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#Exchange #Exchange2010 #OCS So Ari send me a link to this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=10d2e48f-0846-40b6-b08f-d282309811a2 Test-ExchangeUMCallFlow The Exchange 2010 UM Troubleshooting Tool is used to diagnose configuration errors specific to call answering scenarios and to test whether voice ...

#Exchange2010 So I have been digging around, and here is a round of the links etc, that I have found so far Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a0965fc9-2723-4947-ae6b-74bc3808e72a Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Help ...

#Exchange2010 Interesting, from WES 2010 session ‘WA25: Best Practices in Deploying Microsoft® Exchange for BlackBerry’ jointly presented by RIM and Microsoft Jeff Mealiffe (Sr. Development Lead, Scalability & Capacity Planning) it says: Database IOPS per user is equivalent to a Microsoft® Outlook® client, not 5x and not 3x Our ...

#Exchange2010 This is a a cool new switch in setup: [/InstallWindowsComponents] Specifying this parameter will install Windows Server roles and features required for Exchange Server. Not tried it yet

#Exchange2010 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Technical White Papers for Exchange Server 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc164340.aspx Nothing New #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Technical White Papers for Exchange Server 2010 ...

#Exchange2010 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New On-Demand Web Content from June2010 TechNet Simulcast: Forefront Virtual Event (Day 1)https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032454003&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US TechNet Simulcast: Forefront Virtual ...

#Exchange2010 ##*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Exchange and OCS Downloads from June 2010 Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta UM Language Packs These downloads contain pre-recorded prompts, grammar files, text to speech data, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) files, and Voice Mail Preview capabilities for a ...

#Exchange2010 So I hope you don't mind the sections, it you do you didn’t tell me ;-) #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts & News from last month Microsoft Office Communications Server … In Blog Posts & News from last month Microsoft Communications Server … In Blog ...

In Brisbane and just done a session explaining an Exchange 2010 design and the concept of Database Availability Groups (DAGs) and servers etc etc This explains the shaking of heads when talking about DAGs! What does the Australian slang term dag mean? Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_the_Australian_slang_term_dag_mean A dag is ...

#Exchange2010 WTF so my test rig is an MDS600 with 70 1TB drives and a blade server.  So I have been running a series of tests and with the Beta version of jetstress it always fails with “Process has average database read latencies higher than 20.000 msec.” Overall Test Result Fail Test Start Time ...

#Exchange2010 At last it’s RTM’ed .. Use Jetstress 2010 to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2007 and 2010 server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange ...

#Exchange2010 … So Pre SP1 rollup 4 is on the street .. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09b4973e-3a80-4fb9-9f60-5c6e2b7a2727&displaylang=en Related KB is: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=982639 The KB is at version 2.0 and this is what has been fixed: 979342 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979342/ ) An ...

#ExchangeServer #Exchange2010 Available for download baby! Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your customers by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. File Name: ...

#Exchange2010 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Technical White Papers for Exchange Server 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc164340.aspx Nothing New #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Technical White Papers for Exchange Server 2010 ...

#Exchange2010 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New On-Demand Web Content from May 2010 MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Powershell for Data Professionals (Level 200)  In this episode of geekSpeak, Microsoft SQL Server guru Aaron Nelson shows you how to take control of your SQL Server with PowerShell. Aaron ...

#Exchange2010 ##*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Exchange and OCS Downloads from May 2010 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Documentation The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to ...

#Exchange2010 Okay so let me try this .. I am going to split out the sections this month instead of one big blog post .. let me know what you think. #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts & News from last month Microsoft Office Communications Server … In Blog Posts & ...

#Exchange #DPM Looking at System Centre Data Protection Manager and found a slide that mentioned offsite recovery and tape .. so I dug some more and found this: http://www.ironmountain.co.uk/news/2010/impr04202010.asp LONDON (April 20, 2010) – Iron Mountain, an information management services company, today announced a new release of its ...

#Exchange You guys seen this: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/ Loads of videos and resources ;-)

#Exchange2010 #OCS #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts & News from last month Microsoft Office Communications Server … In Blog Posts & News from last month #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Exchange and OCS Downloads from April 2010 ...

