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The next first Tuesday of each month Swiss IT Pro User Group event is scheduled to take place on 5 Oct 2010. At the same place and time, our very own MVP Marc van Orsouw will be running the popular PowerShell Script Club in Zurich. From beginners to advanced users, simply bring your laptop, ideas and questions to share and network with your fellow peers in the IT Pro community.

Registration and more information of this free event can be found here.

Technorati tags: PowerShell, Community/User Groups, Events

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Just like previous versions, you can perform an in-place upgrade directly to Lync 2010 client (release candidate) from Communicator 2007 R2. You will be prompted to close any affected applications that are opened at the time of running setup for the Lync 2010 client. At the end of installation, you can choose to start and run the Lync client to get online immediately.

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Communications Server ‘14′, Microsoft Lync

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During the setup of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) at Step 1: Install Local Configuration Store, an error similar to the following may end up stopping the remaining installation steps:

> Bootstrapper

Logging status to: C:\Users\administrator.CONTOSO\AppData\Local\Temp\BootstrapLocalMgmt-[2010_09_15][13_13_43].html
Checking prerequisites for bootstrapper…
Checking prerequisite WMIEnabled…prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite NoBootstrapperOnBranchOfficeAppliance…prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite SupportedOS…prerequisite satisfied.
Checking prerequisite NoOtherVersionInstalled…prerequisite satisfied.
Caching file Setup\speech\zh-HK\MSSpeech_TTS_zh-HK_HunYee.msi
Failed caching file D:\Setup\amd64\Setup\speech\zh-HK\MSSpeech_TTS_zh-HK_HunYee.msi, error message: Incorrect function.

All other “pre-setup” steps may have already been completed successfully, such as “Prepare Active Directory” and “Prepare first Standard Edition server”. The incident could be attributed to bad media. Since there is no checksum available for the public download of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 RC, one way to verify the file is to look at the size itself when using conventional brower download. A functional copy of the Lync-RC-7457.0.iso file should take up 1,660,602,368 bytes on disk.

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Communications Server ‘14′, Microsoft Lync

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• Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) System Requirements (link)
• Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Getting Started (link)
• Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Lab Deployment Guide (link)
• Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool Release Candidate (link)
• Lync Server 2010 (Release Candidate) Planning Documents (link)

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Communications Server ‘14′, Microsoft Lync

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Connecting people in new ways, anytime, anywhere with the power of software, Communications Server “14″ or more commonly Wave 14, is now officially re-branded to Microsoft Lync 2010 which aims to unify, “link” and “sync” the various ‘OCS’ products and services together.

This major release brings together Enterprise Voice, instant messaging and web, audio and video conferencing all within the same end user experience (Lync Client 2010) and server infrastructure (Lync Server 2010). Other products in the family include Lync Online (service) and Lync Web App (web client).

And now the good news all of you have been waiting impatiently for - you can join in the excitement to witness this big product transformation and put Microsoft Lync 2010 Release Candidate (RC) to the test. Starting Monday 13 Sep 2010, the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 RC* is officially available for public download.

Go grab your free Microsoft Lync Server 2010 RC test bits (x64 US English) today. The download includes both the Enterprise and Standard Editions plus the Microsoft Lync 2010 client (32- and 64- bits). Both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are supported. Note that the RC version (7457.0) will expire on 20 Feb 2011.

See also:
- Microsoft Lync: A New Name for a New Generation of Unified Communications Solutions
- Introducing Microsoft Lync, the next OCS!
- Lync Server 2010 PowerShell blog
- Microsoft Lync Official Site
- An Administrator’s First Look at PowerShell in Communications Server “14″

* no public beta / refresh download available previously

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Powershell, Microsoft Lync

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Download of the July 2010 cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Hotfix (KB968802) is temporarily suspended. This is due to a recent discovery whereby application of this hotfix could affect how the Response Group Service functions on both Standard and Enterprise Edition servers.

If you have already applied this July 2010 OCS 2007 R2 hotfix, it is necessary to manually restart the Response Group Service to workaround this issue. Otherwise, expect an update in September 2010 to supersede the July 2010 cumulative update to fix the failure of incoming calls to a Response Group Agent under certain conditions. See more details at KB2401878.

Keywords: patch, hotfix, update, rollup package, moc, ocs, 2007, r2, cumulative update 6 (CU6)

Technorati tags: LCS/OCS, OCS 2007 R2, Mobile

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Background:
Migration to Active Directory Certificate Services based on Windows Server 2008 R2 from Windows Server 2008 RTM or Windows Server 2003 SP2.

Problem statement:
Not able to install Certification Authority Web Enrollment role services in Active Directory Certificate Services, AD CS.

[Window Title]
Add Role Services

[Main Instruction]
Cannot install Certification Authority Web Enrollment.

[Content]
Active Directory Certificate Services setup failed with the following error:  The parameter is incorrect. 0×80070057 (WIN32: 87)

[OK]

Resolution:
Modify SetupStatus at HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\CertSvc\Configuration to 0×6001.

Thanks Rob for helping to sort this out!

Technorati tags: Security, Windows Server 2008 R2

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