Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-14 Thread Steven Peck
Normaly OCS just runs. Recently I had a simliar issue after a data center power loss (maintenence work on UPS, cut back over to UPS, UPS went POP, server room went dark, team came in at 2am to power on very surprised servers [new UPS ordered, we have a trailer UPS wired in right now]) I had to nuk

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Cameron
Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it would fully integrate with AD seeing how it's a MS product. I *thought* that the contacts were tied to AD and were pushed automatically based on some AD setting. I've just started reading about this and can't believe how many hoops you have to g

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread James Rankin
There are some wsf files in "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\ResKit\WMI Samples" that can help with some of the automated tasks, if you have the resource kit installed On 15 April 2011 14:00, Cameron wrote: > Ok..so it looks like I jumped to a conclusion that it woul

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Cameron
Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The problem with trying to automate the jobs will be that I can't just do it by OU (to break the users into groups) unless I want to start moving people around and verifying the GPO's against them. Though it may be something I'll do

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread James Rankin
I only have limited experience with OCS, but I recall that it was a bit of a pain to manage. Don't know whether the new incarnation of it (is it Lync?) might be somewhat better On 15 April 2011 14:17, Cameron wrote: > Yep, the resource kit is installed and I've been looking at them. The > proble

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Steven Peck
OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft Product. Microsoft purchased the technology that became Live Communications Server 2003 and released LCS2005 soon afterwards. OCS2007 is really more in the mode MS likes and OCS2007r2 included nice improvements. All the abov

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Cameron
Actually...that's what I've been *asked* to setup...a minimum 'set' of contacts from the various locations grouped by function, etc On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > OK wait, I think there is some confusion here. Yes, OCS is a Microsoft > Product. Microsoft purchased the t

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread James Rankin
I had to do that in a previous job. It can be done with those scripts but it is fairly non-dynamic when it comes to updating users who have left, etc. You could do it with some form of scripting querying AD but it's a big fudge. In the end we opted to set up a script to auto-enable every user for

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Steven Peck
Ya, we created documentation on adding contacts and it became a manager issue if they cared (LCS2005sp1 less tools) which it turns out they did not. With OCS2007r2 you can just target distribution groups and their membership will dynamically update so that may be a less painful route to go. If po

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Cameron
You mention something interesting (we do have OCS2007r2)...target distribution groups? Sounds like a much better way to go. Any pointers? On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Steven Peck wrote: > Ya, we created documentation on adding contacts and it became a manager > issue if they cared (LCS2005s

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Steven Peck
I may have added to the confusion by being all wordy and less then precise. All of our teams have a team based distribution list are build using #Name format and managed by the teams manager. So to make up some names for example purposes #Windows Applications #Windows Infrastructure #Accounting #N

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Cameron
Ok...I think I've finally got it figured...BUT...(of course there is always a but) How the heck do I delete a contact group that already exists? I've tried cscript lcsaddcontacts.wsf /userfiles:text.txt (contains only me) /contactsgroup:listedgroup /delete it just complains and shows me the sy

RE: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Orland, Kathleen
Yeah. I complain about the syntax of your commands all the time, too. From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] Sent: 15 April 2011 16:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2 Ok...I think I've finally got it figured...BUT...(of course there is always

Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2

2011-04-15 Thread Steven Peck
o:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: OT: OCS 2007 r2 > > > > Ok...I think I've finally got it figured...BUT...(of course there is always > a but) How the heck do I delete a contact group that already exists? > > I've tried > > cscript lcsaddcontacts.wsf /