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  1. Catastrophic Failure
    Νωρίς σήμερα, η ομάδα του Exchange CXP έκανε release το Update Rollup 5 για τον Exchange Server 2007 SP3 το οποίο είναι διαθέσιμο προς λήψη στο Download Center.
    Update Rollup 5 για τον Exchange Server 2007 SP3
    Το παρόν Rollup περιέχει ένα μεγάλο αριθμό αναφορών των συνεργατών της Microsoft και διαφόρων εσωτερικών αναφορών από τους μηχανικούς της Microsoft, από το πρώτο release RU5. Μερικά από τα fixes που περιλαμβάνονται στο RU5 είναι τα ακόλουθα :
    DST: New updates for August DST - Exchange 2007 2536695 "Some items cannot be deleted" error message when you try to delete or modify an email message in a public folder in an Exchange Server 2007 environment 2292150 A deleted hyperlink remains in the HTML source of an email message if you create the email message by using OWA in an Exchange Server 2007 environment (article not yet live) Το Update Rollup 6 για τον Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 έχει προγραμματιστεί να γίνει release τον Απρίλιο του 2012.
    Σημείωση για τους χρήστες Forefront:
    Για όσους από εσάς χρησιμοποιείτε Forefront, πρέπει να εκτελέσετε αυτά τα σημαντικά βήματα από τη γραμμή εντολών «command line» στο Forefront directory πριν και μετά τη διαδικασία της εγκατάστασης του rollup. Στην περίπτωση που δεν πραγματοποιηθούν αυτά τα βήματα, τα Exchange services για το Exchange Information Store και Transport δεν θα μπορέσουν να ξεκινήσουν. Θα χρειαστεί να απενεργοποιήσετε το Forefront μέσω «fscutility /disable» προτού εγκαταστήσετε το patch και στη συνέχεια ενεργοποιήστε το ξανά μετά την εγκατάσταση του patch με την εκτέλεση της εντολής «fscutility /enable» να ξεκινήσει και πάλι μετά την εγκατάσταση.
    Source: MSExchange Team
  2. Catastrophic Failure
    The Microsoft Exchange team is pleased to present the newest addition to the Exchange Server 2010 Technical Video Series – “Information Protection and Control” hosted by Greg Smiley and Ann Vu. In this video, Greg and Ann talk about the benefits of Security in Exchange 2010. The video includes demonstrations of three common scenarios related to Information Protection and Control: 1) Transport Rules 2) On-Premises Protection, and 3) Cloud Based Protection.
    Video: Exchange Technical Video Series (Information Protection and Control)

    For more information on the Exchange Server 2010 Technical Video Series, check out our previous post. You can also access the rest of the videos in the series directly using the following links:
    Archiving and Discovery Mailbox Resiliency Management Mobility Outlook and Exchange Outlook Web App Unified Messaging Low bandwidth versions of each of the videos are now provided in the “Related Links” area for those on slower connections.
    As always, please help us evangelize these videos to anyone who wants to learn more about Exchange Server 2010, and let us know your thoughts. Your feedback is extremely valuable to us. Many thanks in advance.
    Source: MSExchange Team
  3. Catastrophic Failure
    Θέλετε να ταξιδέψετε και να εξερευνήσετε τον μαγικό κόσμο του Office 365?
    Microsoft Press προσφέρει δωρεάν για download το ebook «Microsoft Office 365: Connect and Collaborate Virtually Anywhere, Anytime». Γραμμένο από την Katherine Murray, το βιβλίο μας εισάγει στον κόσμο του cloud computing, ενώ μας αναλύει τα πλεονεκτήματα του Microsoft Office 365 και πώς μπορούμε να τα εκμεταλλευτούμε….

    Μερικά απο τα topic:
    Set up your Office 365 site, manage access, and add mobile devices Create, edit, and share documents Share calendar, files, and updates from your team site Manage email, contacts, and appointments using Outlook Web App Always connected — Learn instant messaging, social media, voice and chat Create a website to share information with customers Use work-flows to collectively track project tasks and progress
  4. Catastrophic Failure
    After you install Internet Explorer 9 on a computer that has Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007 management tools installed, you might run into a situation where closing the Exchange Management Console (EMC) results in the following error:


    “You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console”

