http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/ West Michigan IT guy and Microsoft MVP! en Serendipity 1.5-beta2 - http://www.s9y.org/ atiensivu@gmail.com atiensivu@gmail.com 60 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:26:34 GMT http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/family.jpg http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/ 90 111 -85.8543.17atiensivuhttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/TUaEuURjVw0/1907-Find-out-if-current-and-formerly-current-Microsoft-products-are-supported-on-Server-2008-R2.html 7 Exchange Microsoft OCS / LCS Server Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1907-Find-out-if-current-and-formerly-current-Microsoft-products-are-supported-on-Server-2008-R2.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1907 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1907 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) here.

The most interesting aspect, at least to me, is that there looks to be upcoming support for Server 2008 R2 for OCS 2007 R2 and later versions, and as mentioned on the Exchange blog, support for Exchange 2007 SP2+. The reversal of support on Exchange is a very welcome one in my eyes. ]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:26:34 -0500 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1907-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1907-Find-out-if-current-and-formerly-current-Microsoft-products-are-supported-on-Server-2008-R2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/aA_STj6mrNg/1906-Windows-7-and-using-Intel-Turbo-Memory-Robson-as-a-persistent-RAM-disk-or-TEMP-drive.html 7 Microsoft Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1906-Windows-7-and-using-Intel-Turbo-Memory-Robson-as-a-persistent-RAM-disk-or-TEMP-drive.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1906 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1906 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) Intel Turbo Memory. I debated about posting this for a few months but it has worked well enough for me that I feel secure in describing how to do this. Of course, if something breaks, please let me know in the comments section and we'll get it documented.

Typically Intel Turbo Memory is included as a mini-PCIe option on laptops and some desktops, and provides an embedded version of ReadyBoost and/or ReadyDrive. Most computers have enough RAM these days so the boost from ReadyBoost is pretty minimal.

With that in mind, I figured I would try to see if I could re-purpose the Turbo Memory. In Windows 7 (as of driver version 1.10.0.1012), the memory is exposed to the OS as a Storage Controller with a disk volume of IMD-0.



By default, it will automatically enable and control the entire volume.



What you want to do is open diskmgmt.msc and look for a volume that is about 75% of advertised size of the RAM. In my case, I have 2GB which shows up as 1.37GB due to some of the space being used for ReadyDrive.

If you set the View to Disk List, the Device Type will be listed as UNKNOWN instead of IDE or USB or SCSI.

You'll want to delete this volume but make sure it is the Turbo Memory! After deleting the volume, create a new simple MBR volume from what you just deleted. Format the drive as FAT16 with 64KB cluster size. You can use other block sizes if you want less waste on smaller files. NTFS is a bit of an overkill for most scenarios too. Feel free to experiment and report your findings.

After formatting, assign it a drive letter and enjoy a persistent RAM disk, as long as you don't rebuild your computer or upgrade your Turbo Memory driver.

The end result will look something like this:



Uses for this new drive

1. Store your Windows Search index on the new drive. In my case, under R:\TEMP\INDEX\. You can easily move your index by going into the Control Panel, under Indexing Options, under Advanced and selecting Select New. After restarting the Windows Search service, the index will move from the original location to the newly created Turbo Memory drive.

Why do this? Less hard drive thrashing overall and faster search results inside Windows and Outlook. Instead of the index and the content residing on the same drive spindle, you have a 'pseudo' SSD dedicated to your Windows Search index. The old joke about making Vista faster was to do net stop wsearch, but this is no longer needed using this method.

2. Set your TEMP and TMP environment variables to use the drive for temporary storage/scratch space. In my case, I set my user TEMP and TMP variables to R:\TEMP\USER and my system TEMP and TMP variables to R:\TEMP\SYSTEM. Make sure to create these directories on the drive before applying the settings.

3. Internet Explorer disk cache location - I set IE to store cache inside R:\TEMP\IE and limit the size to a small amount.

4. Firefox disk cache location - Using about:config, I set browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to R:\TEMP\FF. In order to avoid stalls on fsync on Firefox 3.x due to SQLite, you can also add toolkit.storage.synchronous set to 0 in about:config. I know this quirk is being addressed in Firefox 3.5+, so it will soon be a non-issue. You do have a slight risk of corruption of Firefox SQLite tables, but in practice, I have not experienced any.

Things to watch out for
If you do upgrade the Turbo Memory driver in the future, you will want to reset your TEMP and TMP variables back to the original values in order to ensure that you can log in properly into your computer. The Windows Search index and IE/FF caches can be dynamically regenerated after you redo the drive setup.

I have experienced scenarios/programs that required more than 1.3GB of free temporary space so I sometimes set the variables back to the original hard drive location on a case by case basis.

