Determining Number of Users for OCS Front End

Tony Bradley — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:41:30 +0000

For capacity and scaling purposes, there may come a time when you need to determine how many users are connecting to a given OCS front end. As Mike Stacey of Evangelyze Communications points out in his blog, there is no inherent feature or function in OCS 2007 that provides this type of information. With a little resourceful ingenuity between Mike and Evangelyze Communications co-worker Simon Booth, they managed to come up with a solution to gather the information they needed though. To learn more, take a look at Mike’s blog post SQL Query to return number of users per Front End.

The OCS Director Role

Tony Bradley — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:19:15 +0000

Those familiar with Microsoft Unified Communications and how to deploy and configure Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 are likely familiar with the Edge and Mediation roles. The OCS Edge server allows external or public access to the OCS 2007 resources, and the Mediation server ‘mediates’ between communications protocols, allowing the Microsoft Unified Communications platform to integrate and communicate with other voice protocols. A slightly more obscure role is that of the Director. As Mike Stacey, Director of Services for Evangelyze Communications, points out in his blog, it is not a completely separate installation, like the Edge and Mediation roles, but it can play a valuable role in your Microsoft Unified Communications infrastructure. Check out Mike’s blog post (The OCS Director – Reasons, Benefits and Dependencies) to learn more.

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Determining Number of Users for OCS Front End

The OCS Director Role