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Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Rollup Update 4 has been released

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:13:54 GMT

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..

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:07:18 GMT

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

Anderson Patricio — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:52:35 GMT

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

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updated to v 16.0

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:19:31 GMT

A new version of Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements was released.

Updates Tracking page: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/07/05/445802.aspx

How to use the calculator: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432207.aspx

Updated script for Moving Domino Groups containing SMTP Addresses

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:02:57 GMT

Hello folks,

A new version of the script that moves domino groups to AD was released.

This script will move Domino Groups to Active Directory while preserving SMTP Addresses by creating contacts in AD for these users. By default Move-DominoGroupToAD will drop SMTP addresses if they do not already exist in AD.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Event ID 7000, 5001, 7009, 4999, 5000 and Transport Services are failing after a Rollup Update

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:54:54 GMT

Hello folks,

After installing a Rollup Update some managed code services may not start, if you are experiencing this issues you should look at this kb http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944752.

Exchange Server Documentation Updates

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:16:51 GMT

Hello folks,

The Exchange Server documentation was updated.

You can download the Service Pack 1 Help file from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91471

The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Shell Help file from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=101537

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Using Maps and Streetview within an OWA custom form

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:10:24 GMT

Glen (gsexdev.blogspot.com) demonstrated in his last blog entry how to create an OWA customized form to use Maps and StreetView, there are also pictures in his blog demonstrating the form.

For those brave souls who attended my MVP theatre talk on Friday here's the OWA customization I demo'ed. The basics of creating custom forms are documented in the Exchange SDK . But putting this together can be a little tricky so let's go though some of the basis's step by step.

Firstly I wanted to create a custom form that would display a map of the contacts address information and also a Street-view of the same address information using Google's new Streetview features that was recently released for Australia. For this I created some contact items with a Message class of IPM.Contact.Map.

Where is the Mail control panel in 64bit Vista?

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:04:36 GMT

Hello folks,

Microsoft Outlook team blogged how to find the mail icon in a computer running Windows Vista x64.

A Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package is available for Windows Server 2003

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:09:36 GMT

Install this update to resolve some reliability issues with Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) on systems that are running Windows Server 2003. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.

Download it here (x64): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FEB6F957-8A3E-4D89-B31F-DD61EEDA2F05 and 32bits http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F5D41696-A83D-47CF-A06F-1BF708F6B567

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Office Communications Server 2007 Edge Planning Tool

Anderson Patricio — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:38:06 GMT

The Edge Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007 is a tool that takes a user through a set of interview questions regarding the proposed or current edge server deployment. The tool interviews users about their perimeter network settings as well as some questions regarding their internal deployment.

Get it here: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/category/1006.aspx

OCS will support x64 in the next version

Anderson Patricio — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:13:45 GMT

Hello folks,

The OCS Team released a note saying that the next version will support x64 OS.

As a part of the broad initiative across Microsoft to support 64 bit versions across many of its product lines, the next release of OCS will support 64-bit operating systems only. This decision will help meet customer demand and is a natural progression of the product that aligns with the same approach taken by the Exchange team (with Exchange 2007) and the SharePoint team (with SharePoint 2007) to support 64 bit operating systems only.

For the next release of OCS, Microsoft will support deployments on 64 bit operating systems - Windows Server 2003 x64 (R2) and Windows Server 2008 x64.

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updated to v 15.6

Anderson Patricio — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:32:20 GMT

Hello folks,

Mailbox Role Storage Calculator has a new release as it follows: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/20/449649.aspx

You can download it from here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432207.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Data Protection Manager 2007 Volume Sizing Tool

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:14:14 GMT

"DPMvolumeSizing" is a tool-set that eases the process of gathering data for DPM volume sizing purposes and apply DPM sizing rules to obtain DPM replica and recovery point volume requirements. Scripts collect (local or remote) and save information in a format tuned to easily import into an Excel workbook and is detailed in the user guide. The tool-set is validated to work for the DPM; SQL Server, Virtual Server, Exchange Server 2007, Volume and System State protection workloads.

Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=445BC0CD-FC93-480D-98F0-3A5FB05D18D0&displaylang=en

Configuring a Managed Folder help page

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:00:36 GMT

Hello folks,

MRM (Messaging Records Management) is a cool feature of Exchange Server 2007 however to work properly the users should be trained to use it. Exchange Server 2007 allows us to configure a page when you click on Managed Folder item when using Outlook 2007. Creating a page to instruct the user the basic steps should help your users a bit, so let's see how to do that, as follows:

#1. Ask you marketing department to create a nice webpage with nice pictures and good technicall stuff explaining how to use MRM

#2. Add the content created in a web server. You can use your CAS server to host that page. In my example here I created a simple hello world page.

#3. Configure the MRM page, using the following cmdlet:

#4. Now it's time to test it. Click on Managed Folders and on the right side and you will be able to see the page that you have just configured.

Grande abraço,
Anderson Patricio

Technorati : MRM, Managed Folder, start page

Configuring a cisco hardware load balancer with OCS 2007

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:38:01 GMT

Hello folks,

I've just read at Harold Wong's Blog Site that there is a document explaining how to use a cisco load balancer with OCS 2007.

Here is the document at cisco website: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Verticals/ansmsocs.html

Au revoir,
Anderson Patricio

Overhauling the PowerShell startup process

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:02:00 GMT

Hello folks,

I saw an interesting post in the PowerShell Team Blog (https://blogs.msdn.com) and they explained that running the script below you can increase the speed to open your PowerShell Console, as follows:

Set-Alias ngen @(
dir (join-path ${env:\windir} "Microsoft.NET\Framework") ngen.exe -recurse |
sort -descending lastwritetime
)[0].fullName
[appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() | %{ngen $_.location}

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/default.aspx

I ran in my machine and the startup time was much better than before. There is also a comment on that post to use Microsoft.NET\Framework64 in case of a x64 system.

What's your impression? Has it tuned up your PowerShell? Drop us a line about your experience.

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio.

Rollup Update 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:06:49 GMT

Hello folks,

Actually this information is not new anymore :( I've been working in a project using ILM between two Exchange 2007 forests and I couldn't update this blog in the last couple of weeks. Well, I'm returning to blog regularly now and I hope you enjoy reading it..

So.. in this meantime the Rollup Update 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has been released, as follows:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949870/

There is also the same update for the RTM version and its number is 7, as follows:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953469/

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

How to remove the sentence Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:01:47 GMT

Hello folks,

If you updated your server to Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Rollup Update 3 then you will be able to remove the text "Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007" using the following cmdlet:

Set-TransportConfig WritingBrandingInDSNEnabled $false

More information at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941770&sd=rss&spid=10926

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

Technorati : Remove, Sent by Exchange Server 2007

Monitoring Without System Center Operations Manager

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:56 GMT

The MSExchangeTeam released three new documents about Exchange Server 2007, one of them explains how to monitor exchange Server 2007 without using SCOM, as follows:

Ensuring that servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 are operating reliably is a key objective for daily messaging operations. Therefore, ensuring server reliability should be systematically approached based on the principles outlined in Microsoft Operations Framework. For more information about Microsoft Operations Framework, see Microsoft Operations Framework.

A significant aspect of Exchange 2007 daily operations is monitoring the health of the Exchange components to achieve the following goals:

Generate alerts when operational failures and performance problems are about to occur or do occur.
Represent the health state of servers and server roles.
Generate reports of operational health over time so that you can estimate future demands based on usage patterns and other performance data.

For administrators who do not use System Center Operations Manager to monitor their Exchange 2007 environment, a thorough understanding of the most important performance counters and their thresholds is critical to establishing a performance baseline and monitoring plan to proactively monitor your Exchange 2007 environment and troubleshoot and resolve issues when they arise.

Read it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb201720.aspx