A whole bunch of demo videos came out on TechNet Edge yesterday
Exchange 2010 Mobility Demo: Nickname Cache Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager, demos Nickname Cache in Exchange 2010. By storing the e-mail addresses of recent recipients, the Nickname Cache helps users address e-mail more quickly by providing a suggested name list as a new address is typed. This automatically populated list narrows itself as the user types more letters of the recipient's name and is a combined cache of recent recipients of e-mail sent from Outlook Web Access and Outlook Mobile. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Exchange-2010-Mobility-Demo-Nickname-Cache/
Exchange 2010 Mobility Demo: Move Conversation Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager, demos the move conversation function within Conversation View. By treating multiple messages as a single conversation it can be managed, ignored, moved, and deleted as a whole vs. having to address each e-mail individually. New messages to old conversations will automatically be placed in the folder to which you have directed the conversation, even if you have deleted or ignored a conversation. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Exchange-2010-Mobility-Demo-Move-Conversation/
Exchange 2010 Mobility Demo: Free Busy Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager, demos how Exchange ActiveSync now enables users to look at a contact's calendar availability. Right from a user's contact information, a free/busy timeline show users when their contacts are available for a call or meeting. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Exchange-2010-Mobility-Demo-FreeBusy/
Exchange 2010 Mobility Demo: Conversation View Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager, demos the new Conversation View in Exchange 2010. The new conversation view quickly and easily enables users to identify the most recent messages and, the series of responses. Conversation view is always preserved, even if individual e-mail messages are located in different folders in the mailbox. By treating multiple messages as a single conversation it can be managed, ignored, moved, and deleted as a whole vs. having to address each e-mail individually. New messages to old conversations will automatically be placed in the folder to which you have directed the conversation, even if you have deleted or ignored a conversation http://edge.technet.com/Media/Exchange-2010-Mobility-Demo-Conversation-View/
Exchange 2010 Mobility Demo: UM Card Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager, demos UM Card for Exchange 2010 Mobility. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Exchange-2010-Mobility-Demo-UM-Card/
This is nice ..
This desktop gadget, however, uses the service in it’s fullest form; allowing for country and location-specific job searching straight from your desktop.
When you’re looking for a job, you want to be able to type your search and get your results as quick as possible. Because this gadget runs discreetly on your desktop you can have it there all the time and just fire a search straight in whenever you feel like it. Also, if you’re on a lower bandwidth connection you’ll get a big performance benefit from this, as the only data downloaded from our servers is for the jobs that match the search that you put in.
Blimey this is good!
Administrators, users and troubleshooters value the possibility in Outlook 2007 to get status about the connections: by holding the ctrl key while right clicking the Outlook icon in the notification area and choosing “Connection Status” (see also http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP010363941033.aspx).
With the new R2 version of the client, Microsoft introduces a similar dialog for Office Communicator 2007 R2. Hold Ctrl while right clicking the OC 2007 R2 icon in the notification area, choose “Configuration Information…”
What a scorcher in June was in the UK, and it all down hill now until the end of 2009
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Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Editor Download the Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Editor (MFCMAPI) from CodePlex. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=55fdffd7-1878-4637-9808-1e21abb3ae37
Infrastructure Planning and Design The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.
