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Check it out, just been looking at the Exchange 2010 stuff and at the top there is a new option “Switch on low bandwidth view”

Funky!

So I have been waiting for a while to get my hands on this, and on Friday it arrived in the post.  I had great expections for it, a cigar packet size pico projector that should make ad-hoc powerpoint sessions a lot better.

Check out this video .. I had to split it in two :-|

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCqvx2E_iFw

 

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZPleLB2hEE

So I ordered mine from 3mselect http://solutions.3m.co.uk/wps/portal/3M/en_GB/MeetingPresentationSolutions/Home/Products/MPro/ and it came within 48 hours.

All in all I like it, it will alllow meetings to be more dynamic (as long it’s low light) and to watch movies on the go like in hotel rooms where I can’t connect my laptop to the TV.

Check out the video and let me know what you think

We try and see Jo Caulfield every year, as I love here sense of humour and the shows are great.  This year was a new venue at The Stand Comedy Club in York Place, a nice intimate venue that can hold about 170 people!

.. Guaranteed laughs from queen of comedy. Star of Radio 4. Razor-sharp observations and scandalous one-liners. ‘Sharp-witted, urban comedy that goes down a treat’ (Times). ‘Wonderfully bitchy’ (Observer). ‘Pure comedy gold’ (Evening Standard).

The review was right, Jo “picked” on (as usual and why we sat at the back) a few people in the front row and  a number of typical subjects that left your sides hurting.

If you have an hour to spare, go see Jo, you wont regret it

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Check out more here: http://www.edfringe.com

What ever happened to double clicking on an service pack and it just works?  I have had a hell of a time installing this in my lab, and I thought I should share some of my issues and fixes with the world at large.

NB: These are from my Test Lab and not production.  My test lab is running on a VMware ESX server (yeah, yeah I know, not supported!)  For any fixes I have found, it is down to you if you want to apply them, don’t come crying to me if they mess something up!

First the easy ones:

• Got Forefront Security for Exchange Server. You need to upgrade it to Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1
  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=68589

• When you run Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on Windows Server 2003 or earlier versions of the operating system, we recommend that you install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). If you cannot install .NET Framework 2.0 SP1, install hotfix Microsoft Knowledge Base article 942027 from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=101219.

Now the interesting ones:

1) setup /mode:upgrade

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup

Preparing Exchange Setup

The following server roles will be upgraded
    Hub Transport Role
    Management Tools

Setup previously failed while performing the action “Install”.  You cannot resume setup by performing the action “BuildToBuildUpgrade”.

Exchange Server setup encountered an error.

Fixed by Delete the following registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0HubTransportRoleWatermark

and Change the following registry key from Install to BuildToBuildUpgrade
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0HubTransportRoleAction

See this for a bit more detail: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/05/21/439529.aspx

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2) setup /mode:upgrade

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup

Preparing Exchange Setup

The following server roles will be upgraded
    Hub Transport Role
    Management Tools

Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check

    Organization Checks              ……………………. FAILED
     The Active Directory Schema must be modified and this user account has insu
fficient permissions. It must be a member of both the ‘Schema Admins’ and ‘Enter
prise Admins’ groups.

    Hub Transport Role Checks        ……………………. COMPLETED

The Exchange Server Setup operation did not complete. For more information, visit http://support.microsoft.com/ and enter the Error ID.

Exchange Server setup encountered an error.

Logon with an account that can extend the schema and re run setup

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3) setup /mode:upgrade

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup

Preparing Exchange Setup

The following server roles will be upgraded
    Mailbox Role
    Management Tools

Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check

    Mailbox Role Checks              ……………………. FAILED
     Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the ‘svchost’ () process (ID
: 628) has open files. Close the process and restart Setup.

The Exchange Server Setup operation did not complete. For more information, visi
t http://support.microsoft.com/ and enter the Error ID.

Exchange Server setup encountered an error.

Some services might have open files and setup will let you know the process and PID. To find the process run tasklist | find “” and kill the process.

tasklist | find “628”
svchost.exe                    628 Console                    0      8,360 K

taskkill /PID 628 /f
SUCCESS: The process with PID 628 has been terminated.

Re Run setup

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4) setup /mode:upgrade

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup

Preparing Exchange Setup

The following server roles will be upgraded
    Hub Transport Role
    Management Tools

Performing Microsoft Exchange Server Prerequisite Check

    Hub Transport Role Checks        ……………………. COMPLETED

Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server

    Hub Transport Server Role        ……………………. FAILED
     Opening package ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerTransportRoles
agentsHygieneASDat.MSI’ failed. Another version of this product is already ins
talled.  Installation of this version cannot continue.  To configure or remove t
he existing version of this product, use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Pane
l. Error code is 1638.

The Exchange Server Setup operation did not complete. For more information, visi
t http://support.microsoft.com/ and enter the Error ID.

Exchange Server setup encountered an error.

Not worked this one out yet!  I have a support case open with Microsoft.  Will let you know what the deal is when I find out

I have to share this with you .. Checked out one my clusters today.  Only has 67 users on it, with 8 storage groups/databases.

Just in case you can’t see the picture, that is 28gb for the store and check out the page file usage … yup @ around 30gb. I suppose if you have got the memory, you may as well use it!

Now this server has 8 cores and 32gb of ram!

Suppose the server boys should have given it more than a 2gb page file!

Should it be memory + 10mb or memory x 1.5

Answers on a postcard!

Well I finally done it .. I am the proud owner of one very sexy looking Mac Pro.

I have just got my hands on leopard too. Why I hear you ask, well for the cost of my dual 3ghz xeon it is doubt full that I could get Dell cheaper, and a Dell would no way look as good.

However, its primary use, as you have probably guessed is a 64bit windows server running VMWare, so I can host this blog and get my Exchange 2007 org back up and running.

I will let you know how I get on

have been looking for these for a while, so I decided to open up the SQL database and export a list.  So here they are:

Update: Well that didn’t go as I planned .. The post was too but, to I will attach a pdf with the policies in :-|

okay so it has taken a while, but my m400 drive cages have turned up with means vista time.

Over the last few week XP seems to be slowing down.

So yesterday I swapped out my hard disk and installed Windows Vista. Actually I installed the 64 bit version (yeah baby, dunno why, but I did)

All in all it was a painless process, the fingerprint reader doesn’t work, but that is not a big deal. I have yet to test the built in 3g as I am still searching for the T-Mobile software I have in XP.

So what’s the real deal. Well is runs like a bat out of hell and so far everything except windows live mail & writer betas have installed with no issues. It was a good decision to upgrade to vista.

Well it looks like it’s out .. well nearly, officially it’s Monday 12th February 2007.  Jason has a series of blogs that are a must to look at:

Windows Mobile 6 is a GO!

Windows Mobile 6 Partner webcast

Windows Mobile 6 – What’s New and What’s Cool?

Now all I need is i-mate to provide the update for my JAMin … the website says nuffin

Another webcast, which I suppose is good! I looks like the it will focus on the impact of DST on Exchange and Outlook! as it’s by Elizabeth & Aime

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