So now that the JesusPhone iPhone has been deemed Enterprise worthy around the world with its Exchange support businesses are jumping at the opportunity to move employees on to the platform. Or should I flip that around to say employees are breathing down the neck of IT departments so they can finally get an iPhone? [...]
Well that was weird. I had a flaky SATA driver cause a blue screen of death on me a few minutes ago and after the restart Communicator wouldn’t launch. Instead, it was prompting me for the path to a Communicator.msi. Glad I had it on hand because apparently that crash damaged the app somehow. All [...]
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 [...]
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.
Sounds like some relief is coming sometime this summer. So everyone won’t be forced to an additional backup tool after all.
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.
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 [...]
A few weeks ago Michael Wagner posted an entry on the Communicator Team Blog about the 3 different stages enhanced presence can actually be in. Prior to that I had assumed that it was either an on or off deal, but there’s a nice little limbo state in the middle to confuse you further. I [...]
On the Microsoft Download Center a new tool popped up today, the Planning Tool for Office Communications Server 2007. It crashes on my x64 Vista installation after a few screens so I’m starting up an XP VM to try it on. You can download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=06793661-cd69-4490-bb4b-e97dd271209d&displayLang=en#
Other parts in this series: OCS Installation - Part 1 OCS Installation - Part 2 This should be a short post, we’ll just be finishing up the installation so you can start some OCS 2007 testing internally. I purposely chose a different internal and [...]
Tom Pacyk is an IT consultant based in Portland, OR working for a Microsoft partner. This is a collection of thoughts, problems, and possibly even some solutions to his dealings with technology in the real world.