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Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor (v14.00.0611.003) Use the Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor to gather real-time data to better understand current client usage patterns, and to plan for future work. Administrators can view several items, including IP addresses used by clients, versions and modes of Microsoft Office Outlook, and resources such as CPU usage, server-side processor latency, and total latency for network and processing. Works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003 and 2007. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9a49c22e-e0c7-4b7c-acef-729d48af7bc9
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 2 Forefront Security for Exchange Server integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms into a comprehensive, layered solution, helping protect your Microsoft Exchange Server messaging environments from viruses, worms, spam, and inappropriate content. Features include antimalware engine amendments and rollup of software fixes. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2ceb14d4-404b-4d8f-8a21-ebfc71b2e82b
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TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 High Availability (Level 300) Welcome to the future! The future of Exchange high availability, that is. In this webcast, we reveal the changes and improvements to the built-in high availability platform in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 includes a unified framework for high availability and disaster recovery that is quick to deploy and easy to manage. Learn about all of the new features in Exchange 2010 that make it the most resilient, highly available version of Exchange ever. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416677&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Overview (Level 200) This webcast will introduce you to Exchange Server 2010, reviewing the major areas of investment for this release and highlighting marquee features. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416680&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Updates to Exchange Server 2010 specifically to support law firms This event will provide you with important information on the changes made to the upcoming Exchange Server 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032415779&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Forefront code name “Stirling” - The next generation of Forefront Security for Exchange Server (Level 200) Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE) includes new industry-leading protection technologies that give customers additional tools for keeping spam out of their network. This session will provide attendees an in-depth review of new connection filtering, and content filtering technologies recently released Beta 2 version of the next generation of Forefront Security for Exchange Server. Learn about the next generation Beta 2 release of Forefront Security for Exchange Server and how it will integrate with the Microsoft Forefront integrated security suite codenamed “Stirling.” http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032413791&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Management Tools (Level 300) Exchange 2010 includes new capabilities that make the operation of your Exchange environment more efficient. Learn how we’ve made the Exchange Management Console more powerful, extended the reach of PowerShell, and made it easier to delegate management tasks. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416688&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Archiving and Retention (Level 300) This webcast will introduce new ways to address archiving and retention with Exchange Server 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416695&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Outlook Web Access (Level 200) Exchange 2010 brings new features and functionality to Outlook Web Access. See product demonstrations of the latest capabilities and understand how browser-based communication and collaboration gets better than ever in Exchange 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416703&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Architecture (Level 300) This webcast describes the overall architecture of Exchange 2010 and key considerations for the scalability and performance of each server role. This webcast will provide the background and framework for the other Exchange 2010 webcasts, serving as a bridge between the overview session and drill-downs in each product area. This session is a recommended pre-requisite for the Exchange 2010 deployment and migration webcast. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416707&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Federation in Exchange 2010 (Level 300) Federation is a key part of the architecture of Exchange 2010, powering new organization-to-organization sharing scenarios. Learn how federation enhances the capabilities of Exchange 2010 and enables advanced coexistence between Exchange Server and Exchange Online. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416725&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Voice Mail enabled by Unified Messaging (Level 300) Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging is Microsoft's second generation unified messaging and voice mail solution. In this webcast, learn about the features, benefits, and architecture of Unified Messaging in Exchange 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416727&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Information Protection and Control (Level 300) This webcast will introduce you to new ways to address information protection and control with Exchange Server 2010. A discussion of the use of encryption and rights management in parallel with Exchange will be included as well as an introduction to new functionality in Exchange that supports information protection scenarios. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416729&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Transition and Deployment (Level 300) In this session we will cover the migration planning and deployment path to move an organization from Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032416708
Monday, July 13, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Storage in Exchange 2010 (Level 300) Exchange 2010 carries on the tradition that began in Exchange Server 2007 of dramatically reducing mailbox storage costs. Attend this webcast and learn how we’ve enabled new levels of storage flexibility in Exchange 2010 and find out the technical details that will help you select the right storage for your Exchange 2010 environment. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032418920
Thursday, July 16, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Cheaper, Better Backups with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 (Level 300) In today’s economy, more than ever, IT Pro’s are looking for ways to reduce costs while still improving existing processes or fixing things that aren’t meeting expectations – including backup. In this session, we’ll discuss legacy protection solutions for backup, disk-to-disk replication, and long-distance disaster recovery -- and how you can cut costs while gaining better backups and more reliable recoveries with System Center Data Protection Manager 2007. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032412440
Friday, July 17, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway - Hands on with Beta 2! (Level 300) Spend an hour walking through the Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Beta 2. We’ll discuss the core scenarios and changes in this release and walk through the configuration for the common environments. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032414066
Thursday, July 30, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Dial-in Audio Conferencing in OCS 2007 R2 (Level 300) Are you excited about the ROI of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 dial-in conferencing, but don't feel confident with the technical details behind it? Register for this webcast and learn about deployment considerations, server configuration, call flows and end user options. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032418750
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June 18, 2009 972405 Description of the Update for the Evaluation versions of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Office Communicator 2007 R2: June 2009 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972405
June 11, 2009 960147 Error message when you run the "clean-mailboxdatabase" cmdlet on an Exchange Server 2007 computer by using an account that is lacking Exchange Organization Administrator permissions: "Exchange is unable to clean the database that you specified" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960147
972041 Description of the update package for Office Communications Server 2007 R2: June, 2009 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972041
June 8, 2009 972263 Exchange Server 2007 Setup on Server 2003 Cluster Node Fails Intermittently http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972263
June 4, 2009 971480 You cannot send an instant message that contains a clickable hyperlink when the Office Communications Server 2007 server is running Forefront Security for Office Communications Server http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971480
Documentation updated to 1.0 (Date Published: 6/25/2009)
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=19bd0eb5-7ca0-41be-8c0f-2d95fe7ec636#tm
Sweet ..
