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#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 ...

Thanks Virtual Commander for the links: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_u1_vc40_u1.html -and- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/11/20/vsphere-esxvcenter-4-0-update-1/ What's new? The following information provides highlights of some of the enhancements available in this release of VMware ESX: VMware View 4.0 support ...

Oh yeah baby on Technet and MSDN Office 2010 provides enhancements for developers such as expanded platform services, increased tools productivity, and reduced time to solution delivery.

#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

I was sleeping again .. but well done Christopher ;-) Source: http://chrisbeams.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/powershell-v2-out/ –and- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/968929 The Windows Management Framework includes: Windows Remote Management (WinRM) v2.0 Windows PowerShell v2.0 Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) ...

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 ...

Stu just sent me this link .. go get it baby, it’s free http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/C/0/5C0BD0AB-040D-4C56-A60B-661001012DDA/Windows_Server_2008_R2_e-book.pdf

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 ...

Got an email on Friday .. about time too the Tech Preview is a bit buggy, but you expect that Thank you for continuing to utilize, evaluate and provide feedback on the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. We wanted to notify you the Office 2010 Beta will be available for you to download next month (November 2009). The Beta release of Office ...

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 ...

If you get an email like this in your hotmail account DO NOT reply to it .. and I really mean DO NOT reply to it.  Microsoft NEVER sends email like this out! Check these ...

Sweet http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a3f5729a-3989-4f60-980f-1b87dd198988 Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a secure application gateway, to manage, control, and optimize remote access for managed and non-managed endpoints, to corporate applications and resources. Forefront UAG RC0 ...

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}

Interesting Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8267054.stm; http://www.perotsystems.com/MediaRoom/PressRelease092009; http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2009-09-21-Perot-Systems.aspx Computer giant Dell is buying IT services provider and fellow Texan firm Perot Systems for $3.9bn (£2.4bn). Dell said the takeover, which it ...

Saw this email … Windows 2000 Server Extended Support for Windows 2000 Server will end on July 13, 2010. At this time, Windows 2000 Server will no longer be publicly supported.  You will be able to continue using "Self-Help Online Support"* Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 Also on July 13, 2010, Windows Server ...

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 ...

About bl00dy time too, I fly BA a fair bit, but I pay so want to do it cheap! .. I received this in an email: We’re delighted to tell you that as of 18 August 2009, you’ll be able to earn Tier Points on every flight* you take with us and our oneworld® partners. This even includes flights on discount economy tickets, for which you’ll receive 25% ...

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 ...

How funky is this! Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3476/access-international-themes-in-windows-7/ Basically, navigate to C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT and see the themes. I have 5, AU, CA, GB, US and ZA

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 ...

Interesting Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6d6848ec-e7d6-41f4-82d9-5bed3526fcbd Web Scheduler is a 64-bit tool for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2. It provides a Web-based alternative to the add-in for the Microsoft Outlook messaging and collaboration client for the purpose of ...

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 ...

You know how on a Windows 2003 server, when you install it on ESX, and you put the tools on, you get the annoying prompt to set Hardware acceleration to Full. Well when you install Windows 2008, you don't get that prompt and the mouse is really sluggish. Well thanks to Ash for pointing out that you need to set the Hardware acceleration to Full. ...

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 ...

This is good news for us in Europe! Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090803/bs_afp/usitinternetsoftwaremicrosofteu SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Microsoft said it would not separate its Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser from versions of Windows 7 shipped to the European Union when the new operating system launches worldwide in ...

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 ...

How simple is this bit of code $PCounter = "System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter" $counter = new-object $PCounter ...

Interesting .. http://blogs.msdn.com/scottos/archive/2009/07/28/announcing-the-office-communications-server-remote-connectivity-analyzer.aspx Following on the heels of success of the Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer (created by Shawn McGrath and Brad Hughes), Premal Gandhi (UC Support Escalation Engineer), Matthew Fresoli (Supportability ...

Ohhh dear Source: http://www.bmw-sauber-f1.com/en/index.html?lity=lswitch_pl#/news/~337|0/ The BMW Group will not continue its Formula One campaign after the end of the 2009 season. Resources freed up as a result are to be dedicated to the development of new drive technologies and projects in the field of sustainability. BMW will continue to ...

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 this is quite funny, in Europe we will get a version of Windows 7 that has no web browser!  Question, how do you get firefox if this ur only PC?  The only way I can see is, you use Windows Update, that will give you IE8, then you download firefox and remove IE8.!  What a farse! So check this, it does make sense. ...

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c930febb-3a44-4bf3-969d-1c52675a7063 Using backup and restoration procedures for site disaster recovery as described in the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 documentation library topic Backup and Restoration, can entail some downtime for users. ...

The wait is finally over ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/jul09/07-22Windows7RTMPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases REDMOND, Wash. — July 22, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the next versions of its flagship desktop and server operating systems. ...

I have been using PIM devices for a very long time.  It started with a Psion, then on Palm until a Microsoft entered the frame.  I had numerous Compaq iPaqs, some HTC devices and finally converged to windows mobile with combined phone/PDA.  My latest Windows Mobile device is a Samsung Omnia. Now before I upgraded to it, all around ...