Conclusion
Please let me know if you think of new uses for this and I will add them to this blog entry. It has worked well for me since W7 RC and it should work well for you too. It has even inspired me into looking into cheap 4GB Robson modules or a secondary bay SSD. ]]> Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:35:29 -0500 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1906-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1906-Windows-7-and-using-Intel-Turbo-Memory-Robson-as-a-persistent-RAM-disk-or-TEMP-drive.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/wFZF7-7josA/1905-For-now,-hold-off-on-installing-KB-974571-on-OCS-2007-R2-servers-and-possibly-R1.html Microsoft OCS / LCS Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1905-For-now,-hold-off-on-installing-KB-974571-on-OCS-2007-R2-servers-and-possibly-R1.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1905 5 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1905 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) 974571 (part of Patch Tuesday today - specifically related to Crypto-API/ASN1) will make OCS think it is an evaluation version that has expired. Uninstall KB 974571 and OCS works again. You will want to apply the KB once an updated patch, or an updated patch for OCS becomes available. I've verified this problem in my lab too.

Originally documented here. ]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:47:14 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1905-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1905-For-now,-hold-off-on-installing-KB-974571-on-OCS-2007-R2-servers-and-possibly-R1.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/4gDRlKEvTAM/1904-Jabber-Google-Talk-XMPP-support-for-OCS-2007-R2.html Microsoft OCS / LCS Unified Comm Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1904-Jabber-Google-Talk-XMPP-support-for-OCS-2007-R2.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1904 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1904 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) here, this is pretty big news. One of the biggest complaints about the PIC (public IM) functionality of OCS is the fact that it would not interface with Jabber/Google Talk. Thankfully, that all changes today with the release of the XMPP Gateway.

On a bad note, it looks as though virtualization of this role isn't officially supported, but I am hoping that changes as time goes on and Microsoft can run the software components through the various validation tests. The other unfortunate aspect is that it cannot be co-located on an Edge server role.

All in all, a step in the right direction. They also announced that the AOL PIC license shares the same type of "free"-ness that the MSN PIC license received a few months ago. Basically if you have LCS/OCS Standard CAL with Software Assurance, the MSN and AOL PIC licenses get thrown in with the deal. ]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:42:55 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1904-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1904-Jabber-Google-Talk-XMPP-support-for-OCS-2007-R2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/SkNHsW6CTKg/1903-PreCallDiagnostic-Tool-great-for-domain-joined-PCs-but-not-non-domain-joined-PCs.html Microsoft OCS / LCS VOIP Wireless http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1903-PreCallDiagnostic-Tool-great-for-domain-joined-PCs-but-not-non-domain-joined-PCs.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1903 7 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1903 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) The PreCallDiagTool is an application that reports expected audio quality as it relates to the network effect. The tool should be installed on any desktop or laptop PC that suffers from inconsistent network connection quality. The PreCallDiagTool can provide a quick check of the current network conditions and also preserve a history of quality data to let users profile their network performance over time or other conditions. The tool is particularly useful for home/mobile users and users using WIFI access points.


The diagnostic application first shipped with the OCS 2007 R2 Resource Kit.

On a good note, this was a welcome addition to my arsenal of debugging voice quality and network quality of end user machines.
On a bad note, it was 64-bit only and a good majority of the Office Communication deploys are to 32-bit operating systems.

Thankfully, they've released a 32-bit version of this application but the documentation on the syntax and use of the tool is particularly sparse.

For the 32-bit version of this application:
When extracted, the application install files are copied to %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2\PCDResKit\PreCallDiagTool\

For the 64-bit version of this application:
When extracted, the application install files are copied to %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2\ResKit\PreCallDiagTool\

To install the application, you need to run PCDSetup.exe with elevated rights.
After installation, the application resides in %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\PreCallDiagTool\
If you happen to install the 32-bit version on a 64-bit OS, replace %ProgramFiles% with %ProgramFiles(x86)%.

If you want to configure the application during first-run use, you will want to execute the program with elevated rights because the program will store the XML configuration file in the same directory as the executable. Anytime you want to use the in-program configuration options to change the setup, you will need to run this program elevated, unfortunately.

Typically, I've gotten used to just editing the XML file (PreCallDiag.xml) using Notepad.

Hopefully I am just being dense in the configuration of this tool, but I cannot seem to figure out how to specify a username or password within the PreCallDiag.xml file. This is when you would want to specify UseDefaultCredentials to false. You would want to do this for computers that are not joined to the domain or that have a different log in username than the current user. Does anyone know how?

Looking through the executable for configuration keywords, I did spot two undocumented XML keys, namely ServerUri and ServerPort.

I believe the proper syntax, if you want to set the key UseSipAutomaticConfiguration to false, is the following:

add key="ServerUri" value="youredgeserveravname.contoso.com"
add key="ServerPort" value="443"


Anyway, the program seems to be a bit finicky but when you have it running, the screenshot ends up looking like this:


You also end up with a debugging text file called precalldiaglog.txt and a much more interesting file called precalldiagMetricsLog.txt which includes the data collected while the program was running. ]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:30:14 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1903-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1903-PreCallDiagnostic-Tool-great-for-domain-joined-PCs-but-not-non-domain-joined-PCs.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/-Ku5Sr8hSFU/1902-Passed-74-924-used-to-be-88-924-OCS-2007-UC-voice-exam.html Microsoft OCS / LCS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1902-Passed-74-924-used-to-be-88-924-OCS-2007-UC-voice-exam.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1902 1 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1902 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) OCS Ignite class, but I suspect that is on purpose. Treat the lab guide and materials provided like a Bible for the test.

