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Unified Messaging Troubleshooting Tool

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:25:35 GMT

#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...(read more)

#Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta Links

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:00:44 GMT

#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...(read more)

#MMMUG: 18th August 2010 - #Exchange backup and recovery

Paul Flaherty — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:07:00 GMT

http://www.mmmug.co.uk/4-18th_August_2010_-_Exchange_backup_and_recovery The subject of this meeting is Exchange backup and recovery and we have Microsoft’s Anthony Tyler talking about System Centre Data Protection Manager’s take on backing up exchange...(read more)

BES 5.0 SP2: Blackberry User #Exchange 2010 IOPS now equal to an Outlook Client

Paul Flaherty — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:24:13 GMT

#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...(read more)

Best Practices Analyzer Tool for Forefront Unified Access Gateway is here!

Paul Flaherty — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:10:23 GMT

#UAG #BPA http://blogs.technet.com/b/edgeaccessblog/archive/2010/06/09/best-practices-analyzer-tool-for-forefront-unified-access-gateway-is-here.aspx … We are happy to announce the availability of the first version of the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA)...(read more)

#Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:06:30 GMT

#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...(read more)

vSphere 4.1 is released

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:17:58 GMT

#vmware #vSphere Joe tweeted this link ( http://twitter.com/joewells/status/18435437921 ) and I wanted to share it further: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/vsphere-41-is-released.html As well as this: http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2010/07/changes-to-vcp-exam-due-to-vsphere-41.htm...(read more)

Check this out a #vmware custom quote tool

Paul Flaherty — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:08:51 GMT

This is quite funky, up on VMsecured.com they have created a quote tool for VMware software! http://www.vmsecured.com/...(read more)

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: July 2010: Part 4

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:21:01 GMT

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

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: July 2010: Part 3

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:29:49 GMT

#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...(read more)

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: July 2010: Part 2

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:16:00 GMT

#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,...(read more)

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: July 2010: Part 1

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:10:09 GMT

#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...(read more)

#Exchange 2010 DAGs

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:17:45 GMT

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?...(read more)

Microsoft #Exchange Jetstress 2010

Paul Flaherty — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:15:43 GMT

#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...(read more)

Microsoft #Exchange Server Jetstress 2010 (64 bit)

Paul Flaherty — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:05:43 GMT

#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...(read more)

Update Rollup 4 for #Exchange Server 2010 (KB982639)

Paul Flaherty — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:01:51 GMT

#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...(read more)

Microsoft #Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Beta

Paul Flaherty — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:33:18 GMT

#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...(read more)

This blog is 6 today

Paul Flaherty — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:18:44 GMT

Happy Birthday Blog … Damm my first blog was this one: Service Pack 1 For Exchange 2003 http://flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2004/06/07/149.aspx That make this post 2,517 and many thanks to all of you out there have come to read my thoughts and ideas …...(read more)

Accessing remote registry with #Powershell

Paul Flaherty — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:25:40 GMT

That was a challenge. So I have a script that "pings" vcentre host to make sure they are working okay. Part of the script connects to the registry and checks ODBC to get the SQL server that is used. So normally this works: $VCServer = "VCServer"...(read more)

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: June 2010: Part 4

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:16:23 GMT

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: June 2010: Part 3

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:59:32 GMT

#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...(read more)

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: June 2010: Part 2

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:43:05 GMT

#Exchange2010 ##*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Exchange and OCS Downloads from May 2010 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Protocol Documentation The Microsoft Exchange Server protocols documentation provides detailed...(read more)

A Month in #Exchange and #OCS: June 2010: Part 1

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:41:41 GMT

#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 &...(read more)

British Airways

Paul Flaherty — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:03:29 GMT

So here I am on a rescheduled flight from Houston to London. I was supposed to flight Friday Night at 8PM local time, but because of the threat of a strike, my flight was cancelled .. only for the strike to be put on hold and an attempt to resume...(read more)

Iron Mountain Enhances CloudRecovery Solution for Microsoft DPM

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:01:09 GMT

#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...(read more)