tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:58:04 +0000Exchange, 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!http://chrislehr.com/blog.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)Blogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-152035862575583312Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:58:00 +00002010-03-08T09:58:04.368-06:00 This blog is now located at http://blog.chrislehr.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to http://chrislehr.com/atom.xml. http://chrislehr.com/2010/03/this-blog-has-moved.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-8635328066966368323Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:56:00 +00002010-03-03T18:38:42.783-06:00To size a backup system, you need to decide on a few key pieces of information: retention range, amount in GB of file data to be backed up & change rate on that data. For applications, you will need to know SQL database sizes and change rates. Same for Exchange.luckily with powershell, it's quick and easy. I'm a lazy scripter so I'm sure this script could be much improved, but it worked for my http://chrislehr.com/2010/03/powershell-for-backup-planning.htmrobin.ainsley@gmail.com (Robin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-3788854183157734451Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:56:00 +00002010-03-03T14:49:49.363-06:00BlackberryExchange 2010Blackberry Enterprise Express has released.There is a great comparison matrix for BES Enterprise Express and other BES products hereUnfortunately, for customers who adopted and recently bought or renewed their Blackberry Professional licensing, I have yet to find information about migrations, or the future of the "professional" product line. There is not a clear delineation that professional http://chrislehr.com/2010/03/bes-enterprise-express-released.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-8898429106713520127Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:37:00 +00002010-03-03T14:38:54.514-06:00Exchange 2010mailbox I ran into this today, doing my first production DAG with a copy on a kind of slow connection.Error: Move for mailbox '/o=First Organization/ou=First Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=user' is stalled because DataMoveReplicationConstraint is not satisfied for the database 'Database' (agent MailboxDatabaseReplication). Failure Reason: Database a409ab86-ce24-4fcf-bd2a-14fd633090aa does not http://chrislehr.com/2010/02/errors-moving-mailboxes-to-exchange.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-688250235949594695Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:41:00 +00002010-02-25T18:46:37.788-06:00exchange 2007Exchange 2003Exchange 2010Great post up on the Exchange Team blog about SIS. I have talked about this to many customers, and it's nice to have a link to refer people to for an explanation.http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/02/22/454051.aspxIn short, single instance storage was invented when disks were expensive and massive amounts of storage cost companies a lot more money. It worked great on that scale. As http://chrislehr.com/2010/02/exchange-and-loss-of-single-instance.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-5241730001466030349Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:32:00 +00002010-02-23T16:39:58.957-06:00exchange 2007Exchange 2010OCS 2007 R2Active DirectoryRecently, I had the need to import some users for a large company. In order to populate as much of their Active Directory as possible, they wanted their phone numbers to be in a standardized format. Both Microsoft and Cisco have standardized on E.164 (additional information here) as a numbering standard, which basically starts with + [country code] + phone number.This particular customer is US http://chrislehr.com/2010/02/normalizing-phone-numbers-to-e164.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-7703868157657586187Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:17:00 +00002010-02-20T22:19:14.125-06:00OCS 2007 R2OCS 2007Saw this on the OCS team blog."The report allows you to enter the SIP URI of any 2 users that you want to view archived messages from. If you enter �Any User� (case sensitive) for either of the user input boxes, you are able to view any message from any user to a specific user as well as any user to any other user. You can use the Start Date and End Date to narrow down the search to a specific http://chrislehr.com/2010/02/ocs-reporting-gui-interface.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-458502977969742040Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:53:00 +00002010-02-17T09:02:07.964-06:00TrainingExchange 2010OCS 2007 R2Been a very busy 2010 for me thusfar. After some long time off from work in December, I returned to our economy starting to turn around, and we are getting nice and busy again. I currently have three Exchange 2010 migrations, a few OCS related projects, and am in pre-sales with a bunch on new Exchange 2010 opportunities.Last week, I went to Microsoft's Unified Communications Voice Ignite (UCVIhttp://chrislehr.com/2010/02/training-and-some-personal-updates.