Month: January 2008

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 Technorati : Exchange Server 2007, Office Communicator, UC, integration Del.icio.us : Exchange Server 2007, Office Communicator, UC, integration Ice Rocket : Exchange Server 2007, Office Communicator, UC, integration

  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 … Continue reading Windows 2008, SQL 2008, VS 2008 launch in Canada

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 countUsing 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 Technorati : Exchange Server 2007, Information, Performance Monitor, Transport Dumpster Del.icio.us : Exchange Server 2007, … Continue reading Visualizing Transport Dumpster statistics

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 Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. In addition for Lotus Domino the suite contains migration tools to migrate users, groups, personal address … Continue reading New release of the Microsoft Transport Suite

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 … Continue reading Single-label Domain Names and Exchange Server 2007 SP1

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: Open Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Expand Forest Expand Standard Edition Servers Right click on server name and click on Application Properties and then on Intelligent IM Filter 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 … Continue reading Using IIMF on OCS 2007

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 ClusteringDate: Monday January 21, 2008; Time: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM PSTDiscover 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 … Continue reading High Availability – January Marketing Wave

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: Open AdsiEdit.msc Expand Configuration / Services / Microsoft Exchange / <Organization Name> / Exchange administrative Group / Servers Right click on <CMS Server> 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 … Continue reading Solving the error message "The local computer is not a possible owner of the clustered mailbox server " during Setup /UpgradeCMS