    This might happen even if there are no property pages left opened that you can see. Please note here that not all of our customers who installed IE9 on a computer with Exchange management tools (server or workstation) have run into this problem.
    Are there any workarounds?
    As it stands right now, we are not aware of a reliable workaround for this problem. Terminating the EMC using the Task Manager (or possibly a command or script) does not have adverse effects on management tools functionality, but is clearly a non-optimal solution.
    What are we doing to address this?
    The EMC is implemented as a Microsoft Management Console snap-in. We are working closely with both MMC and Internet Explorer teams to find a solution to this problem. Due to the complex nature of several products involved and the interoperability between them, identifying the root cause was not simple; things are still in process and we do not have a firm solution or a date to share with you yet. We do, however, want to say that we are very aware of this issue and several teams are collaborating and working to get this addressed. Once more details are available, we will be sure to share them here.
    Source: MSExchange Team
  5. Catastrophic Failure
    Καλησπέρα σε όλους και καλό χειμώνα..
    Στο σημερινό μας post θα πούμε λίγα λόγια για Cloud Office 365 και τα προϊόντα του. Θα το χωρίσουμε σε 3 Parts για να μπορέσουμε να δούμε αναλυτικότερα. Με λίγα λόγια μπορούμε να πούμε ότι το Office 365 είναι η αναβάθμιση του BPOS (έκδοση 2) plus μερικά ακόμα καλούδια.
    Όσοι γνωρίζετε το BPOS γνωρίζουν ότι περιέχει τα ακόλουθα προϊόντα:
    Exchange Online (Exchange 2007) SharePoint Online (SharePoint 2007) Office Communications Online (Office Communications Server 2007) Office Live Meeting (Live Meeting 2007) Το Office 365 περιέχει τα ακόλουθα προϊόντα:
    Exchange Online (Exchange 2010) SharePoint Online (SharePoint 2010) Lync Online (Lync 2010) Office Professional Plus 2010 Office Web Apps Το BPOS υπάρχει σε 2 εκδόσεις:
    BPOS Standard BPOS Dedicated Το Office 365 είναι διαθέσιμο σε 3 εκδόσεις:
    Small Business Office 365 P1 επαγγελματίες και μικρές επιχειρήσεις (περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα βρείτε εδώ) Enterprise Office 365 Μεσαίες και μεγάλες επιχειρήσεις (Προγράμματα για μετακινούμενους εργαζόμενους) όπου και χωρίζετε σε 4 προγράμματα – E1, E2, E3 και E4 (περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα βρείτε εδώ) Office 365 for Education για εκπαιδευτικά ιδρύματα γνωστό σαν πρόγραμμα K-12 (περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα βρείτε εδώ) Συνδεθείτε σήμερα και δοκιμάστε την Beta του Office 365 P1

    Πάμε να δούμε μαζί λίγα πράγματα για το Office 365 P1 και πώς λειτουργεί. Μετά από την εγγραφή σας στην δοκιμαστική έκδοση του Office 365 P1, θα λάβετε στο email, με πληροφορίες για την σύνδεση σας στο portal του Office 365 και το Online Services ID σας.

    Επόμενο βήμα είναι να συνδεθούμε στο portal του Office 365

    Πάμε να δούμε μερικές εικόνες για το πώς είναι το Office 365 P1 και τα προϊόντα του.

    Admin Console

    Admin: Κονσόλα διαχείρισης χρηστών, domains, subscriptions κλπ.
    Όπως μπορούμε να δούμε και στη εικόνα μας, στην κορυφή της σελίδας έχουμε 4 επιλογές (admin user) οι απλοί χρήστες βλέπουν 3 επιλογές (Home, Outlook και Team Site)

    Home: η κεντρική σελίδα των χρηστών με δυνατότητα λήψης του Lync Client και άλλες χρήσιμες πληροφορίες.


    Outlook: Πρόσβαση στο Outlook Web App (OWA).


    Team Site: SharePoint team site.


    Lync Client

    Στο επόμενο post θα δούμε αναλυτικά το κάθε ένα από τα προϊόντα του Office 365 P1…

  6. Catastrophic Failure
    For many companies, the robust messaging and calendaring features offered by Office 365 for enterprises presents an opportunity to transition all messaging functionality from the on-premises organization into the cloud. Office 365 for enterprises includes a full suite of e-mail migration tools.
    However, there are dependencies and restrictions on the migration tools that you may be able to use with Office 365. Variables such as your on-premises Exchange Server version, the number of mailboxes you want to move, and how you want to handle user identity will dictate the tools and processes you can use to migrate to the cloud.

    Figure 1 : A screen shot from the new "Cloud Only" scenario in the Deployment Assistant
    To help you sort through the available options and plan your migration to the cloud, we’re happy to announce the “Cloud Only” option in the latest release of the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant. Like the other scenarios in the Deployment Assistant, the “Cloud Only” option allows you to step through a wizard that asks you questions about your current infrastructure and your migration goals. The Deployment Assistant will provide a migration solution that is based on your answers.
    Your feedback is very important for the continued improvement of this tool. Give us your feedback on this new scenario and any other area of the Deployment Assistant. Feel free to post comments on this blog post, provide feedback in the Office 365 community migration and coexistence forum, or send an email to [email protected] via the 'Feedback' link located in the header of every page of the Deployment Assistant.
    Source: MSExchange Team
  7. Catastrophic Failure
    In Exchange 2010, you can use Retention Policies to manage message retention. Retention Policies consist of delete tags, i.e. retention tags with either Delete and Allow Recovery or Permanently Delete actions, or archive tags, i.e. retention tags with the Move To Archive action, which move items to the user's archive mailbox.
    Depending on how they're applied to mailbox items, retention tags are categorized as the following three types:
    Default Policy Tags (DPTs), which apply to untagged items in the mailbox – untagged items being items that don't have a retention tag applied directly or by inheritance from parent folder. You can create three types of DPTs: an archive DPT, a delete DPT and a DPT for voicemail messages. Retention Policy Tags (RPTs), which are retention tags with a delete action, created for default folders such as Inbox and Deleted Items. Not all default folders are supported. You can find a table showing the default folders supported for RPTs in Understanding Retention Tags and Retention Policies. Notably, Calendar, Tasks and Contacts folders aren't supported. Personal Tags, which are retention tags that users can apply to items and folders in Outlook 2010 and Outlook Web App. Personal tags can either be delete tags or archive tags. They're surfaced in Outlook 2010 and OWA as Retention policies and Archive policies. To deploy retention tags, you add them to a retention policy and apply the policy to mailbox users.
    In Exchange 2010 SP1, we added support for the Notes folder. In Exchange 2010 RTM, items in the Notes folder aren't processed. After you upgrade to SP1, if the user's retention policy doesn't have a RPT for the Notes folder, the DPT from the user's policy will apply to items in that folder.
    In existing deployments, your users may not be used to their notes being moved or deleted.
    To prevent the DPT from being applied to a default folder, you can create a disabled RPT for that folder (or disable any existing RPT for that folder). The Managed Folder Assistant, a mailbox assistant that processes mailbox items and applies retention policies, does not apply the retention action of a disabled tag. Since the item/folder still has a tag, it's not considered untagged and the DPT isn't applied to it.

