The Industry Insiders : Messaging & Collaboration

Setting up ActiveSync Between Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Mobile 6

Eileen_Brown — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Adrian Beasley sent me this article the other day explaining how he managed to connect his Windows mobile 6 phone to connect to Exchange Server 2007.

It's certainly worth a read if you're struggling to get connectied and are running out of ideas...

Read it here...

Some extra resources that may also be of interest:

Configuring SSL and Exchange Active Sync

Active sync error messages when trying to sync a mobile device

Understanding Active Sync mailbox policies

Publish an Exchange server for OWA

Active Sync solution centre

Client side features in Outlook 2007

Introduction to SCORM and SharePoint Learning Kit

Viral Tarpara — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:05:00 GMT

SharePoint has been a phenominal success as a product for Microsoft. It has successfully penetrated almost every industry as collaboration & portal platform. SharePoint's role in the enrichment of secondary education has been particularly strong. Read this article titled, "Introduction to SCORM and SharePoint Learning Kit" from Alex Pearce, Network Manager of Hillcrest School in Birmingham. Thank you Alex!

The Scoop on OCS and Live Meeting Features

Viral Tarpara — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:08:00 GMT

Thanks to Chris Dalby of Yellow Park for this contributing piece breaking down the great new enhancements made to OCS and Live Meeting! The article can be found here.

Sharepoint Interview Questions to ask

Eileen_Brown — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:10:00 GMT

Stephen works with a lot of customers who ask him about SharePoint, and the sort of questions that they should ask candidates at interviews in order to demonstrate what they know about the product and their strengths in particular areas. He's put together a document which outlines the type of questions that you could ask your interviewees to see where their skills lie.

His article can be found here...

Office Communicator 2007

Eileen_Brown — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:19:00 GMT

Dennis has written an excellent article on Office Communications Server 2007 which he's given me permission to reproduce here. He brings in vision, VOIP, news articles and our own press release on Unified Communications. If you're unfamiliar with how all of these products fit together as a solution, then it's worth having a look at his article which can be found here.

smtp 550: Sender verify failed with incorrect reverse DNS record

Eileen_Brown — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:20:00 GMT

Here's an interesting post from Mark Wilson which he's allowed me to reproduce here. Often Exchange and messaging problems are not the fault of the application, but often an underlying issue further down the stack. DNS is often the culprit too, so Mark's article is useful when troubleshooting smtp 550 errors.

You can read his article here..

Creating Subject Alternative Name Certificates with Certificate Server

Eileen_Brown — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:57:00 GMT

Brian Reid has written an interesting piece about using Powershell to create certificate requests for other web sites that can be uploaded to Certificate Server. This allows you to have a certificate for more than one domain name. Brian uses Exchange 2007 extensions to Powershell to achieve this. It's yet another example of how powerful Powershell is to achieve the things you want to do...

His article is here...

How Easy is it to install Exchange 2007 UM?

Eileen_Brown — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:17:00 GMT

I've been in contact with Paul Stringfellow for quite some time. He comments on my blog regularly, sends me mails enthusing about technology, or a blog post, or just contacts me with some suggestions for postings. I was really pleased when he mailed me telling me how easy he'd managed to get Exchange 2007 and Unified Messaging up and running in a very short space of time. So here's his article detailing how this was done, with the mimimum of fuss.

It may give you some assistance when you're planning your own deployments to have a perspective from a different company who has deployed UM...