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New tool on the way from MS http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/05/coming-soon-pst-capture-tool.aspx Yes - PST's are the most evil creation of all time - and anything that can help relgate them to a distant memory is welcome.
Continue readingA client pointed this article out after being unable to sync their windows 7 phone with the shiny new Exchange 2010 setup... http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/exchange-activesync-considerations-when-using-windows-phone-7-clients.aspx Which follows on to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2464593 Now i definsately give credit to MS for at least stating it "It's important to note that Windows Phone 7 (WP7) primarily was developed as a consumer…
Continue readinghttp://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/05/17/announcing-exchange-2010-service-pack-2.aspx nothing earth shattering - but some good updates Nothing mentioned about the re-authentication prompts when a CAS in an array fail's over.... i know this is "expected" behaviour..... but it still doesnt stop it from sucking.
Continue readingAt one of our client sites, we had an issue where the client could no longer create exchange 2010 mailboxes after a DC was demoted. After some poking, and trying the "set-ADServerSettings" commd-let, we found that simply deleting the mmc definition file from c:users<username>appdataroamingmicrosoftmmcExchange Management Console "solved" the issue.
Continue reading99% of the time i use RPC/HTTP (or Outlook anywhere) to access my mail externally, but the other day i was forced to use OWA for the first time since i updated to Exchange 2010 SP1. What a pleasant surprise. OWA has been given a minor, yet nice graphical overhaul that makes it look about…
Continue readingAfter upgrading to Exchange 2010 SP1 over the weekend (i lead an exciting life) - and believing that all was fine, i found this week, while away, that i couldnt set an out-of-office auto-reply while connected via RPC/HTTP. This was fairly obviously something to do with the Exchange Web services (EWS) IIS directory not being…
Continue readinghttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50b32685-4356-49cc-8b37-d9c9d4ea3f5b&displaylang=en http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/08/25/455861.aspx
Continue readinghttp://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/06/28/455301.aspx some good videos - pity about the interviewer, but the actual content is pretty well explained.
Continue readingSo i was doing some work on an Exchange 2007 install which needed quite a bit of work - and noticed exchange 2007 SP3 was now available.... missed that one! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1687160b-634a-43cb-a65a-f355cff0afa6 and while were at it - netmon 3.4 is now around too! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=983b941d-06cb-4658-b7f6-3088333d062f&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29#tm
Continue readingRecently, i purchased a new hyper-V cheapy "server" - core i7 930, 24gb ram and 2 x sata 3 600gb raptors.... (which im running off the sata 2 controllers because of how shitty the mavell controller on the mb is... as per my previous post). Anyhoo, with this new hardware, i now have far more…
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