A minimum of 2 OCS articles every week from the MVP and OCS Masters community:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/ee465814.aspx
You can download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=371add31-d7a0-4c8b-8325-a6fced2d05e6&displaylang=en
This rollup includes changes required to support BlackBerry® Enterprise Server against Exchange Server 2010. More information here: Exchange Team Blog.
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Today’s session was just next to the London Eye and Thank you DiData for an expertly organised morning. On behalf of Microsoft, Thank you.
As mentioned in the Exchange 2010 session – all the decks, including Gareth’s Windows Server 2008 R2 session can be grabbed from here
If you have any questions or want to follow up with anything, then just mail me Brettjo@Microsoft.com
Obviously my SharePoint workspace isn’t happy …. You can grab the deck I used, plus other useful content off my SkyDrive
I’m currently on my way back from our first Exchange 2010 Launch hosted at the Manchester City Football Stadium, hosted by PostCTI.
All in all a good day and the tour round the Stadium was great – including the heated seats in the Directors box..!
As promised – you can grab the slide deck I delivered from here at my Office Live Workspace.
Other Links I quickly discussed in the session where:
Exchange 2010 Cost Savings Calculator
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/Exchange-Calculator.aspx
Forrester Total Economic Impact
“Total Economic Impact” study which concludes organizations can expect a payback period of less than six months with Exchange 2010.”
http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/5/0/75068B44-0A70-4BBF-9824-01ECF076F7AE/TheTotalEconomicImpact_pdf_11042009.pdf
Exchange Connections
http://www.thenewefficiency.com/exchangeconnections
The New Efficiency – Exchange 2010 (UC Track)
http://vepexp.microsoft.com/thenewefficiency/?s=5573
Stephen Elop Exchange Announcement
http://www.msteched.com/online/channels.aspx?cname=track&channel=
(Exchange 2010 35mins in)
Forefront for Exchange 2010
http://edge.technet.com/Media/FPE-vs-FOPE-and-Exchange-2010--Secure-messaging-with-Forefront/
Microsoft.com Exchange 2010 Website
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/en/us/default.aspx
Get technical training, on demand. The following technical readiness webcasts are designed to provide partners with in-depth knowledge of new features and improvements in Exchange Server 2010.
For additional Exchange Server 2010 resources visit the Microsoft Partner Network website.
Description of the update package for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway: November 2009
Update for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 XMPP Gateway (XMPP_2007R2_CU1) has been released to the Microsoft download center.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=977187
Next week I’m running a series of launch activities with a number of UK Exchange partners and as part of the demo’s, I’ll be doing the integrated OCS R2 Presence in OWA
I thought it might be useful to show you how to configure it (albeit in a simple environment) – with screen shots
The Pre-req’s are:
Exchange 2010 organization. A working Office Communications Server 2007 R2 environment. A certificate that is trusted by the Office Communications Server and the Client Access server. Fully qualified domain name of the Office Communications Server. Users are enabled to use Office Communications Server via the Office Communications Server user administration tools. - Grab CWAOWASSPMain.msi from here and run it on your Ex2010 CAS
- Double click on CWAOWASSPMain.msi and then navigate to
C:\Web Services Provider Installer Package\
In this order double-click and install the following:
- vcredist_x64.exe
- UcmaRedist.msi
- CWAOWASSP.msi
- Open Powershell and run the following command: Get-ExchangeCertificate | FL
I get two – the one you want is the Certificate that has been issues by your CA – not the self-signed one.
Take note of the Issuer and Serial Number as you will need these later
- Open the Web.Config file from
\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\Owa
Search for IMPoolName and you will see the following:
- Edit the file so:
- IMPoolName = FQDN of of the OCS R2 Pool
- IMCertificate Issuer = Your certificate authority
- IMCertificateSerialNumber = Serial number from Powershell with spaces between the octets
All as show above
- Then in Powershell on the Exchange 2010 CAS run:
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -InstantMessagingType OCS
- Open up the OCS Admin console from your OCS R2 Server, navigate to the FrontEnd Properties of your pool and the add the Exchange CAS server(s) into the Add Authorized Host section the FQDN of the Exchange 2010 CAS Server
I get asked this all the time and although this question is answered on a case by case basis there are some common themes throughout every business case. If you need a starting point then please make sure you immerse yourself in these resources:
Forrester Total Economic Impact of Exchange 2010
Exchange Cost Savings Calculator
Exchange 2010 Case Studies
More Case Studies
The Deployment Assistant has now been released and you can get hold of it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Home
As Ex2010 was announced on Monday – Ross has released the long awaited storage calc
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453117.aspx
I’m currently in Berlin for TechED this year and yesterday Stephen Elop announced general availability of Exchange Server 2010.
You can see the Key Note and watch the Exchange 2010 Demo expertly navigated through by Julia White: http://vepexp.microsoft.com/thenewefficiency/?s=16828 about 35mins in.
Other resources and links on the launch
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/nov09/11-09techedeurope09pr.mspx
