Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 (R2) and Linux Client
It is always amazing what the community out there is creating while I am asleep. I just wondered if there is a way to natively connect a Linux machine to an OCS 2007 (R2) Installation. And well yes, there is.
SIPE is a protocol extension for the Pidgin Instant Messanger and on my standard Ubuntu 9.04 system I just followed the instructions on the SIPE website (installing the required packages and a simple configure, make, make install process) and off I was. A new protocol Microsoft LCS/OCS is available.
So far I tested this connecting through a NATed network to the OCS R2 Edge Servers (not internally). OK, there is no Audio or Video (A/V) support and there are still problems with ACLs and presence information but in general instant messaging and presence works.
And it’s nice to be able to change the user agent manually. So if your client version gets banned you simply change it to the latest Microsoft Office Communciator (MOC) string and you should be fine again.
Ah yes, there is a Windows Version, too.
Great work! Keep it up.
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Originally this site was intended as a project site. The goal was to define standards for the perimeterless network using
open-source software. To be honest I simply do not have the time for such a thing. So what is left is a blog with sporadic
posts that are either helpful for myself or I think are helpful for others, too since I had a hard time finding information
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