• Windows Phone 7 Email and Office Experience - See it HERE!!

    Take a look at the two new videos on Windows Phone 7 -  I'm very exciting about what’s coming – looks really user friendly - and about time!!!

    Enjoy.

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    http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2010/04/28/office-and-email-on-windows-phone-7.aspx

  • DPM 2010 has reached RTM! Product Code and Install Guide Here!!

    Great news… the product is now RTM, refer the DPM Blog for details

    The RTM Evaluation Software for DPM 2010 is available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/bb727240.aspx

    A single DPM server can protect –

    • 100 production servers
    • 1,000 Windows clients
    • 2,000 SQL databases
    • 25TB SharePoint farms containing 1M items
    • 40TB Exchange databases

    my experience of the step by step installation -

    Software Prerequisites

    The DPM 2010 installation will guide you through the installation of the following prerequisites:

    • PowerShell 2.0 Community Technology Preview 3 (CTP3)
    • .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
    • Windows Installer (MSI) 4.5
    • Windows Single Instance Store (SIS)

    The following table lists additional DPM prerequisites for the supported operating systems.

    Supported OS

    Required Prerequisites Software

    Windows Server 2008

    Windows PowerShell 2.0 CTP3 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=150631)

    Windows Server 2008 R2

    No required prerequisites are required. All prerequisites are preinstalled on the operating system.

    Note: You must restart the computer to complete the installation of the prerequisite software. After restarting the computer, restart DPM Setup.

    Other Considerations

    · The computer on which you install DPM must be a member of a domain.

    · You must have administrative privileges to install DPM.

    · You cannot install DPM on the following:

    • Management Server for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
    • Application server
    • A computer with cluster services enabled

    Step by step screenshot

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    Once the reboot was done (post SIS install) -

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    I am using the local SQL 2008 SP1 for the DB

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    Once the components are installed, it will be better to reboot the server and then start with the Configuration of the DPM server (using the Management tab to install agents, add disks and libraries)

    I hope I was able to share how the product will be installed.

    ACTION for YOU : DOWNLOAD and Install the EVAL mentioned above at the link

    Happy INSTALLING DPM2010

  • Office 2010 has now reached RTM!

    Office 2010 has finally reached RTM, which means that Outlook 2010 will now soon be available - this is great news as Exchange 2010 has a number of really great features that are pretty much dependent on Outlook 2010 (mailtips, online archive, etc.)  Out in the field I have been very much in the "chicken and egg" situation where customers love the new features but without the client support the buisness case is understandably weak.  Now to see which will hit the streets first - Exch2010SP1 or Office 2010...

    "The upcoming release of the Microsoft Office 2010 suites presents a major new opportunity for partners to provide the best business productivity experience for their customers. Office 2010 and related products will deliver innovative capabilities and provide new levels of flexibility and choice that will help customers work anywhere with Office web applications; collaborate better with Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010; and bring ideas to life with video and picture editing and broadcast capabilities with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, amongst a host of other features. Microsoft Office 2010 RTM was announced on Friday, 16th April, for more details of this announcement please click here."

    Regards

    John 

     

  • New Exchange 2010 installation guide templates

    I get asked if we have any step by step Exchange 2010 deployment templates/documents available anywhere on the web. The nice part about these guides are they are in Word format so you can build your own production build out documentation for your Exchange 2010 deployment.  The guide pack contains build info for all roles and DAG config.

    Download the newly released step by step install docs for Exchange 2010 here.

    Here is a sample of the type of Step by Step from the CAS NLB Installation Word template:

    "The values used in NLB must be the same across all nodes in the NLB cluster.  The values specified here will ensure that the Windows Network Load Balancing array can load-balance HTTPS (TCP443), IMAP4 (TCP143 and TCP993), POP3 (TCP110 and TCP995), RPC Endpoint Mapper (TCP135), Address Book service (TCP7576), and RPC Client Access (TCP7575).

    Note:

    The instructions use TCP7575 and TCP7576 for the Address Book and RPC Client Access services, but you can use any TCP high ports that are available within the environment.

    1.   Connect to the server via Remote Desktop, and then log on with an account that has been delegated local administrative access.

    2.   Install Network Load Balancing for your operating system:

    a.   Windows Server 2008 SP2   Open an administrative command prompt window and run the following command:

    ServerManagerCmd.exe -i NLB

    b.   Windows Server 2008 R2   Open an elevated Windows PowerShell console, and run the following commands:

    Import-Module ServerManager Add-WindowsFeature NLB

    3.   Click Start>Administrative Tools, and then right-click Network Load Balancing Manager.

    4.   Click Cluster-New.

    5.   In the New Cluster wizard, enter the local server’s computer name, click Connect and then select the appropriate network connection.

    6.   Click Next.

    7.   In the Host Parameters section, verify the host’s IP address and subnet mask.

    8.   Click Next.

    9.   In the Cluster IP Address section, click Add and enter:

    a.   IP Address

    b.   Subnet Mask

    10.  Click Next.

    11.  In the Cluster Parameters section, enter in the Full Internet Name (for example, mail.contoso.com) that will be used by the cluster and make sure Unicast is selected."

     

    Hope this helps - Feedback with you guide experinces, thanks 

     

  • Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2007 SP2 and Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 have been released - Links HERE!

    MIcrosoft has released the following update for Exchange Server:

    Security Update for Exchange 2000 Server (KB976703)

    Security Update for Exchange 2003 SP2 (KB976702)

    Update Rollup 10 for Exchange 2007 SP1 (KB981407)

    Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP2 (KB981383)

    Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 (KB981401)

     

    Download information for Security Update for Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 3

    The update is live at:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e47c90a0-c9c8-43b7-bec7-34107ddde294&displaylang=en

    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=976703

     

    Download information for Security Update for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2

    The update is live at:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bc8391f8-5335-496b-ad4c-bae38509be4a&displaylang=en

    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=976702

     

    Download information for Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

    The update is live at:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6a894b4e-12b6-4a91-9555-d813956b6aac&displaylang=en

    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=981407

     

    Download information for Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2

    The update is live at:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b8f7f872-16d5-49d6-9867-adc01351c06f&displaylang=en

    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=981383

     

    Download information for Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010

    The update is live at:

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7dcf2390-dff7-4e3a-acca-03f4d43fb79a&displaylang=en

    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=981401

     

    The above updates have also been released to Microsoft update today. - So they might take 24hrs to replicate around the download sites!!!

     

    List of issues fixed in the Update rollups

    Update Rollups for Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Exchange Server 2007 SP2 and Exchange Server 2010 RTM:

    Refer to the Exchange rollup page at http://exse/exchangerolluppage/exchangerollup.aspx. Select desired RU under the drop down “Select Rollup”.

     

    Fixes for security issue

    A security issue has been identified in Exchange Server 2007 as documented in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS10-024.mspx

    Customers running Exchange Server 2007 SP1 need to apply Update Rollup 10 for Exchange 2007 SP1 to address the security issue.

    Customers running Exchange Server 2007 SP2 need to apply Update Rollup 4 for Exchange 2007 SP2 to address the security issue.

    Customers running Exchange Server 2010 RTM need to apply Update Rollup 3 for Exchange 2010 RTM to address the security issue.

    Customers must only download and install the latest update rollup for the specific version of Exchange 2007 they are running.