If you didn’t have the opportunity to attend TechEd North America 2008, Jason Langridge lets you watch his presentation: Windows Mobile 6.1 - the latest advances.

“At Tech-Ed US I presented a session on Windows Mobile 6.1 and the enhancements within it provides.  I’ve had quite a few requests from customers wanting to get access to the deck so I’ve uploaded it to Slideshare and embedded it below.“

Related links:

• Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2008 IT Professionals
• Windows Mobile 6.1

As you probably heard, Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 RTM last week. These Update Rollups address the vulnerabilities described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-039.

Since Exchange Server 2003 is also affected by the vulnerabilities described, you should download and install Security Update for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 (KB950159).

Brief Description
This update addresses the Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability addressed in the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-039.

Overview
About this download: A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker with limited access to increase their privileges to compromise Outlook Web Access for Microsoft Exchange Server and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft on all Microsoft Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 servers in your organization. Installation instructions and more information about this issue are available here.

Making Backups Cool with DPM is a video from the collection TechTalks that was recorded during TechEd NA 2008 IT Professionals.

“Jason interviews MVP Devin Ganger, presenter of MGT369, “Advanced Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange,” about why DPM helps remove the pain from backups and restores. With Devin Ganger and Jason Buffington.“

Both Jason and Devin posted this information on their blogs:

• Tech-Talk: Making Backups Cool with DPM
• Live from TechEd 2008 - Jason and Devin !!! (video)

The latest Unified Communications technical rollup covers the following topics:

• News/Blogs
• Downloads
• Events/Webcasts
• Workshops
• New KB Articles

As usual, this information is posted every month at the Technical Rollup blog.

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The Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 Feature Pack is now available for download here:

• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack (x86)
• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Feature Pack (x64)

Brief Description
This Update bundles the following features: Windows Server 2008 support, SQL Server 2008 support, enhanced support for sharing tape libraries and better tape utilization.

Overview
The DPM 2007 Update Rollup is a feature pack that includes previously released hotfixes alongside several new features aimed to enhance overall applicability and usability of DPM. Added features include: System state for Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 support, enhanced support for sharing tape libraries with other DPM servers, and support for better utilization of tape capacity by sharing tapes between multiple protection groups media co-location on tapes.
This Data Protection Manager Update Package consists of three separate updates. Note: Depending on your configuration, some updates may not apply. Please see “Installation Instructions” for details.
Feature Bullet Summary:
Issues Fixed:

• 946647 Description of the Data Protection Manager 2007 hotfix package: January 9, 2008
• 948373 The backup image may be corrupted if you use System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 to perform an online backup of a virtual machine that is running in Virtual Server 2005
• 950082 Description of the Data Protection Manager 2007 hotfix package rollup 2
• 948936 When synchronization runs in Data Protection Manager 2007, the DPM service may unexpectedly crash
• 951557 getKB -Data Protection Manager 2007 - Hotfix

Features Added:

• Support for backing up virtual machines on clustered Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 hosts
• Support for sharing tape libraries between multiple DPM servers
• Better tape utilization of tape capacity by co-locating data from multiple protection groups with similar retention range
• System state protection for Windows Server 2008

Note: Backup of SQL 2008 (Katmai) is not supported until the released version is publicly available.

The following DPM technical documents were recently updated:

• Planning a Data Protection Manager 2007 Deployment: This document explains the features of DPM 2007 and how DPM works. It also provides the information that you need to plan a DPM deployment, including protection group and DPM server configuration.
• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Troubleshooting Guide: Provides troubleshooting guidance for DPM 2007 issues such as performance, tape library management, and data recovery.
• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 System Requirements: DPM 2007 System Requirements provides information that you use to ensure that the DPM server and the computers and applications it is going to protect meet network and security requirements. This topic also lists the DPM supported operating systems and the recommended hardware and software requirements.
• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Operations Guide: Provides targeted practical guidance for performing the most frequent and critical administrative tasks in DPM 2007.
• Deploying System Center Data Protection Manager 2007: Deploying DPM 2007 provides step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring DPM 2007, and includes an introduction to the DPM user interface. Deploying DPM 2007 also provides information on troubleshooting your DPM installation and how to repair and uninstall DPM 2007.
• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Frequently Asked Questions: Provides answers to frequently asked questions about System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.

[NEW!]

• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Volume Sizing Tool: “DPMvolumeSizing” is a tool-set that eases the process of gathering data for DPM volume sizing purposes and apply DPM sizing rules to obtain DPM replica and recovery point volume requirements. Scripts collect (local or remote) and save information in a format tuned to easily import into an Excel workbook and is detailed in the user guide. The tool-set is validated to work for the DPM; SQL Server, Virtual Server, Exchange Server 2007, Volume and System State protection workloads.

