A lot of question I get is about licensing, when do I need Enterprise CAL, can I create a Database Availability Group with Standard version etc.
Well Microsoft has a god page for telling you all alternatives and options. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Licensing
Lync CU1 Jan 2011 updates
| Software | KB |
| Lync 2010 (32 and 64 bit) | |
| Lync Server 2010 | |
| Lync 2010 Phone Edition (Tanjay) | |
| Lync 2010 Phone Edition (Aries-Aastra) | |
| Lync 2010 Phone Edition (Aries-Polycom) | |
| Lync 2010 Attendee (Admin Install) | |
| Lync 2010 Attendee (User mode install) | |
| Lync 2010 Attendant (32 & 64 bit are a combined patch) | |
| Lync 2010 Group Chat Client | |
| Lync 2010 Group Chat Admin |
Happy patching
Next version of Microsoft Office Communication Server named Microsoft Lync has now gone RTM. Read the whole story at Unified Communications Group Team Blog
Now we all just wait for the media to be available.
After some wait Exchange server 2010 Service Pack 1 is now released.
Read about all the new and improved features here
Download it here and read the release note very carefully before installing.
happy patching
CU6 for OCS 2007 R2 was released a couple of weeks ago. OCS 2007 R2 CU6
The simplest way of installing is to download and run the ServerUpdateInstaller. This will install all of the needed patches to your OCS server.
Unfortunately there is a problem that you might encounter when doing so. The FrontEnd service will not start and you will se this in the eventlog. “The Office Communications Server Front-End service terminated with service-specific error 3287186749 (0xC3EE7D3D).”. Reason is that serverinstaller does not contain all updates needed. The FrontEnd server patch needs an updated database to run correctly.
What you need to do is to ununstall KB983472 and then install the OCS2009-DBUpgrade.msi to upgrade the databases used by OCS.
OCS2009-DBUpgrade.msi is found in KB 2032834, Description of the cumulative update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 database: July, 2010
After databases have been upgraded you can reinstall KB983472 or simply run serverinstaller again and since databases are updated, the OCS FrontEnd service will start normally.