    Figure 1: Create a disabled Retention Policy Tag for the Notes default folder to prevent the Default Policy Tag from being applied to items in that folder
    Note: You can create a disabled RPT for any supported default folder.
    Why are items in the Notes folder still archived?
    If you create a disabled RPT for the Notes folder, you'll see items in that folder are not deleted, but they do continue to be moved to the archive! Why does this happen? How do you prevent it?
    It's important to understand that:
    A retention policy can have a DPT to archive items and a DPT to delete items. Both apply to untagged items. The move and delete actions are exclusive of each other. Mailbox folders and messages can have both types of tags applied - an archive tag and a delete tag. It's not an either/or proposition. If you create a disabled RPT for the Notes folder to not delete items, the archive DPT for the mailbox would still apply and move items. When it comes to archiving, there's only one archive policy that administrators can enforce – the DPT with 'Move to archive' action. You can't create a RPT with the 'Move to archive' action. This rules out using the disabled RPT approach to prevent items from being moved. Users can apply a personal tag to a folder or messages to move items sooner or later than the default archive policy for that mailbox. How do you prevent items in a default folder from being archived?
    There's no admin-controlled way of doing this, short of removing the archive DPT from a retention policy. However, removing the archive DPT would result in messages not moving to archive automatically unless the user applies a personal tag to messages or folders.
    The workaround is to have users apply the Personal never move to archive personal tag (displayed as Never under Archive Policy in Outlook/OWA) to a default folder. The tag is included in the Default Archive and Retention Policy created by Exchange Setup. You can also add this tag to any Retention Policies you create.

    Figure 2: Users can apply the Never archive policy to a default folder to prevent items in that folder from being archived
    Note: You can't use Outlook 2010 to apply an archive policy to the Notes default folder or individual notes items. Users wanting to apply an archive policy to the folder must use OWA.
    Source: MSExchange Team
  8. Catastrophic Failure
    Starting with Exchange 2007, installation of the current version of Office Filter Packs is a prerequisite. For Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 RTM, the pre-req was 2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack. In Exchange 2010 SP1, this was updated to Office 2010 Filter Packs. The filters are used by Exchange Search to index email attachments on Mailbox servers and by the transport rules agent to scan attachments on transport servers. The filters are also important for discovery searches in Exchange 2010 – Multi-Mailbox Search uses content indexes generated by Exchange Search.
    In Exchange 2010 RTM and Exchange 2007, you need to register the IFilters with Exchange Search (for Exchange 2007, see 'KB 944516 How to register Filter Pack IFilters with Exchange Server 2007'). In Exchange 2010 SP1, IFilters included in the Office 2010 Filter Pack are automatically registered by Exchange Setup. You must register any third-party filters you install.
    An updated filter pack, Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office Filter Pack 2010 (KB2460041) 64-bit Edition is now available on Download Center. The Filter Pack has been tested with Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007. The updated filter pack doesn’t have any fixes or updates that impact Exchange scenarios or functionality. If you have the RTM version of Office 2010 filter packs installed, you can update it but it’s not required. For new installs, we recommend going with the current versions.
    Source: Bharat Suneja
  9. Catastrophic Failure
    We are excited to announce that the Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool has been updated! In addition to the standard set of connectivity tests, we’ve added an Office 365 tab and a Single Sign-On test. The new Single Sign-On test will validate users' ability to log on to Office 365 with their on-premises credentials. It also validates some basic Active Directory Federated Services (ADFS) configurations.
    Here's an overview and video demo.
    Video: RCA ADFS Intro
    In addition to the new tests, you will see the same great tests that were always available.
    The Remote Connectivity Analyzer is available at https://www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com/.
    Tip: you can also get here by going to exrca.com. Same site… just fewer characters to type.
    We’re always excited to hear from you - please send us your feedback to ExRCAFB address.
    Remote Connectivity Analyzer Release Notes (Also available here)
    Version 1.3 (June 2011)

