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Expected outdialing behavior for ‘Play on Phone’ scenarios in Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging Should Exchange 2010 use DAS or SAN Get the Outlook Social Connector for MySpace Today! Moving Mailbox in Exchange Server 2010 (Exchange Management Console...(read more)

#Exchange2010 .. This makes an interesting read http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Should_Exchange_2010_use_DAS_or_SAN...(read more)

Over the years, displaying recipient photographs in the Global Address List (GAL) has been a frequently-requested feature, high on the wish lists of many Exchange folks. Particularly in large organizations or geographically dispersed teams, it's great to be able to put a face to a name for people you've never met or don't frequently have face time with. Employees are commonly photographed when issuing badges/IDs, and many organizations publish the photos on intranets. There have been questions ... [read more]

Hi folks, If you are monitoring your Exchange Server environment and you have Windows Server 2003 for your CCR/SCC, it's recommended to disable the Event Log replication between (if it's a CCR)/among (if it's a SCC) the nodes to avoid duplicate entries on your monitoring tool. To disable the event log replication just run this following command on any node: Cluster /prop EnableEventLogReplication=0 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio http://www.anders... [read more]

Hi folks, Today's post we are going over the process to move a mailbox using Exchange Server 2010 Management Console. This post scenario is a simple move mailbox between 2 servers in the same Exchange organization. In this post I will be demonstrating the technical steps involved in the process in a future post we will be explaining the architecture of the process. Let's right click on the desired and then let's click on New Local Move Request... Click on Browse and select the des... [read more]

Interesting, wonder what the process is to say NO! Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7408379/Patients-medical-records-go-online-without-consent.html Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion computer system are...(read more)

#Exchange2010 .. This is an interesting blog by Mark Arnold Source: http://markarnold.blogspot.com/2010/03/exchange-2010-netapp-deduplication.html Lots of testing of various stores under various situations. As you know SIS has been eliminated from Exchange...(read more)

Interesting Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8557144.stm Hard drives are about to undergo one of the biggest format shifts in 30 years. By early 2011 all hard drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they go about saving...(read more)

A few days late :-| Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/03/05/sharepoint-2010-office-2010-launch.aspx Today, we officially announced that May 12th, 2010, is the launch date for SharePoint 2010 & Office 2010. In addition, we announced...(read more)

So I just installed RU1 on my brand new Exchange 2010 server and then I issue a Get-Exchangeserver -Identity MyExchangeServer and get the following output for AdminsDisplayVersion and ExchangeVersion: Ok that looks a little familiar for some reason. I go to my Exchange 2010 RTM server and issue the same CMDlet and get: ...The same result! But one server has RU1 installed and the other is RTM. Shouldn't I get a different version number back? Well... no. Exchange 2007 and forward do not reflect ... [read more]

Isn’t that the whole idea of Lucozade? Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1256242/Lucozade-lose-orange-colour-linked-hyperactivity.html Lucozade could lose its distinctive orange colour because research has shown the colouring agent Sunset...(read more)

HOWTO Install Exchange 2010 - Step by Step Configuring MS Exchange Server 2007/2010 Unified messaging with 3CX Phone System Migrating to Exchange 2010 can save money on storage Grant users access to another user Integrating Exchange unified messaging...(read more)

#Exchange2010 RU2 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/03/05/454155.aspx Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 979611) to the download center. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979611 Taken from: Revision: 1.0...(read more)

Kewl just noticed this … it’s an option in Windows Update Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8537763.stm Microsoft is to ask millions of users across Europe if they want to use a web browser other than its own. Windows users will be offered...(read more)

Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 979611) to the download center. KB 979611 lists all the fixes included in this rollup. Here are some of the product improvements and critical bug fixes we'd like to call out starting with a couple of IMAP improvements: KB 977633 This fixes IMAP4 clients ability to log on to their mailboxes if the mailboxes are located on Exchange 2003 backend servers and if the clients are connecting via Exchange 2010 CAS serve... [read more]

For various reasons, there are times when an administrator does not want a part of the ECP to be accessible by some users and they desire a features' tab or entry point to not be visible at all. The web.config file for the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) contains the requirements a logged in user must meet before the feature tab or configuration item may be displayed in the UI. Here we will step through an example of how to go through the process of determining what you must do to accomplish this... [read more]

#Exchange2010 .. Oh just stumbled across this .. Use Exchange Server 2010 Help content to help you plan, deploy and manage your Exchange 2010 organization. File Name Exch2010Help.exe Version March2010 Date Published 3/3/2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8071c31f-45be-48dc-bfca-e1fb51f544d2&displaylang=e...(read more)

From the Microsoft Identity Management blog: Today, March 2, we annonced RTM of FIM 2010 during Scott Charney's keynote at the RSA Conference. Our product webpages on www.microsoft.com/fim are updated and we will continue updating these pages as well as our technical prouduct pages with more and more information in the coming weeks. http://blogs.technet.com/identitymanagement/archive/2010/03/02/forefront-identity-manager-2010-has-rtm-ed.aspx. more...

Whoops! that might explain why I have two codes for two different companies :-| Source: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/annual-coding-individuals.htm HMRC has recently introduced the new National Insurance and PAYE Service (NPS) which we are using to...(read more)

No matter how many lines of code it has, every software application has scalability limits. Some limits can be caused by limits that are external to the application itself, while others can be inherent within the application. As a software engineering team, it is important for us to understand the scalability limits of the solution as a whole; this includes the limits of both external dependencies and internal code. Not only does this enable us to document and communicate this information to ou... [read more]

Hi folks, In Today's post I will show you how simple is to integrate a website into your Outlook Web App experience. The My site button that shows up besides of Options is always shown when you have the user webpage filled out on the user user's attribute. Let's say you want to improve the collaboration between users you can have the users personal blogs configured on that attribute and in a single view (Outlook Web App) the user can have its messaging system, Instant Messaging and a... [read more]

So I’m being a bit lazy and not re-wording this, but not sure I could have done a better job. Thanks Nathan..! Not sure I can make it to the beach though..! As you may know for the last five years, the Mark Minasi Forum – http://www.minasi.com/forum has run a Conference in Virginia Beach, VA, USA.  It features authors, speakers, journalists, famous IT pros and MVP's, all sharing their expertise in a uniquely open, educational and fun conference. We are looking to kick start publicity by m... [read more]

#Exchange2010 … #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* Microsoft Exchange … In Blog Posts and News from last month #*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* New Downloads available in February 2010 EMEA...(read more)

The latest release of Microsoft Exchange can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange 2010 delivers a wide range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities. Check out our free webcasts and podcasts, and then try Exchange 2010 for yourself by taking one of our virtual labs or labcasts. TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Management and Ope... [read more]

Is there a way to stop outbound spam attacks from inside my campus? What are the hardware requirements for a combined Exchange 2010 HUB/CAS role? Migration of Custom Prompts The Get-MailboxStatistics Cmdlet, the TotalitemSize Property, and that pesky...(read more)