Tag Archives: MRAS; Edge Server

A Case of the 504s, Revisited

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Kevin Peters

Recently I was working with someone from the technet forums to test their open federation. I added the contact to my list and sent them a message and immediately received the dreaded 504 error in MOC. Since this has been a hot topic on the forums and I see lots of searches landing people here for 504 errors I wanted to share again. I began the troubleshooting process by starting a new debug session on my edge server to grab a SIP trace (see my previous article on the same subject here for more information).

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What to do when your customer’s WAN is actually firewall to firewall VPN’s

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Kevin Peters

Recently I began planning for a centralized deployment of OCS that would sit in one of 6 offices for a client we’ll call Acme Accounts. Acme will start out using OCS for IM, P2P audio/video and Live Meeting; eventually OCS will grow into a full blown enterprise voice solution. The first big hurdle for us when designing Acme’s OCS implementation was their “WAN”, instead of typical MPLS or point to point connections, Acme uses its internet connections and ASA firewalls in each location to create VPNs that allow traffic to route between sites. The latency created by this solution has never been an issue, but voice and video were never running over this connection either. Continue reading →

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A Handy Link for Testing Certificates

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Kevin Peters

Today while troubleshooting a Live Meeting problem for a client I utilized a very helpful website that I used in the past but forgot about. As the issues appeared to be certificate related I went out to a site I had been too when working with digicert before Continue reading →

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New Updates Released for OCS

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Kevin Peters

For anyone who hasn’t seen them, a number of patches were released today by Microsoft. The patches have actually resolved a number of issues in a production environment I am working in today Continue reading →

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Delay in call setup when using Response Groups and A/V with https Inspection

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Kevin Peters

For the past few days I’ve been working with Microsoft on an issue with Response Group agents seeing a delay between when the click answer in MOC and when the call controls actually show up and audio starts…. Continue reading →

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