Together with CoLabora and IT-experts, I have arranged a 1 day User Group event on June 22nd at Microsoft Denmark in Hellerup, Copenhagen, it is free to register for the event.
The agenda is:
9.00-9.15 Velkomst
9.15-10.00 Direct Access v/ Jens Ole Krogh
10.00-10.30 Exchange ActiveSync Policies v/ Flemming Riis
10.30-10.45 Pause
10.45-11.15 DPM og Exchange 2010 v/ Flemming Riis
11.15-12.00 Office 365 session
12.00-13.00 Frokost
13.00-13.45 Lync nyheder v/ Dennis Lundtoft Thomsen
13.45-14.30 Exchange 2010 SP2 nyheder v/ Peter Schmidt
14.30-15.00 Pause
15.00-15.45 Lync Windows Phone App integration og demo af Lync for Windows Phone v/ Mikkel Bach Nielsen fra Microsoft
15.45-16.15 Debat om Lync switchboard løsninger
Read more at CoLabora and register for the event at Eventbrite.
The Exchange Team has announced SP2 for Exchange 2010, it is scheduled for release in the second half of 2011.
The SP2 includes the following major new features:
- Outlook Web App (OWA) Mini: A browse-only version of OWA designed for low bandwidth and resolution devices. Based on the existing Exchange 2010 SP1 OWA infrastructure, this feature provides a simple text based interface to navigate the user’s mailbox and access to the global address list from a plurality of mobile devices.
- Cross-Site Silent Redirection for Outlook Web App: With Service Pack 2, you will have the ability to enable silent redirection when CAS must redirect an OWA request to CAS infrastructure located in another Active Directory site.
- Hybrid Configuration Wizard: Organizations can choose to deploy a hybrid scenario where some mailboxes are on-premises and some are in Exchange Online with Microsoft Office 365.
- Address Book Policies: Allows organizations to segment their address books into smaller scoped subsets of users providing a more refined user experience than the previous manual configuration approach. They blogged about this feature earlier: GAL Segmentation, Exchange Server 2010 and Address Book Policies.
- Customer Requested Fixes: All fixes contained within update rollups released prior to Service Pack 2 will also be contained within SP2.
Read more at the Exchange Team blog.
Not able to attend TechEd 2011 currently in progress this week in Atlanta. No worries, you can find all sessions online and watch them when you have time for it at www.msteched.com.
Great news from the Exchange team today. They have announced enhancements to the virtualization support of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 running with SP1.
With Exchange SP1 the following scenarios are now supported running under hardware virtualization:
The Unified Messaging server role is supported in a virtualized environment.
Combining Exchange 2010 high availability solutions (database availability groups (DAGs)) with hypervisor-based clustering, high availability, or migration solutions that will move or automatically failover mailbox servers that are members of a DAG between clustered root servers, is now supported.
A new Best Practices for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010 with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V whitepaper has also been released.
Read more about these enhancements on the Exchange Team blog.
Interesting news in the Unified Communications world today. Microsoft has acquired by Microsoft. Read the full press release.
Skype will support Microsoft devices like Xbox and Kinect, Windows Phone and a wide array of Windows devices, and Microsoft will connect Skype users with Lync, Outlook, Xbox Live and other communities. Microsoft will continue to invest in and support Skype clients on non-Microsoft platforms.
Skype is a great product and I look forward to see it integrated with Microsoft products, especially Lync and Outlook.
The Office team has posted a nice overview of the needed licenses for using Exchange 2010 Personal Archive and Retention Policies.
To use Personal Archive or retention policies requires a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 account with Microsoft Exchange Server Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) and one of the following Microsoft Outlook licenses.
Read their post here.
I recently installed the Exchange 2010 SP1 Unified Messaging (UM) role at a client and in that process I was installing the pre-requirements:
- Unified Communications Managed API 2.0, Core Runtime
- Microsoft Speech Platform – Server Runtime
I found that there are multiple versions of the Speech Platform Runtime, available as download:
Since this was a new installation, I was about to download and install version 10.2. Be aware that this version is not supported with Exchange 2010 SP1 and you might experience that the Exchange 2010 SP1 Readiness Check will not recognize the Speech Platform Runtime installed as a pre-requirement.
The solution is to install version 10.1 of the Speech Platform Runtime.
Why it does not recognize the version 10.2 I do not know, maybe it is a version mismatch in Exchange 2010 SP1.
I’m a big fan of Windows Media Center from Microsoft, below I will share my story on how my media center has been configured. I have spent the last couple of months on tuning my media center, so it could be the center of entertainment and TV in the family, as well as reasonable WAF-accepted.
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