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April updates available for OCS 2007 R2 Clients & Server.

First the client updates:

• KB978564 – Cumulative update package for Communicator 2007 R2 – here
• KB980926 – Updated version of the Windows-based Live Meeting 2007 client – here
• KB980924 – Updated version of the Live Meeting Conferencing Add-in for Outlook – here
• KB981526 – Cumulative update for Office Communicator 2007 R2, Phone Edition – here

Server updates:

• KB968802 – Updates for Communications Server 2007 R2 – here
• KB980936 – Cumulative update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Attendant – here

Go forth and update!

The Communicator 2010 attendee client allows meeting participants (that don’t already have a Communicator 2010 client installed) to join CS “14”  hosted web conferences.

Upon examination is appears to not support “Live Meetings”, therefore for those that connect to OCS 2007/OCS 2007 R2 initiated meetings will still need an installation of Live Meeting 2007 client.

Download available here

During the recent patch Tuesday a collection of patches were released to address an SMTP denial of service vulnerability within both Windows and Exchange SMTP.

Vulnerabilities addressed include: 

CVE-2010-0024 – The SMTP component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, and Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Exchange Server 2003 SP2, does not properly parse MX records, which allows remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (service outage) via a crafted response to a DNS MX record query, aka “SMTP Server MX Record Vulnerability.”

CVE-2010-0025 – The SMTP component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, and Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Exchange Server 2000 SP3, does not properly allocate memory for SMTP command replies, which allows remote attackers to read fragments of e-mail messages by sending a series of invalid commands and then sending a STARTTLS command, aka “SMTP Memory Allocation Vulnerability.”

Patch locations below:

For those that read my Communications Server Live Meeting coverage (earlier this week), I spotted another ex-MVP that had maneged to get his hands on the slides, which he shared via slideshare. When I asked, I was (ever so politely) told they were being kept back for confidential purposes. However, it looks as though other user groups used similar decks and were more leniant on sharing!

Enjoy, and apologies if I missed anything during my post…

Source: here

Last night Apple laid to rest all rumours associated with it’s forthcoming major mobile software upgrade, namely iPhone OS 4.0.

I could probably write about how unhappy I am that 3G devices get “iAds” support (Apple’s new iPhone advertising platform), but unlike the 3G”S” will not feature the all new multitasking capability – oh, I guess I just did?

Anyways, here are some high level features that may be of more interest:

• Background location: For some bizarre reason location aware applications (i.e. Fouresquare) currently require GPS for location based information, unlike the BlackBerry equivalent which is happy to use the less power hungry cell tower triangulation. This is addressed within 4.0.
• Multitasking: With Multitasking support (3GS only) comes the capability of VoIP applications running in the background, this therefore allows you to be called whilst other apps are in use.
• Improved mail 1: Support for multiple Exchange accounts (quite useful when your Exchange administrator actually supports the iPhone, they must exist right?)
• Improved mail 2: Support for Exchange 2010 (I have to admit this one confuses me as this already works?)

For more information on the iPhone’s 4.0 enterprise “friendly” functionality, read more on the Apple website.