Microsoft are hosting a Virtualization Summit 2010 – From the Desktop to the Datacenter on Monday 12 April 2010 at Shepherds Bush Vue Cinema in London. Looking at virtualization but unsure about your options? Thinking about Windows 7 migration? Interested in VDI and server virtualization? Want to save on costs but wondering about ROI? Have …
Can you and your staff only access your e-mail, desk phone and calendars when in the office? Are your staff wasting time sitting in traffic just to meet with potential customers? We’re facing one of the most challenging business environments in 60 years. But there is a better way to work that allows you to …
Exchange 2010 Outlook Web Access now offers integration with OCS R2 in much the same way as Office 2010 (for those of you that have used it), in that you can now see your OCS buddy list. Whilst this can be really useful in Outlook Web Access some of the steps to get this working …
Found this useful link on a blog by the good people at communicationsserverteam.com and thought it was worth a mention. Article: http://communicationsserverteam.com/archive/2010/01/25/726.aspx Basically free high-level overview for following features: Instant Messaging Presence Contact Management Audio and Video Desktop Sharing Office Application Integration Add a Live Meeting Communicator Web Access You can register for these sessions …
After downloading and attempting to install the French language pack for Exchange 2010 UM I was less than pleased to the receive an error: It took me a few moments to digest what was occurring but after reading the error (always a good start) and looking through the Exchange setup logs ([ERROR] Could not find …
Just a quick post to advise Microsoft has now released a KB to remove the application manifest expiry feature in AD RMS. The reason for this is that this legacy feature was previously used to confirm that applications accessing or creating RMS protected content were to be trusted. This was done by applications being signed …
Server 2008 AD schema onwards has a very cool feature called fine-grained password policies, these can be a bit arduous to setup, the easiest way that I’ve found to set them up is to create an ldifde answer file and import them using that. In this example I’m creating a password policy called ServiceAccounts and …
We came across this issue today, where we were unable to access a Servers ILO due to someone leaving the remote console session open. The following error was displayed Remote Console is unavailable. It is already in use by a different client We needed to access the servers ILO pretty quickly, so we had to …
I came across this issue when trying to upgrade to SQL 2008 sp1, where one of the checks failed and would not allow me to update. The check was “‘Reboot required ” . Solution 1, Open Regedit 2, Navigate to HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession Manager 3, Go to the properties of the following DWORD Value “PendingFileRenameOperations” 4, Remove …
Quick post and run but worth bearing in mind, if you’re doing FBA on TMG & are offloading SSL before the TMG box there’s a reasonable chance that you may not have any certificates installed on your TMG server. If this is the case users will not be able to change their passwords & those …