If you are based in the UK and run Exchange 2010 UM it is likely that you will install and use the English (en-GB) Language Pack with your UM Dial Plan.

You may then notice that Voice Mail Previews are not being displayed in Outlook or OWA.

Be aware that Voicemail Preview is only available with the following UM Language Packs:

• English (US) (en-US)
• English (Canada) (en-CA)
• French (France) (fr-FR)
• Italian (it-IT)
• Polish (pl-PL)
• Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT)
• Spanish (Spain) (es-ES)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff629381.aspx

If you have installed the Exchange Management Console on your client machine or server other than your Exchange 2010 servers you may come across the error below:

Solution

If you update your Exchange Servers to Service Pack 1/2, ensure you do the same on the machine running the Management Console.

In an Exchange 2010 DAG, you may want to disable database activation on another mailbox server that holds a copy but maintain the replication and replay activities. Below is the command to do so:

Suspend-MailboxDatabaseCopy -Identity DB2MBXSERVER1 -ActivationOnly

We came across the below issue after a using uploaded some files to a SharePoint site. When navigating to the affected site users would receive the following error:

An error occurred during the processing of /site/SharedDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file.

Solution:

The AllItems.aspx had become corrupt. To resolve this we replaced the Allitems.aspx file with one from a working site. To access the files, use the “Open with Explorer” option in SharePoint and navigate to the “Forms” folder.

CU5 for Lync Server 2010 is now available, see the articles below for more details:

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2493736

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 2 (14.2.0) is now available. More details below:

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After installing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I have found myself frequently switching between the Metro and Desktop App. The following keyboard guide is useful as it lists all of the shortcuts:

Keyboard Guide

I find myself frequently using Windows Key + I to power off my machine and Windows Key + Q to search for Apps.

While running Exchange 2010 SP1, We recently came across the error below after attempting to add a mailbox database copy using the Exchange Management Console:

Solution:

Add the database copy using the Exchange Management Shell with the Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy command

In Exchange 2010, applying impersonate permissions to a service account is achieved by using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). See the below command to grant the permissions:

New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Name:FriendlyAssignmentName –Role:ApplicationImpersonation –User:serviceAccount

We recently came across an issue where we were unable to restore a deleted Public Folder. We attempted this using ExFolders, MFCMapi and Outlook and received the following errors:

Exfolders:

MFCMapi:

Outlook:

Solution:

Installing Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2010 allowed us to complete the restore with MFCMapi.