The Service Level Dashboard Management Pack 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 assists you in tracking, managing, and reporting on your line-of-business (LOB) application service levels. It displays a list of applications and their performance and availability against service level goals
Source: http://home.nestor.minsk.by/computers/news/2009/06/1624.html
The concept of the directory enquiry (DQ) service is set to be brought into the mobile age with the announcement that 118 800 – the UK's first and only service with the ability to connect individuals to millions of mobile numbers – is to launch nationwide 18th June.
In a first for the industry, anyone in the UK will now be able to connect directly to the people they want – when they want to - by accessing 118 800 either by phone or online at 118800.co.uk and connecting via the service's simple and easy to use interface.
The launch of the service is set to come as major news to people in the UK who need a directory enquiry service with mobile numbers which caters for modern, mobile lifestyles and grants the ability to 'get hold of people now' whilst respecting their privacy.
Research shows nearly two thirds of people are in favour of using a DQ service which contains mobile listings as opposed to without, on the premise that the service would not give out the number.
http://www.118800.co.uk/removeme/remove-me.html
Funky baby, check out this stuff, training for Exchange 2007 and 2010!
… Take advantage of new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 training resources and become an expert on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Exchange Server 2010 is the first server in a new generation of Microsoft server technology that is built from the ground up to work on-premises and as an online service. It helps you simplify administration, protect communications, and meet user demand for greater business mobility
The new suite of Exchange Server 2010 training resources is designed to differentiate technology skills and job-role skills clearly, cover skills relevant to today's real-world IT functions, and streamline certification with simplified, specific learning roadmaps.
Hands on Lab: What's new in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 This lab provides an opportunity for experienced Exchange administrators to configure and validate some of the new features in Exchange Server 2010. It also provides a brief exposure to some of the most important new features and new administration tools in Exchange Server 2010.
First Look: What’s New in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 This clinic describes some of the significant enhancements provided in Exchange Server 2010. It provides an overall description of the most important design priorities for Exchange 2010, additional details on the enhancements that the users and administrators will experience. This clinic also provides an overview of the process for upgrading from previous versions of Exchange Server to Exchange Server 2010.
High Availability and Storage in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 For most organizations, flexible and cost-effective communication tools are important factors for meeting goals such as high availability and enhanced database recovery. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps organizations achieve these goals with a simplified, unified framework that helps them lower their costs and enhance business productivity. This Learning Snack explains how mailbox availability is achieved in Exchange server 2010 and how the new and improved database recovery and storage features
Clinic 6901: Exchange Server 2010 in an Enterprise This one-hour clinic describes Exchange Server 2010 features that are useful in an enterprise. It covers features such mailbox server configurations, unified messaging, and high availability.
Clinic 6900: Introduction to Exchange Server 2010 This one-hour clinic describes Exchange Server 2010 features, deployment scenarios, and development platform options. It also contains descriptions of tools used for managing Exchange Server 2010.
Collection 6899: Exploring Features of Exchange Server 2010 This two-hour collection provides you with an overview of the new features in Exchange Server 2010. It also describes the enhancements made over Exchange Server 2007
How hard do you think this would be? well damm hard in fact. So here is the deal. I have a Mac Pro running Windows 2008 and VMWare Server. I had an issue with my graphics card, so I moved my VMWare stuff to Tosh Laptop.
So my graphics card is now okay and I removed VMWare and installed Hyper-V. My plan was to migrate this Blog (win2k3), two DC’s (both win2k3, one 64 bit) and Exchange 2007 (win2k3 64 bit)
The basic principals are:
Easy hey … yeah right. The Blog moved over with no problems, but the DC’s converted, but then cycled Blue Screens. with 0×0000007B – “Inaccessible Boot Device” error. It appears that this is because my VM’s used iSCSI and had no Primary IDE Channel, while Hyper-V assumed that my converted disk was IDE and located on the Primary IDE Channel. DOH!. So after a lot of googling I found a solution.
