Exchange

Unable to Install Exchange 2010 SP1 Unified Messaging Role

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: Microsoft Speech Platform – Server Runtime (Version 10.2) Microsoft Speech Platform – Server Runtime (Version 10.1) Since this was a new installation, I was …

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Podcast: Exchange 2010 Federation

A few weeks ago I got interviewed by RunAsRadio, who delivers weekly IT Pro podcasts. The topic for my interview was Federation in Exchange 2010. Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients, vendors, partners, and customers and share their free/busy (also known as calendar availability) and contact information. While federation has been around for a while in Exchange, the 2010 goes into a web services model that allows simple, limited visibility for other …

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Exchange 2010 Outlook Anywhere not working and getting HTTP 500 response error

Here is some notes from a recent issue error that I encountered this week with an Exchange 2010 server configured for Outlook Anywhere. For some reason Outlook Anywhere stopped working and the Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP) clients were no longer able to connect. After checking all the basics in Exchange, like: Confirming the OA settings Certificates (not expired and common name) Firewall rules Autodiscover etc. I ran the tests from www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com and it showed …

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Want to know the more about the MCM Exchange Training

A video has been posted on the Microsoft Master Blog showing off the level of details, that you would go through when attending the Microsoft Certified Master Training on Exchange. Have you ever wondered what we actually do in the classroom during Microsoft Certified Master rotations?  Well, here is a 30 minute summary of the Exchange 2010 header firewall from  Brian Reid, one of our regular MCM instructors. The video is made by Brian Reid, …

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Exchange ActiveSync and Windows Phone 7

An article has been published on the TechNet wiki by Henrik Walther about “Exchange ActiveSync Considerations When Using Windows Phone 7 Clients”. There was a previously article “Exchange ActiveSync comparison table”, which listed all the EAS features of the different phones. This new article goes through EAS features and Windows Phone 7, since it is important to note that Windows Phone 7 devices only support a subset of the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) policies available with …

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