This looks interesting This webinar is for you if your organization has made the decision to move from Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint, but you're still wondering: "how do we make this transition as painless as possible for our end users?" If you've started down this path, you may already realize that Microsoft Outlook does not ...

#Exchange2010 So if you paying attention and saw in my previous post, you can check the database ActivationPreference. [#Powershell script to check #Exchange 2010 Database Perference] Well this script goes one step further and actually moves a database back to ActivationPreference #1 it is not on it! Again, it’s another one ...

#Exchange2010  Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service Could Allow Denial of Service (981832) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-024.mspx This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange and Windows SMTP Service. The ...

#Exchange2010 #powershell You seen this, it’s well funky, and give you the opportunity to “monitor” what people are doing to YOUR exchange system! .. Administrator audit logging in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 enables you to create a log entry each time a specified cmdlet is run. Log entries detail what cmdlet was run, which parameters were ...

#Exchange2010 Thanks to Ari for showing me this: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Exploring-Whats-New-in-Exchange-2010-Service-Pack-1-Archiving/ Today, we are happy to give you a first look at what is coming later this year in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1)’s archiving feature. In this video, the Exchange team’s Ann Vu and Ian ...

#Exchange2010 So been testing storage with Jetstress 2010 Beta and I am not 100% sure its a really valid test? So I have tested a Clariion and had mixed results with most of the test failing with over 20ms average read latency, but the IOPs are between 4,000 and 6,000! Now i have just finished a test using an MDS600 configure with JBOD and a 13 ...

#Exchange2010 #Exchange Okay made some changes, so lets see if this works :-| https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032442912&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 carries on the tradition begun in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 of dramatically reducing mailbox ...

#Exchange2010 … April already #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from last month #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in March 2010 Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Help The Exchange Server 2007 ...

#Exchange2010 … Thanks to Ari for this Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=e3303d34-af6c-4108-861b-dc05f9cf3e76 Giving your users the ability to store more e-mail has many advantages. Large mailboxes keep e-mail on the Exchange Server instead of allowing it to be scattered in Outlook Data Files ...

#Exchange2010 Source: http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2010/20100317-01.htm HOPKINTON, Mass. - Mar. 17, 2010 EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announces an advanced range of choices for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 environments including business continuity/disaster recovery ...

#Exchange .. Humm, interesting Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB20676 Products BlackBerry® Enterprise Server BlackBerry® Device Software version 4.1.0.344 to 4.1.0.385 (excluding version 4.1.0.347) and 4.2.0.74 and later (including 5.0) Overview The March 2010 Daylight ...

#Exchange2010 This is a bit worrying .. just had an Exchange 2010 user complain about a calendar issue .. basically they accepted a meeting but in Outlook and OWA it was 1hr ahead :-| but on his iPhone is was the correct time. Please tell me that Exchange 2010 doesn't have DST issue .. please

Interesting: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/03/now-its-easy-switch-to-google-apps-from.html Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 9:00 AM Today we're making it a lot easier for customers of Microsoft Exchange to go Google with Apps. Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange is a new server-side tool that migrates your company's email, ...

#Exchange2007 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP2 customers. For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB979784 This update ...

#Exchange2010 .. I know you have already seen this, but here it is again! http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/us/en/sizers/microsoft-exchange-server-2010.html Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is a complex application that requires intensive knowledge of deployment strategies, interdependencies, server and storage performance related issues. HP ...

#Exchange2010 .. This makes an interesting read http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Should_Exchange_2010_use_DAS_or_SAN

#Exchange2010 .. This is an interesting blog by Mark Arnold Source:http://markarnold.blogspot.com/2010/03/exchange-2010-netapp-deduplication.html Lots of testing of various stores under various situations. As you know SIS has been eliminated from Exchange 2010 and a form of store compression introduced. This, along with the other capabilities ...

#Exchange2010 RU2 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/03/05/454155.aspx Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 979611) to the download center. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979611 Taken from: Revision: 1.0 March 4, 2010 .. Issues that the update rollup fixes Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 ...

