- Date - February 28th, 2010
- Category - get-news
Outlook Team blogged about design improvements in this new version of Outlook 2010.
When designing Outlook 2010, we worked hard to ensure that the colors, shapes, and text used within the product provide a pleasant experience and make it easy for you to get work done. We have done this by redesigning parts of the user interface to give Outlook a clean, crisp, high-quality look that is free from distracting visual elements. By simplifying many parts of the user interface, we’ve allowed your e-mail messages and meetings to shine in the foreground better than ever before! Let’s take a look at some examples of how the new visuals improve Outlook.
Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2010/02/26/t...0.aspx
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Anderson Patricio
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- Date - February 25th, 2010
- Category - get-news
You can use the Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer to perform an overall topology readiness scan of your environment. When you run the Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer, it provides a detailed report that will alert you if there are any issues within your organization, which could prevent you from deploying Exchange 2010. For example, the Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer will notify you if you haven’t deployed the minimum required Exchange service pack on all your existing Exchange servers.
The checks performed by ExPDA are similar to the pre-requisite checks implemented (via Exchange Best Practices Analyzer) in the Exchange 2010 Setup program; in fact ExPDA is based off the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) engine. However, unlike Exchange 2010 setup, this tool focuses only on overall topology readiness and not the ability to run Exchange 2010 on the local computer. The scan also performs a deep analysis of each existing Exchange 2003/2007 server to verify that it has the necessary updates and configuration in-place to support Exchange 2010. The end report is structured as follows:
- Critical - A configuration problem that will prevent Exchange 2010 from being deployed in the organization. For example, the Active Directory Forest is not operating in Windows Server 2003 Forest Functional Mode or higher.
- Warning - A configuration item that may prevent customers having the best possible experience with Exchange 2010. A warning may also reflect some functionality that is not available in Exchange 2010.
ExPDA is another component in our vision to provide a seamless upgrade experience that reduces the complexities in deploying Exchange 2010. To start planning your upgrade, please utilize the Exchange Deployment Assistant. The Deployment Assistant allows a customer to create Exchange 2010 on-premises deployment instructions that are customized to their environment. The Assistant asks a small set of questions, and based on the answers, it provides a finite set of instructions that are designed to get a customer up and running on Exchange 2010. Running the Exchange Server Pre-Deployment Analyzer is now a recommended step within the pre-requisites section of the Deployment Assistant.
Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...ang=en
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Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
- Date - February 23rd, 2010
- Category - get-news
MSExchangeTeam blogged about SIS in the old versions of Exchange Server and why it was removed from Exchange Server 2010.
In Exchange Server 2010, there is no more single instance storage (SIS). To help understand why SIS is gone, let’s review a brief history of Exchange.
During the development of Exchange 4.0, we had two primary goals in mind, and SIS was borne out of these goals:
- Ensure that messages were delivered as fast and as efficient as possible.
- Reduce the amount of disk space required to store messages, as disk capacity was premium.
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/02/22/454051.aspx
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Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
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- Date - February 9th, 2010
- Category - get-news
Hi folks,
Dave Goldman blogged how to change the OAB Generation Temp generation folder to a different location.
In Exchange 2007 SP2 we added a registry key called OALGEN_REG_V4_ALT_TEMP_FILES_LOCATION which will allow you to change the temporary storage location for the OAB Version 4 temporary files. This registry key will *ONLY* work for OAB Version 4. OAB versions 2 and 3’s temporary files will still go to the %temp% directory. If this registry key is not present on the OAB’s generating system we will revert back to the %temp% directory.
Being that OAB Version 4 is generated slightly different and uses different compression algorithms we can allow for a larger number of users far exceeded what we could generate on legacy systems.
Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/dgoldman/archive/2010/02/06/...0.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://blogs.msexchange.org/patricio
Twitter: @apatricio
- Date - February 9th, 2010
- Category - get-news
Microsoft Online Services is now a BlackBerry® certified partner and BlackBerry Alliance Elite Member. For the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, licenses and support are now a part of the Microsoft Online Services Hosted BlackBerry service, which customers buy directly from Microsoft. Previously, customers had to purchase and provide their own licenses and support agreement, purchased through a third party, in order to use the Hosted BlackBerry service.
The Hosted BlackBerry service from Microsoft Online Services offers the most commonly requested BlackBerry capabilities, including wireless access to e-mail, calendar, tasks and contacts with global address list (GAL) integration, and device management such as device wipe and password reset.
More information: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?di...2e7033
Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2010/02/...e.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
- Date - February 9th, 2010
- Category - get-news
MSExchangeTeam blogged how to troubleshoot Exchange 2010 Management Tools startup issues (Exchange Management Console and Shell). Bear in mind, that Exchange Server 2010 is totally based on Remote PowerShell and this post is just for this version of the product.
Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/02/04/453946.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
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- Date - February 4th, 2010
- Category - get-news
Unified Communications at Microsoft supports over 40,000 users. Multiple communications tools such as e-mail, Instant Messaging, voice mail, voice, and presence are delivered in a unified experience which is available anywhere. Because multiple and disparate communication systems have been consolidated and in sourced onto a single solution, the ability to manage and measure the environment is enhanced.
Check the video out at: http://edge.technet.com/Media/Unified-Communicatio...ience/
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
- Date - February 4th, 2010
- Category - get-news
Microsoft Online Services Team released the next version of Migration Tools. By the way, there are 32 and 64 versions available.
The big news is that this version contains the new Windows PowerShell commandlets that Microsoft Online Services administrators can use to automate some of their user management tasks. For more information about using PowerShell with Microsoft online services, see the Webinar: Using PowerShell with Microsoft Online Services blog post with links to the webinar recording and the PowerPoint file with the details of how to use each commandlet.
Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2010/02/...d.aspx
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Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
Technorati : BPOS, Migration Tools
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- Date - February 3rd, 2010
- Category - get-news
The OCS Communicator Team blogged about Free Instructor Led Training. At this point they are offering those classes for two products: Office Live Meeting and Office Communicator, as follows:
Read more at http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2010/02/02/939.aspx and http://communicatorteam.com/archive/2010/01/22/919.aspx
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://blogs.msexchange.org/patricio
Twitter: @apatricio
Technorati : Communicator, Free, Live Meeting, OCS, Training
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- Date - February 3rd, 2010
- Category - get-news
