Microsoft 365 insights from the field

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

OCS – how to retrieve user information using SQL queries

There might be a situation where you would like an overview of the SIP URIs of the active users connected to one of the OCS servers in a pool, their last logon and what client version they are using. All these kind of information can be retrieved using SQL queries in the SQL Management Tools, connect to the RTC database on the backend server and run the selected queries below. Get a list of active …

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URL Rewrite Module – Released To Web

The IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Overview URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The module can be used to express URL rewriting logic that can use regular expressions or wildcards and can make rewriting decisions based on …

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Exchange Client for Android

A third party Exchange Client for Google Android (The Google Mobile platform) has been confirmed. It’s being developed by Aardvark Labs and is currently in limited beta. The client will provide real-time, wireless synchronization of email, calendar, and contacts for the Google Android OS and T-Mobile G1. Public launch of the Exchange Client begins Q1 of 2009 and a limited beta will commence shortly. Not that Google Android phones are that available yet, it could …

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Apache Emulation on IIS 7.0

Stumpled across a interesting new module for IIS 7.0: Helicon APE (APache Emulation) by Helicon Tech, currently in beta and available for download. Helicon Ape is a unique module that emulates Apache execution environment on Microsoft IIS. It literally implements Apache configuration model (like .htaccess and httpd.conf files) and all most demanded Apache modules in a single IIS add-on, not only making IIS compatible with Apache, but also extending it’s functionality by a number of …

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