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Longhorn: Active Directory Users and Computers console saves trips to ADSIEdit

One of the nice features I noticed about the Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) console in Longhorn server – in an object’s properties, there’s an Attribute Editor tab built-in, that allows one to directly edit an object’s attributes. In previous versions, one had to use a tool like ADSIEdit to edit attributes not exposed […]

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Determine cluster configuration of mailbox server (CCR/SCC)

To determine whether a mailbox server is clustered or standalone, and if clustered – whether it’s using Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) or Single Copy Cluster (SCC), use the following command: Get-MailboxServer | select name,ClusteredStorageType The possible values:1. NonShared = CCR cluster2. Shared = SCC cluster3. Disabled = standalone / non-clustered mailbox server

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Released: Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB935490)

Microsoft has just released Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB935490). This update comes less than 3 weeks after the previous rollup – Update Rollup 1. It includes updates for 4 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server – (including a critical remote code execution vulnerability from the way MIME messages are decoded), as outlined in […]

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WES 2007: RIM extends office phone sytems to BlackBerries

At its Wireless Enterprise Symposium – WES 2007 in Orlando, FL, Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry MVS (Mobile Voice System), a suite of products that extends enterprise PBX systems to BlackBerry devices, enabling users to have a single phone number and making BlackBerries part of the enterprise telephony eco-system – as extensions of their […]

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Vista Annoyance: Virtual CD/DVD emulators and ISO images

It seems the whole world has moved to downloadable software images in ISO formats – whether it be puny (by today’s standards) CD images of 650/700 MB or larger chunks of code that requires a DVD – a lot of the software we download today is in the form of ISO images that otherwise requires […]

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ZDNet: Zenprise gave indications 2 hours before the BlackBerry outage

Before the world knew: insider’s diary of BlackBerry service shutdown by ZDNet‘s Russell Shaw — For two hours before the BlackBerry email outage two weeks ago, the Zenprise BlackBerry service monitoring system in place at the County of Alameda (Cal.) data center in the 1.5 million-populaton county seat of Oakland “gave us some indications connectivity […]

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‘Crapware’-free: Longhorn Server does not include useless desktop apps

We’ve been hearing a lot about ‘crapware‘ apps installed by hardware vendors on desktops and laptops – apps like AOL (or other ISP) software, myriad browser add-ins and toolbars, trial versions of anti-virus, firewall, and security software that you may never use – perhaps because your organization has standardized on some more manageable enterprise versions […]

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CCR Over WAN: Failover and FSW questions answered

Exchange Server 2007’s Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) feature provides a way to set-up geographically-dispersed clusters to protect against data center failure (aka “site failure”). Though the documentation provides plenty of detail on how to set up CCR clusters in a single data center – where both cluster nodes and the computer hosting the File Share […]

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RIM does a BlackBerry on Windows Mobile

Interesting announcement from RIM – it will offer the BlackBerry application suite for devices running Microsoft’s Windows Moible 6, which will morph the Windows Mobile device into a BlackBerry at the touch of a button. Sort of. Once installed, the application will provide users with a “virtual BlackBerry appearance” – including support for BlackBerry email, […]

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Computerworld: The deal on the Windows DNS bug

The still unpatched Windows DNS Server bug has been the topic of many a security discussions during the past few days. If you’re running your DNS on a Windows Server (using DNS Server service), this affects you. Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer has a nice write-up about this issue that I just stumbled upon, thanks to Sunbelt […]

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