tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51870672009-06-25T17:17:52.132-05:00Exchange, Windows, and OCS how-to's and tips and tricks as we pick them up. Feel free to pass on anything you see here, and PLEASE subscribe to our RSS feed, and leave comments if you find our posts helpful!Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-55134681169037972692009-06-23T17:19:00.002-05:002009-06-23T17:21:23.699-05:00

Been super busy with work, buying and adapting to a new home, and keeping one dog from not eating the other dog. Between those, Exchange 2010 playing, testing, and research. The end result being the three part series Simpler-Webb has been putting on at Microsoft's Austin campus.The slide decks from today are on line at the webinar site

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-34093053299053646642009-06-04T19:56:00.003-05:002009-06-04T19:59:12.035-05:00

I decided to not pepper with updates this week.October 22 - Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7 release dateshttp://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/06/02/windows-server-2008-r2-will-follow-the-same-rtm-ga-dates-as-windows-7.aspxExchange 2010 - Not yet released. Still Q3/Q4. Public Beta has been REALLY well received thusfar. I have done part 1 of my 3 part series, and also agreed

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-80317549428189017922009-05-27T18:21:00.002-05:002009-05-27T18:23:21.260-05:00

I will be doing two sessions at each of these events on Exchange 2010, if you are local, come check it out.Austin - http://www.nhcomputerlearning.com/Spectechular/austin.htmlSan Antonio - http://www.nhcomputerlearning.com/Spectechular/sanantonio.html

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-91612076428429744542009-05-26T17:04:00.003-05:002009-05-26T17:13:16.939-05:00

Sorry for the lack of posting, but between regular work, all the new stuff lately, I haven't had time for the blogging as much. However, I hope to supplant this somewhat with this post.I have been working at work on some Exchange 2010 seminars that myself and Andy Webb, our CTO and Microsoft Exchange MVP are delivering together. We completed the first session last week, and the PDF is

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-19914700547097676602009-05-21T09:23:00.002-05:002009-05-21T10:07:22.448-05:00

Over at Paul Thurrot's site:http://www.winsupersite.com/office/office2010_tp_shots_01.aspLooks pretty slick to me.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-25277006998035242322009-05-19T10:00:00.002-05:002009-05-19T10:02:18.158-05:00

I found this to solve my own problems today, and had to look too hard for it.Where to Install:Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Beta (x86): http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/4/AD4D3903-E06D-456D-AED4-D53895D2C1A9/Windows6.1-KB958830-x86.msuMicrosoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 Beta (x64): http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/D/4/AD4D3903-

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-70327647227242570902009-05-14T21:57:00.002-05:002009-05-14T21:59:38.528-05:00

Sorry, its been almost a month since my last post. More on that in a bit.The MS Exchange team just posted some info on how Windows backup will be able to back up Exchange 2007 in the upcoming SP2. This is a must read. Finally, an integrated way to take an Exchange backup!http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/13/451311.aspx

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-49388050940880268042009-04-15T02:19:00.002-05:002009-04-15T02:20:21.934-05:00

It's been a while since I posted, mostly because work and life has been keeping me busy. However, this should be changing more with this recent news. Today, Microsoft announced the public release of Beta 1 of their next generation of the Exchange messaging platform, known internally as Exchange 14 (or E14, or wave 14) is now officially known as Exchange 2010. More information available at: http:

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-28217750342831106642009-04-09T20:09:00.001-05:002009-04-15T02:22:15.637-05:00

Rumors are out!http://bink.nu/news/next-office-and-exchange-named-2010.aspx

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-23416342329056194182009-03-24T12:22:00.002-05:002009-03-24T12:24:44.237-05:00

Thank you to Mike who commented on my blog post here that the Metabase issue was because UAC needs to be disabled, and the Adminsetup.exe should be Right clicked and ran as an Administrator!I had completely forgotten that this is how I worked around this, and had not been able to re-walk the install since I posted that.Again, Thanks Mike!Chris

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-24799879765466613262009-03-21T12:38:00.002-05:002009-03-21T12:42:55.307-05:00

Most Exchange migrations I might find 1-2 of these that can be addressed as one off issues, but today I had customer that had a lot more than usual.I searched for a good adsiedit, ldp, or other query - no good, its an ACL, not an AD user object property, I did find some .NET examples that I did not want to venture down that road. And then, I found admondify.net:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-46996288249618822042009-03-18T18:08:00.001-05:002009-03-18T18:10:05.027-05:00

http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/03/16/383.aspxThis appears it would fit only in an environment where OCS is federated. At least until someone writes malware for communicator.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-6685983300305652352009-03-18T17:44:00.003-05:002009-03-18T17:48:29.345-05:00

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2074fefd-fa1a-4c3e-bf72-94585e454150As seen at http://www.bink.nu/Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers.For a list of changes