    Known Issues
    A couple of the tests allow you to "Ignore trusts for SSL". Checking this option only tells the tool to not fail if the certificate you are using is not in the list of Trusted Root Certificates – for example, if you were using a certificate from your own Windows CA. This option does not allow the test to be completed over a non-SSL connection. If you do not have a certificate and want to test whether Exchange ActiveSync works over port 80 - this tool cannot perform this validation. We will not be able to add this feature in the future. Note: Due to limitations in the RPC API, we are currently unable to ignore the trust requirement for SSL for the RPC over HTTP / Outlook Anywhere tests. We are looking into alternatives for future releases.
    Copy to clipboard doesn't work in Firefox by default (You have to enable it) Some localized strings are in English if they were modified during this update. These strings will be localized in the future. While performing tests, the stage of testing will no longer update while the test is being performed. This is a necessary change for the moment due to some underlying changes to the Remote Connectivity Analyzer code. Your full test results will be available once the test is complete. New / Modified Features
    Microsoft Exchange Remote Connectivity analyzer is now the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer. The future direction for this tool is to incorporate more products as we have done with Office 365. Thus dropping "Exchange" from the name made sense. There are still lots of strings where you'll see ExRCA or Exchange; we're cleaning these up in a future release. Tabbed user-interface to support multiple products and Office 365. Office 365 Single sign-on validation. This test allows you to validate identity federated scenarios with Office 365. Specifically, this new test targets the "Basic Authentication" federated scenario where a client sends credentials to Office 365 which in turn validates them against the on-premises ADFS server. Fixed an issue where ExRCA wouldn't validate certain top-level domains such as .travel and .museum. Added code so if the Enter key is pressed in the wizard, the default action is "next" instead of "previous". Previously, this didn't work for browsers other than IE. Better cross-browser support, fully supporting IE8-IE9 standards mode as well as other major browsers. Source: MSExchange Team

  10. Catastrophic Failure
    We have discovered an issue impacting some customers who have installed Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 into their Exchange environment and as a result have removed SP1 RU4 from Download Center and recommend customers do not proceed with any planned deployments of SP1 RU4.
    A small number of customers have reported when the Outlook client is used to move or copy a folder that subfolders and content for the moved folder are deleted. After investigation we have determined that the folder and item contents do not appear in the destination folder as expected but may be recovered from the Recoverable Items folder (what was previously known as Dumpster in older versions of Exchange) from the original folder. This behavior occurs due to a customer requested change in SP1 RU4 which allowed deleted Public Folders to be recovered. Outlook and Exchange are not correctly processing the folder move and copy operations causing the folder contents to appear to be deleted. OWA and Exchange Web Services clients are not affected by this change and process the folder move or copy actions correctly.
    We will be providing an updated Exchange fix which prevents the apparent content loss in SP1 RU5, which is scheduled for release in August. In addition, we are also working with the Outlook development team to examine their code for proper behavior and identify if a fix is necessary from the client. If you have already deployed SP1 RU4, we recommend obtaining an Interim Update that resolves this issue.
    If you are a customer seeing this issue or would like to receive the Interim Update, please contact Microsoft Customer Support.
    We are commencing an internal review of our processes to determine how we can best prevent issues such as this one arising in future.
    Once again, on behalf of the Exchange Product Group, I want to thank you for the patience you continue to show us while we work through these issues. We deeply regret the impact that this issue has had on you, our customers, and as always, we continue to identify ways to better serve your needs through our regular servicing releases.
    Source: MSEXCHANGE TEAM
  11. Catastrophic Failure
    Πρόσφατα, αντιμετώπισα ένα θέμα το οποίο ήταν κατά κάποιο τρόπο θα το έλεγα «κουφό». Μετά από καθαρή εγκατάσταση SBS 2011, ενώ όλα πήγαν καλά με την εγκατάσταση και ενεργοποιούμε τον SBS 2011 όλα κανονικά χωρίς κανένα απολύτως θέμα, πάμε λοιπόν να ανοίξουμε την Κονσόλα διαχείρισης του Exchange 2010 SP1. Άμεσα, εμφανίστηκε το παράθυρο το οποίο μας έλεγε ότι ο Exchange server θέλει ενεργοποίηση «activation».

    Το παρόν πρόβλημα είχε εμφανιστή και στον SBS 2008 το έχω αναφέρει εδώ.
    Η αιτία του παραπάνω προβλήματος εμφανίζετε σε 2 περιπτώσεις:
    Μετά από repair των Exchange server roles. Μετά από αποτυχημένη εγκατάσταση του SBS Setup 2011. Το παρόν θέμα επιλύετε με το ακόλουθο Hotfix KB 2527626 οποίο είναι διαθέσιμο και επιλύει το παρόν πρόβλημα KB 2527626.

  12. Catastrophic Failure
    Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center.
    This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU3. For a list of changes included in this rollup, see KBA 2509911 Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. We'd like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:
    2531208 You cannot synchronize a folder hierarchy by using Outlook for Mac 2011 in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment 2528437 EWS applications cannot connect to Exchange Server 2007 servers after you make changes on accepted domains 2521063 You are incorrectly displayed as a meeting organizer after you synchronize the meeting by using your mobile device in an Exchange Server 2007 environment Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 is currently scheduled to release in August 2011.
    Source: MSExchange Team
  13. Catastrophic Failure
    As more and more of you evaluate and deploy the email archiving, retention and discovery capabilities of Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Online, we understand that Personal Folders (.pst files) remain a challenge for you. You have told us that having the ability to search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment is critical, and that you need an admin-driven and straightforward tool for doing these things.
    We're excited to announce that later this year we'll be adding a new tool to our already rich portfolio of planning and deployment tools. This new tool, PST Capture, will be downloadable and free, and will enable you to discover .pst files on your network and then import them into both Exchange Online (in Office 365) and Exchange Server 2010 on-premises. PST Capture will be available later this year. It doesn’t replace the New-MailboxImportRequest cmdlet that exists already for importing known .pst files into Exchange Server, but instead works in parallel to enable you to embark on a systematic search and destroy mission to rid yourself of the dreaded .pst scourge <*pirate growl*>.
    We'll make more details available as we approach the release of the tool, but given the high demand for this capability, we wanted to let you know that we are working on this for you.
    Source: Exchange Team
  14. Catastrophic Failure
    Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for both Office 2010 and the Office Filter Pack 2010. While the first one interests a wider audience, the latter is only for Exchange admins & is only used as a prerequisite for Exchange 2010 Hub and Mailbox role installations. The Filter Pack is used to “filter” Office document contents and help with indexing it, for a better search result.
    Download the Office 2010 SP1 here (32-bit) and here (64 bit).
    Download the Office Filter Pack SP1 here
    Enjoy
  15. Catastrophic Failure
    The MOF Technology Library provides guidance and best practices to help you better understand how to use MOF with Microsoft technologies. The newest component of the library is the first Technical Service guide and workbook. These resources provide the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep technologies running smoothly so IT can deliver the services an organization expects.
     
    Files in this download
    The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you.
    Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Certificate Services.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Domain Services.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for DirectAccess.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Client Access and Transport.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Mailbox Services.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Hyper-V.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Internet Information Services.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Microsoft Application Virtualization.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Network Load Balancing.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for SQL Server 2008.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for System Center Configuration Manager.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for System Center Operations Manager 2007 and R2.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for User State Virtualization.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 DNS Server.zip Download
    Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 R2.zip Download
    Reliability Workbooks - All.zip Download
    Technical Service Reliability Guide for Dynamic Datacenter.zip Download

    Overview
    Administrator’s Guide for Reliability Workbooks. This administrator’s guide provides an overview to help you customize these technologies for your organization.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Certificate Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Active Directory Certificate Services running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Active Directory Domain Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Active Directory running smoothly.

    New! MOF Reliability Workbook for DirectAccess. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep DirectAccess running smoothly.

    New! MOF Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Client Access and Transport. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Exchange 2010 Client Access and Transport running smoothly.

    New! MOF Reliability Workbook for Exchange 2010 Mailbox Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mailbox Services running smoothly.

    New! MOF Reliability Workbook for Forefront Unified Access Gateway. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Forefront® Unified Access Gateway (UAG) running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Hyper-V. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Hyper-V running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Internet Information Services. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Internet Information Services running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Microsoft Application Virtualization. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Network Load Balancing. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Network Load Balancing running smoothly.

    New! MOF Reliability Workbook for SQL Server 2008. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep SQL Server® 2008 running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for System Center Configuration Manager. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep System Center Configuration Manager running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for System Center Operations Manager 2007 and R2. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep System Center Operations Manager running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep System Center Virtual Machine Manager running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for User State Virtualization. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep User State Virtualization (USV) running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 DNS Server. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Windows Server 2008 Domain Name System (DNS) Server running smoothly.

    MOF Reliability Workbook for Windows Server 2008 R2. This workbook presents hands-on tasks that you can fine tune to meet the goals of your organization. It provides knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep Windows Server 2008 R2 running smoothly.

    Technical Service Reliability Guide and Reliability Workbook for the Dynamic Datacenter. This newest addition to the MOF Technology Library provides the knowledge, specific tasks, and schedules needed to keep technical services running smoothly so you can deliver the services your organization expects. The workbook, along with the accompanying administrator’s guide, focuses on defining service health considerations for the Dynamic Datacenter. Use this guidance to achieve a reliable and effectively monitored and maintained Dynamic Datacenter.
    Source: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11789
  16. Catastrophic Failure
    Hi everyone,
    The Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010, Service Pack 1 has just been released today 22/06/2011
    Overview :
    Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 since the software was released. Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1' for more details. In particular we would like to specifically call out the following fixes which are included in this release:
    2519359 Unable to Create a 'Reply With' Rule on Public Folders Even With Owner and Send As Permissions 2394554 Generating DSN fails if original mail uses non-support encoding charset. 2490134 Outlook 2007 does not deliver "Delayed Delivery" Messages against an Exchange 2010 Server in Online mode with any additional Transport loaded in the Outlook Profile Download it from :
    Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack1
    http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26554

     

  17. Catastrophic Failure
    Are female bosses better managers, advisers, mentors and employees?
    Apparently some (men and women) believe so.
    The most recent proclamation came from Carol Smith, senior vice president and chief brand officer for the Elle Group, in an interview in the New York Times.
    She said:


    “Hands down women are better. There’s no contest.”
    She says female bosses tend to be more task-driven and on point, and men love to hear themselves talk. On the other hand, Smith says women take minor things very personally.
    Take a look to Carol Smith interview here.
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    These recordings are from the 3 day Office 365 JumpStart training that was delivered last month are now available on TechNet Edge.
    15 hours of content delivered by Office 365 Subject Matter Experts.

    • Office 365 Jump Start (01): Microsoft Office 365 Overview for IT Pros
    • Office 365 Jump Start (02): Deploying Clients for Office 365
    • Office 365 Jump Start (03): Microsoft Office 365 Administration & Automation Using Windows PowerShell™
    • Office 365 Jump Start (04): Microsoft Office 365 Identity and Access Solutions
    • Office 365 Jump Start (05): Microsoft Office 365 Directory Synchronization
    • Office 365 Jump Start (06): Exchange Online Overview for IT Pros
    • Office 365 Jump Start (07): Microsoft Exchange Online Administration
    • Office 365 Jump Start (08): Microsoft Staged Exchange Online Migration
    • Office 365 Jump Start (09): Hybrid Options with Exchange Server & Exchange Online
    • Office 365 Jump Start (10): Exchange Online Archiving & Compliance
    • Office 365 Jump Start (11): Lync Online Overview & Configuration for IT Pros
    • Office 365 Jump Start (12): SharePoint Online Overview
    • Office 365 Jump Start (13): SharePoint Online Administration
    • Office 365 Jump Start (14): SharePoint Online Extensibility & Customization
    • Office 365 Jump Start (15): Office 365 Deployment Overview
    • Link to course materials on Born to Learn