#Exchange2010 .. Oh just stumbled across this .. Use Exchange Server 2010 Help content to help you plan, deploy and manage your Exchange 2010 organization. File Name Exch2010Help.exe Version March2010 Date Published 3/3/2010 ...

#Exchange2010 … #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from last month #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in February 2010 EMEA case study resources Avanade Case Study ...

Interesting, cheap as chips .. only $112 million in cash Source: http://www.ironmountain.com/mimosa/ BOSTON (Feb. 22, 2010) – Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), an information management services company, today announced it has acquired Santa Clara, Calif.-based Mimosa Systems, Inc., a leader in enterprise-class content archiving ...

#Exchange2010 … You have got to be joking what happened to January? … #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from December 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in January 2010 Quick Start Guide for Outlook Voice Access ...

#Exchange2010 Source: http://kennethvanditmarsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/vmotion-and-exchange-2010/ Now this is very very interesting and may explain why my DAG databases keep failing over.. … vSphere Update 1 states: Enhanced Clustering Support for Microsoft Windows – Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) for Windows 2000 and 2003 and Windows ...

Just an FYI, this webcast was has been rescheduled for: Date: 02/12/2010 Time: 01:00 PM-02:30 PM U.S. Pacific Time … Attend this webcast to learn how Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 work better together. Discover how Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) and Microsoft Forefront Online Protection ...

#Exchange2010 … Happy New Year to you all and lets get this party started … #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from December 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in December 2009 Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online E-mail ...

#Exchange2010 #HP This looks interesting … http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/getdocument.aspx?docname=4AA2-0689ENW.pdf This white paper provides a brief introduction to the HP BladeSystem Matrix with a focus on the HP Insight Dynamics infrastructure orchestration capability. The paper also discusses Microsoft’s new email platform Microsoft Exchange ...

This is a good use of 20 mins .. I quite like the format too.  Not 100% sure that this is exchange version specific.  Dunno if you need to have FPE installed on an Exchange 2010 server. http://edge.technet.com/Media/Forefront-Protection-2010-for-Exchange-Deployment-and-Performance/ Alexander Nikolayev joins us again to dive deep into ...

#Exchange2010 … Bit late this month #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from November 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in November 2009 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and Outlook Standards Documentation The ...

#Exchange2010 yeah Baby but what is with the need for MAPI/CDO? Source: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/server/exchange/2010support.jsp BlackBerry® Enterprise Server v5.0 with Service Pack 1 and Maintenance Release 1 is now fully certified with Microsoft® Exchange 2010 and BlackBerry® Technical Support Services are readily available. … ...

#Exchange2010 Microsoft has released Update Rollup 1 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Release to Manufacturing Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976573

#Exchange2010 - Found this and it’s damm handy and what's cool is that its a Windows Powershell v2 thing and you don't need Exchange :-| Source: http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/11/send-emails-easily-using-powershell-v2.html  -and- Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347693.aspx The Send-MailMessage cmdlet sends an ...

#Exchange2010 … Last day … Check it link for more details around RBAC and role assignments .. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd298183(EXCHG.140).aspx I love this cmdlet: Get-ManagementRoleAssignment –role “Mailbox Search” –GetEffectiveusers | FL Name, RoleAssigneeName, EffectiveuserName, AssignmentChain As for certs you need to ...

#Exchange2010 .. I Like it !! .. this is well funky http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/11/finding-users-who-have-out-of-office.html It might come in handy if you know how to get a list of users who have out of office message turned on. Exchange 2010 shell gives you that ability now. You can even change the message, set the audience ...

Bl00dy Live writer overwrote my notes .. so if anyone has them all please let me know .. here is day 2 #Exchange2010 .. Some links from today http://loadbalancer.org/ Updates to the Exchange Supportability Matrix: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/30/453327.aspx Upgrading ESX 4.0 to 4.0 Update 1 on HP Proliant systems can fail or time ...

#Exchange2010 … For the guys on the training here. The storage stuff is from a webcast by Matt Gossage on the 3th July 2009. its not bad and you can get a pdf of the slides too http://tinyurl.com/yhf538b Also check this out for a e2010 installation .. http://tinyurl.com/ygamm7e Forrester report on Exchange 2010 .. ...

