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well, so much for "available to technet subscribers in mid november" - Exchange, Lync and Office 2013 are available on the technet downloads site now.... Exchange 2013 is kind of usless right now - as to interoperate with exchange 2010, SP3 is required ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996719(v=exchg.150).aspx ) - and SP3 isnt out yet - and according…
Continue readingConsistency.... its what we spend a great deal of time fixing for clients.... sure, they see us writing standardisation documents for AD/Exchange/Group Policy/Logon scripts etc..... but really, what we are doing is trying to delivery consistency - simply because the more things that are consistent within an environment, the more logical it is - and…
Continue readinghttp://www.bink.nu/windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone I've made the (fair) assumption that server will become available at the same time as the client. Im not convinced that many people (in the corporate space) actually care about Win 8.... part of that is because Win7 is a bloody good OS.... if Win-7-to-go existed... i think there would be even less interest…
Continue readinghttp://www.zdnet.com/microsofts-exchange-server-2013-whats-new-7000001407/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398616(v=ocs.15 ) http://ucken.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/whats-new-in-lync-2013.html First thing that caught my eye - " Replacement of the Exchange Management Console by a Web-based Exchange Administrative Center (EAC)" FFS. Many MS products seem to flip flop from web-based admin to MMC and back again. I fucking hate web-based admin. Sure as an additional administration option, web based is…
Continue readinghttp://www.windowsitpro.com/blog/tony-redmonds-exchange-unwashed-50/exchange-server/exchange-2013-dates-142818 sooner than previous information i had heard... but cool..... approx 3 year gap....
Continue readingThis pearler popped up today. We started getting a few delays messages from various clients.... at first didnt think much of it.... but after telnetting into one clients and recieving the following error: 554 Your access to this mail system has been rejected due to the sending MTA's poor reputation. If you believe that this…
Continue readinghttp://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=28809 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2645995 Thats quite a few fixes....
Continue readingWe went into a regular client this week, after another consultancy had tried to integrate Lync with exchange 2010 and get a sip trunk working. 4 full days - and not only was it not working, but it was busted existing functionality. (We put in the original Lync home server) We actually picked up this…
Continue readingYay! Long overdue.... very very long overdue - but at least they finally did something about it! http://bink.nu/news/microsoft-exchange-pst-capture-tool-released.aspx havent actually used it yet - as, well, its just come out.... and we doint use pst's internally... but this will be very handy for a few migrations coming up (assuming it works well!)
Continue readingHi all, long time no post... been busy moving house (yay) and dealing with all the hassle and things that aren'y done around building a new house (boo) Anyhoo - recently i assisted a client to move from exchange 2007 to exchange 2010.... the client had completed the install and come configuration, but wanted us…
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