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Communicator and Exchange – Special considerations for deploying Communicator in an Exchange environment

In this post the Office Communicator team explains the integration resources between Office Communicator 2007 and Outlook 2007/Exchange Server 2007.

The Office Communicator team has built a rich set of integration points with both Outlook and Exchange. Communicator Presence can be found throughout Outlook (Presence is the colored bubble that appears next to a person's name).

Read more at source: http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2008/01/29/54.aspx

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Windows 2008, SQL 2008, VS 2008 launch in Canada

 

Three ways to be a hero. One event to launch them. As one of the unsung heroes of technology, you do work that helps your company be more competitive. Now, Microsoft is launching three powerful new products that help make it even easier for you to be a hero every day, including: • Windows Server® 2008 operating system; • Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008; and, • Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008. See the applications in action. Attend break-out sessions and meet with product experts. Get answers to your questions and leave with a promotional kit that includes versions of the three new products. Click Here to learn more and see all available event cities or click below to register directly now. Launch & Technical Readiness Events Date City February 27 Toronto, ON Register now March 4 Vancouver, BC Register now March 11 Calgary, AB Register now March 13 Edmonton, AB Register now March 26 Winnipeg, MB Register now April 8 Montréal, QC Register now April 10 Ottawa, ON Register now April 17 Quebec, QC Register now Community Connection Events Date City February 26 Toronto, ON Register now March 3 Vancouver, BC Register now March 5 Victoria, BC Register now March 10 Calgary, AB Register now March 12 Edmonton, AB Register now March 18 Regina, SK Register now March 19 Saskatoon, SK Register now March 25 Winnipeg, MB Register now April 2 Kitchener/Waterloo, ON Register now     April 3 London, ON Register now   April 7 Montreal, QC Register now     April 9 Ottawa, ON Register now     April 15 Halifax, NS Register now     April 16 Quebec, QC Register now

Find out how you can attend the event and try out the new products. Register Now Launch & Technical Readiness Broken into separate tracks, these events introduce the new products and demonstrate how they can help you optimize your IT operations. And with Technical Readiness events to prepare you for dealing with the changes inherent in adopting new technologies, you’ll be better positioned to meet the needs of your organization Community Connection brought to you in collaboration with CIPS and ICTC, these 3 hour, pre-launch workshops are intended to help you network with peers and focus on the changing landscapes of technology, industry, community and your career

Visualizing Transport Dumpster statistics

Hello folks,

We can get a lot of information about the Transport Dumpster through the Performance Monitor tool.

Let's look at MSExchange Transport Dumpster counter and we will see these following counters:

• Dumpster Deletes/sec
• Dumpster Inserts/sec
• Dumpster Item count
  Using this one we can see how many messages will be redelivered by the specific Hub Transport server:)
• Dumpster Size
• Redelivery Count

By the way, this information is per Hub Transport Server and the Transport Dumpster features is only used by LCR and CCR.

Best Regards,
Anderson Patricio

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New release of the Microsoft Transport Suite

Hello Folks,

A new release of Microsoft Transport Suite was released today.

Microsoft Transporter Suite is a set of interoperability and migration tools to migrate content from Lotus Domino servers or Generic POP/IMAP servers.

Overview

Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en#filelist

Best Regards,
Anderson Patricio

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Single-label Domain Names and Exchange Server 2007 SP1

If you are experiencing problems in upgrade your environment to SP1 because you have a single-label domain level name you must read this and send your information to Exchange team.

If you attempt to install Exchange 2007 SP1 into an Active Directory forest containing a single-label domain name (e.g. "Contoso" instead of "Contoso.com"), you'll get this error message:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 setup cannot continue because this computer belongs to a domain that has a single-labeled DNS name. DNS domain name: XYZ

As the Exchange 2007 SP1 release notesstate:

"Exchange 2007 is not supported in environments that use single-label DNS names. Single-label DNS names are DNS names that do not contain a suffix such as .com, .corp, .net, or .org. Exchange 2007 SP1 Setup performs a prerequisite check and will not continue if your environment includes single-label DNS names. For more information about single-label DNS names, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 300684, Information about configuring Windows for domains with single-label DNS names".

