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 [...]
Exchange 2010 – Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator Release
E2K7: Standby Continuous Replication
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!!
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
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
E2K7: Creating Custom SMTP E-mail Address Policies Utilizing Various Replacement String Combinations
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
The following is a charter of the Exchange Versions, their build numbers and their release dates.
Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 Auto-Discovery and SRV Search Order
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
This article defines some terminology commonly used with Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution, Office Communication Server 2007.
How the OCS Address Book Works
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 [...]
Regenerating the Corporate Address Book on Office Communication Server 2007
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.
