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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Documentation

Paul Flaherty — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:14:36 GMT

Wow, do you have a spare 29mb? what an awesome list of docs http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E9F86F96-AA09-4DCA-9088-F64B4F01C703&displaylang=en#filelist Use this page to find technical documentation to help you understand,...(read more)

First Windows 2008 DC in a Windows 2003 Forest

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:26:56 GMT

So I didn’t "really" notice this, but then Patrick mention it and I thought wot? Basically when you try and dcpromo the first Windows 2008 server in a Windows 2003 forestyou get this: so you need to run Z:\sources\adprep>adprep.exe /forestprep...(read more)

Get-MsxServerPLUS.ps1 v1.24

Paul Flaherty — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:59:00 GMT

It’s been a while, but I have updated Get-MsxServerPLUS.ps1 aka Get-ExchangeServerPLUS.ps1. I changed the name as it was annoying me as it was conflicting with get-exchangeserver. Other updates are: v1.20 10 November 2008 : Changed the script name so...(read more)

Missing Disk Partition Tables on Windows 2003

Paul Flaherty — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:32:14 GMT

This is interesting .. have seen this on a number virtual and physical windows 2003 servers, with NetApp or EMC storage. For some reason, external storage is goes missing after a reboot. I does appear in disk management, but as an initialized disk. ...(read more)

Office 2010 the Movie .. Teaser

Paul Flaherty — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:21:57 GMT

Well what can I say .. have a look here: http://www.office2010themovie.com/...(read more)

Exchange 2010 Mobility Videos on TechNet Edge

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:28:26 GMT

A whole bunch of demo videos came out on TechNet Edge yesterday Exchange 2010 Mobility Demo: Nickname Cache Adam Glick, Senior Technical Product Manager, demos Nickname Cache in Exchange 2010. By storing the e-mail addresses of recent recipients, the...(read more)

Jobserve Windows Desktop Gadget

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:17:36 GMT

This is nice .. Source: http://www.labs.jobserve.com/Articles.aspx/Search-for-jobs-from-your-Windows-Desktop This desktop gadget, however, uses the service in it’s fullest form; allowing for country and location-specific job searching straight from your...(read more)

Office Communicator Configuration Information

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:08:05 GMT

Blimey this is good! Source: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2009/04/08/400.aspx Administrators, users and troubleshooters value the possibility in Outlook 2007 to get status about the connections: by holding the ctrl key while right clicking...(read more)

A Month in Exchange: July 2009

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:05:42 GMT

What a scorcher in June was in the UK, and it all down hill now until the end of 2009 #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for June 2009 ish #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*...(read more)

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Documentation

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:24:42 GMT

Documentation updated to 1.0 (Date Published: 6/25/2009) Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=19bd0eb5-7ca0-41be-8c0f-2d95fe7ec636#tm The Operations Manager 2007 R2 technical documentation helps you plan,...(read more)

Service Level Dashboard 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:19:17 GMT

Sweet .. Source: http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2009/05/26/service-level-dashboard-2-0-for-system-center-operations-manager-2007-r2-released.aspx The Service Level Dashboard Management Pack 2.0 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 assists...(read more)

118 800: UK Mobile phone directory

Paul Flaherty — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:02:01 GMT

Source: http://home.nestor.minsk.by/computers/news/2009/06/1624.html The concept of the directory enquiry (DQ) service is set to be brought into the mobile age with the announcement that 118 800 – the UK's first and only service with the ability to connect...(read more)

Microsoft Exchange Server – Training Portal

Paul Flaherty — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:20:53 GMT

Funky baby, check out this stuff, training for Exchange 2007 and 2010! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/training/exchange-server.aspx … Take advantage of new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 training resources and become an expert on Microsoft...(read more)

Moving from VMWare Server to Hyper-V

Paul Flaherty — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:08:29 GMT

How hard do you think this would be? well damm hard in fact. So here is the deal. I have a Mac Pro running Windows 2008 and VMWare Server. I had an issue with my graphics card, so I moved my VMWare stuff to Tosh Laptop. So my graphics...(read more)

Happy Birthday to me

Paul Flaherty — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:50:12 GMT

Good god, has it really been that long … Yesterday (6th June) was this Blogs 5th Birthday. The first post was on the 6th June: Exchange 2003 Service Pack 1 - 06/06/2004 15:59:00 but I'm not sure what happened to that one :-|, with makes this one...(read more)

A Month in Exchange: June 2009

Paul Flaherty — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:39:08 GMT

June already and the weather is sweet in the UK. So lets get on with this … bit of a delay in posting as kbalertz was down :-( #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News for May 2009...(read more)

Unified Communications Adoption and Training Kit 2007 R2

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:03:00 GMT

Humm, interesting. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eb18d016-64f7-4aae-b491-65636a186c1a&displaylang=en The Unified Communications Adoption and Training Kit for 2007 R2 provides guidance and resources for IT Pros, HelpDesk,...(read more)

Restores from Online backup fail to Recovery Storage Groups configured on USB storage

Paul Flaherty — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:06:02 GMT

This is really good .. one to keep in the back of your mind! Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/05/27/451488.aspx In summary … When using an RSG to restore data, and the RSG is created on USB storage, you will need to restart the SERVER service...(read more)

Microsoft Announces the Expansion of the Zune Entertainment Service to New Platform and Markets; Confirms New Zune HD Portable Media Player

Paul Flaherty — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:58 GMT

A few days late, but oh baby baby .. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/may09/05-26ZuneHDPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases REDMOND, Wash. — May 26, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the evolution of Zune, the company’s end-to-end...(read more)

Installing SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2008

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:32:34 GMT

Just a reference to my me as I have forgotten it too many times ;-) http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/archive/2008/07/01/installing-sql-server-2005-on-windows-server-2008.aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920201 If you want to install SQL bits,...(read more)

Introducing Exchange 2010 (MMMUG May Event) Tomorrow

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:26:39 GMT

Remember, if your free tomorrow night … http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2009/05/11/mmmug-may-event-2009-introducing-exchange-2010.aspx...(read more)

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:09:25 GMT

oooooooooooohh Thanks Ari for the tip off ;-) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9f073285-b6ef-4297-85ce-f4463d06d6cb#tm Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista...(read more)

Exchange 2003: Exceeded the maximum

Paul Flaherty — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:00:01 GMT

Dunno if you have seen these errors on an Exchange 2003 server .. Event ID: 9646 Type: Error Source: MSExchangeIS Description: Closing Mapi session "/o=Organization/ou=Administrative Group/cn=Recipients/cn=user" because it exceeded the maximum...(read more)

IR35 tax is a huge failure

Paul Flaherty — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:00:38 GMT

ha ha Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/22/ir35_tax_revenues/ Under the Freedom of Information Act, the Professional Contractors Group has been able to find out how much tax the British government has raised from IR35 . … Through its FOI request,...(read more)

Exchange 2007: List Activesync users

Paul Flaherty — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:23:34 GMT

Okay do you know you can run Get-CASMailbox -Filter {HasActiveSyncDevicePartnership -eq $true} to get a list of users that have an Activesync partnership. Now if you combine this with Get-ActivesyncDeviceStatistics you can get more details too. ...(read more)