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Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Storage Calculator update (v15.6)

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Exchange, Microsoft

The MSExchange team just released an update to their every popular storage calculator.  This release is primarily about bug fixes.

Read the latest post here…
Read about what’s changed here…
Read all about the calculator here…
Get the calculator here…

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Message Waiting Indicators (MWI) for Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging (UM)

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Exchange, Microsoft

The following is a listing of companies that provide MWI services for Exchange UM:

Geomant – Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) 2007 
Interactive Intelligence – Interaction Message Indicator
Enabling Technologies - etcMWI

If anyone knows of other companies please let me know and I’ll add them to the listing.

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OCS Deployment Validation Tool simulates audio traffic

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, OCS

Overview
A common issue in VoIP deployments is that administrators find out about problems with audio quality only after a user reports a problem. The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Deployment Validation Tool simulates audio traffic so that you can proactively identify and resolve audio issues.
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MS Exchange Virtualization Support Announcement

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Exchange, Microsoft, Virtual

We all knew it was coming shortly after Hyper-V RTM’d a while back.  MS had been hinting around at releasing an update to their support policy for virtualizing Exchange and they finally delivered.
"Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts [...]

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SyncToy v2.0 Released

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft

This is one utility that I just can’t live without anymore.  A recommended utility for any IT geek.  Available in both 32-bit and 64-bit along with a nice white paper for your reading enjoyment.
Brief Description
SyncToy helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers quickly and easily.
Click here to download SyncToy…
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OCS 2007 Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) update: v3.0.6362.80

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, OCS

An update to the OCS BPA was released over the weekend.
Brief Description
The Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Office Communications Server 2007 servers and topology.
Click here to download the update…

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Speed up the Exchange Management Shell startup

August 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Exchange, Microsoft

This little gem has been floating around the Internet for some time now but I’m still going to add it here.  Jeffery Snover over on the Powershell team blog came up with the basis for this trick.  The guys over at the MSExchange team seized the opportunity to apply it to EMS and dropped a [...]

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Move-mailbox -maxthreads option doesn’t work when combined with the import-csv command.

August 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Exchange, Microsoft

Scenario:
You need to migrate a set of users from one Exchange server/store to another.  Your team has given you a CSV file with a list users that are to be migrated.  In the CSV are two columns Alias & Database. When you run the command:

Import-CSV Move_Mailboxes.csv | ForEach {Move-Mailbox -Identity $_.Alias -TargetDatabase $_.Database -Confirm: $false [...]

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OCS Client for Blackberry users

August 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Microsoft, OCS

This is a good news for those companies that use Blackberry and have deployed (or are looking to deploy) OCS 2007.  At first glance it looks like this client is for LCS but after reading through the information you can clearly see it is for OCS.
Click here to download the Blackberry client…
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Update for MOC Phone Edition aka "Tanjay" v1.0.522.101

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Microsoft, OCS

This download was originally released on October 15, 2007.  For a complete list of fixes and changes in this latest version, please see KB article 952693.
Click here to download the update…

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