Live Meeting and Live Meeting Outlook Add in URL's for download.

LM: http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidOCS?clid=1033&p1=LiveMeeting
Addin: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA102368901033.aspx

These URL's are PAINFULLY hard to find. Go ahead and google "live meeting 2007 download"

File Under: OCS, communicator, livemeeting

How to publish your OCS 2007 address book externally without using ISA 2006 reverse proxying for external group expansion.

After much back and forth about Microsoft's requirement for ISA 2006 and reverse proxy for the address book publishing, I decided to try to find an alternate way.

Of course, per the OCS deployment guidelines, reverse proxy with ISA 2006 is the recommended solution, because you are not allowing direct access to the HTTPS server on your internal front end server.

Here's how to do it using a regular NAT translation and opening 443 to your front end server.

1. Change your group expansion URL using wbemtest (from here and here)
2. Configure an external DNS name, a NAT translation to your OCS Front End, and allow TCP/443 inbound. I used ocsab.domainname.com as a convention for the name.
3. Request a new FE certificate using the OCS certificate wizard that includes existing names + ocsab.domainname.com. If you are only supporting Access Edge Remote connectivity from domain based PC's, you can still use your internal Enterprise PKI. If you want to support non domain workstations, you have two choices, have them install your internal SSL chain locally, or send this cert request to a third party trusted Certificate Authority.
4. Install the certificate and assign it in OCS. After doing this, you will likely need to restart your OCS services.
5. Finally, in IIS Manager, you will need to select this new certificate as the certificate to be used for the Default Web Site. This is a critical step, as the OCS certificate wizard does NOT seem to change this for you.

Enjoy having External group expansion while sticking to your guns on your choice of firewall vendor.

Wow - Its been too long, AGAIN.

If anyone is still out there, I think its about to get a LOT better. I am going to start using this for family, work, tech, etc.

Updates:

Me:
34, living with g/f in Austin, driving a truck, 2 dogs, Rusty and Jolie

Work:
Simpler-Webb, Sr. Microsoft Consultant. These days, mostly Exchange and OCS work.

Tech:
Studying for 70-638 (the OCS exam) and installing Windows 7 Beta as I type this (I think that might be the next post, actually!)

Hang in there, I promise to post more!

Bosstones!!!!! Throwdown #10

3 hour drive from Houston to Austin
3 hour flight from Houston to LaGuardia ($800)
Rental car to drive ($800)
Christmas with the family (costly on my mental sanity)
Bosstones tickets $250 (5x face value, and they were scalping cheaper, but I couldnt take the risk of not getting in)

Seeing dicky and ben one more time...priceless.

Pics here:
http://chrislehr.com/mmbt/

I suck at blogging!

Lately, I am reading them more than writing them.

Where to start on updates...

Work - It's keeping me SUPER busy. I have about 50 working days left in 2007, and have about 4 Exchange 2003->2007 migrations to complete before end of year. Yikes. Pressures on there. Work also just sent me to Las Vegas (www.winconnections.com) for an Exchange/Windows conference. Was a good learning experience, and learned a lot. They also paid for Robin to go, she went to more Windows and Sharepoint classes, I did mostly Exchange stuff still. Was great to have a week out of routine, and work actually was REALLY good about not emailing me (I only had about 20 emails all week! (compared to the typical 250 or so)

Home - It's a mess right now since we just got back from Las Vegas. Only clean thing right now is the kitchen. (Since I clean it daily so that my wonderful girlfriend and cook can remess it making awesome foods) EVERYTHING else is a mess. Living room looks like our suitcase exploded in it. Bedroom is a disaster.. bathroom, dont even get me started. Jolie(the lhasapoo) has a cough/hack/wheeze thing going since being boarded, and she smells like pee and needs a bath too. So right now, chaotic, but we hopefully will be done cleaning later today.

Relaxing (or trying to!) Robin took me to the farmers market yesterday. We brought some food for lunch, and also bought some tomatoes, bread, and Italian garlic goat cheese spread there. Robin packed a salad (and added the tomatoes) and some strawberries and cream to snack on. We ate, and when it came to strawberries, I started dipping them into the cream and feeding them to Robin. Then I dipped one in the garlic goat cheese instead of the cream and fed it to her. I wish I took a picture, the look on her face was absolutely priceless. After we walked the dog at the dog park.

Also, COD4 and Crysis are both out and I have been playing COD4 since I got home. It's pretty awesome so far, but now Im stuck and getting irritable about it. Crysis, only the demo so far (which I am also stuck on) but should be playing the full version later.

Seven years since my first article published....

2600 magazine, I figure statute of limitations on any wrong doings is up.

My first foray into writing..

Yes, the info listed is REALLY old. It was 99.