April 28, 2006 5:14 PM by toml-lcskid
Skills Assessment Title: AS35: Introduction to Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 Skills Assessment Number: AS35A-100 Language: English Instructions for the Assessment - Go to http://www.microsoft.com/assessment Click àAssess Yourself Read More
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LCS Beta Exam 71-262

posted Friday, April 28, 2006 5:11 PM by toml-lcskid
The beta version of this exam is 71-262. Please note that when registering. Read below for details – use this code when registering for the Free Beta Exam -  TS262   <toml lcskid> I took this test Friday April 28 and with my comments Read More
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LCS: Impact of NetMeeting being retired in Vista (Peer to Peer behavior)

posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 5:21 PM by toml-lcskid
NetMeeting FAQ -   Information current as of October 4, 2005   Q: Will NetMeeting ship in Windows Vista? A: No.  Microsoft is not developing new versions of the NetMeeting feature and NetMeeting will not ship as part of the next Read More
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LCS: Symantec to acquire IMLogic

posted Friday, January 06, 2006 9:39 AM by toml-lcskid
For those of you in the threat protection arena with IM, this might not be new information, however I thought it good information to share SYMANTEC TO ACQUIRE IMLOGIC Integrating Instant Messaging Management Software Gives Symantec the Only Comprehensive Read More
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LCS PIC troubleshooting

posted Friday, December 30, 2005 1:01 PM by toml-lcskid
For those of you that have deployed LCS and are now working on your PIC (Public Internet Connectivity) setup, you may want to know what we will be asking you to provide for a reported problem. We are still working on this information so you might see Read More
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LCS PIC - unable to add PIC contacts in Office Communicator

posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 5:00 PM by toml-lcskid
Now there are many times we have problems adding contacts so please read this carefully as the problem exposes itself for the user of MSN not Office Communicator (Windows Messenger would likely report the same or similar error, I just didn't test as most Read More
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LCS PIC: How to determine if you are having a provisioning problem with MSN

posted Wednesday, December 28, 2005 4:27 PM by toml-lcskid
The following issue may occur with a customer using the Public Instant Messaging Connectivity (PIC) feature of LCS 2005, enabling federation with MSN, Yahoo and AOL. Once the customer receives email stating that the provisioning process is complete, Yahoo Read More
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LCS RTC - An official product team blog

posted Friday, December 02, 2005 12:10 PM by toml-lcskid
In its infancy but it has begun, an official RTC blog with product group involvement. http://blogs.technet.com/rtc/  I will continue this blog as it represents the support aspect of our product but I expect to help contribute to posts on that site Read More
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LCS tool for web server component

posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 10:05 AM by toml-lcskid
So there is not an official name for the product so I will refer to it as "Budapest" the code name and in a generic term the LCS web server component or solution. A tool that I was shown very early in this beta and that I have NOT played with at all Read More
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LCS 2005 SP1 and SQL 2000 SP4 is supported!

posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:14 PM by toml-lcskid
Simple post, from the team that gives the authoritative answer on supported vs. not supported -  The statement of supported vs. not supported simply means that our test team set this up and ran sufficient tests to say that there are no reported issues. Read More
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LCS - Hardware Load Balancers and time out values

posted Saturday, August 06, 2005 9:13 AM by toml-lcskid
Customers ask questions regarding the configuration of time out values for LCS and their Hardware Load Balancers. There are 2 partner load balancer solutions of which we have documentation on at the http://office.microsoft.com/livecomm site. Read More
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LCS 2005 SP1 Public Internet Connectivity (PIC) and Certificates

posted Monday, July 25, 2005 12:07 PM by toml-lcskid
This really deserves (needs, mandates) a complete posting on Certificate issues but I don't have the time at the moment. Do keep a look out as it might impact the other posts about client behavior and certificates. While I might remove the post, I will Read More
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LCS - using the same SQL server for the backend database and Archiving

posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:59 AM by toml-lcskid
Many customers want to know about minimizing their hardware usage especially if they are smaller deployments  1) What is supported for LCS and Archiving using the same SQL server - same instance, different instances? From a performance perspective, Read More
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LCS 2005 User Replicator FAQ

posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 10:36 AM by toml-lcskid
I am happy to provide the following information straight from one of our LCS Development Leads. Getting this information is invaluable because they know the ins and outs of the component so well they know the answer to your problem immediately. Permission Read More
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LCS 2005 - Reasons why NLB is not recommended but instead a Hardware Load Balancer

posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:08 PM by toml-lcskid
LCS 2005 – Why no NLBs? There are a couple of reasons why we are recommending a 3rd party LB for LCS2005 EE deployments (particularly those that for large number of clients):   1. The traffic patterns and hold times are different when compared Read More
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