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Using Outlook’s Instant Search on Windows Server 2008

April 22, 2009

If you have Microsoft Outlook 2007 installed on Windows Server 2008 (perhaps because you’re also using a lab server as your workstation, or require Outlook for testing), when you start Outlook it complains about Windows Search service not being installed and that Outlook cannot provide fast search results when using the Instant Search feature. Figure [...]

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ASN1 Bad Tag Error Installing an SSL Certificate in IIS 7

April 9, 2009

You’ve installed SSL certificates on previous versions of IIS more times than you care to remember. It’s no rocket science – you create a certificate request, request the certificate from a Certification Authority, get the certificate and complete your certificate request. Then there’s IIS 7. Modularized. Optimized. Secure. You follow the same procedure as you [...]

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Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer: Test Exchange from outside the firewall

March 25, 2009

Exchange 2007 brought with it a number of Exchange shell cmdlets that let you test Exchange functionality (scroll down to the end of this post for a list of the test cmdlets). But how do you test Exchange services are actually available and usable from the Internet? Have you longed for an Exchange cmdlet like [...]

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Internet Explorer 8 and OWA: Where Are The Images?

March 24, 2009

Internet Explorer 8 was released last week at MIX09. It’s likely many users may already be running either the RTM version or one of the earlier betas. IE 8 is more secure than previous versions (see Stay Safer Online for a list of IE8′s security features), including some of the default settings. Here’s one of [...]

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Released: PowerShell Snap-in For IIS 7

March 20, 2009

The big news from MIX09 is probably the release of Internet Explorer 8, but for shell aficionados, Exchange folks and scripting geeks, the release of IIS Snap-in for Windows PowerShell is not a lesser event. The snap-in has 71 cmdlets to manage IIS, from web application pools to web site configurations, bindings, and SSL. Download [...]

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Released: Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Roll-up 7

March 18, 2009

Update Roll-up 7 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has been released. Download it here. As noted in previous posts, Exchange 2007 updates are cumulative and release-specific. This roll-up is for Exchange 2007 SP1, and supersedes all previous update roll-ups for Exchange 2007 SP1. As Ananth notes in the post on the Exchange team blog (read [...]

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Are Distribution Groups really being used?

February 19, 2009

Over the years, you end up creating a large number of Distribution Groups based on user demands. The regular departmental Distribution Groups such as Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and HR. The geographical ones such as AllUS, All-California, All-BayArea, and so on. The ones by employment status such as All-FTE for full-time employees, All-Contractors, and so on. [...]

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Applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6

February 16, 2009

Perhaps I should have picked another day for applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6. I ran into the services not starting issue documented in KB 944752 Exchange Server 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange Server 2007. It was a single server topology – Exchange 2007 [...]

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Released: Update Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1

February 10, 2009

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 has been released. Download it here. As noted in previous posts, Exchange 2007 updates are cumulative and release-specific. Additionally, as Ananth notes in the post on the Exchange team blog (read ‘Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Released‘), this update has a fix [...]

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Managed Folders: Why aren’t Calendar items expired?

February 3, 2009

You’re testing Exchange 2007′s Messaging Records Management (MRM) features to implement your organization’s messaging retention policies. You create a new Managed Folder for Calendar items, and then create a Managed Content Setting for it to expire Calendar items in 1 year. Next, you create a Managed Folder Mailbox Policy and add the Managed Folder to [...]

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