Outlook Anywhere or RPC over HTTPS configuration from Script

I was reading this interesting post from Oz Casey Dedeal about RPC over HTTPS Script. This prompted to me to write this post as i was working on this some time back and had another way of scripting RPC over HTTPS and Outlook Anywhere configuration.

This VB script will do the configuration for both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. This script basically aims at changing the registry entries for your Outlook Profile that do all the outlook over https or outlook anywhere configuration.

Here are the Registry Keys and values that we are targetting at for doing this configuration in an Outlook Profile:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\\13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a

"00036601" - for Cached Mode
"00036623" - Enable Exchange Proxy settings and control various check boxes like "on fast networks…" etc.
"00036627" - For Authentication - Basic or NTLM
"001f6622" - for specifying Exchange proxy server name
"001f6625" - for specifying Exchange proxy server name according to principal cert name.

So the script will go like:

Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001
strComputer = "."
Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strValue1Name = "00036601"
arrValue1 = Array(&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00)
strValue2Name = "00036623"
arrValue2 = Array(&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00)
strValue3Name = "00036627"
arrValue3 = Array(&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00)
strValue4Name = "001f6622"
arrValue4 = Array(&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00)
strValue5Name = "001f6625"
arrValue5 = Array(&H00,&H00,&H00,&H00)
strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles"
oReg.EnumKey HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, arrSubKeys

For Each subkey In arrSubKeys
strFullPath = strKeyPath & "\" & subkey & "\13dbb0c8aa05101a9bb000aa002fc45a"
oReg.SetBinaryValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strFullPath,strValue1Name,arrValue1
oReg.SetBinaryValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strFullPath,strValue2Name,arrValue2
oReg.SetBinaryValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strFullPath,strValue3Name,arrValue3
oReg.SetBinaryValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strFullPath,strValue4Name,arrValue4
oReg.SetBinaryValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER,strFullPath,strValue5Name,arrValue5
Next

Replace the value of 00 after &H in arrValue1, arrValue2, arrValue3, arrValue4 and arrValue5 with your values by looking into the registry under mentioned reg keys.

Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Exchange Server SP1 Released

Microsoft has released Update Rollup 7 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

This update has important fixes for SCR and IMAP4 issues.

KB 960384 details about the issues fixed in this release of update rollup.

Read more on MSExchange Team Blog.

Integration Of Exchange 2007 and OCS 2007

In the last post, I discussed about the Microsoft's core solutions on Unified Communications - Exchange Server 2007 UM and OCS 2007. I had a chance to setup a test environment where they both operate together. So here we will talk about their intergration and take a look how it looks like.

To have both of them work together, you need to have Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Here are the key steps that you need to perform to configure them:

1. Configure the new dial plan. To do this, run this command from the powershell:

   New-umdialplan -name OCSPlan -Uritype "Sipname" -Voipsecurity "SipSecured" -Numberofdigitsinextension 4



2. Go to properties of this dial plan and set the subscriber access number. Subscriber access is used by users to access their individual mailboxes to retrieve e-mail, voice messages, contacts, and calendaring information. Outlook Voice Access is the new Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging feature that lets subscribers access their Exchange 2007 mailbox.


3. Apply this dial plan to the UM server:
   set-umserver -id UM_Server_Name -dialplans OCSPlan


4. Run Powershell script "EXCHUCUTIL.PS1" from Exchange Management Shell. This is installed when you apply SP1 for Exchange 2007. To run this successfully you might need to modify the properties of the Start Menu shortcut for the Exchange Management Shell so that it launches directly from the Scripts folder "Program files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts".


5. On the OCS server, run OCSumutil with the following command line: ocsumutil /domain:yourdomain.com
   

Now you can configure your users for Unified Messaging. You can do this from Exchange Management Console and right click on the user to Enable Unified Messaging and select the dial plan.

So now when you log on with this user to Communicator 2007, you will see the additional call menu from where you can forward your calls or redirect incoming calls to voicemail.



And now you get a Missed Conversation notification when someone IMs you and you are offline or away:

Also, You get the missed call notifications or voice mails when someone calls you via OCS client: