Archive for September, 2009

I have just come across a full set of Office Communications Server R2 documentation, all wrapped up inside a single .chm file. It looks like it was only published a couple of weeks back. Topics include: New server and new client features Planning and architecture Deploying Certificates (applies to both Office Communications Server 2007 and […]

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 09:58 | 3 comments
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Bit of a bummer, but worth noting for those early adopters out there (including myself who got stumpted on this!) Taken from The Exchange Team Blog: We have learned of and analyzed the problem where the Exchange 2007 SP2 installation can fail during the prerequisite check stage. The installation can fail for both the upgrade […]

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 18:59 | 0 comments
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The OCS Team have just published sought after documentation on OCS certificate requirements. Here is the Summary of the document: In this document, you will learn about the properties and attributes of certificates when working with Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2. This document contains a walkthrough of most of the common, and […]

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at 18:54 | 0 comments
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Taken from The Microsoft Exchange Blog: We have released the Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta to our downloads site. Please note that this version should be used against the Exchange 2010 RC only at this time. Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta (64 bit) Exchange Load Generator 2010 Beta (32 bit) There have been several changes […]

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 19:13 | 1 comment
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Chris Sanders at Windows Securty.com has just published a deep dive into AppLocker here Introduction taken from Chris’s guide: AppLocker is a new feature available in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that helps to prevent the use of unknown or unwanted applications within a network. Its functionality boasts both security and compliance benefits for […]

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 19:08 | 0 comments
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There are a lot of disgruntled Apple customers all scratching their heads thinking “Why did I buy/upgrade to Snow Leopard?” Cons: Whilst it is a “cheap” upgrade (£25) – what does it deliver, Microsoft typically deploys these types of updates for free and calls it a Service Pack. Snow Leopard does bring 64bit support, but only […]

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 18:44 | 0 comments
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