So now my VM’s could boot and windows would start. Now for the next problem. As I converted the Domain Controllers something funky was happening. When I tried to install the Integration Services it would barf with a"System-Level Error Occurred While Verifying Trust". The NIC wasn’t discovered, so I was thinking crl, but none of the magic I tried before would work.
That's when I found the good ole Legacy Network Adapter. So I Shut down the vm, added the legacy nic and started it back up. Now the 32bit was sweet and the drivers installed and I could install the Integration Service. But I couldn’t find the 64bit drivers anywhere. So more googling and I found a post that said "On a healthy Windows Vista Machine (x64 or x86, I tested on Vista SP1 x86), navigate to %windir%\system32\driverstore\FileRepository, and copy the directory named dc21x4vm.inf_7d8c6569 to a CD (be sure to include hidden files - 4 files total), or other media that you can access from the x64 VM. Then use Device Manager to update the NIC driver in the VM."
As it goes I had a 64bit machine and created and ISO with the drivers in, installed them and the NIC worked and managed to install Integration Services. So .. the full steps are:
And finally .. thanks to these two links for pointing me in the right direction:
Phew, glad that is over!
Good god, has it really been that long … Yesterday (6th June) was this Blogs 5th Birthday. The first post was on the 6th June: Exchange 2003 Service Pack 1 - 06/06/2004 15:59:00 but I'm not sure what happened to that one :-|, with makes this one Service Pack 1 For Exchange 2003: 07/06/2004 10:17:00
http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2004/06.aspx
June already and the weather is sweet in the UK. So lets get on with this … bit of a delay in posting as kbalertz was down :-(
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta Language Pack Bundle This download contains the most recently updated language packs for Exchange Server 2010 Beta. The language bundle includes all packs for all supported languages. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3c0314ab-daa5-457f-8c61-c51182c38187
Infrastructure Planning and Design The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ad3921fb-8224-4681-9064-075fdf042b0c
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Help The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this information to guide you through Exchange Server 2007 SP1 features, tasks, and administration procedures. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=5eb0f9a0-2c49-4f2a-8a09-b981ed667821
EMEA case study resources Word and PowerPoint for GCRP programme http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=76cb47e0-546a-4212-9b4a-c58959427b0d
Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services Directory Synchronization Tool 8.1 The Directory Synchronization Tool (DST) helps you keep your on-site Active Directory directory service and Microsoft Exchange Server environment synchronized with your Exchange Hosted Filtering, Exchange Hosted Archive, and Exchange Hosted Continuity services . http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0417f18-65ba-48a2-a2e9-1f0066e5f5aa
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Configuring and Using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Unified Messaging Virtual Lab After completing this lab, you will be better able to create and assign a Unified Messaging Dial Plan, enable Users for Unified Messaging, run the Exchucutil.ps1 powershell script, run the OCS UM Integration tool, and use the Unified Communications features. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032415679&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
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Monday, June 01, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 High Availability (Level 300) Welcome to the future! The future of Exchange high availability, that is. In this webcast, we reveal the changes and improvements to the built-in high availability platform in Exchange Server 2010. Exchange 2010 includes a unified framework for high availability and disaster recovery that is quick to deploy and easy to manage. Learn about all of the new features in Exchange 2010 that make it the most resilient, highly available version of Exchange ever. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416676&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Wednesday, June 03, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Overview (Level 200) This webcast will introduce you to Exchange Server 2010, reviewing the major areas of investment for this release and highlighting marquee features. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416679&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Wednesday, June 03, 2009: MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Touch-based Computing with Brad Cunningham (Level 200) In this episode of geekSpeak, get acquainted with the tools and techniques for building touch-based interfaces for your applications. Industry expert Brad Cunningham walks you through the basics of the various hardware and software aspects of development, the gestures typically used, and more http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032416182
