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15 Popular Exchange Server Blogs

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GFI has done a blog post about the 15 Popular Exchange Server Blogs according to them. I agree with most of them, here’s a link to the full GFI listing, there are some great Exchange blogs in there. Read the full here: 15 Popular Exchange Server Blogs

Exchange 2010 Visio Stencils Available

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Microsoft has released Exchange 2010 Visio Stencils. Use this stencil to create Visio drawings that contain Exchange 2010 objects. These shapes include icons for the following: Exchange 2010 server roles Features new to Exchange 2010 SP1 Networking, telephony, and Unified Messaging objects Active Directory and directory service objects Client computers and devices Other Exchange organization elements Download: Microsoft Exchange 2010 Visio Stencil

Robert’s Rules of Exchange – The Scenario

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Great blog post by Robert Gilles (MSFT) on You has me at EHLO, the post “Robert’s Rules of Exchange: The Scenario” is his first post in a series of scenario based and real life inspired blog posts on Exchange 2010 implementations. Today we kick off Robert’s Rules of Exchange, a series of blog posts in which we take a fictitious company, describe their existing Exchange implementation, and then walk through the thought processes behind the …

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SP1 install fails with: Couldn’t resolve the user or group “mydomain.local/Microsoft Exchange Security Groups/Discovery Management.”

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Exchange SP1 fails during the install of the mailbox role, with the following error:

 "Couldn't resolve the user or group "mydomain.local/Microsoft Exchange Security Groups/Discovery Management." If the user or group is a foreign forest principal, you must have either a two-way trust or an outgoing trust.".

Couldn't resolve the user or group "mydomain.local/Microsoft Exchange Security Groups/Discovery Management." If the user or group is a foreign forest principal, you must have either a two-way trust or an outgoing trust.

The setup where I experienced this issue, is a new Exchange 2010 install, installed into an existing Exchange 2007 environment. But I have seen that others have similar issues, when upgrading to SP1.

There does not seem to be any official KBs on the issue. Just a lot of people experiencing the same issue. (reference from google). But I found a valid solution to the issue.

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Calendar items not working properly on Nokia phones after Notes migration

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I have seen this issue at several customers, when migrating from Notes (Domino) to Exchange 2010 using the Quest Notes Migrator for Exchange (Quest NME). The problem is ActiveSync not working correct on Nokia phones. Only new calendar items (after the migration) is synced to the Nokia phones. All older and therefore migrated calendar items are not synchronized to the Nokia phones. I have now come across a great script from Kent, which corrects the …

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