MIX09 sessions
If you like me didn’t attend the MIX 09 conference and might be interested in some of the sessions, they are available online. Find the sessions here.
Lots of new extensions for IIS
At the 2009 MIX conference in Las Vegas, the Microsoft IIS team announced the release of 10 new extensions and launched a new end-to-end experience for discovering and installing community applications on IIS. This wave of IIS extensions span new functionality in request processing, server management, site/app management and discovery of community applications. You can check out each extension or get the Web Platform Installer to install all of them. Application Request Router (ARR) 2.0 …
Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 released
Microsoft has released a new Rollup Update 7 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1. We have released Update Roll-up 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 960384) to the download center. The release of the roll-up via Microsoft Update will happen on March 24. Read more at MS Exchange Team Blog.
Forefront Security for OCS available
Microsoft has released Forefront security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) as RTM. FSOCS provides fast and effective protection against IM-based malware for OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 environments by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. FSOCS also helps reduce corporate liability by blocking instant messages containing inappropriate content. This release includes: 64bit support Support for OCS 2007 R2 Support for OCS 2007 Enterprise Edition server roles Integration with OCS 2007 Access Edge …
OCS 2007 R2 – fresh install – Monitoring service fails to start
I’ve seen this a few times during the installation of OCS 2007 R2, the “Office Communications Server Monitoring Agent” wont start, it immediately stops, with no real errors on screen or in the event log. Error that pops up, on screen: “some services stop if there is nothing to do”. Reason, it’s because the pre-requirements for Monitoring Service is not meet, it needs the Microsoft Message Queuing Service (MSMQ). If you need the Monitoring Service, …