There is a general Microsoft Learning page buried on the MS site for the exam here, and I suggest you take the 70-638 OCS exam before this one.

If you come from a PBX/other-VOIP platform background, you will have an easier time with 74-924 because it is very voice/PBX centric. ]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:07:12 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1902-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1902-Passed-74-924-used-to-be-88-924-OCS-2007-UC-voice-exam.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/7aYQXP2Mcys/1901-West-Michigan-NT-User-Group-come-see-Matt-Hester-present-Windows-7-and-Server-2008-R2-Sept-16th-starting-at-6pm.html 7 Microsoft Personal Server TechNet Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1901-West-Michigan-NT-User-Group-come-see-Matt-Hester-present-Windows-7-and-Server-2008-R2-Sept-16th-starting-at-6pm.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1901 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1901 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) Meeting Location:
Partners in Dental Care
2565 Forest Hill Ave SE Suite #200
Grand Rapids MI

(lower level - use side entrance
from parking lot on North side)

Time: 6:00p.m. to 8:30p.m.

Between now and October 22, 2009 the new Operating System will be rolled out to the different channels and then available for the consumer to purchase.
Come listen to Matt Hester, Microsoft TechNet Presenter, as he shares with us the latest offerings and availability on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.

Do you have questions? Of course you do!

Oh yeah - if the topics don't interest, you maybe some of the door prizes he will bring for our members will change your mind ... but you can say it was the educational material and networking!

Unless something comes up last minute, I plan on being there too to answer any questions people might have. ]]> Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:36:47 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1901-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1901-West-Michigan-NT-User-Group-come-see-Matt-Hester-present-Windows-7-and-Server-2008-R2-Sept-16th-starting-at-6pm.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/0a_Qvk-vkr0/1900-New-MS-document-published-about-certificates-with-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2.html Microsoft OCS / LCS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1900-New-MS-document-published-about-certificates-with-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1900 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1900 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) here.

It is called "OCS 2007 R2 Deploying Certificates.doc".

Make sure to check out the last page of the document.

]]> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:33:46 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1900-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1900-New-MS-document-published-about-certificates-with-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/vFc_N-yiPjU/1899-Windows-7-House-Party.html 7 Microsoft Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1899-Windows-7-House-Party.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1899 3 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1899 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
Read more about it here.

Side note: I've been gone from the blog for a few weeks but I have plenty of blog entries related to Windows 7 and OCS shortly.
]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:37:46 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1899-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1899-Windows-7-House-Party.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/upD4ecsO5kg/1898-Mobile-Broadband-Stack-Changes-for-Windows-7.html 7 Microsoft Windows OS Wireless http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1898-Mobile-Broadband-Stack-Changes-for-Windows-7.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1898 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1898 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
In particular, here is a good document explaining the changes related to 3G/EVDO/etc mobile broadband drivers with Windows 7:

Windows 7 mobile broadband drivers use the new features introduced by Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) 6.20. In Windows 7, mobile broadband devices integrate differently with Windows 7 than they did with Windows Vista® and Windows XP, when they appeared to the operating system Ethernet or dial up networking/modem devices. This paper discusses important changes in the mobile broadband drivers for Windows 7. This information applies for the Windows 7 operating system.

Download the document from here. ]]> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:17:57 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1898-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1898-Mobile-Broadband-Stack-Changes-for-Windows-7.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/Q9avb1JUqV4/1897-Just-in-time-for-Windows-7-RTM-downloads-off-MSDN-and-TechNet-Windows-7-XP-Mode-RC-and-Virtual-PC-RC.html 7 Microsoft Virtualization Vista Windows OS XP http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1897-Just-in-time-for-Windows-7-RTM-downloads-off-MSDN-and-TechNet-Windows-7-XP-Mode-RC-and-Virtual-PC-RC.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1897 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1897 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) here.
You can download the release candidate for Virtual PC (for Windows 7) here.

