Exchange

Office 2010

Yes, yes, old news, but i came upon an article on CNET where they preview Office 2010. Included in this article is a video review of Microsoft’s, latest Office suite. One comment that I smirked at was the fact that one of the editors installed it a while ago and stated, “I wish Outlook/Office 2010 tech preview would do something weird and dumb so I could write about it. Sadly, it just works.” check out the video review here. Also check out the screen shots, if you haven’t already. There is also a newer review that you can check out, that’s where i got the “it just works” tag-line from

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Installing Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2008

Here’s the deal, Exchange 2003 will not work and cannot be installed on Server 2008, although if you have a Server 2008 Domain Controller, you can have an Exchange 2003 Forest. I hope that clears up some issues quicker then, say… Nathan installing Server 2008, attempting to fulfill the prerequisites of Exchange 2003 and not able to…

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Lost Connection to Exchange?

You have a mailbox that you no longer can connect to, it either cannot connect to exchange or you may get an error stating that “MAPI Session “/o=servername/ou=first administrative group/cn=Recipients/cn=username” exceeded the maximum of 32 objects of type “session”

To fix this error go to the Mailbox store where the user is affected, right click on the store, then you need to modify the everyone permissions to allow “View Information Store Status” Once that is done the user just needs to log off and back in.

Exchange Server 2010 Management Architecture

I myself haven’t even started playing with Exchange Server 2007, I know, pretty weak, eh? Well there is not much I can do when I am busy managing 7 clients IT Infrastructures and they are happy with Exchange Server 2003 SP2. Well the next iteration of Exchange Server is Exchange Server 2003, the new management architecture is based on PowerShell and allows you to manage multiple Exchange 2010 organizations… for the full read-up on Exchange 2010 Management Architecture click here.

Windows Mobile 6.5 and Microsoft ‘My Phone’

It’s official, Windows Mobile 6.5 is out of rumor status… some things that are worth mentioning is that the main screen will have a honeycomb look to it, i.e. in the way the icons are lain out. Most screens have redesigned menus that will not need that dreaded stylus, IE Mobile will have a touchable zoom slider, and frequently-used command. No devices are said to get a Windows Mobile upgrade, but the first Windows Mobile devices should be available before next Winter. Unfortunately for them, I’ll be picking up my Palm Pre before that

Click here to see a couple pictures, and to learn about some of the other features not mentioned here, like ‘SkyBox’, ‘SkyLine’ and ‘SkyMarket’.

Also check out the new service being released by Microsoft called “My Phone” Basically you can synchronize all your contacts, emails, texts, photos, documents, and music. Click here. Unfortunately this service is only available as an invitation-only beta. I hope everyone has unlimited data plans!

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