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SBS 2003 R2 Installation Fails

I know, not the ideal Saturday night, right? When trying to install the SBS 2003 R2 Technologies disc you might see a very descriptive error like this: Windows Small Business Server Update Services has encountered an error. The error references a log file at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Integration\Windows Small Business Server 2003\Logs\R2Setup.log. There’s nothing terribly [...]

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Missing PR_PF_PROXY attribute on public folders

If you’re in the Exchange 2003 System Manager and try to open up the properties of a public folder you might see an error like this: The mail proxy for this folder cannot be found. This may be due to replication delays. The mail enabled pages will not be shown. ID no: c1038a21 [...]

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Live Meeting 2007 GPO Templates

There are finally some .adm files coming for Live Meeting 2007. The best part of this is you can disable the ridiculous “Test Connection” dialog before using Live Meeting.

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Exchange Backup Plugin for Server 2008

Sounds like some relief is coming sometime this summer. So everyone won’t be forced to an additional backup tool after all.

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Published at ISAServer.org

There’s a really nice article that just got published over at ISAServer.org about OCS 2007 and ISA 2006 setup. Those guys who wrote it sure seem smart.

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OS X 10.5.3 Syncs Google Contacts

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/05/mac-os-x-1053-sync-google-contacts.html Very nice addition. Now I can actually keep my iPhone and Google contacts in sync.

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Windows 7 is multi-touch. Does anyone care?

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/05/27/microsoft-demonstrates-multi-touch.aspx Oh good, Microsoft is really blowing us away here. First they showed off Surface last year, multi-touch on something table-sized. Now they’ve incorporated it into a laptop-size across all of Windows. Keep in mind this is something without a release date, and yet Apple’s been doing this pretty seamlessly on the iPhone, roughly 10% [...]

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ISA 2006 Service Pack 1

http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2008/05/23/isa-server-2006-service-pack-1-features.aspx

Looks pretty nice, the feature I liked most is that SAN certificates are now supported.

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Office 2007 SP2 Includes PDF Support

Link: And that’s without having to install the stupid SaveAsPDF add-on. Yay.

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Office 2008 SP1 fixes some Exchange 2007 Problems

Recently a few of the folks I work with that use Macs noticed Entourage 2008 was having trouble using Exchange 2007 Web Services properly (as it advertised it would). I tried it out from home and verified the same thing, that the Out of Office Assistant and Free/Busy lookups didn’t go so well. I’ve been [...]

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