Also, there is an update to support RemoteApp for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 virtual machines. ]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:57:20 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1897-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1897-Just-in-time-for-Windows-7-RTM-downloads-off-MSDN-and-TechNet-Windows-7-XP-Mode-RC-and-Virtual-PC-RC.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/Fh5BUj9nZMA/1896-Office-Communicator-2007-R1-July-2009-update-v2.0.6362.137.html Microsoft OCS / LCS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1896-Office-Communicator-2007-R1-July-2009-update-v2.0.6362.137.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1896 1 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1896 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) First update for Office Communicator 2007 R1 since late last year, with a few incremental fixes:

Error events occur when you disconnect a computer that is running Communicator 2007 from a network: "Event ID: 3" or "Event ID: 7"

Enterprise administrators cannot both set and enforce the Outlook integration settings in Personal Information Manager (PIM) to turn off Outlook integration for Office Communicator 2007 ]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:30:19 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1896-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1896-Office-Communicator-2007-R1-July-2009-update-v2.0.6362.137.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/xYuT2sh9eKQ/1895-OCS-Advanced-SIP-packet-mangling-with-the-built-in-MSPL-scripting-language.html Microsoft OCS / LCS Visual Studio http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1895-OCS-Advanced-SIP-packet-mangling-with-the-built-in-MSPL-scripting-language.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1895 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1895 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
With that said, I stumbled upon a particularly interesting blog post by a MS employee about using the MSPL scripting language to manipulate SIP packets and fake a 180 ring back. Ultimately, the ideal fix is to get the existing PBX to do the right thing, but sometimes that is not always a viable option.

Read about the ring back workaround here.

In the upcoming months, I'm going to dig more into MSPL and see exactly how creative you can get with this language. It could prove to be very handy for problematic/buggy SIP implementations or as a stop-gap measure to work around something that OCS normally cannot handle. I'm thinking of situations where you need to do something special/different between the mediation server and the PBX gateway to make things work correctly.

Of course, keep in mind any custom made scripts you deploy will be the first things that Microsoft PSS will want to disable in a troubleshooting scenario. It definitely would put you into an 'unsupported' scenario. ]]> Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:32:42 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1895-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1895-OCS-Advanced-SIP-packet-mangling-with-the-built-in-MSPL-scripting-language.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/jG6ld05IL34/1894-Noteworthy-post-SP2-Outlook-2007-update-for-Windows-7-users-and-those-experiencing-slow-performance-after-installing-Office-2007-SP2.html 7 Exchange Microsoft Office Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1894-Noteworthy-post-SP2-Outlook-2007-update-for-Windows-7-users-and-those-experiencing-slow-performance-after-installing-Office-2007-SP2.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1894 2 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1894 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) blogged about a post-SP2 Outlook 2007 release that optimized Exchange server connections and now there is a new cumulative update available that adds some performance improvements for certain operations with Windows 7 and for those that have experienced slow performance with Office 2007 Service Pack 2.

The June 30th, 2009 Outlook update (KB 970944) includes many updates that are of interest mostly to developers but I have highlighted a few of the updates that have proven to be noticeable to end users:

This hotfix provides an improvement to Outlook 2007 if performance is slow after you install 2007 Office Service Pack 2 (SP2).

In your mailbox, a folder contains thousands of subfolders, such as the Inbox folder or the Calendar folder. After you install the February cumulative update, when you try to check the size of the folder, you receive an error in the Folder Size dialog box. After that, when you try to open the folder or some subfolder, you receive the following error message: Cannot display the folder. Your server administrator has limited the number of items you can open simultaneously. Try closing messages you have opened or removing attachments and images from unsent messages you are composing

You start Outlook 2007 in Cached Exchange Mode and with the reading pane active. If an e-mail message that contains a custom form that has code is displayed in the reading pane, CPU usage increases or Outlook even crashes. This problem occurs after you install Office SP2.

When you are running Outlook 2007 on a Windows Vista-based computer that uses high DPI (for example, 120 DPI), icons for custom forms will not be displayed.

On a computer that is running Windows 7, the Delete and Sync operations perform slowly in Outlook 2007 after you install SP2.

A hotfix enables you to set the download mode for IMAP accounts in Outlook 2007 and to configure the setting to sync the mailbox when you exit Outlook 2007

When you send an e-mail message from a shared mailbox in Outlook 2007, the sent message is not saved in the Sent Items folder of the shared mailbox

In Outlook 2007, when you view a group schedule in Calendar, the text in the group schedule is blurry. In this case, visually-impaired users cannot read the text in the group schedule. ]]> Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:16:00 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1894-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1894-Noteworthy-post-SP2-Outlook-2007-update-for-Windows-7-users-and-those-experiencing-slow-performance-after-installing-Office-2007-SP2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/TSP_hd9T-Xk/1893-Debug-or-validate-your-OCS-remote-connectivity-with-the-OCS-Remote-Connectivity-Analyzer.html Microsoft OCS / LCS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1893-Debug-or-validate-your-OCS-remote-connectivity-with-the-OCS-Remote-Connectivity-Analyzer.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1893 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1893 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) Microsoft OCS Remote Connectivity Analyzer.

I would only use test user accounts when debugging issues with this website just to err on the side of caution.
This will most likely be my first stop whenever I'm trying to help someone troubleshoot an OCS edge server connectivity issue.
Right now you can manually specify your server settings or have the server attempt to autodiscover your OCS settings.

According to the website, future plans include: "Deeper level of diagnostic information - MSDiagnostics header", and "Additional tests".

An example run through of a diagnostic:

Attempting to Resolve the host name sip.tiensivu.com in DNS.
Host successfully Resolved
Additional Details
IP(s) returned: 224.0.1.59

Testing TCP Port 443 on host sip.tiensivu.com to ensure it is listening/open.
The port was opened successfully.

