Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

Released: Rollup 4 for Forefront Protection for Exchange

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: Email is sent to the Forefront Protection for Exchange UNDELIVERABLE folder instead of being delivered UNC and proxy credentials are stored in clear text in the Forefront Protection for Exchange file system The Forefront Protection for Exchange FSEMachinePrep.exe fails …

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Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 Released!

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 …

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TechNet.dk – Christmas fun

Like last year Microsoft TechNet Denmark is playing Santa with a Christmas calendar quiz. On all weekdays in December, you can test your Microsoft knowledge in a daily for danish IT professionals and I have the honor of delivering and host a few questions. The game: Every morning (on weekdays) at 9 am (+1 GMT) during December, Bjarne Dollerup from Microsoft will introduce one of the Danish MVP’s or TechNet Influencer on his blog, and …

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Lync Server 2010 Control Panel – Insufficient access rights to perform the operation

Here are some field notes from a recent Lync 2010 issue. The Lync administrator encountered this this error: “Insufficient access rights to perform the operation” when trying to open the Lync Server 2010 Control Panel. It is a fairly known issue and relates to the AdminSDHolder Elevation Issue as we known on Exchange 2010, see blog post: Exchange 2010 and Resolution of the AdminSDHolder Elevation Issue. The Lync administrator tried to update the phone attribute …

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Update on Microsoft Campus Days 2011

A few weeks ago I presented at Microsoft Campus Days 2011 in Copenhagen. Now most of the presentations from the event, is available for download from the Microsoft Campus Days Mesh Site. Download the presentations here. Recordings of the breakout sessions are still in production, and should be available for download on the Danish TechNet Edge site within a few weeks. I’ll post an update here when I see them online… Looking forward to see …

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