Mailscape named Best Exchange Administration tool for second consecutive year!

Hello everyone,

 

It is my pleasure to announce that Mailscape won the Best Exchange Administration tool 2009 in MSExchange.org’s Readers’ Choice Awards!  This is the second consecutive year we have won this award, and we’re very excited about how much attention Mailscape has received in the past year.

 

Click here to see the announcement on MSExchange.org

 

On behalf of everyone at ENow, thank you all for helping us make 2009 a great year for Mailscape! We wish you and your families the happiest of holiday seasons and look forward to an even better year in 2010!

 

Kindest Regards,

New Exchange 2010 KBs

977960 You cannot create a new Exchange Server 2010 database in a multiple domain environment

977961 You cannot use Outlook Web App after you enable the "System cryptography: Use FIPS algorithms for encryption, hashing and signing" security policy on an Exchange Server 2010 server

977957 The message tracking task does not work in the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant tool on an Exchange Server 2010 edge server

977956 Event ID 9771 is logged when you try to restore a Volume Shadow Copy Service backup by using an Exchange-aware application that supports the Volume Shadow Copy Service writer for Exchange Server 2010 Standard version

977962 You cannot a remote connection to a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010-based server when you use the remote feature in Windows PowerShell 2.0

977952 You cannot move a mailbox database to an Exchange Server 2010 cluster node that is part of a database availability group when you try to install a hotfix or an update rollup for Exchange Server 2010

977963 You cannot move an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox to an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox server when the mailbox user has many AD properties

Busbar speaks about Exchange 2010 and OCs 2007 R2 at Microsoft Techday in Helwan Univesity

I have been invited to speak about Exchange 2010 and OCS 2007 next thursday in Microsoft Techday in Helwan Univesity/Faculty of engineering, Iwill speak about the Unified Communication diretion of Microsoft, in day there will be a lot of other valued MVPs who will speak about other Microsoft technologies, if you wish visit us next Thursday.

My own Exchange 2010 Storage Calculator

I had a lot of discussions with other Exchange pros worldwide and I found that 100% of them agree with me that the Exchange calculator that has been posted by MS is not convincing specially in terms of the sizes and no. of disks required for accommodate the exchange requirements.

In my spare time I prepared the attached excel sheet for calculating the required storage, I didn’t finish the no. of hard disk required or backup sections, but I will need your feedback on the excel sheet, I managed to get 5% error factor from the actual mailbox size that will be calculated on MS storage calculator, I won’t be able to compete 100% but it will help.

The strange thing that the MSEC says for the same mailbox sizes that it needs about 100 TB, while mine around 50 TB, I checked my calculations several times so I need your feedback on my sizing.

The calculator has two categories, Yellow and green section, Yellow are your input, green are calculated based on your input, the calculator give you the option to specify the maximum database size required, no. of servers deployed, server failover tolerance (this will be benefit in case you don’t want to protect against 100% loss and want to protect your customer from single or 2 server failure), the calculator still assumes full database replication, the upcoming version will let you mix and match or specify the number of replicated database.

This is version .4 so it might be little buggy, and of course it is neither support nor competing with the MSEC so use it on your own risk, but since it is cells, numbers and pure math I trust my own calc.
Link to the storage calculator
Waiting for your valuable feedback please send to me a feedback on exsc[at]ipility[dot[com]
Mahmoud

from the field: Installing OCS 2007 R2 DB update utility

I have stucked for a while trying to install the OCS 2007 db update utility from the november update collection for COS 2007 R2, the setup kept asking for SQL 2005 client tools, after so many tries here is the solution:
install the following SQL MSI, I am not familiar with SQL so what matters it fixed my problem

http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/1/6/316FADB2-E703-4351-8E9C-E0B36D9D697E/SQLServer2005_XMO_x64.msi

you will need it only if you are running Enterprise version with seperate SQL server and want to run the hotfix from the frontend server.

you may not be able to open a protected office 2003 document protected using RMS`

Starting on 11December 2009, some customers using Office 2003 are not be able to open Office 2003 documents protected with Information Rights Management (IRM) or save Office 2003 documents protected with IRM. This is caused by an IRM certificate expiring. This includes Word 2003, Word 2003 Viewer, Excel 2003, Excel 2003 Viewer, PowerPoint 2003 and Outlook 2003. It does not affect Office 2007 or Office 2010 Beta

Resolution:
A resolution has been quickly developed for this issue, and is available via the following KB items:
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978551 (Office 2003)
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978557 (Excel Viewer)
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978558 (Word Viewer)

Exchange 2010 RU1

it has been releaseed !!

Exchange 2010 RU1

it has been releaseed !!