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BES 4.1 SP6 Send as issues

dwc1972 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:54:51 +0000

Well have installed and am testing a BES server using a Blackberry Bold and cannot send e-mail but can receive.

Found this article on the RIM www.blackberry.com support site – http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB04707

Will update once I have completed these suggested updates.

Exchange 2k7SP1 Edge Transport Server on W2k8

dwc1972 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:04:26 +0000

I have been trying to install Exchange 2007 SP1 Edge Server on a Windows 2008 x64 Standard Edition server and kept getting the following error message during the prerequisite checks:

Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.

Elapsed time: 00:07:28

Edge Transport Server Role Prerequisites

Failed

Error:

There was a problem accessing the registry on this computer. This may happen if the Remote Registry service is not running; it may also indicate a network problem.

Elapsed Time: 00:01:46

Because the Exchange 2k7 Edge server has two NICs and is located in the DMZ, I had uninstalled the Client for Microsoft Networks & File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks on both NIC’s for security purposes.

Having tried various attempt’s and web searches, I finally found this article “A Sample for troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Setup” which mentions that if the Client for Microsoft Networks & File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks is disabled / removed on any interface then the install with fail as above.

After re-installing the client to both NIC’s and rebooting the server all is working and install has completed with out issue.

Windows 7 Beta install via USB

dwc1972 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:30:27 +0000

Found this great blog entry regarding installing Windows 7 Beta via a USB thumb drive.

http://pingdennis.com/windows/installing-windows-7-using-a-usb-stick/

MS OCS 2007 Protocols Overview

dwc1972 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:41:56 +0000

Posting on the MS site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc339480.aspx

Changing a Windows CA expiration date of certificates

dwc1972 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:59:25 +0000

MS KB Article 254632

RCC to Cisco VOIP solution

dwc1972 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:41:33 +0000

The company has now decided that we are going down the Cisco VOIP solution, therefore we have to connect the MOC clients for RCC.
We’ve already had some issues with the office currently running the VIOP so should be interesting

Further info will be posted as we implement it.

Finally the RCC enabling script for OCS2007 users

dwc1972 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:33:52 +0000

Its taken a while but here it is finally .
You just need to change the path to the location of the user account’s in AD you want to run the script against and point the server URI to your CSTA gateway device.

On Error Resume Next
Dim tempPhoneNumber, tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpace, tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpaceAndDomain, checkIfNull
Dim strOptionFlag
Set objOU = GetObject("LDAP://OU=Users,DC=yourdomain")
objOU.Filter = Array("user")

For Each objUser In objOU

if objUser.Get("telephoneNumber") = "" then

else

strOptionFlag = objUser.Get("msRTCSIP-OptionFlags")
tempPhoneNumber = "tel:" & objUser.Get("telephoneNumber")
tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpace = Replace(tempPhoneNumber," ", "")
tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpaceAndDomain = "sip:" & Replace(objUser.Get("telephoneNumber")," ", "") & "@your-csta-gateway"

if strOptionFlag = "" then
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags", "16"

else

‘If user not enabled then do not enable OCS
if strOptionFlag = "0" then
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags", "0"
‘If user is enabled for Public IM then keep Public IM enabled and enable RCC
elseif strOptionFlag = "1" then
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags", "257"
‘If user is enabled for RCC then keep RCC enabled and enable Enhanced Presence
elseif strOptionFlag = "16" then
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags", "272"
‘If user is enabled for RCC and Public IM then keep RCC & PIM enabled and enable Enhanced Presence
elseif strOptionFlag = "17" then
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags", "273"
‘If user is already enabled for RCC and Enhanced Presence then keep settings
elseif strOptionFlag = "272" then
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags", "272"
‘If user is already enabled for RCC, PIM and Enhanced Presence then keep settings
elseif strOptionFlag = "273" then
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags", "273"
end if
end if

objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-Line", tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpace
objUser.Put "msRTCSIP-LineServer", tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpaceAndDomain
objUser.SetInfo

strname = objUser.Get("givenName")
WScript.Echo "strname: " & strname
WScript.Echo "msRTCSIP-OptionFlags: " & strOptionFlag

end if

set tempPhoneNumber = nothing
set strOptionFlag = nothing
set tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpace = nothing
set tempPhoneNumberWithoutSpaceAndDomain = nothing
set checkIfNull = nothing

It’s been a long time ….

dwc1972 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:11:56 +0000

It’s been a good 6 months plus since I published to my site but as of next week further postings will start again in earnest.

MOC RCC to NEC PABX

dwc1972 — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:31:55 +0000

Well we are still having issues with phone integration to the NEC PABX’s.

Partly NEC software issues, partly our architecture layout. NEC sip gateway will only talk to one LCS / OCS server not multiples as we have in our environment.

Question is how do we route the other five OCS servers to the NEC sip gateway???? Hmmmm ………. The test is to connect one server to the gateway then see what happens if we route the others through that one..

WMI Script now working

dwc1972 — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:15:35 +0000

Well it took a couple of attempts and various option flag settings to be worked out but the script is finally work.
There are several RTCSIP_Optionflag settings that a user can have against their account in AD for LCS / OCS settings and because of this we had to work out the different variables that each user may have set within our companies setup.

The various settings for RTCSIP are as follows:

‘ The msRTCSIP-OptionFlags attribute specifies the different options that are enabled For
‘ the user. It’s a bit-mask value of type integer. Each option is represented by a bit.
‘ Valid value types are:
‘ 1: Enabled for public IM connectivity
‘ 2: Reserved
‘ 4: Reserved
‘ 8: Reserved
‘ 16: RCC (Remote Call Control) enabled [telephony]
‘ 64: AllowOrganizeMeetingWithAnonymousParticipants
‘ 128: UCEnabled (enable user for unified communications)
‘ 256: EnabledForEnhancedPresence
‘ 512: RemoteCallControlDualMode
‘ 1024: Enable auto-attendant
‘ Example: 449 = 256 (Enhanced presence) + 128 (UC enabled) + 64 (anonym. participants) + 1 (public IM)

So from this list you need to work out all available options that maybe enabled within your environment.

This is much easier to workout using PowerShell so can’t wait until we roll it out into our environment, although it doesn’t support Exchange Server 2003