Hello,
I am running Office Communication Server Standard 2007 on a Windows 2003 Standard Server. I have installed the Office Communication Client on my XP workstations and all works perfect. (We are running Outlook 2007 SP2 for desktop mail). When i try to duplicate this exact same setup on a Windows Vista Buisness Desktop (or laptop), Communicator loads and installs fine, and connects fine using the same TLS method with no certificate issues. It also prompts for the exchange login just as the XP boxes do, but for some reason where the XP install works perfectly, and gives me the group+members from AD that i added, the Vista install fails with the error "Distribution Group service could not perform this action." Anyone seen this before? I dont believe its the OCS server since all the XP clients work perfectly. I have checked the Firewall settings in Vista and its in the exception list with full scope. Im stumped. Lots of this issue floating around, but no one seems to have it confined to Vista like i do. Am i missing something? I have duplicated this on 5 Vista machines all with the same result.
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On one of the Vista machines, i disabled User Account control. The other still has it active. Both with the same results. The logged on user is a local administrator of the workstation, in the local administrators group. (The actual administrator account is active but not used on the vista machines. / on the XP machines, we rename the administrator account to be the users account.) Thanks for the quick response!
If you try this URL in your browser on the Vista machine what do you get.
/GroupExpansion/Int/se
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I have no clue what that did, but for some reason, when i went to that link (which was ../Service.asmx in both the Int and Ext folder), authenticated to the server, it just popped up and started working. Whatever that was it did the trick, i was able to duplicate it on another vista machine as well. Just took one successful login using IE to that link, and then Communicator starts working fine. Odd but nothing surprises me with microsoft. I greatly appreciate your assistance!
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by: ksalamehPosted on 2009-09-23 at 12:05:00ID: 25406684
Did you try running office communcator as an administrator ? or did you disable User Account control ?