Testing SSLCertificate for validity.
The certificate passed all validation requirements.validation checks.
Additional Details
Subject: CN=sip.tiensivu.com, OU=IT, O=Tiensivu, L=Rockford, S=Michigan, C=US, Issuer OU=Win611ForHomeGroups, O=HomeLab, C=US

Testing OCS remote sign in through Access Edge Server: Port Number (sip.tiensivu.com:443), for SignInAddress (honeypot@tiensivu.com).
The specified user successfully signed in remotely through the Access Edge Server.
Additional Details
Registration is successfully completed.
]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:33 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1893-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1893-Debug-or-validate-your-OCS-remote-connectivity-with-the-OCS-Remote-Connectivity-Analyzer.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/dYNAG8GNcpQ/1892-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2-July-2009-updates.html Exchange Microsoft OCS / LCS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1892-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2-July-2009-updates.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1892 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1892 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
Cumulative fixes for Office Communicator (bolded items I have seen firsthand)

Enterprise administrators cannot both set and enforce the Personal Information Manager settings for Outlook Integration to be able to turn off Outlook Integration for Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2

Error message when you start Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2: "Either there is no default mail client or the current mail client cannot fulfill the message request. Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and set it as the default mail client."

In Communicator 2007 R2 when you use Tanjay to call a user, you hear both the ringing and the audio from the user side

Your voice is discontinuous when you use Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 to make a call on a Windows 7 or a Windows Server 2008 R2-based remote desktop

Error message in Communicator 2007 R2 when you try to join a conference call from Outlook: "Can't open the program because Office Communicator or Office Communications Server Attendant is already running on your windows user account"

The delegate permissions feature in Office Communicator 2007 R2 is unavailable to non-unified communications users

Video frames are not displayed in Office Communicator 2007 R2 on a Windows XP-based computer

Error message when you try to adjust the volume during a call in a Communicator 2007 R2 conversation window on a computer that is running Windows XP: "Cannot adjust the speaker volume"

Error message when distribution group expansion fails in Office Communicator 2007 R2: "Cannot save a local copy of your distribution groups."

A "Meet Now - Invite by Email" HTML e-mail message that is generated by Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 has unreadable text in the message body

Communicator 2007 R2 users may experience network performance issues that are caused by Global address list (GAL) full file download or GAL delta file download

This cumulative update, together with update 969696 and update 969821, fixes the following issue:
When a delegate on behalf of a manager tries to use the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook to schedule a live meeting or to schedule a conference, the delegate's information instead of manager's information displays in the conferencing request unexpectedly. To resolve this issue, you have to apply update 969695, update 969696, and update 969821.

Cumulative fixes for Office Communications Server 2007 R2

A computer that is running Office Communications Server 2007 R2, Audio/Video Conferencing Edge Server crashes when it tries to process a Relay NAT message

Two users unexpectedly join the same conference when they try to join separate conferences in Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Error message when a SIP message request is sent from a federated partner in Communications Server 2007 R2: “500: Server Internal Error”

When Office Communications Server 2007 R2 routes a voice mail call to an Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging server, the corresponding invitation message does not indicate that the request originates from Office Communications Server

The delegate permissions feature in Office Communicator 2007 R2 is unavailable to non-unified communications users

Cumulative fixes for Conferencing Add-in for Outlook

A duplicate item for a recurring meeting that is created in the Live Meeting 2007 Conferencing Add-in for Outlook (build 8.0.6362.0114 or earlier) is created in the Outlook calendars of the meeting attendees

Error message when you connect to a Live Meeting 2007 session: "The server settings have been changed"

Error message when you use the Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook to schedule a meeting in Outlook 2007: "An error occurred while executing this command. If this error persists, please contact your Live Meeting Administrator"

When a delegate tries to use the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook to schedule a live meeting or to schedule a conference on behalf of a manager, the delegate's information instead of the manager's information displays in the conferencing request

An additional "/" character appears at the end of a meeting lobby URL when you use the Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook to create a meeting request

Error message when you schedule a Live Meeting 2007 session by using the Conferencing Add-in for Outlook: "An error occurred trying to retrieve recipient properties"

Error message when you try to invite a person in a Live Meeting session: "An error occurred while executing this command"

You cannot use the Office Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook to send a Live Meeting invitation or to send an update for an existing Live Meeting

Outlook consumes 100 percent of CPU resources unexpectedly when you use build 8.0.6362.128 of the Office Live Meeting Add-in for Outlook

Cumulative fixes for Communicator 2007 R2 Attendant Console - July 2009 update
Office Communicator 2007 R2 runs concurrently with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant

Download link for Communicator 2007 R2 - July 2009 update here.

Download link for OCS 2007 R2 Server - July 2009 update here.

Download link for Communicator 2007 R2 Attendant Console - July 2009 update here.

