These also apply to post Service Pack 2. http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/11/20/recommended-windows-hotfix-for-database-availability-groups-running-windows-server- 2008-r2.aspx
Good one liner for Exchange 2007 and 2010 to find DSN Failures. Get-MessageTrackingLog -resultsize unlimited -start "12/13/2011 3:00PM" -End "12/13/2011 6:00PM" -Server srv-hub02 | ? {$_.EventId -eq "DSN" -and $_.SourceContext -eq "Failure"} | select timestamp,recipients,messagesubject
I started using Openfiler, very nice open source tool for creating shared storage within ESX and Hyper-V, perfect for home lab use.
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-install-an-open-source-iSCSI-SAN-server-inside-Microsoft-Hyper-V
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/fox-reporter-gives-update-covered-in-sea-foam-20110827#.TlpYR34fqrE.facebook
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/182074/20110718/android-apple-htc-itc-mobile-os-patent-infringement-oracle-motorola-oem-samsung-iphone-steve-jobs-li.htm
This spreadsheet will show all. http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/1/2/512CC712-4070-4CFF-BC4A-B3AFF0E21A1E/Microsoft%20Office%202010%20Service%20Pack%201%20Changes.xlsx
Use the SQL query below to get Who, What, Where, and When out of Microsoft Lync Group Chat. SELECT dbo.tblChat.userId, dbo.tblPrincipal.prinName, dbo.tblChat.[content], dbo.tblNode.nodeName, dbo.fnTicksToDate(dbo.tblChat.chatDate) AS date FROM dbo.tblChat INNER JOIN dbo.tblPrincipal ON dbo.tblChat.userId = dbo.tblPrincipal.prinID INNER JOIN dbo.tblNode ON dbo.tblChat.channelId = dbo.tblNode.nodeID
This looks interesting. http://dusk1911.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/lync-2010-im-archive-report/
So today I was publishing the Lync topology into SQL and tried using a DNS alias to our SQL server(s). No go, however it built my Central Management Store and put the DNS alias into Active Directory. No matter what I did I could not republish a new topology with a different SQL CMS location … Continue reading
Wow……..great book so far. I would recommend this book to anyone supporting or getting ready to rollout Microsoft Lync Server. http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Lync-Server-2010-Unleashed/dp/0672330342
Found this good read. http://blogs.technet.com/b/dodeitte/archive/2010/10/20/what-happens-during-schemaprep-in-lync-server-2010.aspx
Major updates include App-V 4.6 SP1 http://blogs.technet.com/b/appv/archive/2011/03/10/mdop-2011-including-app-v-4-6-sp1-is-now-available.aspx
Just saw this pass through the forums, this is good news. Issue: Server name properties in Outlook 2003 profiles were being changed to an Instance-{GUID} value. This resulted in multiple issues within the Outlook 2003 client. In some extreme cases, clients would lose connectivity to Exchange entirely. In other cases, the clients would experience issues … Continue reading
Google cloud printing. http://goo.gl/2kKz8
A simple way is to use Performance Monitor. Hook to MSExchange OWA and the add current user. It doesn’t tell you who, but it will at least give you a count. In my example I have the Exchange tools loaded on my desktop so within Performance Monitor on that remote machine I was able to … Continue reading
A grueling couple of days of running the MS Exchange 2010 Jetstress tool and watching it fail for the read latency tests. This was for 4 mailbox servers and 12 databases with one passive copy in the DAG. The active copy disk lives on an EMC CX4 SAN and the passive lives on an EMC … Continue reading
First, install an OCS 2007 R2 monitoring server, on a seperate server from the OCS pool. Once that is setup using the MS directions in the link at the beginning of this post. Create a new SQL View on the LcsCDR database with the following code below. USE [LcsCDR] SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER … Continue reading
Bing has released a web interface to all the Powershell cmdlets, very cool, searchable and examples on how to use each cmdlet. http://www.bing.com/visualsearch?g=powershell_cmdlets&FORM=SGEWEB&qpvt=powershell#r=53
Go here for an excellent write up with screenshots on deploying OCS 2007 R2 into a hyper-v lab environment. http://tinyurl.com/7yf9fy I got OCS up and running into a production enviornment and love it, next up is connecting to the P BX.
