This past Monday Ross Smith from Microsoft Exchange Team, posted the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator during one of his sessions at the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas.  This tool is the equivalent of the Exchange 2007 Storage Calculator.  It’s actually a giant Excel spreadsheet.  It’s a useful tool to assist in [...]

E2K7: Standby Continuous Replication

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 24 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

Activating Standby Continuous Replication Targets
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691321.aspx

Standby Continuous Replication: Site Resilience with Standby Clustering
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738150.aspx
Standby Continuous Replication: Database Portability
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738132.aspx

 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676502.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc164368.aspx
http://msmvps.com/blogs/ehlo/archive/2008/01/08/1447442.aspx

Exchange 2010 here we come!!

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 23 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

There are some really nice features coming in Exchange 2010 that will help in my current situation.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd185494.aspx

E2K7: High-Availability and Disaster Recovery

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 21 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

 
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/Dell_ExchSP1_W2K8.pdf
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/messaging/exchange_2007_resources?c=us&l=en&cs=555
Standby Continuous Replication
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676502.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691321.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738150.aspx

Thursday, April 30, 2009 2:56 PM by Eric Norberg

 I have recently received a number of questions surrounding the generation of e-mail addresses in Exchange 2007. Particularly, whether or not custom email addresses can be generated via “legacy” replacement strings to meet specific organizational naming conventions.
This post will present a brief overview of the process as [...]

Exchange Versions – Builds and Release Dates

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 23 Jun 09 - 0 Comments

The following is a charter of the Exchange Versions, their build numbers and their release dates.

It seems to be a day for writing about auto-discovery, the process whereby an application, in this case Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC), can use a limited amount of information to automatically discover the users’s OCS Server. Auto-discovery is based on MOC’s use of DNS resource records to obtain the necessary information. I’ve been reading the [...]

Unified Communications Client API Terminology

Archived in the category: Office Communication Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 28 Sep 08 - 0 Comments

This article defines some terminology commonly used with Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution, Office Communication Server 2007.

How the OCS Address Book Works

Posted by Dave on 03 Sep 08 - 1 Comment

The OCS 2007 Address Book service’s primary purpose is to provide updated GAL information to the OC 2007 client. It will also provide phone number normalization service for OC 2007 clients. The ABServer.exe is scheduled to query AD periodically for updates to user / group /information and provide this delta of updated information to the [...]

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007\Server\Core>abserver -regenUR
Wait 5 minutes and then run the same command with the -SyncNow switch
On the client, close Office Communicator, and delete GALContacts.db (found in the user’s profile directory under Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Communicator) and then restart the client.