Update (08-06-09): The complete list of July 2009 updates is now available here. ]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:02:10 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1892-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1892-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2-July-2009-updates.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/ZuBSWwAjmYs/1891-Our-cat-Dar-is-on-the-2009-Jones-Soda-Halloween-Dread-Apple-flavor.html Personal http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1891-Our-cat-Dar-is-on-the-2009-Jones-Soda-Halloween-Dread-Apple-flavor.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1891 2 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1891 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) See the black cat in the collection of Halloween photos? That is our cat, Dar, when he was about 8 weeks old. We submitted the photo in May of 2006. Keep a look out for the "Dread Apple" Jones Soda flavor at Target and other stores across the nation in October. If you spot a bottle, let us know.

Here is the original photo submission.

This is my wife's 14th Jones Soda label to hit the store shelves across the nation, and it looks like this one is in full color too!

Original


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]]> Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:39:36 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1891-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1891-Our-cat-Dar-is-on-the-2009-Jones-Soda-Halloween-Dread-Apple-flavor.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/zoCVMH17FTk/1890-Hopefully-sparks-will-not-fly-in-a-literal-sense,-but-we-will-give-it-a-go-for-the-2009-Microsoft-Sparks-will-Fly-challenge.html Microsoft Personal Visual Studio Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1890-Hopefully-sparks-will-not-fly-in-a-literal-sense,-but-we-will-give-it-a-go-for-the-2009-Microsoft-Sparks-will-Fly-challenge.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1890 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1890 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) I'm referring to my habit of finding new ways to use tools or devices in ways they weren't originally designed for.
Our home's wireless network infrastructure and internet connectivity are shining examples of these mad scientist experiments.

This trend continues with the box that is sitting in front of me: The eBox-3300-JSK, as part of the Microsoft Sparks will Fly contest.

My daughters like working on projects with Dad whenever possible, especially if it involves computers or animals. It doesn't surprise me too much based on our household. My youngest daughter (now 5 years old) completely "owned" her computer in 2008, much to my chagrin. My oldest daughter (almost 8 years old) was showing me map exploit tricks to use in a popular XBox 360/PC zombie game this past weekend.

In an effort to put that kind of knowledge/curiosity to good use, we're going to build an embedded solution for our chickens. It will involve webcams, internet connectivity, motion detection and servos. I am mostly going to use items that are around the house, due to budget and time constraints. My free time to work on this in the short term will be limited, but I have some good ideas to run with. I like to dabble in programming when it isn't part of my regular job, so this will be fun.

In a somewhat related topic, I have some articles/postings coming up in the near future once work and life settles down a bit. ]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:37:56 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1890-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1890-Hopefully-sparks-will-not-fly-in-a-literal-sense,-but-we-will-give-it-a-go-for-the-2009-Microsoft-Sparks-will-Fly-challenge.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/yCDYwRp2rDc/1889-ATIAMD-Catalyst-9.7-first-unified-Vista-and-Windows-7-WHQL-driver.html 7 Microsoft Vista Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1889-ATIAMD-Catalyst-9.7-first-unified-Vista-and-Windows-7-WHQL-driver.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1889 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1889 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
With that said, check out the new release mentioned here and download them from here.

As always, for the mobility chipsets, I recommend using the Driver Heaven ModTool. ]]> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:51:56 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1889-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1889-ATIAMD-Catalyst-9.7-first-unified-Vista-and-Windows-7-WHQL-driver.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/TuuBGjFq0Y8/1888-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2-site-resiliency-documentation.html Microsoft OCS / LCS Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1888-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2-site-resiliency-documentation.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1888 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1888 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
This white paper describes a site resiliency solution for Office Communications Server 2007 R2. The solution includes an Enterprise pool that spans two geographically separate sites. The solution provides a failover mechanism between the two sites to ensure that Office Communications Server functionality such as instant messaging, presence, and conferencing remains available even if one of the sites becomes unavailable.

This white paper is divided into three main sections:

1. The Solution section provides an overview of the tested and supported site resiliency solution described in this paper.
2. The Test Methodology section describes the testing topology, expected behavior, and test results.
3. The Findings and Recommendations section provides practical guidance for deploying your own failover solution.

To successfully follow this paper, you should have a thorough understanding of Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering.

Download it from here. ]]> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:45:42 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1888-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1888-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2-site-resiliency-documentation.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/0vjOmcN7akY/1887-Anyone-know-of-a-good-OSX-SIP-softphone.html Microsoft OCS / LCS Other OS info Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1887-Anyone-know-of-a-good-OSX-SIP-softphone.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1887 2 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1887 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
Unfortunately, as of the most recent Communicator client for Mac, there isn't true SIP phone/PBX support. I know someone out there has had to tackle this problem before, so I am curious if anyone has some recommendations? ]]> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:38:51 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1887-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1887-Anyone-know-of-a-good-OSX-SIP-softphone.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/tqmuaY6IoDY/1886-Communicator-Mobile-2007-R2-July-2009-update-build-6906.28.html Microsoft OCS / LCS Win Mobile http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1886-Communicator-Mobile-2007-R2-July-2009-update-build-6906.28.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1886 1 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1886 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) Issues fixed:

Homescreen support for new homescreens in Windows Mobile 6.5+ phones.

