I have received a couple of request of what features work when you connect your Lync 2013 client to an OCS 2007 R2 infrastructure. Here is a list of the features I have tested. This is not an official list, it is just my personal testing.
- IM chat between internal receipients (im to other OCS users in the organization)
- IM chat to external parties (im to federated partners)
- Screen Sharing with internal and external recipients.
- Presence indicator in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013
- Presence indicator in SharePoint 2007 and 2010
- VoIP calls between OCS 2007 R2 client and Lync 2010 or Lync 2013 clients
As I mention this is not an official list. If you have other testing scenarios and you are succesfull share your findings and I will update this list.
Personal status’s does not display in OCS
Check in the Lync Options > Contact List > Show this information.
Has anyone tried group chat? Chatting with multiple recipients at the same time? I can do this with OCS2007, but was not able to with Lync2010, would like to go to 2013 but we run group conversations between multiple sites so it is a must for me.
The new feature in Lync 2013 is called persistent chat. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/what-s-new-in-lync-server-2013-persistent-chat.aspx
My recipients are not receiving my messages when I send them URLs. I get the following error message. Any ideas?
“When contacting your support team, reference error ID 400 (source ID 239)”
OCS 2007 R2 has Intelligent IM Filtering and it includes URL filtering. Please double check the URL has been blocked by URL filtering. You can refer to the following links:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd572576(office.13).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd572853(office.13).aspx
The URLs are not blocked when people are messaging between OCS 2007. Even if I message a co-worker using OCS 2007 and he has Lync 2013, he gets it just fine.
The only time the URL is blocked is when a Lync 2013 client tries to send a URL to someone using OCS 2007 client. If I send it to him, who is using Lync Client from OCS 2007 client, it puts an underscore before the pre-fix.
If we remove the prefixes completely (ie, http: or www.), nothing is wrong.
I can login Lync 2013 to the OCS 2007 server. However, I cannot search the address book and only can see the contacts who had already been added to my contacts before. I can search the address book in Outlook 2013 and start the communication there, but it’s not so convenient. Do you meet the same problem? Thanks
I can search all my contacts and new ones. Exit Lync and open it again or reboot your computer.
I’ve been testing this as well.
‘Note’ string in Lync is not visible in any OCS client, nor is Location. Location is not, by default, visible between Lync Clients either unless the receiving user is in the ‘WorkGroup’ or ‘Friends and Family’ relationship group of the user with the Note.
Distribution Group expansion does not work in Lync client.
I still haven’t found any concrete work-around for either issue.
Hi Carlos,
I’m running a prod ocs 2007 r2 and Lync 2013 environment.
I’m trying to “Lync call” a ocs user (with ocs client) from lync 2013 user (with lync 2013 client). After a few seconds of initiating the call, it drops and blames bad network connection.
Audio calls from Lync2013Lync2013 are working fine.
Currently, sip. is pointing to the productive ocs environment. In the lync client “configuration information” the “connected Lync server” is pointing to ocs environment.
Could this be the issue? Do i have to add another sip. dns entry?
Does this affect other users who are still on ocs 2007 r2?
Looking forward for a reply,
Moritz
Okay, I found out, that this problem was caused by one of my two Lync2013 FE-Server, which had all services stopped.
Additional, i wasn’t able to login during my first FE-Server was down.
Is this an expected behaviour?
I thought that the secondary FE should take over all critical services&functionalities such as Logging in ….
Moritz are your FE servers load balanced by a DNS Round Robin or Hardware load balancer?
DNS Round Robin.
It took nearly 20 Minutes to login successfully, after the first FrontEnd was stopped.
Isn’t it a little too much?
Your should check your TTL on your DNS servers and lower it. The if the server is still responding you may have issues.
Thank you very much. It’s working like a charm!!
Your welcome.
I am using OCS 2007 server with disableServerCheck =1
the following features are not working, any ideas
1. group chat with OCS 2007 client users
2. not able the share the screen, have to use livemeeeting separately
3. not able to search any corporate users or the users who are already added in contacts
Carlos, you have mentioned that you have tested the screen sharing”
3.Screen Sharing with internal and external recipients.” — can you share the steps to do it
All the testing I did was with OCS 2007 R2. after the user is connected you just click the share desktop button. it is a peer to peer connection at that time.