Dumb question, but, why can't your users add someone to the contacts themself? What happens the minute you get more than ~300 contacts? IIRC that's the max per contact list.
Outside of my teams when I had this, I never had any contacts on my list - I just started typing the name of who I wanted to talk to in and clicked them. Just my personal work style ... Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 2:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Live Communications Server - account creations OCS 2007 ain't much better. We have convoluted scripts for reading OU memberships, exporting the OCS-enabled users to text files, and then running the LCSAddContacts script to repopulate everyone's contacts list. A pain, but at least it can be automated. 2009/10/19 Steven Peck <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> It doesn't. Although we don't create user contacts. We provide documentation for them to do it for themselves. You can load the admin tools and do it all from the desktop. I've not had to go to the LCS server to 'enable' users. Just do it from the ADUC interface. We also have the LCS2005 Address Book service setup which allows the users to more easily find each other. I am in the midst of setting up OCS2007r2 now. Not sure that will actually get any better in the Integration. OCS still has it's own address book service. It does 'promise' the ability to do 'contact groups' from AD. I have not gotten to that point in testing/setup. Maybe later this week. While on the same 'tier' marketing wise within Microsoft and offering some integration, it's still it's own product. Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:30 AM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Anyone here use LCS 2005? Our service desk has to go through a manual > routine to create users and update user lists on each client > > > > Launch ADUC and right click on user, enable Live Communication Settings > > Change to C:\Program Files\Microsoft LC 2005\ResKit\WMI Samples > > Edit contacts.txt to add new user > > Edit users.txt to reflect just the user you want to update > > Run addcmd.txt contents in command prompt > > ON THE LCS server, goto ADUC and enable user (rt click) for LCS > communications, > > > > It seems like it should integrate nicer like Exchange. Anyone? > > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." http://raythestray.blogspot.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
