In this post the Office Communicator team explains the integration resources between Office Communicator 2007 and Outlook 2007/Exchange Server 2007.

The Office Communicator team has built a rich set of integration points with both Outlook and Exchange. Communicator Presence can be found throughout Outlook (Presence is the colored bubble that appears next to a person’s name).

Read more at source: http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2008/01/29/54.aspx

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Microsoft Press just released the definitive reference for how to deploy, configure, and troubleshoot Microsoft® Office Communications Server 2007. This resource comes complete with expert insights direct from the Microsoft Office Communications Server Team. This official Microsoft RESOURCE KIT delivers insights by in the field expert consultants with in-depth technical guidance on architecture, deployment, security, administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting Office Communications Server 2007. You’ll also discover the essential information for working with VOIP and phone integration features. In addition, you get more than 150 timesaving PowerShell scripts, tools, and other job aids for automating administration, plus a fully searchable version of the entire RESOURCE KIT book.

Read more at source:http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2008/01/25/81.aspx

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There is a new release of Microsoft Transport suite available for download.

Microsoft Transporter Suite is a set of interoperability and migration tools to migrate content from Lotus Domino servers or Generic POP/IMAP servers.

Overview

Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...lelist

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How to add holidays to Outlook Calendar.

One of the more popular features for Outlook’s calendar is the capability to add your country or region’s holidays into your calendar. This way, you’ll never miss the next holiday.

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/01/18/a...r.aspx

A new MS Exchange documentation will be available in february. The new document will be about Address List segregation in Exchange Server 2007.

Well, I just have finished the Address List segregation document. I just got clearance from Tom Di Nardo who is a Senior Technical Writer with the Exchange Product Group and the brains behind getting this document out to the world. Tom has been helping me around the clock on this document that we will have this ready and released in our February technical refresh. This is a 50 page comprehensive document on how to set up address list segregation with Exchange 2007. I will post the link once we get closer to release time.

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman/archive/2008/01/18/...y.aspx

If you are experiencing problems in upgrade your environment to SP1 because you have a single-label domain level name you must read this and send your information to Exchange team.

If you attempt to install Exchange 2007 SP1 into an Active Directory forest containing a single-label domain name (e.g. “Contoso” instead of “Contoso.com”), you’ll get this error message:

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 setup cannot continue because this computer belongs to a domain that has a single-labeled DNS name. DNS domain name: XYZ

As the Exchange 2007 SP1 release notesstate:

“Exchange 2007 is not supported in environments that use single-label DNS names. Single-label DNS names are DNS names that do not contain a suffix such as .com, .corp, .net, or .org. Exchange 2007 SP1 Setup performs a prerequisite check and will not continue if your environment includes single-label DNS names. For more information about single-label DNS names, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article 300684, Information about configuring Windows for domains with single-label DNS names“.

Read more at: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/17/447869.aspx

A msexchangeteam.com post explaining how to use the same procedure used previously in Exchange Server 2003 to troubleshoot PF replication but in this new post using the Exchange Server 2007 tools.

Two years ago, I posted a three-part series on troubleshooting public folder replication. Part 1discussed the replication of new data, Part 2discussed the replication of existing data, and Part 3discussed the replica deletion process and some common problems we saw with Exchange 2003. With this post, I want to update the series for Exchange 2007.

In Exchange 2007, public folder replication works basically the same way it always has. The troubleshooting steps in the first three parts of the series all still apply. However, the admin tools have changed and the common problems we see with Exchange 2007 are a little different, so that’s what I want to cover here.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/10/447843.aspx

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I’ve just read a nice post explaining how to deploy a CCR on Windows 2008 by command line.

With the release of Exchange 2007 SP1, you can deploy cluster continuous replication (CCR) on Windows Server 2008, and enjoy the benefits of Windows 2008 failover cluster improvements. But did you know the deployment of CCR on Windows 2008, including the formation and configuration of the cluster, can be done via the command-line, without using any graphical user interface (GUI) interfaces, such as the Failover Cluster Management tool, or the Exchange 2007 SP1 Setup Wizard. Here’s a series of commented commands you can use to do the deployment. You can even add the commands into a script, and automate the deployment.

Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/scottschnoll/archive/2008...y.aspx

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In Windows Server 2008, Network Load Balancing (NLB) will continue to be shipped on all platforms (x86/x64/ia64).

The big change to NLB in Windows Server 2008 is that NLB is not installed by default. To Install NLB on Windows Server 2008 there are 3 options.

· Server manager GUI

· Command line utility ocsetup.exe

· Unattended answer file passed to setup.exe during OS installation.

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/archive/2008/01/0...4.aspx

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Customers frequently ask Exchange Customer Support Services (CSS) engineers how Exchange Server organizations can be managed using multiple Web sites for Exchange Server-related virtual directories. This is often used for segmentation purposes or for access by certain applications, apart from Web users.

Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) solutions are available for customers with a need to manage multiple Exchange “organizations” from the same platform. However, many customers simply wish to use existing hardware and software without using an HMC solution.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/07/447828.aspx

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