Monday, June 08, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Management Tools (Level 300) Exchange 2010 includes new capabilities that make the operation of your Exchange environment more efficient. Learn how we’ve made the Exchange Management Console more powerful, extended the reach of PowerShell, and made it easier to delegate management tasks. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416687&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Tuesday, June 09, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering is now Forefront Online Security for Exchange (Level 200) As of April 1, 2009 Microsoft Exchange Hosted Filtering is now Forefront Online Security for Exchange. Forefront Online Security for Exchange consists of layered technologies to actively help protect businesses’ inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. This session will touch on the integration of Forefront Online Security for Exchange with Forefront Security for Exchange Server for a hybrid hosted and on-premise spam protection and highlight our new partnership with Cloudmark™. Learn about Forefront Online Security for Exchange and how it will integrate with the Microsoft Forefront integrated security suite codenamed “Stirling”. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032413805
Wednesday, June 10, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Archiving and Retention (Level 300) This webcast will introduce new ways to address archiving and retention with Exchange Server 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416694&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Wednesday, June 10, 2009: TechNet Webcast: How to Manage Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 in Large Enterprises (Level 300) Many companies manage significant deployments of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 using its own management console, the DPM PowerShell command language, or the newly released Operations Manager 2007 management pack. During this webcast, we’ll provide some high level information on each of these. But large enterprises often require centralized management and reporting for multiple backup platforms, not only for multiple DPM servers, but across backup solutions from various vendors. To facilitate that, Microsoft has partnered with Bocada, which offers centralized data protection management functionality across multiple protection products. In this webcast, we’ll take a look at the centralized console for DPM 2007 that Bocada has created, as well as look at the seamlessly integrated monitoring of DPM and non-DPM backups within the Bocada solution. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032412446
Monday, June 15, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Outlook Web Access (Level 200) Exchange 2010 brings new features and functionality to Outlook Web Access. See product demonstrations of the latest capabilities and understand how browser-based communication and collaboration gets better than ever in Exchange 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416702&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Wednesday, June 17, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Architecture (Level 300) This webcast describes the overall architecture of Exchange 2010 and key considerations for the scalability and performance of each server role. This webcast will provide the background and framework for the other Exchange 2010 webcasts, serving as a bridge between the overview session and drill-downs in each product area. This session is a recommended pre-requisite for the Exchange 2010 deployment and migration webcast. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416706&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Monday, June 22, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Federation in Exchange 2010 (Level 300) Federation is a key part of the architecture of Exchange 2010, powering new organization-to-organization sharing scenarios. Learn how federation enhances the capabilities of Exchange 2010 and enables advanced coexistence between Exchange Server and Exchange Online. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416724&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Wednesday, June 24, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Voice Mail enabled by Unified Messaging (Level 300) Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging is Microsoft's second generation unified messaging and voice mail solution. In this webcast, learn about the features, benefits, and architecture of Unified Messaging in Exchange 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416726&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Monday, June 29, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Information Protection and Control (Level 300) This webcast will introduce you to new ways to address information protection and control with Exchange Server 2010. A discussion of the use of encryption and rights management in parallel with Exchange will be included as well as an introduction to new functionality in Exchange that supports information protection scenarios. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416728&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Wednesday, July 01, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Transition and Deployment (Level 300) In this session we will cover the migration planning and deployment path to move an organization from Exchange 2003 or Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416708&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Exchange Management Shell in Exchange 2010 Topic Last Modified: 2009-04-29 The Exchange Management Shell is a powerful command-line management interface, built on Windows PowerShell v2, which enables you to administer every part of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. You can be an administrator who needs to perform day-to-day management of your mailboxes, or you can be a developer who needs to automate administration using a custom line of business application. Either way, the Shell enables you to do more, faster. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd795097(EXCHG.140).aspx
Back to normal .. nothing
#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New KBs in February 2009 New means they appear in KB as Revision 1.0! Exchange 5.5: http://kbalertz.com/Technology_55.aspx Exchange 2000: http://kbalertz.com/Technology_53.aspx Exchange 2003: http://kbalertz.com/Technology_313.aspx Exchange 2007: http://kbalertz.com/Technology_515.aspx Forefront For Exchange: http://kbalertz.com/Technology_523.aspx
