Items related to messaging services with a focus on Exchange Online (EXO) and Exchange server (on-premises)
If you leverage products from the Forefront family, then you will want to read about changes announced today on the Server & Cloud blog.
Today, as a result of our effort to better align security and protection solutions with the workloads and applications they protect, Microsoft is announcing changes to the roadmaps of some of the security solutions made available under the Forefront brand.
The beta release for System Center 2012 SP1 is now available for you to download and test in your lab environments. This is an interesting release as it is adding support for Windows Server 2012. In the case of SCVMM 2012 SP1, it means that it can only be installed on the RTM version of Windows Server 2012.
At least I know what I’ll be doing this weekend now 
The Virtual Machine Manager server for … Read the rest “System Center 2012 SP1 Beta Available”
Since the System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Pack (MP) for Exchange 2010 has been re-released to the Microsoft download center, I thought that it would be worth bubbling this up. The previous post can be found here on the blog.
This is build 14.03.0038.004 of the MP, and is dated August 31st 2012.
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack includes a complete health model, ex… Read the rest “Re-Release Of Exchange 2010 SCOM Management Pack”
Please be aware that there is a pending change for the minimum key length for certificates with RSA keys. The private keys used in these certificates can be derived and could allow an attacker to duplicate the certificates and use them fraudulently to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks.
The update is available on the Download Center as well as… Read the rest “Important Upcoming Certificate Changes”
Here I was just trying to update my Facebook profile to use English UK, and what do I see? Entries for not only English Pirate, but also English (upside down)…..
One can only surmise that the (upside down) is meant for our Antipodean chums!
Now for the pirate theme, I guess I have to go and buy one of these:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pirate+keyboard&FORM=HDRSC2
Arrrgh,
Rhoderick
Frank Plawetzki posted a great article on issues that can affect how clients retrieve their Offline Address Book (OAB). This has also been the source of some recent work for myself, though with slightly different root causes. The issues that I have encountered were due to:
Update 4-3-2014: Added link to KB 975341 Ho… Read the rest “Solving Additional Issues With Exchange OAB Download”
This is an article written by Frank Plawetzki, a Senior PFE from Deutschland, and originally published on Opsvault.
Throughout the last weeks I have seen two different issues that prevented Outlook clients from downloading the OAB (Offline Address Book). One affected public-folder based OAB distribution and the other affected web-based distribution.
I want to provide some hints on t… Read the rest “Outlook Fails To Download OAB”
Just in case evaluating the Exchange 2013 preview was not keeping you busy, Channel 9 has recordings on Lync from TechEd 2012.
Enjoy!
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To make a change from the way that a Monday typically starts, Rajesh Jha (Corporate Vice President, Exchange) posted a great overview on Exchange 2013’s features.
This is published on the Exchange team blog.
Here are some of the great benefits you get with the next release of Exchange:
Exchange can now support up to 8TB disks, by reducin… Read the rest “The New Exchange”
Update: Since Exchange 2013 has now been released the preview forums has been retired, and the RTM forums can now be found here.
Since the Exchange 2013 Preview is now available it is a great chance to see how the next version of Exchange is shaping up! If you are running to issues then head on over to the TechNet forum for Exchange 2013 Preview and see if the community can help out.
In addition the… Read the rest “Exchange Server 2013 Forums Available on TechNet”