If your interested in understanding how to go about configuring single sign on using ADFSv2 have a look at this video Steve Plank did. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/archive/2011/01/24/video-screencast-complete-setup-details-for-federated-identity...

Now the dust has settled after the global UC launch the event presentations and demo's can be located Here As well as all the case studies there are following decks: Administering within a UC environment (PPT 2003, 4.3 MB) | (PPTX 2007, 1 MB) Deploying...

The one everybody has been waiting for..! Custom Presence (Credit to Keith for writing the little app.) · Go get a coffee. · Don’t swear when it doesn’t work first time – try again Setting the Pre-Req’s on Vista and MOC...

Every now and then something actually useful lands in my Inbox and my thanks goes to MarkS in the UK GTSC for sending this on. I think it explains itself :) Hot-Fixes Grab the security hot-fixes for the operating system from http://www.microsoft.com/technet...

I have been busy this past month hence hardly any posts... hardly an excuse, but the truth..! Yesterday I visited a great bunch of Exchange minded people who are currently testing Ex2007 and starting to look at how to plan what hardware is required, what...

I was asked recently to comment on the differences between configuring CCR on a Windows Server 2003 (WS03) cluster and a Windows Server 2008 (WS08) cluster - at the time I referred to the TechNet Site where you can read through the differences, but whilst...

Print this out on A3 and this poster clearly explains how OCS works. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=af2c17cb-207c-4c52-8811-0aca6dfadc94

This is really neat. The Exchange Deployment Assistant has been updated to include the migration and configuration requirements to allow rich co-existence between your on-premises Exchange infrastructure and Office 365 – Exchange Online. Deployment Assistant...

In a recent post I commented on the URL that discusses OCS Compatible Headsets, well for those with the Microsoft LifeCam you will have noticed that whenever you click the top button it fires up Windows Live Messenger, which can be annoying. The following...

You are probably aware from playing about with BETA2 that X400 is not an integral part of Ex2007, however I wanted to draw your attention to the following 3rd party announcement . In the majority of cases it probably won't raise too many eyebrows but...

Are you creating new diagrams or architecture drawings for your OCS rollouts? If so, take advantage of the new OCS 2007 Visio stencils. The icons in the stencil include all OCS 2007 components. They also include various individual functions that you can...

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Resource Kit Tools provides a set of deployment and technical reference information for Microsoft Office Office Communications Server 2007 R2. Grab them from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

I just wanted to draw your attention to the announcements made around the Exchange Ranger community. You can find more information at the following links: Press pass announcement: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2006/jun06/06-13Certification...

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...

The title makes absolutely zero sense without a little bit of explanation :) About 18months ago, Ewan , Eileen , John, Jason and I toured the country visiting partners and customers talking about Exchange 2003 SP2, Windows Mobile and generally encouraging...

This morning I presented at ITForum and promised to post the Lights Out Scripts I used to install Ex2007 into an existing Ex2003 environment. If you want the CSV's to go with it - then mail me. BrettjoATmicrosoftDOTcom This is what it does: 1) Install...

Just to make you all aware the RU4 has been released, you can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E56FC52A-216E-4225-BF2F-F082C20B7B21&displaylang=en . Here's what's included: · 930463 You receive NDR messages...

So today I have been actively learning a little bit more about Powershell and generally playing with some of the features which are not that readily obvious. I was chatting with a colleague yesterday, Paul Flaherty , and we have both been overwhelmed...

Today I have been installing Ex2007 servers into my existing Ex2003 test environment all in Virtual Server, all is pretty cool even got CCR working out the box. One element I still trying to get my head round is MONAD (Powershell), my problem is that...

Busy day today :) The latest versions of the Live Meeting Client and Outlook Conference Add-In have been released – this also includes the 64bit version Add-In’s for the 64 bit version of Outlook 2010 – woohoo..! Remember 1. Both the LM Client and Conf...

So they say it comes in the threes and my blog posts certainly adhere to that rule today.... So the monster is here More detail is..... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=612F811D-2953-4C08-945E-833C17150083&displaylang=en

You see it in Exchange 2010 OWA ….. but not in Outlook 2010 You can change this default setting (in Outlook 2010) by going to Search Options (File -> Options -> Search tab) And checking the box for “ Include messages from the Deleted items folder...

Here are the registration links to Series 4 of the OCS 2007 Learning Series (Series 3 is full) Module 1: OCS Architecture details the system architecture that is used by OCS 2007, OCS fundamentals, server roles, component dependencies, planning and deployment...

A new version of MFCMAPI is now available from here it is an incredibly useful tool that provides access to the contents of MAPI stores through a graphical user interface. There are several scenarios in which you may have to use the Mfcmapi.exe utility...

Over the past few months I have had many discussion about data security, Patriot Act and EU Safe Harbor with Office 365. I have just read this article which explains, quite simply, what can be done and what can’t without having to be a lawyer: http:/...