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Reading Time: < 1 minute For a more or less realtime report from TechEd Europe 2010 in Berlin, check my twitter account: @dmstork
Read moreReading Time: < 1 minute Tech-Ed 2010 is just a week and a half away. Everything is booked and payed for thanks to my employer OGD, sessions are scheduled, I received my ticket per email today, checked and rechecked my passport. etc. etc. Also I've already planned my sessions, mostly Exchange and some Lync sessions. Depending internet access and batterylife, I will try to twitter (@dmstork) and blog a great deal during the days. So, twitter back, post some comments or look me up IRL
Read moreReading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes it is needed to fully provision a mailbox with all the correct settings and permissions the user needs. For instance, it can be necessary to share your calendar with everyone in your department and vice versa. Normally you would be dependent on everyone to share their calendar. Quite troublesome This issue can be easily addressed by using the *-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlets within Exchange 2010. Using Get-MailboxFolderPermission you can view the various permissions already set on folders within a mailbox. For
Read moreReading Time: 2 minutes This week a colleague of mine asked me whether Office 2010 Standard supports the Personal Archiving functionality of Exchange 2010. I assumed it did, but he provided me with some Microsoft information that stated otherwise. At minimum the Professional Edition is needed. I couldn't find any other piece of collaborating evidence or just confusing information (looks like Marketing is confused between Personal Archive and Managed Folders), so I put it to the test. Downloaded Office 2010 Standard, installed Outlook 2010
Read moreReading Time: < 1 minute There was some confusion when Office 2010 would be available on Technet and such. Well, I'm downloading it now [:D] Microsoft Office 2010 released to manufacturing (RTM) Office 2010 RTM W00t!
Read moreReading Time: 3 minutes Edit 6th may 2010: Similar issue with same solution is confirmed and will be patched by Microsoft. See here. Recently I transitioned an Exchange 2003 Server to Exchange 2010. For the client redirection, I mostly wait two week before decommissioning the old Exchange server. Mailboxes, mail flow, remote access and the default Public Folder are all transitioned to the new server. So, in the event of a failure of the old server, the organization would not notice it. Eventually most
Read moreReading Time: 4 minutes I’ve just completed a transition from Exchange 2003 directly to Exchange 2010. This is a supported scenario, but I did ran into some trouble. Luckily, I also have a solution. Scenario The installation of the Exchange 2010 server and upgrading of several items of the Exchange 2003 environment went without any hick-ups. The project was actually ahead of schedule and just when you think you could go home early… Exchange 2010 now calls a mailbox move “Local Move Request”. The
Read moreReading Time: < 1 minute With the Exchange 2010 Outlook Web App or OWA, it is possible to use Firefox to access your mailbox. Yes, this was always possible but the premium features were only available for Internet Explorer users. As of now, I could only detect one small difference between Firefox and IE namely the S/MIME functionality. Most users or even admins probably don’t know that it exists as it not often implemented. I am a frequent user of Firefox and prefer it above
Read moreReading Time: < 1 minute Just read an update in which the Exchange Team announces support for Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2! I'm very very glad that they will make this possible. When it became clear that R2 would not support Exchange 2007 installations, I was very surprised and a bit disappointed. But I'm happy to see that Microsoft is willing to listen to customers. So, now let's change those blogposts [:D]
Read moreReading Time: 4 minutes In part 1 we’ve discussed the Exchange Mode, Domain Controllers and Schema Master compatibility. In part 2 we’ve discussed the Global Catalog and the Domain and Forest Functional level up to Windows 2008. So, that leaves us with Windows Server 2008 R2. During the time it took to write this series of blogs a lot more information was made available. Especially the Exchange Server Supportability Matrix was a huge help. Actually, the previous lack of such a page with all
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