Integration within the phone dialer for Windows Mobile 6.5+ phones.

Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 now recognizes when the phone is roaming, and by default does not sign in to roaming networks.

Additional support for joining conference calls from a Windows Mobile appointment. To do this, press Menu, and then press Join Conference.

Enables users to log on with a username of the format user@example.com, in addition to domain\user.

When placing Call via Work calls, callbacks are now automatically accepted.

Microsoft Installer (MSI) installation on Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) fails.

AT&T FUZE devices set for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) connection cannot handle voice and data at the same time. This causes Call via Work calls to fail unless the device is reverted to 3rd Generation (3G) by disabling HSDPA.

Read more about it here.

Download the Smartphone (keyboard based phone / "Windows Mobile Standard") version here.

Download the Pocket PC (stylus based phone / "Windows Mobile Pro") version here. ]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:20:13 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1886-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1886-Communicator-Mobile-2007-R2-July-2009-update-build-6906.28.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/7O3ddGkfAmM/1885-As-seen-on-the-Stephen-Rose-TechNet-blog,-win-a-copy-of-Windows-7-Ultimate.html 7 Microsoft TechNet http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1885-As-seen-on-the-Stephen-Rose-TechNet-blog,-win-a-copy-of-Windows-7-Ultimate.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1885 2 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1885 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) here, take a short survey before June 30th 12pm PDT for a chance to win a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.

The survey link is here. ]]> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:17:10 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1885-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1885-As-seen-on-the-Stephen-Rose-TechNet-blog,-win-a-copy-of-Windows-7-Ultimate.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/c3oXYjo7IHQ/1884-Free-eBooks-from-MS-Press-for-OCS-for-a-limited-time-OCS-2007-R2-Resource-Kit-and-Programming-for-Unified-Communications.html Microsoft OCS / LCS Unified Comm http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1884-Free-eBooks-from-MS-Press-for-OCS-for-a-limited-time-OCS-2007-R2-Resource-Kit-and-Programming-for-Unified-Communications.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1884 3 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1884 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)




Originally spotted here. ]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:41:13 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1884-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1884-Free-eBooks-from-MS-Press-for-OCS-for-a-limited-time-OCS-2007-R2-Resource-Kit-and-Programming-for-Unified-Communications.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/NoNP24XQk58/1883-How-to-download-the-alpha-builds-of-Digsby-directly-from-the-Digsby-website.html Microsoft Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1883-How-to-download-the-alpha-builds-of-Digsby-directly-from-the-Digsby-website.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1883 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1883 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu) tag.yaml to use the auto update mechanism inside Digsby, there have been times when the update process hasn't worked, or you want to download the latest build *right now*.

It isn't documented very well on the Digsby site, but you can download the latest alpha builds from here. ]]> Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:35:46 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1883-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1883-How-to-download-the-alpha-builds-of-Digsby-directly-from-the-Digsby-website.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/WiZOYizAadY/1882-KB-968858-Noteworthy-post-SP2-Office-2007-hotfix-reduces-the-number-of-RPC-connections-to-the-Exchange-server-from-Outlook.html Exchange Microsoft OCS / LCS Office Wireless http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1882-KB-968858-Noteworthy-post-SP2-Office-2007-hotfix-reduces-the-number-of-RPC-connections-to-the-Exchange-server-from-Outlook.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1882 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1882 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
"When you are running Outlook 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 on a client computer, Communicator unexpectedly creates persistent Outlook connections to Exchange Server."

This is a bit of an understatement because I've noticed a difference in the number of connections (logical and physical) even when Office Communicator isn't involved with Outlook 2007.

To give an example, this is what my connection status dialog box (outlook /rpcdiag) looks like before:


After:


Take into consideration, many times my Internet connection is over an EVDO Rev A data line and the importance of this change skyrockets. I want every little extra bit of bandwidth left for other applications if at all possible.

As pointed out by some of the Exchange gurus at Microsoft, the connections listed in those dialog boxes represent the 'logical' RPC connections back to the Exchange server. The actual amount of physical connections (as in, connections viewable by doing a 'netstat -a -n -o' and filtering for your Exchange client access server) will drop by a smaller amount.

Either way, this has sped up Outlook a considerable amount even compared to unpatched Outlook Service Pack 2, which is leaps and bounds faster than any previous Outlook 2007 version.

This has the potential of reduced bandwidth usage and reduced connection counts on your Exchange server and/or ISA setup. Overall, a great update so far.

Read more about the update and request the binaries here.