    Enjoy

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    We're happy to announce that we've enhanced Exchange Server Deployment Assistant to include support for configuring rich coexistence (also known as “hybrid deployment”) for organizations interested in maintaining some users on-premises with Exchange 2010 and some users hosted in the cloud by Microsoft Office 365 for enterprises. This scenario is in addition to the existing support for configuring rich coexistence between on-premises Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 organizations and Office 365.
    The new coexistence information for the Exchange 2010 environment is only available in English at this time and requires that your existing Exchange 2010 servers are updated to Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1).
    Rich coexistence (“hybrid deployment”) offers organizations the ability to extend the feature-rich experience and administrative control they have with their existing on-premises Microsoft Exchange organization to the cloud. It provides the seamless look and feel of a single Exchange organization between an on-premises organization and a cloud-based organization. In addition, coexistence can serve as an intermediate step to moving completely to a cloud-based Exchange organization. This approach is different than the simple Exchange migration (aka cutover migration) and staged Exchange migration options currently offered by Office 365 outlined in Email Migration Overview in Exchange Online help.
    If you're not already familiar with the Exchange Deployment Assistant, it allows you to create Exchange Server 2010 on-premises configuration and deployment instructions that are customized to your environment. It asks you a small set of simple questions and it provides a checklist with instructions that are designed to deploy or configure Exchange 2010 based on your answers. In addition to the online checklist, you can even print a PDF of your checklist.

    Figure 1: The Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) is a web-based tool that helps you upgrade to Exchange 2010 on-premises, deploy a hybrid on-premises and Exchange Online organization or migrate to Exchange Online
    Your feedback is very important for the continued improvement of this tool. We would love your feedback on this new scenario and any other area of the Deployment Assistant. Feel free to either post comments on this blog post, provide feedback in the Office 365 community migration and coexistence forum, or send an email to [email protected] via the 'Feedback' link located in the header of every page of the Deployment Assistant. Thanks!
    Source: The Exchange Team

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    Μπορούμε να ρυθμίσουμε τον Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 να δέχεται e-mail περισσότερο από έναν SMTP domain. Στο ακόλουθο Post, θα δούμε πώς μπορούμε να ρυθμίσουμε τα accepted domains και πώς θα δημιουργήσουμε νέα email address policy για το νέο e-mail domain.
    Το σενάριο:
    Η εταιρεία μας έχει διάφορα ανεξάρτητα business units και το κάθε ένα από αυτά θέλει διαφορετικό e-mail domains. Το management της εταιρείας δεν θέλει να ξοδέψει χρήματα για να το επιτύχει. Τους παρουσιάζουμε την λύση του email hosting service Προαπαιτούμενα:
    Ένα public DNS MX resource record απαιτείται για κάθε SMTP domain απ’ όπου θα δεχόμαστε τα e-mail από το Internet. Κάθε MX record θα πρέπει να γίνετε resolve στον Internet server όπου θα λαμβάνει τα e-mail για τον οργανισμό. Οι Send και Receive connectors θα πρέπει να ρυθμιστούν έτσι ώστε ο Exchange organization να μπορεί να στήλη e-mail ΠΡΟΣ και να λαμβάνει e-mail ΑΠΟ το Internet. Υπάρχουν δύο βήματα τα όποια πρέπει αν ρυθμίσουμε, έτσι ώστε ο Exchange 2010 να δέχεται e-mail περισσότερα από ένα SMTP domains. Το πρώτο βήμα είναι να ρυθμίσουμε το/τα accepted domain και το να δημιουργήσουμε ή να τροποποιήσουμε τα email policy.
    Χρήση της κονσόλας EMC για την ρύθμιση του Exchange 2010 για να δεχτεί e-mail περισσότερα από ένα domain
    Μεταβείτε στην κονσόλα τουExchange 2010 (EMC) και επιλέξτε Organization Configuration και επιλέξτε Hub Transport.

    Στο παράθυρο δεξιά θα δείτε την καρτέλα Accepted Domains. Στο μενού Action Pane, κάντε κλικ στο New Accepted Domain, ή δεξί κλικ στο κενό και επιλέξτε New Accepted Domain.

    Θα σας εμφανιστεί το παράθυρο διαλόγου New Accepted Domain. Στο παράθυρο διαλόγου New Accepted Domain, πληκτρολογήστε ένα όνομα για να ονομάσετε το νέο accepted domain. Στην επιλογή Accepted Domain, πληκτρολογήστε το SMTP domain name. Επιλέξτε Authoritative Domain. E-mail is delivered to a recipient in this Exchange organization.
    Κάντε κλικ στο New για αν δημιουργήσετε το νέο Accepted Domain.


    Μπορούμε να δούμε τώρα το Authoritative Accepted Domain contoso.info το οποίο δημιουργήσαμε να εμφανίζετε στα Accepted Domain.

