Microsoft 365 insights from the field

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

ASP.NET Vulnerability and Exchange

The announced ASP.NET vulnerability (Microsoft Security Advisory (2416728) from Microsoft is also affecting Exchange Server. The Exchange Team has tested the patch for this vulnerability and has approved it and it’s recommended to apply this to your Exchange servers as soon as possible. The Exchange Server team has completed validation of this fix against Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, 2007 and 2003 and we are pleased to report that we have not identified any issues related …

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Configuring a Server Core installation

The Core Configurator is a CodePlex project that can be used to administer Windows 2008 R2 Server Core installations. It is completely open source so it can be amended and change to fit your requirements, this version has been a year in the making and has been written in powershell with a reference to Winforms so that a GUI format is displayed. It’s a small application that you can either copy to the server or …

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Lync Server 2010 RC Released

Big news! The Release Candidate (RC) of Lync Server 2010 has been released today and is available for download at Microsoft Download: Microsoft Lync Server 2010 RC. Lync Server 2010 seems to be the new name for, what was previously known as Communications Server “14” (codename). The latest generation of the Office Communications Server product suite from Microsoft. It’s not official from Microsoft yet, but several tweets and a blog post from ZDNET indicate this …

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