This week I am fortunate to be at MEC along with thousands of other people who are passionate about Exchange, and are looking to get the latest information on Exchange Server 2013. The event is at the Gaylord Palm Hotel in Orlando, and I have to say it is a…
Exchange 2013 Video Sessions From TechEd Australia 2012
If you are looking to see the first public presentations on Exchange 2013, then look no further! Channel 9 has recordings from last week’s TechEd Australia. You can find these great sessions on Exchange 2013: Exchange Server 2013 High Availability and Site Resilience – EXL315 Exchange Server 2013 Architecture Deep Dive –…
Upcoming Changes to Forefront Products
If you leverage products from the Forefront family, then you will want to read about changes announced today on the Server & Cloud blog. Today, as a result of our effort to better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is announcing changes to the roadmaps of…
System Center 2012 SP1 Beta Available
The beta release for System Center 2012 SP1 is now available for you to download and test in your lab environments. This is an interesting release as it is adding support for Windows Server 2012. In the case of SCVMM 2012 SP1, it means that it can only be installed on the RTM version…
Re-Release Of Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack
Since the System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack (MP) for Exchange 2010 has been re-released to the Microsoft download center, I thought that it would be worth bubbling this up. The previous post can be found here on the blog. This is build 14.03.0038.004 of the MP, and is dated August 31st 2012. …
Important Upcoming Certificate Changes
Please be aware that there is a pending change for the minimum key length for certificates with RSA keys. The private keys used in these certificates can be derived and could allow an attacker to duplicate the certificates and use them fraudulently to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks. The…
Facebook Language Settings – Avast!
Here I was just trying to update my Facebook profile to use English UK, and what do I see? Entries for not only English Pirate, but also English (upside down)….. One can only surmise that the (upside down) is meant for our Antipodean chums! Now for the pirate theme, I guess I…
Solving Additional Issues With Exchange OAB Download
Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book (OAB). This has also been the source of some recent work for myself, though with slightly different root causes. The issues that I have encountered were due to: Invalid SSL Certificate OAB web.config file Incorrect process…
Outlook Fails To Download OAB
This is an article written by Frank Plawetzki, a Senior PFE from Deutschland, and originally published on Opsvault. Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book). One affected public-folder based OAB distribution and the other affected web-based distribution. I…
Lync Session Recordings From TechEd 2012
Just in case evaluating the Exchange 2013 preview was not keeping you busy, Channel 9 has recordings on Lync from TechEd 2012. Enjoy! Forget about IT – How about Lync Inside Business Applications?! Consumerization of IT has brought an irreversible shift of power from IT to the Business where IT is…