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Microsoft has just released v3 of their Outlook Voice Access (OVA) reference sheet.

Overview

Outlook Voice Access lets UM-enabled users to access their Exchange 2007 mailbox using analog, digital, or cellular telephones. By using the menu system found in Outlook Voice Access, UM-enabled users can read e-mail, listen to voice messages, and interact with their Outlook calendar. This quick reference sheet shows the navigational tree and the options that are available to UM-enabled users when they are using Outlook Voice Access.

Click here to download…

Exchange Server 2007 is a native 64-bit application that includes 64-bit management tools. You can use the management tools to administer your Exchange Server environment remotely. If the remote computer is running a 32-bit operating system, you will need to download the 32-bit management tools.

Download the tools here…

Update Rollup 2 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 KB948016.

This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 Release To Manufacturing (RTM).

For a list of update rollups applicable to Exchange Server 2007 RTM, refer to the section Update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 RTM in the Knowledge Base article KB937052.

This is a cumulative update rollup and replaces the following:

• KB945684 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB945684)

Get the update here…

Excerpt from the MS Exchange Team…

"Today, Apple announced they have licensed the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol and are building support into the iPhone. We are happy to have them join the list of mobile device manufacturers supporting EAS.

Here is the Apple press release.  Our official press piece is here. "

Read the rest of the MS Exchange team post…

The MS Exchange team released part 2 of their Exchange 2007 and Windows server 2008 series.  Here is an excerpt I found interesting.  It sums up the key benefits that you’ll see when deploying Exchange 2007 on a Windows server 2008 platform.

"Windows Server 2008 includes a number of improvements and enhancements that can directly benefit servers running Exchange 2007 SP1. There are many benefits to running Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008. Just to name a few:

• Support for multi-subnet failover clusters
• Faster log file shipping
• Reduced downtime for hardware maintenance
• Near-zero downtime when fixing NTFS corruption
• Greater scalability for Client Access servers that provide Outlook Anywhere services
• Easier deployment
• Support for IPv6"

Read the rest of this post here…

The MS Exchange team has posted a listing on the latest updates to the Exchange documentation.  Update your library…

Read their post here…

The MS Exchange posted an article addressing an issue with the February 2008 round of patches from Microsoft.  Exchange 2007 administrators need to be aware of this issue and what to look for should you encounter it in your Exchange environment.

EMC Error:

Active Directory operation failed on <domain name>.  This error could have been causes by user input or by the Active Directory server being unavailable.  Please retry at a later time.  ……..

"It was running command ‘get-recipient -ResultSize ‘1000′ ‘DisplayName’ -RecipienttType ‘UserMailbox”.

EMS Error:

Get-Mailbox : Active Directory operation failed on <domain name>. This error could have been caused by user input or by the Active Directory server being unavailable. Please retry at a later time. Additional information: Additional information: The directory service encountered an unknown failure. Active directory response: 000020EF: SvcErr: DSID-020A0F27, problem 5005 (UNABLE_TO_PROCEED), data 87
.
At line:1 char:12
+ get-mailbox <<<< -ResultSize unlimited -SortBy "alias"

Read their blog post here for the details…

Update 9/23/2008: Please click here for the latest version.

The MS Exchange team has released an update to the ever popular storage calculator.

Read about the update here…

Download the new calculator here…

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.

Download the update here…

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 line:1 char:26+ Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus

Resolution

Add the -standbymachine parameter to your command:

• Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -standbymachine <computername>