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Blackberry Enterprise Server upgrade to BES 4.0

UPGRADING FROM BES 3.X If you are running BES 3.x, the upgrade to 4.0 should theoretically be a simple one, but here are things to do before you click setup.exe:1) If running MSDE 7.x, upgrade to MSDE 2000 (shows up as MSDE 8.x in the admin tool). This is done by running setup.exe with upgrade=1 […]

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Microsoft to acquire Sybari Software

Microsoft will acquire Sybari Software, the company that makes best-of-breed antivirus (and antispam) products for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SPS, and (yes!) Lotus Domino. Another best-of-breed acquisition to bolster Microsoft’s security portfolio – it bought Giant Company recently and is currently beta-testing the Microsoft-branded version of Giant’s antispyware. In mid-2003 it purchased the Romanian antivirus company […]

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Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource Class – Reply from Alain Lissoir

The ClusApi.h file, which is part of the PlatformSDK should contain this… typedef enum CLUSTER_RESOURCE_STATE { ClusterResourceStateUnknown = -1, ClusterResourceInherited = 0, ClusterResourceInitializing = 1, ClusterResourceOnline = 2, ClusterResourceOffline = 3, ClusterResourceFailed = 4, ClusterResourcePending = 128, ClusterResourceOnlinePending = 129, ClusterResourceOfflinePending = 130 } CLUSTER_RESOURCE_STATE; HTH Alain is (now) WMI Program Manager at Microsoft and […]

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Scripting: ExchangeClusterResource class

The WMI ExchangeClusterResource class has 5 properties: 1) Name: returns name of Exchange cluster resource 2) Type: specifies the cluster resource type (IP Address, network name, etc.) 3) Owner: specifies the cluster node that the resource is running on (changes with failover) 4) VirtualMachine: returns name of the Virtual Machine that owns the resource 5) […]

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Exchange joins Microsoft’s Billion Dollar Club, gets new product roadmap

It happened in 2004. Microsoft Exchange Server crossed the $1 billion revenue threshold, joining Microsoft’s enviable stable of products that the software company can rely on for more than a billion dollars in revenues each year. http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=6534 Exchange also got a new (ever-evolving?) product roadmap SP2 will be released in second half of 2005. It […]

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HOW TO: View the Security tab in Exchange Admin tool

Every time I get asked this, I remember the name of the key – ShowSecurityPage – but forget the complete path. It’s easier to simply keep the registry hack in a .REG file, so here it is. Right-click on the link, save, remove the .txt from the filename. ShowSecurityPage.reg If you’d rather do it manually, […]

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Cannot Book Resource – Outlook thinks it’s a recurring appointment

Issue: You try to reserve a conference room for a meeting, but get an error – XX Conference Room has declined your meeting because it is recurring. You must book each meeting separately with this resource”. But it is a single instance meeting! Cause: If several people have the resource’s calendar open and make changes […]

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Seeing Double? (Default Email Folders)

Situation: Upgraded to Office 2003 Professional. Outlook shows 2 of each default/system folder like Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Journal, Tasks, Junk E-mail, etc. (Not completely sure at what point this happened, but it happened within hours of Outlook 2003 upgrade, so that’s the most likely suspect.) Outlook thinks the new folders are the default, so new […]

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Users Cannot Save or Send Mail in Japanese using OWA

Users in Japan cannot send and receive messages in Japanese. They get an error in Japanese. Translation: You cannot send the message because the code page of this language was not found on the server. Contact your system administrator This is actually documented in the Exchange Server 2003 RTM Release Notes. Go to Known Issues […]

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Track Hotfix/Patch Installation

What’s the best way to track when and which hotfixes/patches were applied? It’s an endless debate amongst IT pros. Some would like to do it through dedicated patch management software. Some store this info in databases, even spreadsheets. Here are a few handy ways to track this info – I’ve used a combination of these […]

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