You may also want to check the articles I wrote about backing up Exchange Server with DPM 2007:

• Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 1)
• Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 2)
• Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 3)
• Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 4)

A couple of days ago I mentioned the .NET Rocks show with Sue Mosher. If you liked that kind of show, you’ll be glad to know that RunAs Radio has similar programs, but its target audience are the IT Professionals, as opposed to the developers of .NET Rocks.

“RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products. The full range of IT topics is covered from a Microsoft-centric viewpoint.

RunAs Radio was launched on April 11, 2007 with a nod from its sister show, .NET Rocks!, which started as a weekly downloadable mp3 in August, 2002! Coincidentally, the first RunAs Radio show featured Patrick Hynds, who was also the first guest on .NET Rocks! “.

Looking at the past shows, I spotted a good collection of Exchange related programs:

• Adam Cogan is Reporting Against Exchange!
• Chris Avis fights Spam on Exchange Server 2007!
• Tony Redmond Manages Exchange with Powershell!
• Brien Posey Secures Exchange!
• David Sengupta on Exchange Email Policy Issues

Kudos to Paulo Morgado for pointing me out that site.

Microsoft Transporter Suite v08.02.0053 was released yesterday.

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

Overview
Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. In addition for Lotus Domino the suite contains migration tools to migrate users, groups, personal address lists, mailboxes, personal mail archives, and applications from Lotus Domino 5, 6 or 7 to Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For generic POP/IMAP servers the suite contains a set of tools to bulk migrate mailboxes from any generic email servers that support the POP3 or IMAP4 protocol to mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007.

Please read also the Release Notes for the Transporter Suite of Tools.

Five Considerations for Choosing a Microsoft Exchange Continuity Solution is a new whitepaper sponsored by NEC (free registration required).

Overview:
Microsoft Exchange is the leading messaging and collaboration server application software that many organizations depend on for execution of critical business processes and communications. If your Exchange application stops or email and contacts data is lost, critical business operations and revenue streams could be disrupted.
Given the variety of available technologies and products with numerous features and cost differences, it can be confusing and time consuming to evaluate and select the right solution to ensure continuity, high availability (HA), or disaster recovery (DR), of the critical MS Exchange systems in your organization. This whitepaper discusses five topics you need to consider when evaluating the right solution for your business.

The Microsoft Exchange Team published on their blog, the new and updated Exchange Server content.

Here’s the highlight:

• Overview of Namespace Planning: Planning your namespaces involves examining your physical and logical network structure and choosing an organizational topology. This article presents several different topologies and provides information about how using the different topologies would affect your Exchange organization.
• How to Move a Client Access or Hub Transport Server to a Different Site: Added a step to set the Client Access server Autodiscover site scope due to Active Directory Site change.
• How to Perform a Dial Tone Recovery Using and Staying on an Alternate Server for the Dial Tone Database: Fixed incorrect example code by using Get-Mailbox instead of Get-MailboxStatistics.
• How to Seed a Standby Continuous Replication Target: Updated topic to specify that seeding with Update-StorageGroupCopy should be done on SCR target computer. Also, corrected permissions section that incorrectly referenced CCR.
• How to Upgrade a Single Copy Cluster to Exchange 2007 SP1: Removed step for starting Windows Firewall service, because that step is not needed.
• Planning for Cluster Continuous Replication: Removed old guidance to use DNS CNAME record for file share witness alias in UNC path.
• How to Configure the Node and File Share Majority Quorum: Removed old guidance to use DNS CNAME record for file share witness alias in UNC path.
• How to Configure Network Connections for Cluster Continuous Replication: Fixed incorrect configuration steps for the private network by specifying that Client for Microsoft Networks and File and Print Sharing need to be cleared.
• Applying Exchange 2007 Update Rollups to Clustered Mailbox Servers: Fixed incorrect statement, “The amount of downtime varies based on how long it takes each organization to perform the installation procedure for the entire cluster,” by stating that the true downtime is only for as long as it takes to move the CMS between nodes and have it brought online.
• How to Configure Deleted Item Retention for a Mailbox Database: Fixed incorrect example code by using -DeletedItemRetention instead of -ItemRetention.
• Understanding How Transport Rules Are Applied in an Exchange 2007 Organization: Text added to clarify rules only have access to envelope headers in encrypted messages. “Transport rules can access envelope headers contained in encrypted messages, and process messages based on predicates that inspect them. Rules with predicates that require inspection of message content, or actions that may modify content, cannot be processed.”
• Help Reference - Recipient Properties > Mailbox Settings Tab > Messaging Records Management (RTM): Removed incorrect information about pre-Outlook 2003 SP2 clients not being able to access a mailbox if Managed Folder Mailbox Policy is applied to the mailbox. Modified to state that older clients do not support Managed Custom Folders (similar text as seen in dialog box when a policy is being applied).