Thanks go out to Gary Cooper for pointing out this Outlook update. ]]> Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:41:10 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1882-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1882-KB-968858-Noteworthy-post-SP2-Office-2007-hotfix-reduces-the-number-of-RPC-connections-to-the-Exchange-server-from-Outlook.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/Nzyg1jZY2UQ/1881-Use-FAT16-with-64K-cluster-size-for-best-performance-on-4GB-ReadyBoost-devices,-plus-W7-Intel-Turbo-Ram-drivers!.html 7 Microsoft Vista Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1881-Use-FAT16-with-64K-cluster-size-for-best-performance-on-4GB-ReadyBoost-devices,-plus-W7-Intel-Turbo-Ram-drivers!.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1881 2 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1881 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
If you dedicate the device to ReadyBoost, you will only have one file on the filesystem, so any slack/waste in the 64K cluster size will be made up from the lack of $MFT reservations.

Also noteworthy but often overlooked, you can multiplex ReadyBoost devices in Windows 7 so you can use multiple ReadyBoost drives if you really want. This helps out XP Mode on memory starved machines quite a bit.

If you are looking for a Windows 7 compatible version of the Turbo Memory driver from Intel, use version 1.10.0.1003 or higher. You can find a version of this on Station Driver's page here. I don't believe these have reached Intel's page yet, even though they are WHQL signed. The interesting side effect is that the new driver will enable ReadyBoost on the Turbo Ram without assigning a drive letter or file system to it. Pretty cool. ]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:27:04 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1881-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1881-Use-FAT16-with-64K-cluster-size-for-best-performance-on-4GB-ReadyBoost-devices,-plus-W7-Intel-Turbo-Ram-drivers!.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/p4dO7k4AsYE/1880-Exchange-2010-killer-feature-for-me-voicemail-transcription-into-an-e-mail.html Exchange Microsoft http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1880-Exchange-2010-killer-feature-for-me-voicemail-transcription-into-an-e-mail.html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1880 1 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1880 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
Most of the time, I'm out of the office, but I still want people that call the office to reach me as long as I have cell signal. Many times while inside buildings or datacenters, cell signal is poor or you aren't allowed to bring your cell phone inside. Usually, if I don't have cell signal, I'll have some kind of Internet data connection, so this is a great example of using OCS for reach-ability while at a customer site. Of course, this assumes you have permission to connect into their network.

Where am I going with this? Unified Communications/Messaging. I know you probably hear that buzz word quite a bit, but this is a good example.

I forward my office phone to my OCS phone number.
I forward my work phone number to my OCS phone number, if there is no answer on the cell phone.

Why do I go through all this effort to get missed calls to my OCS number?

This:



I did edit this message to say "name" instead of the actual name of the person called. Ditto for the phone number involved.

If the person that left the voicemail spoke clearly and wasn't in a noisy environment, Exchange 2010 generates a decent text transcription. Many times, I don't have to listen to the actual voice message.

End result: I avoid having to remember 3 different set of voice mail PINs. I avoid having to remember to check the office voice mail system. If I am in a meeting and can't take a call, I can read the voicemail message inside Outlook without ducking out to check voicemail on my cell phone.

Please be aware that most cellular providers will charge you minutes for forwarded calls, which is the reason I have it setup to only forward the call if there is no answer or the phone line is busy.

As of 06/02/09, the phone codes to do this on the Verizon network are:

Conditional forwarding (only on "no answer" of cell phone):
*71 plus 10 digit phone number
*73 cancels

Unconditional forwarding (all calls forwarded):
*72 plus ten digit phone number
*73 cancels

Busy transfer:
*90 plus ten digit phone number
*900 cancels

As an example, if I wanted to conditionally forward my calls to 616-555-1234, I would enter in *716165551234 into my cell phone and hit [Send].

If you are not on a "home" Verizon tower/network, these codes will most likely not work. Not all phone numbers seem to work, and I do believe you need to have the 'Call Forwarding' option as part of your cell phone plan.

I am sure many other providers have the same type of functionality, but Verizon is the only provider that has a tower near my house.
Thanks go out to Britt Baubie for the Verizon information. ]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:39:25 -0400 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1880-guid.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1880-Exchange-2010-killer-feature-for-me-voicemail-transcription-into-an-e-mail.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/atiensivu/~3/SyRptV5m7-s/1879-ATIAMD-Catalyst-9.3-seems-to-be-the-end-of-the-line-for-updated-drivers-for-many-DX9-chipsets..html 7 Microsoft Vista Windows OS http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1879-ATIAMD-Catalyst-9.3-seems-to-be-the-end-of-the-line-for-updated-drivers-for-many-DX9-chipsets..html#comments http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/wfwcomment.php?cid=1879 0 http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=1879 atiensivu@gmail.com (Aaron Tiensivu)
Wonder which graphics cards (desktop, mobile and AIW) should use Catalyst 9.3 with for now?
Radeon 9500, 9550, 9600, 9700, and 9800 Series
Radeon Xpress, X300, X550, X600, X700, X800, X850, X1050, X1200, X1250 X1300, X1550, X1600, X1650, X1800, X1900, and X2100 Series

Unfortunately, that is a pretty sizable group of graphics cards that came out not too long ago.

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