Wow, do you have a spare 29mb? what an awesome list of docs http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E9F86F96-AA09-4DCA-9088-F64B4F01C703&displaylang=en#filelist  Use this page to find technical documentation to help you understand, plan, deploy, and operate Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 servers. ...

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 ...

This is interesting .. have seen this on a number virtual and physical windows 2003 servers, with NetApp or EMC storage. For some reason, external storage is goes missing after a reboot.  I does appear in disk management, but as an initialized disk.  So far we have found that if you use testdisk, you can recover the disk partition ...

Well what can I say .. have a look here: http://www.office2010themovie.com/

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 ...

This is nice .. Source: http://www.labs.jobserve.com/Articles.aspx/Search-for-jobs-from-your-Windows-Desktop 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 ...

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 ...

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 The Operations Manager 2007 R2 technical documentation helps you plan, deploy, operate, and maintain Operations Manager 2007 R2. For information about the specific ...

Sweet .. Source: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/05/26/service-level-dashboard-2-0-for-system-center-operations-manager-2007-r2-released.aspx 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humm, interesting. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eb18d016-64f7-4aae-b491-65636a186c1a&displaylang=en The Unified Communications Adoption and Training Kit for 2007 R2 provides guidance and resources for IT Pros, HelpDesk, and Trainers to speed adoption and usage of Unified Communications technologies in the ...

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

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 music and entertainment service, to a new platform and new markets. Zune will extend its ...

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, including reporting services you need some IIS 7.0 components that maybe missing if you ...

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 ;-) 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 and Windows Server 2008 that supports new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware ...

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: ...

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, the PCG has established that the Government raised just £9.2m from IR35 in the tax ...

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 ...

Chris is back blogging (at last)  about Active Directory stuff .. must have given up on sharepoint ;-)

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 Plus or MSDN), demonstration (MSDN), development (MSDN) or test (MSDN) is now being ...

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 ...

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 topology across several hypervisors and for a single server 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 Server 2007 R2 and SQL Server 2008 in a Windows Hyper-V environment or other hypervisor ...

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 live. On four consecutive nights a leading surgeon will operate in a UK hospital. From ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 = $RootOU.psbase.Children ForEach ($xOU in $ChildOUs){ Write-Host $xOU.distinguishedName -Foregroundcolor Red ...

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")

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. ...

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 for Exchange ,SQL Server, SharePoint and virtualization environments running ...

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 client was a 16-bit mail application running against the earliest versions of Exchange ...

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 Vault to house your archives. So you can assign a Alternate Mailbox to any mailbox by ...

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 News for April 2009ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New ...

This is now available for download for anyone on who has access to: TechNet Plus SA Media; TechNet Plus (Retail); TechNet Direct (Retail); TechNet Plus (VL); TechNet Plus Direct (VL); TechNet Cert Partner; TechNet Gold Cert Partner; T1; x64 is 3,119.30 (MB), while x86 is 2,413.73 (MB) Windows 7 RC will expire June 1, 2010, and the bi-hourly ...

Cant find the download just yet … Source: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2009/04/28/windows-vista-sp2-rtm-windows-vista-sp1-blocker-tool-removed.aspx Today we are announcing the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. SP2 represents the latest step in Microsoft’s ...

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Now available for download .. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5&displaylang=en and on Windows Update The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2) provides customers with the latest updates to the 2007 Office suite (the products that are affected by this update are listed ...

Just heard this .. RIM, the providers of Blackberry, are currently experiencing issues with their infrastructure that means that Blackberry is unavailable for all customers globally.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=983b941d-06cb-4658-b7f6-3088333d062f Version: 3.3 1641 Date Published: 4/21/2009 Network Monitor 3.3 is a protocol analyzer. It allows you to capture network traffic, view and analyze it. Version 3.3 is an update and replaces Network Monitor 3.2. Network ...

WOW … http://blogs.technet.com/eileen_brown/archive/2009/04/22/potential-windows-8-design.aspx

Check it out .. nothing on if it still uses CDO/MAPI to talk to exchange Source: http://www.blackberry.com/newsletters/connection/it/i309/enterprise_server.shtml In BlackBerry Enterprise Server v5.0, the admin console will switch from a desktop administration client to a web-based client New high-availability options allow you to ...

I use this a lot with my omnia .. will u know what the new version is like Source: http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/press/pressreleases/2009/apr21.html St. Petersburg, April 21st, 2009 – Spb Software, a leading maker of mobile software, releases Spb Mobile Shell 3.0, the next-generation user interface for Windows phones. According to Handango ...

I have done this before when moving log file locations in Exchange and it’s well cool and make life very easy! Source: http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tips/archive/2009/03/24/clone-ntfs-permissions.aspx NTFS access permissions can be complex and tricky. To quickly assign NTFS permissions to a new folder, you can simply clone permissions from ...

how cool is this! http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/04/17/use-powershell-to-auto-update-your-sysinternals.aspx