Funky Source: http://www.bhargavs.com/index.php/powershell/2009/11/script-to-install-exchange-2010-pre-requisites-for-windows-server-2008-r2/   Even though installing pre-requisites on Windows Server 2008 R2 is simple and straight forward as described here, it makes it even faster if you were to use a script to do so. MVP Anderson ...

#Exchange2010 Humm.. Source: http://bit.ly/2cjtNW IT shops moving off of IBM Domino servers or generic POP/IMAP sources and onto Exchange Server 2010 won't be able to do it with free tools from Microsoft. The company isn't offering the Transporter Suite for the new Exchange, leaving little choice but to buy expensive third party software. ...

#Exchange2010 Humm, interesting .. it would appear that Support for Exchange 2010 is scheduled to be introduced with BES 5.0.1 MR1 RIM have a few issues with Exchange 2010 and BES 5 SP1 so MR1 is targeted for around the 7th December 2009. Microsoft will then probably release Update 1 for Exchange 2010 around the same time.

Interesting .. http://docs.blackberry.com/en/admin/deliverables/12039/BlackBerry_Enterprise_Server_for_Microsoft_Exchange-Release_Notes--934496-1104102201-001-5.0.1-US.pdf Hightlight for me is: Support for Microsoft Exchange Web Services.  You can configure the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to use Microsoft Exchange Web Services instead of ...

#Exchange2010 .. Planning on deploying Exchange 2010? .. You have got to check this out: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/5/0/75068B44-0A70-4BBF-9824-01ECF076F7AE/TheTotalEconomicImpact_pdf_11042009.pdf Some highlights are: “Lorimer” is Forresters made up company the ROI for our composite company, computed from hard benefits, is ...

#Exchange2010 .. just found it on Technet .. and MSDN .. Yeah baby it’s in the wild Exchange Server 2010 (x64) - DVD (Chinese-Simplified, Chinese-Traditional, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, and Spanish) Date Posted (UTC): 11/9/2009 6:41:51 AM

so a special pre-TechEd event with two members of the products groups from Redmond enroute to present in Berlin. Astrid McClean is a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Exchange group Astrid went through a presentation on the management, new administration capabilities and self service features of Exchange Server 2010 RBAC ...

Cool at last, will probably be the first SP2 Rollup? .. you see “we” do have a voice and Microsoft do listen ! http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/04/453026.aspx … Earlier this year we made a decision in one direction, and due to the feedback we have received on this blog and elsewhere, we have reconsidered.  In the coming calendar ...

#Exchange Missed this .. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS154453+03-Nov-2009+PRN20091103 Trend Micro Announces the Latest ScanMail(TM) for Microsoft Exchange Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:00am EST ScanMail 10, providing the immediate protection of the Trend Micro(TM) Smart Protection Network(TM) with half the administration and twice the ...

Damm November already, where has this year gone? #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from October 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in October 2009 Quick Start Guide for Outlook Voice Access 2010 Outlook ...

Roll up roll up register why you can … in the UK it’s 1800-1900 :-| http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032428203&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US Wednesday, November 04, 2009: Virtualizing business critical applications delivers significant benefits, including cost savings, enhanced ...

Check it out, all you need is your name and email address. http://www.red-gate.com/specials/Exchange/esa_exchange2010.htm?utm_source=simpletalkarticle&utm_medium=weblink&utm_content=2010ebookoct09 It’s a 195 PDF doc with five chapters: Chapter 1 is an overall chapter, what’s new in Exchange Server 2010 and what has deprecated with ...

Interesting .. maybe someone will write a PST interface for Outlook Web Access :-o http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2009/10/26/roadmap-for-outlook-personal-folders-pst-documentation.aspx Data portability has become an increasing need for our customers and partners as more information is stored and shared in digital formats. One ...

As you should know by now Exchange 2010 removes certain programming hinterfaces that breaks the likes of BES and Enterprise Vault.  Found this: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/support/software/server_compatibility.jsp#tab_tab_news October 20, 2009 - Research In Motion (RIM) is pleased to notify you that we are working in close collaboration ...