    Αφού δημιουργήσαμε το Accepted Domain, θα προχωρήσουμε στην ρύθμιση των email address policy για το νέο authoritative domain. Για να το επιτύχουμε αυτό θα δημιουργήσουμε νέα email address policy ή θα τροποποιήσουμε τα υπάρχων email address policy (στην περίπτωση μας θα δημιουργήσουμε νέο email address policy).
    Για να δημιουργήσουμε ένα νέο email address πάμε στο Organization ConfigurationàHub Transport και επιλέγουμε την καρτέλα E-mail Address Policies. Στο μενού Action επιλέγουμε New E-mail Address Policy ή κάνουμε δεξί κλικ στο κενό και επιλέγουμε New E-Mail Address Policy.

    Πληκτρολογήστε το όνομα για το e-mail address policy στο παράδειγμα μας @contoso.info. Εάν οι χρήστες που θα καταχωρηθούν σε αυτό το νέο e-mail address policy είναι όλοι στο συγκεκριμένο organizational unit (OU), επιλέξτε Browse για να αποτρέψετε το e-mail address policy για το συγκεκριμένο OU. Επιλέξτε την επιλογή Include these recipient types για να επιβεβαιώσουμε το recipient type του e-mail address policy που θα εφαρμοστή, στο παράδειγμα μας επιλέγω Users with Exchange Mailbox και επιλέγω Next.

    Εάν θέλετε μπορείτε να καθορίσετε κάποιο condition για το συγκεκριμένο, στο παράδειγμα μας δεν θα καθορίσω κάποιο condition. Επιλέγουμε Next για να συνεχίσουμε.

    Επόμενο βήμα η προσθήκη του E-mail Addresses, επιλέγουμε Add για να καθορίσουμε το domain για το E-mail Address και το E-mail address local.

    Στην επιλογή SMTP E-mail Address επιλέγουμε E-mail address local part όπου προσδιορίζουμε πως θα εμφανίζετε το e-mail address alias του παραλήπτη. Επιλέγουμε Select the accepted domain for the e-mail address και κάνουμε κλικ στο Browse. Στην επιλογή Select Accepted Domain επιλέγουμε το accepted domain στο παράδειγμα μας είναι το contoso.info και κάνουμε κλικ στο OK. Επιλέγουμε ξανά OK για να κλείσουμε το παράθυρο διαλόγου του SMTP E-mail Address.


    Επιλέγουμε Next για αν συνεχίσουμε.
    Στο παράθυρο Schedule, επιλέγουμε ένα από τα option για να καθορίσουμε (την χρονική στιγμή) που θέλουμε να εφαρμοστεί το e-mail address policy και το μέγιστο χρονικό διάστημα (maximum length) που θα εφαρμοστεί το task. Στο παράδειγμα μας, επιλέγουμε Immediately και κάνουμε κλικ στο Next.

    Κάνουμε κλικ στο New για να δημιουργήσουμε το νέο E-Mail Address Policy.

    Το Νέο E-Mail Address Policy task έχει ολοκληρωθεί με επιτυχία, επιλέγουμε Finish για να κλείσουμε το wizard.

    Στην παρακάτω εικόνα μπορούμε να δούμε το Νέο email address policy που έχουμε δημιουργήσει.

    Χρήσιμοι σύνδεσμοι
    · Configure Exchange 2010 to Accept E-Mail for More Than One Authoritative Domain
    · Managing E-Mail Address Policies
    · Edit an E-Mail Address Policy
    · Understanding E-Mail Address Policies
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    Μπορεί να μην πήγαμε στο TechEd North America 2011, αλλά φέραμε το TechEd North America 2011 εδώ με μερικά Exchange Sessions. Αξίζει τον κόπο να τα παρακολουθήσετε…
    EXL309 Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365: Migration Case Study (John Logan, Danny Kim, Ann Vu) EXL310 Microsoft Exchange Online in Microsoft Office 365: Simple Migration Live! (Ram Poornalingam) EXL311 Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office 365: How to Set Up a Hybrid Deployment (Jim Lucey) EXL302 Archiving and Discovery in Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online (Krish Sundaresan) EXL305 Best Practices for Successfully Transitioning to Microsoft Exchange 2010 (Rand Morimoto) EXL306 Best Practices for Virtualization of Microsoft Exchange 2010 (Jim Lucey, Jeff Mealiffe) EXL307 Load Balancing with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Andrew Ehrensing) EXL312 Designing Microsoft Exchange 2010 Mailbox High Availability for Failure Domains (Ross Smith) EXL313 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Tips and Tricks (Scott Schnoll) EXL327 Real-World Site Resilience Design in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 (Robert Gillies) EXL401 Exchange Server 2010 High Availability Management and Operations (Scott Schnoll) EXL322 Microsoft Exchange Online: Unified Messaging in Microsoft Office 365 (Michael Wilson) EXL326 What’s New in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2: Featuring GAL Segmentation (Greg Taylor)
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    The Exchange Team is pleased to announce that in the second half of calendar year 2011 we will be releasing Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) to our customers. With SP2, the following new features and capabilities will be included:
    Outlook Web Access (OWA) Mini: A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices. Based on the existing Exchange 2010 SP1 OWA infrastructure, this feature provides a simple text based interface to navigate the user’s mailbox and access to the global address list from a plurality of mobile devices. Single Sign-on for Outlook Web Access: Providing the ability for users who have already authenticated with their directory credentials to not need to re-enter them again upon opening OWA. Hybrid Configuration Wizard: Organizations can choose to deploy a hybrid scenario where some mailboxes are on-premises and some are in Exchange Online with Microsoft Office 365. Hybrid deployments may be needed for migrations taking place over weeks, months or indefinite timeframes. This wizard helps simplify the configuration of Exchange sharing features, like: calendar and free/busy sharing, secure mailflow, mailbox moves, as well as online archive. Address Book Policies: Allows organizations to segment their address books into smaller scoped subsets of users providing a more refined user experience than the previous manual configuration approach. We also blogged about this new feature recently in GAL Segmentation, Exchange Server 2010 and Address Book Policies. Customer Requested Fixes: All fixes contained within update rollups released prior to Service Pack 2 will also be contained within SP2. Details of our regular Exchange 2010 release rhythm can be found in Exchange 2010 Servicing. In order to support these newly added features, there will be a requirement for customers to update their Active Directory schema. We’ve heard the feedback loud and clear from our customers on multiple occasions regarding delays that can be caused to deployment as a result of needing to update your schema and as such with the release of Exchange 2010 SP2 are communicating the required changes ahead of release in order to assist our customers with planning their upgrade path ahead of time.
    We hope these announcements come as welcome news to you. It is our custom to provide ongoing improvements to features, functionality and security of Exchange Server, based largely on customer feedback, and to provide continual innovation on an already great messaging product. We look forward to receiving your comments and announcing more detailed information as we continue to develop the features that will be included in SP2.
    Source: Kevin Allison
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    Καλό μήνα και Χρόνια Πολλά..
    Στο παρόν Post θα δούμε κάτι απλό και χρήσιμο για τους χρήστες του Outlook Web App (OWA), πώς θα δημιουργήσουμε E-mail rules στο Outlook Web App 2010.
    Πάμε λοιπόν να δούμε την διαδικασία δημιουργίας E-mail rules στο Outlook Web App 2010, βήμα προς βήμα:
    1. Κάνουμε login στο site του OWA 2010 https://mail.yourcompany.com/owa
    2. Δημιουργούμε φακέλους στο Inbox όπου θέλουμε να μεταφέρονται τα emails μας, από μια ομάδα ανθρώπων ή ενός.
    3. Επιλέγοντας δεξί κλικ στο Inbox μας, μας δίνετε η επιλογή “Create New Folder..”

