Monthly Archive for March, 2009

Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer

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Peter Schmidt
on 30. March, 2009
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Microsoft has updated their release of the Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer (BETA). It can run these test for you:

  • Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Test
  • Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Autodiscover Test
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Autodiscover Connectivity Test
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 RPC/HTTP Connectivity Test
  • Inbound SMTP Email Test

It is a great tool for troubleshooting your Exchange remote access solution: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

MIX09 sessions

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Peter Schmidt
on 21. March, 2009
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If you like me didn’t attend the MIX 09 conference and might be interested in some of the sessions, they are available online.

Find the sessions here.

Lots of new extensions for IIS

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Peter Schmidt
on 20. March, 2009
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At the 2009 MIX conference in Las Vegas, the Microsoft IIS team announced the release of 10 new extensions and launched a new end-to-end experience for discovering and installing community applications on IIS.

This wave of IIS extensions span new functionality in request processing, server management, site/app management and discovery of community applications.

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You can check out each extension or get the Web Platform Installer to install all of them.

  • Application Request Router (ARR) 2.0 beta, with disk cache and cache proxy support for edge configurations the IIS HTTP load balancer. ARR can be used as a complement to existing hardware load balancers, or as a standalone proxy.
  • FTP 7.5 RTW, with extensibility  support for developers who want to customize this IIS7 FTP publishing service.
  • WebDav 7.5 RTW, with support for both shared and exclusive locks to prevent lost updates due to overwrites.
  • Advanced Logging beta for monitoring and measuring media and Web browsing experiences, rich and flexible data collection, client-side logging and real-time logging capabilities.
  • Administration Pack for IIS7 RTW, with IIS Manager support for management of FastCGI, Request Filtering, ASP.NET authorization and custom error settings, and HTTP request filtering, and Configuration Editor for easier config management.
  • IIS Snap-in for Windows PowerShell RTW, for management of the IIS configuration system through Windows PowerShell, along with 60 cmdlets for common management tasks in Powershell.
  • Web Deployment Tool RC, which is a platform for Web deployment of IIS servers and applications that run on servers. This extension provides a foundation for administrators who want to synchronize and migrate Web servers in a web farm. Developers use Web Deployment Tool to deploy applications to a server or integrate with the new Windows Web Application Gallery.
  • Database Manager RC, providing Web database management support for local and remote databases from within IIS Manager.
  • Media Services 3.0 beta, which introduces the world to live streaming on IIS with multiple extensions, including Smooth Streaming and Advanced Logging. Our media extensions bring high quality media delivery to IIS customers as well as CDNs like Akamai.
  • Web Platform Installer 2.0 beta, which installs community applications and its dependencies on Windows computers. See Introducing the Web Platform Installer for more details.

For more information www.IIS.net and live.visitmix.com

Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 released

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Peter Schmidt
on 19. March, 2009
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Microsoft has released a new Rollup Update 7 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1.

We have released Update Roll-up 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB 960384) to the download center. The release of the roll-up via Microsoft Update will happen on March 24.

Read more at MS Exchange Team Blog.

Forefront Security for OCS available

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Peter Schmidt
on 18. March, 2009
in Communications Server and Security
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Microsoft has released Forefront security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) as RTM.

FSOCS provides fast and effective protection against IM-based malware for OCS 2007 and OCS 2007 R2 environments by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. FSOCS also helps reduce corporate liability by blocking instant messages containing inappropriate content.

This release includes:

  • 64bit support
  • Support for OCS 2007 R2
  • Support for OCS 2007 Enterprise Edition server roles
  • Integration with OCS 2007 Access Edge role to protect corporate IM from external public IM threats
  • Localization in 11 languages

It’s available for download here: FSOCS

OCS 2007 R2 – fresh install – Monitoring service fails to start

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Peter Schmidt
on 18. March, 2009
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I’ve seen this a few times during the installation of OCS 2007 R2, the “Office Communications Server Monitoring Agent” wont start, it immediately stops, with no real errors on screen or in the event log.

Error that pops up, on screen: “some services stop if there is nothing to do”.

Reason, it’s because the pre-requirements for Monitoring Service is not meet, it needs the Microsoft Message Queuing Service (MSMQ).

If you need the Monitoring Service, you’ll need to install the MSMQ.

This can be done using:

Servermanagercmd.exe -I MSMQ-Server

The error is also stated in this forum thread: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/communicationsserversetup/thread/418720e6-4c61-46e2-81ac-21350c19e223/

OCS install – Failure [0x80070005] Access is denied

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Peter Schmidt
on 16. March, 2009
in Communications Server
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Failure [0x80070005] Access is denied is a known error during the install of OCS.

Reason: The installing user does not have the appropriate permissions to install OCS.

Ensure that the installing user is a member of the following security groups:

  • Domain Admins
  • RTCUniversalServerAdmins

MIX 09

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Peter Schmidt
on 16. March, 2009
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This week it’s MIX 09 time in Las Vegas, the conference starts March 18th.

The MIX Conference is a gathering of designers and developers who build cutting edge web sites. If you want to discuss the future of the Web, learn about the latest web technologies from Microsoft, or just rub shoulders with industry professionals, MIX is the place to be.

A lot of the sessions from MIX 09 will be available online, find them here: Visit MIX