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Overview
Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB945684.
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Brief Description
The GPOAccelerator creates all the Group Policy objects (GPOs) that you need to deploy recommended security settings for your environment to save you hours of work that you would otherwise need to configure these settings. This Solution Accelerator includes guidance to assist you with this tool.
Overview
The download for GPOAccelerator includes the following components:

GPOAccelerator. The [...]

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Overview
Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1). Group Policy Preferences enable information technology professionals to configure, deploy, and manage operating system and application settings they previously were not able to manage [...]

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I’m sure most of you know by now that SP1 for System Center Operations Manager is available for download.
Get it here…
Read all about it here…
However what you may not know yet is a known memory leak occurs on the agents after you install SP1.  Check out this KB article and Kevin Holman’s post for more [...]

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Interested in learning how you can use the new Microsoft Office Communicator as a phone?  If you have deployed OCS Voice in your organization you will want to check this article just posted on the Communicator team blog.

Phone Numbers in Microsoft Office Communicator 2007

Excerpt:
Using communicator, phone numbers can be supported in the following ways

User dialing [...]

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If you are planning on deploying server 2008 and manage group policies for your company you’ll want to check out this new download from MS.

Planning and Deploying Group Policy v1.0

Here is also a great post on some of the highlights from the new Planning and Deploying Group Policy download.

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Issue
You have deployed Exchange 2007 with CCR in your environment.   You upgrade your Exchange 2007 platform to SP1 and now when you run the Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus command you get an RPC error.
Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus : Microsoft Exchange Replication service RPC failed: Microsoft.Exchange.Rpc.RpcException: Error e0434f4d from cli_GetCopyStatusEx  at Microsoft.Exchange.Rpc.Cluster.ReplayRpcClient.GetCopyStatusEx(Guid[] sgGuids, RpcStorageGroupCopyStatus[]& sgStatuses)
atMicrosoft.Exchange.Cluster.Replay.ReplayRpcClientWrapper.
InternalGetCopyStatus(String serverName, Guid[] sgGuids, RpcStorageGroupCopyStatus[]&
sgStatuses, Int32 serverVersion) At [...]

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Every wonder what ports SQL uses for communication?  Or one better, MYSQL?  Here is one of my favorite links that shows all the ports used by Microsoft’s software and services.  A must have bookmark for anyone in IT.
Service overview and network port requirements for the Windows Server system

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FaceTime has a nice product out that can do just that.  With Forefront for OCS not due out until who knows when it looks like one other company is rushing to fill the void.
"FaceTime Enterprise Edition provides organizations with the tools to standardize their Instant Messaging (IM) infrastructure on the Office Communications Server 2007 unified [...]

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First posted here by BrettJo this link provides videos, case studies, demos and presentations for all things UC.
Launch Presentations and Demos
Even if you couldn’t attend, increase your understanding in 10 key areas related to unified communications with these presentations from the event.

Administering within a UC environment [...]

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