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-9201339485121554478Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:58:00 +00002010-02-16T19:07:49.965-06:00Exchange 2010backupDisaster RecoveryWell, the #1 recent article here is my Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 Backup how to. The reason, of course, is that Exchange 2010 has been out since November 2009 and select few have yet announced or released Exchange 2010 support, and many companies are still trying to find how to backup Exchange 2010 in their production environment.While I have not used many of these yet, I am hoping to try tohttp://chrislehr.com/2010/02/exchange-2010-backup-product-support.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-3700273996501264691Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:22:00 +00002010-02-16T09:09:26.502-06:00Office 2010Sweet! It's rare that MS has done a public beta of an office product. It's rarer to patch a beta. It's even more rare that I feel somewhat responsible.Recall my Outlook 2010 message size bug?My threadThe Office team post with the fix!http://chrislehr.com/2010/02/outlook-2010-message-size-bug-fixed.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-3843103537622648477Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:56:00 +00002010-02-15T10:59:20.339-06:00Exchange 2003Ran into this one today, and hadn't encountered it in quite some time.This error is due to the fact that someone had listed their own user as the postmaster account in Exchange 2003, and that person had since left the organization and had their account deleted.So the error above is shown:Setup encountered an error while checking prerequisites For the component "Microsoft Exchange":0X80072030 (http://chrislehr.com/2010/02/uninstalling-exchange-2003-8240-error.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-111460062721228236Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:59:00 +00002010-02-04T19:01:34.470-06:00Exchange 2010Something that has been posted a LOT on the Exchange 2010 Forums on Technet - people with issues starting the EMC or EMS in Exchange 2010. Many of these step from the slightly different management via WinRM. The Microsoft Team blog posted a GREAT write up on how to troubleshoot the different common errors and address them all!http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/02/04/453946.aspxhttp://chrislehr.com/2010/02/exchange-2010-management-tool-start-up.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-7658195276718401841Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:35:00 +00002010-02-04T18:38:26.495-06:00windows 2008PKIwindows 2008 R2Windows 7Windows 2003Many customers are running into the need for a Windows 2008 or newer PKI infrastructure in order to enroll and auto enroll newer client operating systems like Windows 7, Vista, and Windows 2008 Server.Actually, many business customers found the lack of certificate support in Vista (without upgrading their CA's later) as one of the reasons it wasn't business ready. With Windows 7 being almost 10 http://chrislehr.com/2010/02/migrating-pki-from-windows-2003-to.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-2054653369801309555Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:25:00 +00002010-01-03T10:28:04.724-06:00Windows 7I found this posted on a forum and found it hard to believe, but it does work and it's pretty neat!Just create a new folder and name it:AllAccess.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}The "AllAccess" can be anything - on the other forum, I saw it as "god mode," "admin mode" and some other names - pick whatever you would like.All this folder contains is easy one stop access to all Windows 7 http://chrislehr.com/2010/01/windows-7-gaining-access-to-all-options.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-7558293951769158260Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:01:00 +00002010-01-03T09:08:17.646-06:00New year, and on my xmas break I did not get a chance to move the blog from blogger to wordpress as I had hoped I would, but instead I needed to change my policy on comments. It now requires a google account and a word verification. I apoligize for these restrictions, but for those of you marketing Viagara, it means I can reply to you and tell you to stop bothering me.Happy New Year, and I hopehttp://chrislehr.com/2010/01/happy-new-year-and-some-announcements.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-889829468915910088Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:05:00 +00002009-12-22T11:09:45.082-06:00Exchange 2010Client Access RoleOWAWow. Being able to delete 282 unread emails with the same subject has NEVER been so easy. OWA 2010 from Exchange 2010 includes conversation view, which allows you to do this� and yes, that is a right click context menu in IE, Firefox, or Safari.http://chrislehr.com/2009/12/ways-outlook-web-access-2010-rocks-part.