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Video: What’s New in Mobility and Anywhere Access with Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Hello folks,

OCS 2007 R2 is bringing a lot of new features and some of them are for the mobile devices, you can check them out in this video http://edge.technet.com/Media/Whatrsquos-New-in-Mobility-and-Anywhere-Access-with-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2/.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

PowerShell for everyone...

Hello folks,

I've just read on PowerShell Team blog that PowerShell will be installed by default on top of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 which means that for us, Exchange guys, the Exchange Server setup may have one less step during the Welcome wizard :)

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/10/28/powershell-will-be-installed-by-default-on-windows-server-08-r2-ws08r2-and-windows-7-w7.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Communicator 2007 - October Updates

Hello folks,

This Communicator 2007 October update fixes the following issues:

• 958659 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958659/) When you use telephony mode=4, you can only manually set the URI information in Communicator 2007
• 957793 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957793/) A Communicator 2007 client is unusually slow at startup
• 956734 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956734/) The presence status of Communicator 2007 changes to "Away" for all Terminal Server users when one user locks the desktop on a Windows Server 2008-based computer

To download it : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1ad57f8f-78f7-45f6-a8c0-805936f46645

Read more at source: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/10/27/311.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Changing more than 1000 mailboxes at the same time through Exchange Management Shell

Hello folks,

If you need to run a cmdlet that changes one or more attribute of more than 1000 users you will receive an error if you try this following cmdlet:

Get-Mailbox | Set-Mailbox -RulesQuota:256KB

In this specific case we have to use ResultSize parameter in the Get-Mailbox cmdlet to list all your users and then they will be changed by the second cmdlet in the same pipe, as follows:

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize:5000 | Set-Mailbox -RulesQuota:256KB

Note: In this case my result size does not go over 5000 mailboxes. You have to change this value based in your number of mailbxes.

Note #2: There is also the value unlimited for the ResultSize switch which means that you can use -ResultSize unlimited and you don't need to care to add a number higher than your current users because it will get all users no matter how many users you have.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Videos about new OCS R2 features

Hello folks,

Two videos were released by OCS Technicall Team about some of the new features that are coming in the new OCS 2007 R2 version, as follows:

• Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and the new Attendant Console
  http://edge.technet.com/Media/OCS-and-the-new-Attendant/Default.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
• What's new in Conferencing with Office Communications Server 2007 R2
  http://edge.technet.com/Media/Whatrsquos-New-in-Conferencing-with-Office-Communications-Server-2007-R2/

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

IFilters for Exchange Server 2007 and some other products..

This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.

Because Windows Desktop Search (WDS) consumes IFilters from Windows Indexing Service, the IFilters will be automatically registered and available for use by WDS.

Here is how to register IFilters with Exchange Server 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944516

Here is the IFilter downloads: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=60c92a37-719c-4077-b5c6-cac34f4227cc&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Unveils Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2

Hello folks,

Today, Microsoft announced the new OCS version know as OCS 2007 R2, the worldwide launch will be on Feb 3, 2009.

Read more at source: http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-14OCSR2PR.mspx

More informatou about OCS: http://www.microsoft.com/communicationsserver

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Rollup Update 4 has been released

Hello folks,

The RU4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 was released today, as follows:

You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8B492ED2-EA92-412F-A852-3AA1C58D9499&displaylang=en

Description of the Rollup Update 4 for SP1: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=952580

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Exchange Server build numbes and release dates..

Hello folks,

There is a KB with all Exchange Server build number and release dates of the products, check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158530.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio.

Direct SIP with IP-PBX in OCS 2007

Hello folks,

Applying all hotfixes released in August 2008 we will be able to configure OCS 2007 in Direct SIP with IP-PBX (actually there is a comparative matrix in the same post where MS tested some Cisco Call Manager versions).

More information about this you can check this blog from Office Communicaton Server Team out: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/09/26/270.aspx

After a few days of the initial post the OCSTeam blogged explaining how to do such configuration, as follows: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/09/30/302.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio