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Things have been busy for me and i haven't had the time to complete this series in a timely fashion. In part #1 , we briefly talked about what’s in the PlanManager and ResourceManager databases from a very high level. In the next few parts, we will go
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This page used to provide just the HMC related updates but now it has been updated to provide the specific product service packs, rollup updates, hotfixes that have been tested by the HMC product group. With this, I will no longer provide any quarterly
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I believe one of the most mysterious parts of HMC is about the MPS engine and the Resource Management databases. Between last December and January, I blogged about how different products (Exchange, SharePoint and OCS) integrate in a HMC Solution. However,
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HMC 4.5 has been out for a while now. We are beginning to see more and more people deploying OCS into the HMC environment as the concept of using IM as one of the corporate communication tools getting better acceptance. One of the most common issues when
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HMC has been in the market for a while and as it grows, we are beginning to see many HMC providers are expanding their infrastructure and having more users and companies subscribing to their environment. I also observed that the growth is especially obvious
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Typically in a corporate environment, to find out who are the users using Outlook MAPI access and the version, you can Microsoft Exchange Server User Monitor, or ExMon ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9A49C22E-E0C7-4B7C-ACEF-729D48AF7BC9&displaylang=en
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otherWellKnownObject attributes have been widely used in HMC as a cross reference as well as very much as a kind of a poor man’s AD schema extension strategy. J This blog aims to discuss it and also provide some ways to work with this attribute using
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We all know how the PlanManager database and the ResourceManager database are used to keep track of plans and the relationship between MPS and the Active Directory. We know that each object in the Active Directory has unique objectGUID and hence the objectGUID
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Most of you know HMC does not rely on the usual Exchange OAB generation schedule to trigger OABgen. Instead, HMC introduces a custom tool called HMOabUpdate that gets activated based a scheduled time to automate the generation of Offline Address Books.
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When you are using Office Communicator, one of the nicest features (in my opinion) is the capability to add a group and expand it in the contact list. This feature really makes organization and group of contacts more consistent throughout the company.
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On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the major roll-ups and updates will be tested) on different versions of HMC environment. Windows update compatibility tests (Exchange 2007 SP1 RU8 was included
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For those who are doing the migration from HMC 3.5 to HMC 4.0 using the HMC 4.0 Migration Kit, you may want to take note of this. One of the tasks executed by the Hosted Email 2007 Import::ImportMailbox procedure is creating the mailbox GUID asset for
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We all know that in HMC environment has recommended that we should have dedicated Exchange Public Folder servers hosting purely just the Offline Address Books (OAB). You need the OAB Public Folder server in HMC 3.5 and HMC 4.0 if you want to allow your
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Recently, I have seen a couple of our customers encountered the following where the MPFListner.exe (Provisioning Auditing and Recovery Service) crashed immediately after you try to start it. You can try to reboot the machine, or restart the Provisioning
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Alright, this is a quick one. For those who are planning to migrate from HMC 3.5 to HMC 4.0, and if you are using the HMC 4.0 Migration Kit ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=636571AA-6582-49D6-B59E-81E9C27FE240&displaylang=en
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