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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 ...

#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) Tool for the Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG). You are welcome to download it to try it ...

#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

#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.html

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

#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: ...

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 … and I know where you live .. kinda So this year the plan is migrate off Community Server to ...

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" $key = "SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBC.INI\VMware VirtualCenter" ...

#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 & ...

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 normal service. So, now on my way home, I am fortunate enough for the company I am working to ...

#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 ...

#HP #PALM Interesting .. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8650504.stm Palm, a pioneer in the smart phone business, is being bought by US computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $1bn (£657m) cash. HP said Palm's webOS operating system would help it expand more aggressively in the fast-growing market for smart phones and connected mobile ...

Been stuck in a meeting and wanted to look a bit interested in that I was taking notes, so I have look around Powershell on my Windows 7 laptop. Found some kewl stuff.  Lets start with: Get-Hotfix The Get-Hotfix cmdlet gets the hotfixes that have been applied to the local computer or to remote computers by Component-Based ...

#OCS2007R2 .. Can’t be bothered to change the title, but these notes are from Global Knowledge: 50214A Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2" Last Day, looks like Compliance stuff today: OCS Virtualisation: ...

Update: Project, Visio and SharePoint also available

#OCS2007R2 .. Can’t be bothered to change the title, but these notes are from Global Knowledge: 50214A Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2" So @ home I now have internal IM and web IM working.  Need to test conferencing, but that will probably wait until the weekend. Day 4 starts with the Audio ...

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#OCS2007R2 Can’t be bothered to change the title, but these notes are from Global Knowledge: 50214A Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2" So last night I blasted my OCS install away and reinstalled windows 2008 (NOT R2 as it was causing me too much heartache) The XML file listed on this ...

#OCS2007R2 .. Can’t be bothered to change the title, but these notes are from Global Knowledge: 50214A Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2" So day 2, here are my notes: http://www.mobileiron.com/ I like the Team Calling feature of Office Communicator – Not sure about the Attendant ...

#OCS2007r2 … So I was expecting the course to be “OCS Ignite R2” and instead it’s a custom course by Global Knowledge: 50214A Implementing and Maintaining Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2" Some notes from today: Open Interoperability Programme: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/ Net.com: ...

#office2010 .. Ari sent me this .. http://blogs.technet.com/office2010/archive/2010/04/15/office-2010-reaches-rtm.aspx License customers with Software Assurance will be able to download the RTM bits on April 27. MSDN and TechNet customers will be able to download Office 2010 RTM on April 22

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 So we all should know about Exchange Server 2010 Database Availability Groups (DAG).  Now when you add server to a DAG you assign an ActivationPreference number to each server. The ActivationPreference parameter value is used to break ties during the automatic database activation process when multiple passive mailbox database ...

#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 ...

#OCS Now this is ahead of the game ORLANDO – VoiceCon 2010 – March 22, 2010 – Quest Software, Inc.  (Nasdaq: QSFT) today affirmed its commitment to Microsoft Corp.’s unified communications strategy as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner by announcing that Quest MessageStats® will support Microsoft Communications Server “14.” MessageStats is a ...

#Powershell Funky  … http://d3planet.com/rtfb/2009/10/06/vsphere-powercli-commandlet-poster/ Pablo Roesch, VMware, has put out a poster that their marketing department did, that has a listing of the PowerCLI commandlets.  This is a very useful tool for anyone working in PowerShell using the VMware Toolkit for ...

#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 ...

#OCS Another one from Ari http://edge.technet.com/Media/TechDays-2010-New-Voice-capabilities-and-infrastructure-in-Microsoft-Communications-Server-W14/ Detailed description of voice features in Microsoft Communications Server “W14”, with discussion of implications on topology and interoperability.

#OCS Ari showed me this too … http://edge.technet.com/Media/TechDays-2010-Introduction-to-Microsoft-Communications-Server-ldquoW14rdquo/ Positioning and main features for Microsoft Communications Server “W14”, with emphasis on Voice and Collaboration capabilities.

#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 ...