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-7932490334615780302009-03-10T14:36:00.002-05:002009-03-10T14:40:43.678-05:00

I recently completed my first EE installation in a production environment. This was a migration from LCS 2005 SP1, and while LCS is not yet defunct, it so far has been VERY smooth. This particular install was using a SQL 2005 cluster for the back end as well as the archive databases. Things to know:Only SQL 2005 SP1 and SQL 2008 are supported.For Archiving, MSMQ and Directory integration are

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-88222892193387958242009-03-07T13:25:00.002-06:002009-03-07T13:27:23.331-06:00

I have implemented about 4 NLB clusters for HT, CAS, or both now, and every time the rule of thumb has been, use what works. From the MS Exchange page on IPv6 (also applies to IPv4) we know that:Unicast address A packet is delivered to one interface.Multicast address A packet is delivered to multiple interfaces. More searching turned up this very helpful article describing the differences:

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-69507963485931889262009-02-26T20:29:00.002-06:002009-02-26T20:32:57.719-06:00

We are starting to get some pretty substansial hits to the site. Thank you to any and all of you who are reading and making good use of our tutorials. We want some help in direction on this blog as well, so please, if you are visiting and found some help, give us some direction as well.Ill try to avoid silly things like OS of choice and what not.By the way, if you click the counter on this site

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-7706997243762651992009-02-25T12:04:00.005-06:002009-03-07T13:27:01.878-06:00

This article will walk you step-by-step through performing a restore on Microsoft Exchange 2007 using Data Protection Manager 2007 SP1.To recover Exchange data, you must first have an active recovery storage group mounted. To do this, open the Exchange Management Console (EMC), go to tools, and then click "Troubleshooting Assistant." You must first enter the server and user information and click

Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03884787609198816013robin.ainsley@gmail.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-68680474639943461272009-02-23T21:19:00.001-06:002009-02-23T21:20:21.445-06:00

WOW.Impressive. If it didn't almost require an EDU loan, I would love to take this.http://blogs.technet.com/themasterblog/archive/2009/01/31/holy-hol-s-batman.aspx

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-84057776281316567292009-02-18T09:59:00.002-06:002009-02-18T10:24:36.285-06:00

I somehow completely forgot this won't work. Luckily there is a workaround.Rename the machine :( Easier said than done for some situations.

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-50794855149965126482009-02-18T08:37:00.002-06:002009-02-18T08:40:25.755-06:00

So I have noticed the Group Chat stuff is getting a LOT of hits on here, and one of the questions I seem to see being asked a lot elsewhere is "how would we use this"So I figured I would rely on Microsoft's devarketing team (ha!) to explain this for me some. These are from a series of OCS R2 videos I posted back in January. This one only had 500 hits when I posted it, so I think the "spin" on

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-59404447556651728472009-02-16T21:06:00.002-06:002009-02-16T21:09:42.799-06:00

Earlier, in Part One, we installed Group Chat Server and in Part Two, we learned how to connect to the admin tools and to create a channel and allow people in it. Now it is time to Deploy the client.The Group Chat client requires the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Visual C++ runtime installed. Unfortunately, Microsoft provided only an executable client install, so we cannot easily GPO this

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-25659543834909061562009-02-15T14:55:00.002-06:002009-02-15T14:59:48.304-06:00

Earlier, in Part One, we installed Group Chat Server and now it is time to install the administrative tools. I have already done this a few times and ran into some oddities, that hopefully I can help you not run into!In this instance, I am installing the tools on my OCS Standard pool server (which is also my group chat server) We can begin by running the 'AdminSetup' installer.The installer will

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-89375473126198211012009-02-12T14:29:00.002-06:002009-02-12T14:31:58.544-06:00

The Exchange team RTW'd SP1 RU6 yesterday.The KB Article and Download are now availableSome important fixes included in this rollup include: (from the Exchange Team blog )Fix for a security issue which has been assigned a severity rating of critical. More information about the issue can be found in the Microsoft Security Bulletin http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS09-003.mspxFix

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-18603922551192560882009-02-12T11:40:00.007-06:002009-02-16T19:08:01.439-06:00

If there is one thing in Group Chat that is similar to OCS, it's definitely the icons. If you were not aware, the Group Chat functionality was an acquisition of a company named Parlano in the summer of 2007. Because of this, the integration with the rest of OCS R2 isnt quite where I would expect it to be. I expect in future SP's and versions this will become more tightly integrated.A note, on

Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12048658420556993119noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-69314496800161992302009-02-11T10:50:00.002-06:002009-02-11T10:52:16.508-06:00

Took me a bit to find this one. The installers for the admin tools are in \support\i386.There are 5 files in here, and depending on the state of your DC, you might need them all.The proper order of operations, I found out the hard way, but each install tells you what it needs for a pre-requisite:Well, at least they give us warnings!The proper order of installation is:sqlncli.msi - The SQL Native

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