    4. Σε περίπτωση, που ο χρήστης μας έχει ενεργοποιημένο το Online Archive (όπως στο παράδειγμα μας), μπορούμε να δημιουργήσουμε φάκελο ή φακέλους στο Online Archive.

    Σημείωση: Όπως έχω αναφέρει και σε παλιότερα post μου, με τον ερχομό του Exchange 2010 SP1 μας δόθηκε η δυνατότητα Personal Archive Mailboxes σε ξεχωριστές Databases, στην ουσία, μας δίνει την δυνατότητα επιλογής αποθήκευσης του Personal Archive σε ξεχωριστή Mailbox DB (Data Base). Εδώ περιγράφετε και η διαδικασία: Εισαγωγή στο Online Archiving του Exchange Server 2010 SP1
    5. Από την στιγμή που δημιουργήσαμε τον/τους φακέλους μας, προχώρημα στο επόμενο μας βήμα για την δημιουργία και την οργάνωση των Rules μας.

    6. Για να δημιουργήσουμε Rules, θα πρέπει να μεταβούμε στην ECP (Exchange Control Panel). Επιλέγουμε επάνω δεξιά Options και επιλέγουμε See all options.

    7. Στο επόμενο βήμα, επιλέγουμε Organize E-Mail και στην δεξιά πλευρά του παραθύρου Inbox rules και έπειτα NewàCreate a new rule for arriving messages.

    8. Θα δούμε την δημιουργία ενός απλού Rule, που όταν λαμβάνουμε μηνύματα από έναν συγκεκριμένο χρήστη , θα μεταφέρονται σε συγκεκριμένο φάκελο που τον έχουμε ονομάσει «CF Emails».
    9. Στο παράθυρο διαλόγου New Inbox Rule, θα επιλέξουμε στο When the message arrives, and: την επιλογή It was received from…. και επιλέγουμε από τα Contacts μας το email του αποστολέα μας.

    10. Επόμενο βήμα, είναι η επιλογή του φακέλου, που θέλουμε να πηγαίνουν τα μηνύματα του συγκεκριμένου αποστολέα.

    11. Επιλέγουμε Save .

    12. Πάμε να κάνουμε δοκιμή, να στείλουμε μήνυμα από τον χρήστη Joanna Vathis στον Administrator. Όπως φαίνεται και στην εικόνα μας, το μήνυμα παραλήφτηκε και μεταφέρθηκε στον φάκελο με επιτυχεία.


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    Η ομάδα του Exchange στο blog post της στις 14 Μαρτίου 2011 , αναφέρει μερικά περιστατικά σε πελάτες με RIM BlackBerry devices που συνδέονται με Exchange 2010 SP1 RU3, ένα από αυτά:
    Εάν παρατηρήσετε ότι λαμβάνετε «duplicate messages» όταν αποστέλλετε ένα email μέσο συσκευής BlackBerry και έχετε εγκατεστημένο το RU3 στον Exchange 2010, επικοινωνήστε με το Microsoft Support για υποστήριξη.
    Σήμερα, μας ενημερώνει για την διόρθωση του παρόντος θέματος μετά την εγκατάσταση του RU3 και ενημερώνει για την νέα έκδοση του RU3 version 14.01.289.007, (KB2529939).
    Διαβάστε περισσότερα στο original post από το Exchange Team
    Source: Exchange Team
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