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-3321461255586420409Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:36:00 +00002009-12-16T21:42:21.088-06:00Exchange 2010LicensingSome customers have asked about what an Enterprise CAL in Exchange 2010 grants you compared to the standard CAL. It is important to know that Exchange CAL's are additive (this was also true in exchange 2007) so an Enterprise CAL is not a "covers all" - you need the Standard and the Enterprise CAL.The most complete licensing comparison on Exchange 2010 is here:http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/http://chrislehr.com/2009/12/exchange-2010-enterprise-client-access.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-4391412633013343344Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:55:00 +00002009-12-09T20:59:36.889-06:00BlackberryExchange 2010As seen at the MS Exchange Team Blog Blackberry Enterprise and Exchange 2010 are now compatible!More information is also available at Research in Motion.Requires BES 5.0.1 MR1Exchange MAPI v6.5.8147Exchange 2010 RTM RU1Time to get patching!http://chrislehr.com/2009/12/exchange-2010-and-blackberry-enterprise.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-2755244584279651885Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:04:00 +00002009-12-07T18:13:50.358-06:00Exchange 2010Sorry for the lack of posting - we both took a much deserved 11 days in a row off.. Haven't blogged in a bit, so here are the big updates!ExFolders, the PFDavAdmin replacement for Exchange 2010 was released over at the MS Exchange Team Blog. I have already had the opportunity to use this tool, and it works very well so far.Speaking of the MS Exchange Team blog, they also released some very handy http://chrislehr.com/2009/12/back-from-vacation.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-1774089990459196125Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:54:00 +00002009-11-25T12:55:44.379-06:00Exchange 2010mailboxI made this as a quick training piece internally and for customers.. Check it out! http://chrislehr.com/2009/11/exchange-2010-moving-mailboxes-video.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-8269989938235870647Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:50:00 +00002009-11-24T10:52:41.151-06:00exchange 2007high availabilityExchange 2010Disaster RecoveryMade this video for Simpler-Webb regarding Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups and the differences between Exchange 2007 HA/DR planning and Exchange 2010 HA/DR planning - it's a little goofy and embarrassing, but have at it!http://chrislehr.com/2009/11/exchange-2010-high-availability-and.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-67947813165850051Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:00 +00002009-11-23T14:12:38.828-06:00Office 2010Exchange 2010Client Access RoleAgain, this is not really an Exchange 2010 feature, but an Office 2010, Outlook Mobile 6.1, and Exchange 2010 Activesync feature. I blogged last week about this particular integration into Outlook Web App. This is what is looks like in the new Outlook 2010 Beta, included in the public Office 2010 beta program. The integration here is seamless, and while in meetings and roaming with my laptop, I http://chrislehr.com/2009/11/outlook-2010-and-text-messaging.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-2215497124971508830Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:34:00 +00002009-11-21T13:34:25.046-06:00The Exchange Team blog announced today that Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollup 1 was available.��Full TechNet details and download here ��http://chrislehr.com/2009/11/exchange-2007-sp2-rollup-1-available.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-2693093286336144939Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:56:00 +00002009-11-19T11:02:43.683-06:00DPM 2010DPM 2007In Microsoft's world, where every service a business could ever need is run by a Microsoft application, storage is dirt cheap, all your Servers run modern operating systems, and the only files users lose are recoverable with VSS "Previous Versions," DPM is a great fit. You could keep a month of file, Exchange, and SQL backups, replicate them to a second DPM server offsite, and call your DR plan http://chrislehr.com/2009/11/data-protection-manager-look-at-2007.htmrobin.ainsley@gmail.com (Robin)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187067.post-5512286852191511490Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:21:00 +00002009-11-17T18:33:13.026-06:00Exchange 2010Client Access RoleOWAOne of the new Client Access Role features of Exchange 2010 is SMS messaging. The first thing to know about this� Exchange did not learn to speak SMS. Exchange doesn't dial a modem. Exchange doesn't do SMS, per se. Exchange does do Activesync. And the Activesync and Windows Mobile team made this possible. Activesync actually sends/reads/synchronizes text messages to your phone. So when a text ishttp://chrislehr.com/2009/11/exchange-2010-outlook-mobile-61-and.htmchris.lehr@gmail.com (Chris)3