May 28, 2009 971878 Steps to enable Exchange 2007 store tracing for calendar issues
May 27, 2009 971713 A failover procedure in Exchange 2007 CCR and SCR clusters does not finish when you run commands to perform a recovery operation on an Exchange Server 2007 SP1-based server
May 19, 2009 967109 A delegate cannot accept a meeting request for an online meeting in an Exchange Server 2007 environment 954639 Exchange Information Store service stops responding intermittently on an Exchange 2007 server 960367 Error message when you run the Export-Mailbox command on a folder that has more than 5000 items in Exchange 2007: "-1056749164" 959990 An error occurs when you try to update a recurring appointment by using an Outlook client that is connected to an Exchange 2007 server 968012 Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 966535 Duplicate messages are sent to an external recipient if the recipient is included in multiple distribution lists in an Exchange Server 2007 environment 960495 The Information Store service crashes continuously on an Exchange Server 2007 server 957640 The "test-*" command fails when you run it on a site that contains only CAS roles in an Exchange 2007 environment 967255 Only the tracing information of the last user is logged when you configure Exchange Server 2007 to trace multiple users at the same time 962235 The date and time information for a "Follow Up" flag is missing if an Exchange 2007 user sends a message to an external recipient 968352 The W3wp.exe process crashes when you use the Italian version of the spelling checker on a message in Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007 968673 The EdgeTransport.exe file of Exchange 2007 servers crashes continuously and Event ID 10003 and Event ID 5000 occur 961693 Japanese (1 byte Kana) characters in the subject and display name are corrupted when you try to reply or forward task requests or calendar items in Outlook client 958239 Exchange Server 2007 does not generate an event log message for public folder replication messages even though a property validation exception is thrown and the replications do not occur 959861 Some clients cannot connect to back-end Exchange Server 2003 IMAP servers after Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 RU2 is applied 959510 A meeting request that is sent from OWA causes a "553 5.0.0 Message-Id header line format error" NDR message in an Exchange Server 2007 environment 960703 Extended characters are replaced by question marks when you send an e-mail message that contains extended ASCII characters by using an IMAP4 client in Exchange 2007 967038 Many log entries are generated in Exchange Server 2007 if you turn on the Exchange log to audit the logons that do not use the primary account for shared resource mailboxes 958938 The importance attribute of a message is lost when an Exchange 2007 user accesses a high-importance message or a low-importance message from Exchange Server 2007 by using a non-Outlook POP3 client or IMAP4 client 960633 The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes on an Exchange Server 2007 that has the mailbox server role installed 960178 You receive an NDR when you send an e-mail using OWA Premium and the ANR cache if the Exchange organization name has more than one space 958881 All HTML content in attachment files of messages is run through an HTML filter when you open or save the attachment by using Outlook Web Access (OWA) 960869 A queue that has multiple connections cannot enter a Retry state in Exchange Server 2007
May 15, 2009 971435 Steps to enable Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 Calendar Store tracing
May 14, 2009 970105 The move-mailbox process causes data loss in complex environments that have multiple Active Directory sites and multiple Exchange servers
May 12, 2009 971151 An Antigen 9.0 for Exchange or Forefront Security for Exchange Server installation does not configure correctly when the EMC AutoStart application is installed
May 6, 2009 963664 Error message when you click the flag icon of a message in the message list view in Outlook Web Access 2003 when you are using Internet Explorer 8: "'firstchild.firstchild' is null or not an object"
May 5, 2009 959379 Auto Accept Agent stops working after you move a resource mailbox to another store on an Exchange Server 2003 server
Humm, interesting.
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eb18d016-64f7-4aae-b491-65636a186c1a&displaylang=en
This is really good .. one to keep in the back of your mind!
In summary … When using an RSG to restore data, and the RSG is created on USB storage, you will need to restart the SERVER service to reinitialise any admin shares for the USB disk
A few days late, but oh baby baby ..
REDMOND, Wash. — May 26, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the evolution of Zune, the company’s end-to-end music and entertainment service, to a new platform and new markets. Zune will extend its video service to Xbox LIVE internationally this fall. This marks an important development in the Zune strategy and brings the Zune brand to more than 17 million international Xbox LIVE subscribers. In addition, Microsoft confirmed the next generation of the Zune portable media player, Zune HD. Available in the U.S. this fall, Zune HD is the first portable media player that combines a built-in HD Radio receiver, high-definition (HD) video output capabilities, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch screen, Wi-Fi and an Internet browser.
Just a reference to my me as I have forgotten it too many times ;-)
If you want to install SQL bits, including reporting services you need some IIS 7.0 components that maybe missing if you just all the web server role.
