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Came across this hiding in the Apps on the iPhone this afternoon.  Not written by Microsoft or Apple but by a company called Modality.

Few tidbits…

• The application uses Communicator Web Access (CWA) and not the Access Edge server.  So this means you’ll need to have CWA deployed externally to get this app to work outside your network.
• It cost $9.99

Click here fore more information from Modality…

Matt :: Sep.17.2009 :: 2007, 2007R2, Microsoft, OCS :: No Comments »

This download includes the Active Directory Schema Changes Reference, which provides information about the changes that Microsoft Exchange Server makes to the Active Directory schema when it is installed. The Active Directory Schema Changes Reference includes changes made to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Exchange Server 2007, and Exchange Server 2003.

Click here to download…

Matt :: Jun.02.2009 :: 2007, 2010, AD, Exchange, Microsoft :: No Comments »

This one addresses a long outstanding issue with running Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008.

Click here to get more information on installing Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows 2008…

Excerpt from the MS Exchange Team:

1. KB 969690 – We have fixed the bug introduced in Update Rollup 7 which caused the sender of the Delivery Status Notification (DSN) to be unresolved.
2. Disable kernel mode authentication in Windows Server 2008 for CAS servers – As documented here, it was required to manually take the additional step to configure the CAS servers running Windows Server 2008 to disable kernel mode authentication. Starting this rollup, the installer will configure this for you.
3. X-Header promotion to named properties- Change to the way X-headers are promoted to named properties. More on this in Jason Nelson’s blog post Named Properties, X-Headers, and You.
4. KB 961606 – We have fixed a bug where Outlook Web Access (OWA) users may find that the font size of plain text messages is extremely small on third-party Web browsers.

Click here to download the rollup…

Click here to read the MS Exchange Team’s post…

Matt :: May.20.2009 :: 2007, 2008, Exchange, Microsoft, Server :: 1 Comment »

Right on par with the release of Exchange 2010 as this is a pre-requisite to interoperability between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.

Click here to read all about it…

Matt :: May.11.2009 :: 2007, Exchange, Microsoft :: No Comments »

The Storage Calculator v16.8 was originally released a few days ago but was updated on 4/27/2009 from v16.8 to v16.9 to address a bug.

Click here to see what’s changed…

Click here to download…

Click here to learn how to use the calculator…

Matt :: Apr.29.2009 :: 2007, Exchange, Microsoft :: No Comments »

If you have McAfee’s GroupShield deployed in your Exchange organization and are considering an Exchange 2007 deployment hosted on Windows Server 2008 then you are in luck.  Here is a matrix of their supported environments.

Click here for a complete listing of supported environments for GroupShield…

Matt :: Sep.02.2008 :: 2007, 2008, Exchange, Microsoft, Server :: No Comments »

LAST UDPATED: 06/10/2009 – Windows 2008 cluster deadlock issue

This is post is my attempt to bring all the materials of importance I could find about installing Exchange 2007 SP1 onto a Windows 2008 platform into one location.  This post will be updated from time to time as new resources are made available.

Recommended Links:

• Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008
• Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008, Part II
• Mission Impossible: In-place upgrade of Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008
• Release Notes for Exchange Server 2007 SP1
• What’s new in Exchange Server 2007 SP1
• Server Installation and Automation Guides
• Automate the preperation of Server 2008 with XML
• Exchange 2007 SP1 and Server 2008 Information
• Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2007 SP1 – MINIMUM
• Update Rollup 8 for Exchange 2007 SP1 – RECOMMENDED
• Exchange Replication Service (Exchange 2007 SP1) and Windows 2008 Clusters

Known Issues:

• Offline Address Book (OAB) Generation Problem (Fixed with Update Rollup 5)
• Endless logon prompts when using NTLM authentication (Fixed with Update Rollup 4)
• Server 2008 backup is not Exchange aware (Fixed with Exchange 2007 SP2)
  • Details on Exchange 2007 SP2 backups in Windows Server 2008
• An in-place upgrade of Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 is NOT supported.  You will have to create a new server with Windows 2008 and then either use Database Portability or Move-Mailbox to migrate your users.
• Antivirus and Backups: It’s important to note that while most Antivirus and Backup  platforms now support Exchange 2007 not all support Server 2008.  Check with your vendor before committing to a Server 2008 deployment.
• Windows 2008 cluster deadlock: In certain cases during intensive I/O operations on the Exchange Mailbox cluster server (IE: moving mailboxes or using Jetstress), the cluster server can lock up logging a error in the System Log (Windows Cluster error, Event ID: 1230, Display: clusres.dll error).  There is a hotfix (KB950811) that indirectly addresses this issue.  It is highly recommended that you apply this hotfix to prevent a possible deadlock issue.  This hotfix has also been rolled up into Windows Server 2008 SP2. I recently experienced this issue when running Jetstress on a Exchange 2007 SP1 mailbox cluster server connected to an EMC CLARiiON CX4.

Server Software:

Testing

• Trial download of Exchange 2007 SP1 available here.  The trial software is only available is 32-bit.

Production:

• You will need to download a licensed copy of Exchange 2007 SP1 (Std or Ent) 64-bit.

Installation:

Pre-requisites

• Install the Exchange pre-requisites according to the guidelines here.  This can be done autmatically with these handy XML files found here.
• For a new Install simply launch the Setup and perform the install in the same manner as you would with Windows Server 2003.
• If you are going to migrate your Exchange 2007 services from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 you’ll want to take a read this.  There are some extra steps that you will need to undertake to ensure all the necessary services are migrated over correctly.

Post-Installation

• Hub Transport Server Role fails when IPv6 is disabled on that server – FIXED
  If either of these 2 bullets occur, you need to fully disable IPv6 and not just uncheck it.
  • If IPv6 is disabled prior to the installation of Exchange Server 2007, when installing the Hub Transport Server role, your Hub Transport Server role will fail to install
  • If IPv6 is disabled after the installation of Exchange Server 2007, you may experience some Exchange services failing to start

• Outlook Anywhere connectivity fails:  This issue has been addressed with Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP1.  For reference you can read more about this problem here, and here.   For steps on disabling IP6 for Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 go here.

• (FIXED) Adjust IIS7 authentication to stop endless logon prompts when using Outlook Anywhere with NTLM.  Full details on this issue can be found here.

Note: This will be automatically set for you with Update Rollup 8 for Exchange 2007 SP1. If you prefer to specifiy the command manually or you just want to know what’s going on you can read more about it here.

That’s about it for now.  I’ll update this post from time to time as new information comes available.

Matt :: Sep.02.2008 :: 2007, Exchange, Microsoft :: 2 Comments »