Comments on: OCS 2007 Message Limits http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/ Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Joe http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-1988 Joe Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:39:04 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-1988 <p>Ha, I love it. Send a 1 char message, then send the big one. Silly MS and their attempts at software!</p> <p>Thanks!</p> Ha, I love it. Send a 1 char message, then send the big one. Silly MS and their attempts at software!

Thanks!

]]> By: Josh (MSFT) http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-1509 Josh (MSFT) Tue, 11 May 2010 13:23:56 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-1509 <p>This is hard coded. Furthermore it's not a character limit so much as a SIP message size limit. You'll find if you do lot of formatting on in the text you send you'll be able to send fewer overall characters.</p> <p>The reason for the difference between the first and other messages has to do with toast. If you are signed on to multiple endpoints then we'll establish the conversation with the endpoint you answer from. We need a few seconds to let the user answer when they see the toast so we don't establish the dialog until a ~10 sec delay has happened. With no "message+ok" to establish the conversation we wouldn't see any text in the popup toast. Therefore a <em>copy</em> of the first message sent is piggybacked on the invite. Piggybacked messages will have a smaller size to work with hence the ~800 instead of ~8000. (and I'm not positive those are the exact numbers...taking your word for it). </p> <p>A rushed answer but hopefully it helps.</p> This is hard coded. Furthermore it’s not a character limit so much as a SIP message size limit. You’ll find if you do lot of formatting on in the text you send you’ll be able to send fewer overall characters.

The reason for the difference between the first and other messages has to do with toast. If you are signed on to multiple endpoints then we’ll establish the conversation with the endpoint you answer from. We need a few seconds to let the user answer when they see the toast so we don’t establish the dialog until a ~10 sec delay has happened. With no “message+ok” to establish the conversation we wouldn’t see any text in the popup toast. Therefore a copy of the first message sent is piggybacked on the invite. Piggybacked messages will have a smaller size to work with hence the ~800 instead of ~8000. (and I’m not positive those are the exact numbers…taking your word for it).

A rushed answer but hopefully it helps.

]]> By: Marc’s ICT Blog » Blog Archive » OCS 2007 Instant Message Size http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-816 Marc’s ICT Blog » Blog Archive » OCS 2007 Instant Message Size Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:40:56 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-816 <p>[...] tested the message size of a IM in Office Communicator 2007. According to Tom Pacyk the Initial Message size of an IM is 800 characters. Every subsequent messages can be 8000 [...]</p> [...] tested the message size of a IM in Office Communicator 2007. According to Tom Pacyk the Initial Message size of an IM is 800 characters. Every subsequent messages can be 8000 [...]

]]> By: Marc http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-815 Marc Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:40:26 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-815 <p>thx for this info. Just what I was looking for</p> thx for this info. Just what I was looking for

]]> By: Oliv http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-787 Oliv Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:46:17 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-787 <p>Many thanks for the information. Too bad there is not way to make the limit bigger !</p> Many thanks for the information. Too bad there is not way to make the limit bigger !

]]> By: Simon Barratt http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-646 Simon Barratt Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:18:02 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-646 <p>Thanks for the info. I was so hoping for an answer too though! At least I was able to send my pased IM to the recipient I wanted to, by initiating an IM first before pasting it in!</p> Thanks for the info. I was so hoping for an answer too though! At least I was able to send my pased IM to the recipient I wanted to, by initiating an IM first before pasting it in!

]]> By: Joshua Shoemaker http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-620 Joshua Shoemaker Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:24:25 +0000 http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/ocs-2007-message-limits/#comment-620 <p>Thanks for taking the time to figure out those limits and the apparent inability to modify that setting concerns me. I am getting ready to deploy this to my firm and I am sure that we will bump into that limit on the first message. (that is what prompted me to google the error and end up here). Going to check the OCS forums to see if anyone has posted about this there and if not will link to your blog and your investigative work to see if any SQL people can carry it further.</p> Thanks for taking the time to figure out those limits and the apparent inability to modify that setting concerns me. I am getting ready to deploy this to my firm and I am sure that we will bump into that limit on the first message. (that is what prompted me to google the error and end up here). Going to check the OCS forums to see if anyone has posted about this there and if not will link to your blog and your investigative work to see if any SQL people can carry it further.

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