Remember, if your free tomorrow night … http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2009/05/11/mmmug-may-event-2009-introducing-exchange-2010.aspx
oooooooooooohh Thanks Ari for the tip off ;-)
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that supports new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware standards, and includes all updates delivered since SP1. SP2 simplifies administration by enabling IT administrators to deploy and support a single service pack for clients and servers. Please see the Windows Server SP2/Windows Vista SP2 page on TechNet/MSDN for additional details and documentation. Windows Vista SP2 TechNet Windows Server 2008 SP2 TechNet
Dunno if you have seen these errors on an Exchange 2003 server ..
Event ID: 9646 Type: Error Source: MSExchangeIS Description: Closing Mapi session "/o=Organization/ou=Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=user" because it exceeded the maximum of 250 objects of type "objMessage".
KBs for this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830829 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830836
Been playing with the figures and couldn’t for the life of me workout if it uses the Hex or Decimal values …. it appears it uses the decimal ;-)
ha ha
Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Professional Contractors Group has been able to find out how much tax the British government has raised from IR35.
… Through its FOI request, the PCG has established that the Government raised just £9.2m from IR35 in the tax years 2002/3 to 2007/8. No wonder the Government said it didn’t know how much revenue it earned from IR35 when asked in Parliament and elsewhere.
Okay do you know you can run Get-CASMailbox -Filter {HasActiveSyncDevicePartnership -eq $true} to get a list of users that have an Activesync partnership.
Now if you combine this with Get-ActivesyncDeviceStatistics you can get more details too. Check it out:
Get-CASMailbox -Filter {HasActiveSyncDevicePartnership -eq $true} | foreach {Get-ActivesyncDeviceStatistics -mailbox $_.name}
Was asked how to do this today, and here you go ......
$search = [System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher]([adsi]"") $search.Filter = "(objectClass=organizationalUnit)" $search.Findall() | ForEach{$_.properties.distinguishedname}
This will list all the DN's of the OUs in your AD
Now if you want to get clever, the resulting data lists the path, and then a set of properties:
Name ---- objectclass usncreated name objectguid whencreated whenchanged distinguishedname ou objectcategory instancetype usnchanged adspath
So this was a tweak to my earlier script to find out if an OU had "Include inheritable permissions from this objects parent" checked. So it looks like this now:
Function Get-Ou ($xOU){ Write-Host $xOU.properties.distinguishedname -Foregroundcolor Red -NoNewLine Write-Host " : " -NoNewLine $yOU = $xOU.Path $yOUPath = $yOU.ToString() $zOU = [ADSI]"$yOUPath" $zOU.psbase.ObjectSecurity.AreAccessRulesProtected }
$search = [System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher]([adsi]"") $search.Filter = "(objectClass=organizationalUnit)" $ALLOUs = $search.Findall() ForEach($xOu in $ALLOUs){Get-OU $xOU}
Enjoy
Check these babies out!
Wednesday, June 03, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Overview (Level 200) This webcast will introduce you to Exchange Server 2010, reviewing the major areas of investment for this release and highlighting marquee features. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416679&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Monday, June 08, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 Management Tools (Level 300) Exchange 2010 includes new capabilities that make the operation of your Exchange environment more efficient. Learn how we’ve made the Exchange Management Console more powerful, extended the reach of PowerShell, and made it easier to delegate management tasks. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032416687&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Chris is back blogging (at last) about Active Directory stuff .. must have given up on sharepoint ;-)
Sweet..
Windows Storage Server 2008 (WSS 2008) with the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target 3.2 is now available to all MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. A version for evaluation (TechNet Plus or MSDN), demonstration (MSDN), development (MSDN) or test (MSDN) is now being provided to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers for the first time. Rather than using expensive shared storage you simply run Storage Server on another machine. All communication is done over regular Ethernet cables, so HBAs or an expensive SAN are not needed. With just any three computers (2 cluster nodes and 1 iSCSI Target / DC) and a hub you can have your own Failover Cluster! Now there are no excuses for not trying out clustering.
Sweet, about time too, http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/13/451311.aspx but?!check out this too http://flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2008/06/13/windows-2008-backup-will-support-exchange-2007.aspx its a better way, but will not work on CCR clusters
The backup integration will enable Windows Server Backup to backup Exchange data. Note that there is no specific "Exchange only" granularity when you are backing things up. In other words, the backup is volume-based. If Exchange data is on C: drive, backing up the C: drive will also give you an Exchange-aware backup of Storage Groups located on that drive (and purge the transaction logs from all backed up Storage Groups if backup completed successfully)