Comments on: Configure automatic login on OCS 2007

By: Orval Eske

Orval Eske — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:58:31 +0000

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By: ben

ben — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:25:41 +0000

Now you've gone and confused me

You would be able to use Communicator Web Access, or 'manual login' to the OCS client, whatever your domain name or username convention is?

"Do we not need External DNS entries for Automatic logons only?"

The external DNS entries are for automatic login, and for other OCS installations to locate your Edge server.

By: Favad Qaisar

Favad Qaisar — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:21:49 +0000

Hey Ben, thank you for the reply. Since I cannot my .local domain, the only option would be to use external DNS suffix i.e @domain.com

However, I am still a bit curious. Since I can login with .local suffix externally using Communicator Web Access set up using Reverse Proxy, why can I not login in Office Communicator using manual configuration. Do we not need External DNS entries for Automatic logons only?

Favad

By: ben

ben — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:47:55 +0000

Well, if you don't want to change users principal names in AD you would have to buy the domain internal.ad and then set up the SRV records for it in external DNS.

_tcp._sipinternal.yourdomain.com -- sip.internal.ad (0 0 5061)
_tcp._sipinternaltls .yourdomain.com -- sip.internal.ad (0 0 5061)

However this does expose your internal namespace to the internet, this may or may not bother you.

This is assuming that you're using a domain suffix that can be bought from domain registries - in my example internal.ads, the .ads domain isn't available.

By: Favad Qaisar

Favad Qaisar — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:55:58 +0000

Ben, this is indeed a very useful post, and hats off to you for writing in detail; about a pretty common scenario.

1. Would it be possible to use a Communicator to login externally with manual settings using sign-in names like user@internal.ad, since I'm able to do it through my Communicator Web Acess?

2. What DNS entries I would need to make that happen? I have OCS 2007 R2. Standard Edition, Communicator Web Access, Edge, Mediation and Internal CA besides Public CA Wild Card Certificate for my domian.

Thanking you in anticipation

Favad