Microsoft 365 insights from the field

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

Exchange 2007 SP2 released

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Microsoft has released SP2 for Exchange 2007. SP2 is a pre-requirement for co-existence with Exchange 2010. It also includes a lot of new features, listed below: Enhanced Auditing – New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers. It allows the right balance of granularity, performance, and easy access to audited events via a dedicated audit log repository. This simplifies the auditing …

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Exchange 2010 Release Candidate announced

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Yesterday the Exchange Team announced the release of the Exchange 2010 RC (Release Candidate). The Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is now feature complete and available for download – (even though the download link from Microsoft didn’t work to begin with – works now though!!). Here’s a highlight of new things in the Release Candidate: Support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2: The Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is now supported on …

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Need to reset password on an HP iLO adapter

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A while back I needed to remotely reset the password of an iLO (LightOut adapter) on a HP server and found this great blog post, that described how to: http://blog.netnerds.net/2006/04/ribcl-reset-administrator-password-on-ilo/

OCS – MSN PIC for free

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Good news, Microsoft has announced a license change to the Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 for the MSN PIC (Public IM Connectivity) license, which is needed to communicate and federate with the public MSN/Windows Live network from your OCS environment. The MSN PIC license is now free is you have an active Software Assurance (SA). Windows Live: Customers with Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Standard Client Access License or Office Communications Server 2007/ Live Communications …

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Awarded MVP for 2009

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Great news, today I received a very pleasant e-mail from Microsoft, that told me that I’ve been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award for 2009, to follow the award which I received in 2008. I am very happy and once again extremely humble to be associated with a great group of very clever people around the globe. Thanks to Microsoft for the award, I really appreciate working with Microsoft and getting access to the …

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