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Campus Days update – my session is now available online

January 2nd, 2012 No comments

Back in October I did a session at Microsoft Campus Days in Copenhagen about Exchange 2010 and Forefront Protection for Exchange and Forefront Online Protection.

That session was recorded and is now available online as webcast. The session is in danish and available on TechNet DK: http://technet.microsoft.com/da-dk/edge/Hh690919

Let me know what you think.

Happy New Year 2012

January 1st, 2012 No comments

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Happy New Year to everyone!

My blog www.msdigest.net has now been online for 7 years by now. Always blogging about Microsoft Unified Communications technologies.

Looking back 2011 was an exciting year, filled with Office 365, Lync 2010 and a new SP2 for Exchange 2010. :)

See you all out there in 2012!

Microsoft Campus Days 2011 Interview

December 28th, 2011 No comments

At Microsoft Campus Days 2011 back in october I was attending with a session and I was also interviewed by Bjarne Dollerup. Watch the interview here (it is in danish).

Så er det d. 20. december, og dagens TechNet julespørgsmål er…

December 20th, 2011 No comments

To my english readers, this post is for the a Danish TechNet Quiz run by Microsoft Denmark and it is published only in Danish.

Denne julekalender låge er udvidet til at indeholde en række forskellige spørgsmål, alle Microsoft Unified Communications relateret.

Dagens spørgsmål:

  1. Med Exchange 2007 så vi en ny Administrative Group og denne gruppe var navngivet som en form for GUID, så der ikke ville være konflikt med eksisterende Exchange implementeringer, denne gruppen hed og hedder stadig i Exchange 2010 (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) – Men der er mere bag denne såkaldte GUID, hvad står dette reelt for ?
  2. Hvilken attribute er brugt til at sortere Exchange CAS servers in-site ?
  3. Hvilken attribute er sat kun for linked mailboxes ?

Hint: Svarene findes på TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124558.aspx :)

Proceduren er næsten den samme som sidst, første mail med flest rigtige svar i min mailbox vil være den lykkelige vinder af en super gadget gave fra Bjarne Dollerups (gave)sæk.

Send dit svar til: technet@msdigest.net

Exchange 2010 – 420 4.2.0 RESOLVER.ADR.Ambiguous; ambiguous address

December 16th, 2011 No comments

This is notes from a recent troubleshooting case. The client received the error: 420 4.2.0 RESOLVER.ADR.Ambiguous; ambiguous address and a lot of messages ended up in the Submission queue with this error.

The error came after running GALsync. We have two Exchange 2010 forests and was running GALsync between the two. Forest A (contoso) was using one address space (contoso.dk) and Forest B (nwtraders) was using several address spaces (nwtraders.dk, litware.dk etc).

Everything working fine between contoso.dk and nwtraders.dk, the two main address spaces, but the problem with 420 4.2.0 RESOLVER.ADR.Ambiguous; ambiguous address, came when trying to send to address space litware.dk from Forest A.

The error was caused by duplicate SMTP proxy addresses.

I have seen it before where GALsync created a contact during a sync to the target forest even though the user was already migrated to the target forest. Then we have the both a mail contact and mail user had the same SMTP address and messages to this user will be queued.

In this case the issue was quite similar, although the client had created the extra mail user themselves and when GALSync created the mail contact, the problem came.

The solution was to clean up in the proxy addresses of the two objects (mail user and mail contact) and good way of checking this is using ADSI Edit to see and confirm the proxy addresses of the objects.

Lync Mobile clients available

December 13th, 2011 No comments

Microsoft has now released mobile clients for Lync, they are long awaited in the community.

Lync 2010 for Windows Phone is now available for download via Windows Marketplace and that Lync 2010 clients for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Nokia Symbian have been submitted for approval to their respective app stores.

Read more at the UC Team blog

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Released: Rollup 4 for Forefront Protection for Exchange

December 6th, 2011 No comments

Hotfix Rollup 4 for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) has been made available by Microsoft.

It includes a series of enhancements and new features. For a list of the fixes in RU4 for FPE:

  1. Email is sent to the Forefront Protection for Exchange UNDELIVERABLE folder instead of being delivered
  2. UNC and proxy credentials are stored in clear text in the Forefront Protection for Exchange file system
  3. The Forefront Protection for Exchange FSEMachinePrep.exe fails with a fatal error
  4. The external sender does not receive the expected Forefront Protection for Exchange generated notification
  5. Forefront Protection for Exchange generates a notification with a blank subject line
  6. Forefront Protection for Exchange virus engine updates fail between the passive node and active node in CCR clusters
  7. Forefront Protection for Exchange only accepts 7-digit License Agreement numbers
  8. Forefront Protection for Exchange generates a 2098 event ID every time the MSExchangeTransport service is restarted
  9. Email queues at startup on an Exchange server running Forefront Protection for Exchange
    For a complete list of the new features and enhancements included in this rollup and download instructions, read the Knowledge Base article: Hotfix Rollup 4 for Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange.

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 Released!

December 5th, 2011 No comments

Exchange 2010 SP2 has finally been made available as download by the Exchange Team, this download is long awaited by many, because of the many new cool features, such as:

  • Outlook Web App (OWA) Mini
  • Cross-Site Silent Redirection
  • Hybrid Configuration Wizard
  • Address Book Policies
    Read more about the new SP2 features in one of my older blog posts: .
    The SP2 sets new pre-requirements to Windows, to install and upgrade from SP1. It requires an additional Windows role, which was not part of the SP1 pre-requirements. Which is:IIS 6 WMI Compatibility” not being installed. Which is:

  • IIS 6 WMI Compatibility
    To install this before starting the SP2 install/upgrade, start a PowerShell and run:

  • Import-Module ServerManager
  • Add-WindowsFeature Web-WMI

This Windows role is required for Mailbox and CAS roles.

UPDATED: Exchange Team Blog: Released: Exchange Server 2010 SP2.

Download the Exchange 2010 SP2 here.

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