Read more at: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/17/447869.aspx

Using IIMF on OCS 2007

Hello Folks,

In OCS 2007 we have the IIMF (Intelligent IM Filter) built-in into the product. In this post we are going to enable the IIMF feature to filter URL in a OCS 2007 Standard Edition, as it follows:

1. Open Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

2. Expand Forest

3. Expand Standard Edition Servers

4. Right click on server name and click on Application Properties and then on Intelligent IM Filter

1. Check Enable URL Filtering and now we have some options to define such as: If we want to block all hyperlinks that contains extentions defined in the File Transfer Filter tab, if we enable local intranet URLs.

In our post we are going to allow IM that contain hyperlinks but we will add a banner into each message and at the botton and instead of a link the user will receive a plain text. We are also able to chose some prefixes that the IIMF filter will be blocking.

Let's do a test, the user administrator as shown in figure bellow will send a link for another user.

The user that receive the IM will receive the link with a friendly warning about the link and the link will receive a caracther "_" in front of the http://. It means if the user really wants to access that website, he have to copy the content and open it in a web browser.

Best Regards,
Anderson Patricio

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High Availability - January Marketing Wave

Hello Folks,

This post is not Exchange related but it will help us in the future to deploy our HA scenarios for Exchange Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008. These are the January events about High Availability in Windows Server 2008:

Building High Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
Date: Monday January 21, 2008; Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PST
Discover how Failover Clustering with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise enables you to build a highly available infrastructure. We give you an overview of the new and improved clustering architecture, describe new tools migration strategies, and demonstrate the improved features. Attend this webcast to hear how the completely redesigned advanced clustering capabilities in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise offer high availability in case of a hardware failure.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032364827&Culture=en-US

Failover Clustering 101
Date: Tuesday January 22, 2008; Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PST
Are you new to clustering? Do you want to build a highly available infrastructure but don't know where to start. Join us for this webcast where we start from basics of building a highly available infrastructure with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032364829&Culture=en-US

Failover Cluster Validation and Troubleshooting with Windows Server 2008
Date: Thursday January 24, 2008; Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Having nightmares about the Windows HCL and trying to find the right solution. Do you know what to do when your mission critical Exchange or SQL solution breaks. Well those days are gone. This session will drill deep into the new Cluster Validation tools included with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise , that solve that challenges presented with the HCL and provide you the tools to troubleshoot your infrastructure.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032364831&Culture=en-US

Geographically Dispersed Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
Date: Monday January 28, 2008; Time: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PST
As Windows Server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large scale and high-end mission-critical parts of organizations, the requirements for disaster tolerance and business continuance become more and more important. The goal of this session is to cover the considerations on how you can build a complete High Availability solution with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise" Failover Clustering to ensure that there is no single point of failure.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032364833&Culture=en-US

High Availability with Hyper-V
Date: Wednesday January 30, 2008; Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST
Hyper-V, previously codenamed Viridian, is a hypervisor-based technology that is a key feature of Windows Server 2008. It provides a scalable, reliable, and highly available virtualization platform. It is part of Microsoft's ongoing effort to provide our customers and partners with the best operating system platform for virtualization. In webcast learn how you can make Hyper-V highly available with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032364839&Culture=en-US

Deep Dive on Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage and Understanding Quorum
Date: Thursday January 31, 2008; Time: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM PST
This will be a nuts-n-bolts session that will cover the new cluster storage architecture and how the new quorum model works in Windows Server code-named "Longhorn". The session will cover the new way that shared storage is managed, how clustering is now totally SAN friendly, how Failover Clusters arbitrate for disks to determine what to do when things go wrong, and what the improvements are that effect you in why deploying Longhorn Failover Clusters will be a key win to your SAN infrastructure.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032364841&Culture=en-US

Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2008/01/08/high-availability-january-marketing-wave.aspx

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Solving the error message "The local computer is not a possible owner of the clustered mailbox server " during Setup /UpgradeCMS

Hello Folks,

If you are experiencing this following error message "The local computer is not a possible owner of the clustered mailbox server" after running Setup /UpgradeCMS. There a couple of solutions to fix it.

One of the possible solutions is:

1. Open AdsiEdit.msc
2. Expand Configuration / Services / Microsoft Exchange / <Organization Name> / Exchange administrative Group / Servers
3. Right click on <CMS Server>
4. Locate the attribute msExchServerRedundantMachines and add the second node (a comma is required between nodes)

Click on the picture to enlarge

Now wait this new attribute replication among your DCs and run again Setup /UpgradeCMS.

Best Regards,
Anderson Patricio

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