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LCS 2003 and Windows Messenger failing when set for Automatic Configuration with single label domain names

A quick modification to this post is that the analysis is accurate and this is current behavior. Bug/By Design are just semantics but we don't build the DNS query for a single label suffix for the SIP-URI. At this time, the solution is to not use Automatic Read More...

LCS 2005 SE backup and restore WMI error and event 30961

First reported by Fairfax county the backup and restore procedure in the LCS 2005 Deploy SE document leaves you in a state of which clients cannot log in and the Admin can not view the Allow and Block List: Problem behavior: After restoring the following Read More...

LCS 2003: Windows Messenger on XP clients signed out overnight using Kerberos

There is a known issue with LCS 2003 and Windows Messenger being signed out overnight. The root cause is a known issue with fix for Kerberos. The KB article is still being published so not everyone knows about the issue. You will want to enable the client Read More...

Using Tabs to convert Windows Messenger 5.0 into an email client (and other things)

A really cool feature with Windows Messenger is the ability to customize it via Branding. Graham Tyler has a great post on customizing Windows Messenger to support Outlook Web Access (OWA). http://blogs.msdn.com/grahamtyler/archive/2004/08/17.aspx Cheers Read More...

LCS Sending Alerts

A common question we recieve is around Alerts (also IM to groups which will be a separate post) Customer question - Alerting Services Is there a way to inform all LCS users by Corporate Alert like MSN Alerts does it. The idea is to build a solution when Read More...