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May 2009 - Posts

Restores from Online backup fail to Recovery Storage Groups configured on USB storage
This is really good .. one to keep in the back of your mind! Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/27/451488.aspx 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 Read More...
Posted: 29 May 2009 22:06 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Announces the Expansion of the Zune Entertainment Service to New Platform and Markets; Confirms New Zune HD Portable Media Player
A few days late, but oh baby baby .. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/may09/05-26ZuneHDPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases REDMOND, Wash. — May 26, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the evolution of Zune, the company’s end-to-end Read More...
Posted: 29 May 2009 10:41 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Installing SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008
Just a reference to my me as I have forgotten it too many times ;-) http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/07/01/installing-sql-server-2005-on-windows-server-2008.aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920201 If you want to install SQL bits, Read More...
Posted: 26 May 2009 15:32 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Introducing Exchange 2010 (MMMUG May Event) Tomorrow
Remember, if your free tomorrow night … http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2009/05/11/mmmug-may-event-2009-introducing-exchange-2010.aspx Read More...
Posted: 26 May 2009 15:26 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2
oooooooooooohh Thanks Ari for the tip off ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9f073285-b6ef-4297-85ce-f4463d06d6cb#tm Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista Read More...
Posted: 26 May 2009 11:09 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Exchange 2003: Exceeded the maximum
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 Read More...
Posted: 26 May 2009 11:00 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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IR35 tax is a huge failure
ha ha Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/22/ir35_tax_revenues/ 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, Read More...
Posted: 22 May 2009 14:00 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Exchange 2007: List Activesync users
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.  Read More...
Posted: 21 May 2009 17:23 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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List all you OUs with Windows Powershell
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} Read More...
Posted: 18 May 2009 19:38 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Exchange 2010 TechNet Webcasts
Check these babies out! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/tnexchangeserver.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=liveall Monday, June 01, 2009: TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2010 High Availability (Level 300)  Welcome to the future!  The future Read More...
Posted: 18 May 2009 08:23 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Welcome Back Chris
Chris is back blogging (at last)  about Active Directory stuff .. must have given up on sharepoint ;-) Read More...
Posted: 15 May 2009 15:35 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Microsoft iSCSI Target Software available to the public!
Sweet.. Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2009/05/14/9613924.aspx 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 Read More...
Posted: 15 May 2009 14:26 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Details of Exchange 2007 SP2 in-box backup when running on Windows Server 2008
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 Read More...
Posted: 14 May 2009 15:18 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Virtualization
Another one: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/05/13/488.aspx We are pleased to announce official support for server virtualization for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. We are introducing support for both a fully distributed virtualized Read More...
Posted: 14 May 2009 08:13 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Running Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 in a Virtualized Topology
Interesting read: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a45d921-3b48-44e4-b42b-19704a2b81b0 This whitepaper defines the supported topologies and provides best practice recommendations for running Office Communications Read More...
Posted: 14 May 2009 07:54 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Surgery Live, 25-28 May 2009
Check it out: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/exhibitionsandevents/events/Surgery-Live/index.htm and you had better be quick! Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to witness world-leading surgeons perform complex, dramatic and life changing operations Read More...
Posted: 13 May 2009 17:56 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Powershell Cmdlets for SCOM 2007 R2 (beta)
PsSnapin is called: Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.OperationsManager.Client get-help * | where {$_.pssnapin -like "*Enter*"} | sort name | select name,synopsis | ft –auto Name Synopis Add-ConnectorToTier Configures an Operations Manager Connector Read More...
Posted: 12 May 2009 08:25 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 available in Q3 2009
This is strange .. my RSS feed picked this but now it’s not on the web! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/11/451281.aspx Any way .. was expecting this a bit earlier .. Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables customers to increase their Read More...
Posted: 11 May 2009 21:07 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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MMMUG May Event 2009 - Introducing Exchange 2010
As you will no doubt have heard, Exchange 2010 was launched to the public on the 15 th of April. This of course means that there is now a huge amount of new features and functionality to learn. So, to help you get started MMMUG will be running a series Read More...
Posted: 11 May 2009 09:05 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Windows 2008 & Removing IIS
Every day is a school day .. if you remove IIS 7 from Windows Server 2008, it is never going back on properly. . . . EVER! You have to re-install the OS .. hopefully they will fix this in the next Service Pack or R2 Read More...
Posted: 08 May 2009 10:20 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Inherited OU Rights
Needed to check an OU structure to see if they have the good old “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” checked. So knocked this up: $RootOU = [ADSI]”LDAP://<DC>:389/Full DN of OU” $ChildOUs = $RootOU.psbase.Children ForEach Read More...
Posted: 07 May 2009 15:27 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Set an Existing Users password using Powershell
Was asked how to set an existing users password and here is how You need the FULL dn of the user (usually some like cn=user,ou=ou,dc=domain etc, etc) $xuser = [ADSI]"LDAP://<DC Name>:389/<Full DN of user>" $xuser.psbase.Invoke("SetPassword","Password2" Read More...
Posted: 06 May 2009 18:48 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Out Of Office text is not synchronized to Microsoft Exchange 2007 when updated from the BlackBerry smartphone
Might have missed this before, but cor bllimey a fix at last! Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/dynamickc.do?externalId=KB15155&sliceID=1&command=show&forward=nonthreadedKC&kcId=KB15155 Overview Out of Office (OOF) text appears to Read More...
Posted: 06 May 2009 11:40 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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Powershell Cmdlets for Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server Beta 2
Just install forefront and here are the new cmdlets Name Synopsis   Add-FSSFilterListEntry Adds items to an existing filter list. Clear-FSEReport Resets a report about FSE activities. Clear-FSSFilterList Clears a filter list. The filter list may Read More...
Posted: 05 May 2009 11:10 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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TechNet Webcast: First Look at Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager v3 (Level 300)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032412466 Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) In the last 18 months, DPM 2007 (v2) delivered application protection Read More...
Posted: 05 May 2009 10:58 by Paul Flaherty | 0 Comments
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Announcing the deprecation of Exchange Client Extensions
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/05/04/announcing-the-deprecation-of-exchange-client-extensions.aspx … Exchange Client Extensions (ECEs) represent an extensibility feature introduced with the Microsoft Exchange client in 1995. The Exchange Read More...
Posted: 05 May 2009 09:48 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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E2010 Beta1: Alternate Mailbox
So the idea of this feature is to give your users a mailbox Archive and for it look like a PST, but be stored on the server.  Suppose the idea is also as storage is cheap and this is a free feature in E2010, you won’t need the likes of Enterprise Read More...
Posted: 01 May 2009 13:45 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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A Month in Exchange: May 2009
So April saw the release of Exchange 2010 Beta [that's Twenty Ten, not two thousand and ten ;-)] ( Microsoft Unveils Exchange 2010 with Public Beta ) #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and Read More...
Posted: 01 May 2009 10:50 by Paul Flaherty | 1 Comments
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