The last day, and the sun is shining outside which is always a plus.  So lessons learnt for the day … If your Hyper-V server is in a workgroup and SCVMM is part of a domain, you need to do an agent install and treat it as if it’s in a perimeter network :-| Lots and lots of Powershell ;-) need to check out … Cluster Shared Volumes … they ...

http://www.starbucks.com/blog/10113/starbucks-listens-to-customer-request-for-more-sizes.aspx Humm, sounds like a great idea, wonder how many tea bags I would need in a Plenta .. wonder if the post date has anything to do with it? SEATTLE, April 1, 2010 –Starbucks announced today the introduction of two new beverage sizes in stores in the U. S. ...

#Hyper-V So its Wednesday and day 3 … today was more SCVMM Just great, Windows Update bounced my laptop and lost this post .. Greeaaaat. So let me try and remember .. Oh, what is cool is that you can create a Windows 2008 Failover cluster.  You can then install hyper-v on both nodes of the cluster.  Now when the cluster is created you ...

Another day and some more learning.  So my ramblings from today are: Have a server, take a snapshot and install an SP ..test it and then is okay, merge the snapshot.  If not, remove the snapshot and you back. Nothing else really shone out, so this is nice and short

I am on a Hyper-V Training course for the rest of this week at QA in London and wanted to share some “stuff” that came up today with you all. The course combines 6331A Deploying and Managing Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager [3 Day Course] and 6422A Implementing and Managing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V [3 Day Course] in to a single ...

#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

Interesting, wonder what the process is to say NO! Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7408379/Patients-medical-records-go-online-without-consent.html Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities. But doctors have accused ...

Interesting Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years. By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving the data people store on them. The move to the advanced format will make it easier ...

#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 ...

A few days late :-| Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx Today, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. In addition, we announced our intent to RTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010.

Isn’t that the whole idea of Lucozade? Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1256242/Lucozade-lose-orange-colour-linked-hyperactivity.html Lucozade could lose its distinctive orange colour because research has shown the colouring agent Sunset Yellow is linked to hyperactive behaviour. GlaxoSmithKline is struggling to find a ...

#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 ...

Whoops! that might explain why I have two codes for two different companies :-| Source: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/annual-coding-individuals.htm HMRC has recently introduced the new National Insurance and PAYE Service (NPS) which we are using to issue tax coding notices for the first time. The transition to the new system has brought to ...

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

More interesting news .. not sure about the Linux stuff :-| Source: http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/22/microsoft.deal.may.hint.at.courier.plans/ Amazon and Microsoft tonight agreed to a cross-licensing deal for each other's patents. The deal gives Microsoft special access to technology behind the Kindle reader as well as Amazon's ...

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 ...

doh what happened to bing?

Learnt a funky tip yesterday from my mate Bungy … if you need to log on locally to a PC and can’t remember the name of it, use .\<username> in the logon box .Cool hey!

#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 ...

I received this email today … from Mark Parris who run the UK Active Directory User  Group Towards the end of last year Mark Wilson and I had a conversation around combining the Active Directory User Group with the Windows Server Team user group that Mark had been looking after in Scotty McLeod's absence. The reasoning behind our ...

#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 ...

The worst kept secret in F1 Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8427552.stm Seven-times Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher will come out of retirement to race for Mercedes next year, BBC Sport understands. The German, who will be 41 on 3 January, has signed a contract and the deal will be announced ...

wanted to thank Stu for pointing me at this … http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/productbulletin.html#CD_Files The HP Product Bulletin provides you with the latest QuickSpecs at all times

#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 made me laugh and it was put up by a Chruch!!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8417963.stm … A dejected-looking Joseph lies in bed next to Mary under the caption, "Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow" ..

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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 ...

How funky is this Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-nz/sysinternals/ee656415%28en-us%29.aspx Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other ...

#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

Interesting error on the Microsoft webpage this morning: Your current User-Agent string appears to be from an automated process, if this is incorrect, please click this link:United States English Microsoft Homepage Dunno if its my companies firewall or what

#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 ...

This is a bit scary Source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016070 When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1 (U1), you may experience these symptoms: Upgrade operation may fail or hang and can result in an incomplete installation Upon reboot, the host ...

#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.