I know, I know its late, but hey did u c the announcement last night .. "Exchange 2010 is Code Complete and on its way to General Availability" .. yeah baby! #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for ...

Wanted to share this with you .. get the Service Health or all you Exchange 2010 Servers Get-ExchangeServer | where {$_.AdminDisplayVersion.Major -eq 14 –AND $_.IsProvisionedServer -eq $False} | ForEach{$s = $_.Name; "`n$s"; Test-Servicehealth $s | Select Role, RequiredServicesRunning | FT -auto}

Only 114 days until Christmas ;-).  So August the release of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 and Exchange 2010 Release Candidate #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for August 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available ...

Wow not many spare chairs, so this was an Exchange 2010 HA session with Ewan Tsang-MacKellar. Session started with the HA options Exchange 2007 gave us.  Then Ewan introduced us to Exchange 2010 DAG’s (Database Availability Groups). DAG Config information is stored in the AD and the Windows Failover cluster (yeah it’s still ...

Thanks to Ash for pointing me at this: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_perf_exchange-storage-protocols.pdf Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a storage intensive workload used by a large number of IT organizations to provide email for their users. In this paper, a large installation of 16,000 Exchange users was configured across eight ...

Okay been trawling the web and found these: Active Directory Schema Changes (SP2) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221142.aspx What's New in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221150.aspx Exchange Management Shell (SP1 and SP2) ...

Okay the link on the download site doesn’t work, but it should go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221150.aspx Deploying Exchange Server 2010: You can deploy Exchange Server 2010 in your organization … Exchange Backup Functionality: Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 includes a VSS plug-in for Windows Server Backup to support ...

Shame the What’s New link doesn't work! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake ...

Ohhh Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b8a7d36f-cc8d-4335-ae60-8f27c48f3a37&displayLang=en Microsoft Forefront Security 2010 for Exchange Server provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates ...

At last … Update: The have fixed the link! so you can actually download it now.  Interesting the build number is 14.00.0639.011 Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dd185495.aspx Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 RC helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your ...

Damm, Silly season already #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for July 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in July 2009 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Beta and Outlook Standards Documentation The ...

Check these out: Collection 6899: Exploring Features of Exchange Server 2010 https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=249671 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. The clinics ...

This should be a good one! The August 2009 MMMUG Meeting will be on Tuesday the 25th of August in the usual location, the Microsoft offices at Cardinal Place, near London Victoria. This month we have Ewan Tsang-MacKellar from Microsoft who will be diving into all the High Availability options in Exchange 2010. The meeting starts at 18:35 and ...

So I didn’t "really" notice this, but then Patrick mention it and I thought wot? Basically when you try and dcpromo the first Windows 2008 server in a Windows 2003 forestyou get this: so you need to run Z:\sources\adprep>adprep.exe /forestprep but from an existing DC or you get this: Z:\sources\adprep>adprep.exe /forestprep ...

It’s been a while, but I have updated Get-MsxServerPLUS.ps1 aka Get-ExchangeServerPLUS.ps1.  I changed the name as it was annoying me as it was conflicting with get-exchangeserver.  Other updates are: v1.20 10 November 2008    : Changed the script name so it is different from the standard exchange commands. Added Event ...

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 ...

Blimey this is good! Source: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/04/08/400.aspx 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 ...

What a scorcher in June was in the UK, and it all down hill now until the end of 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for June 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in June 2009 Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI ...

Funky baby, check out this stuff, training for Exchange 2007 and 2010! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/exchange-server.aspx …  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 ...

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 ...

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 :-( #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for May 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available ...

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 to reinitialise any admin shares for the USB disk

Remember, if your free tomorrow night … http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2009/05/11/mmmug-may-event-2009-introducing-exchange-2010.aspx

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: ...

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 ...

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 of Exchange high availability, that is.  In this webcast, we reveal the changes and ...

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 . . .As we mentioned in our Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 available in Q3 2009 - we ...

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 operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server ...

As you will no doubt have heard, Exchange 2010 was launched to the public on the 15th 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 of events over the next few months covering many of the key areas. We start on Wednesday May ...

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 stop working 20 minutes after selecting this option from a BlackBerry smartphone. Cause ...

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. ...