MS Digest - IIS & Exchange

OCS – how to retrieve user information using SQL queries

Peter Schmidt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:54:59 +0000

There might be a situation where you would like an overview of the SIP URIs of the active users connected to one of the OCS servers in a pool, their last logon and what client version they are using. All these kind of information can be retrieved using SQL queries in the SQL Management Tools, connect [...]

Exchange 2007 Storage Cost Calculator has been updated

Peter Schmidt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:01:56 +0000

Microsoft has announced an update of the Exchange 2007 Storage Cost Calculator. The new version 2.9 is available for download here. For more information about the enhancements in the new version, check the blogpost at msexchangeteam.com. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msdigest.info%2Findex.php%2F2008%2F11%2Fexchange-2007-storage-cost-calculator-has-been-updated%2F'; addthis_title = 'Exchange+2007+Storage+Cost+Calculator+has+been+updated'; addthis_pub = '';

URL Rewrite Module – Released To Web

Peter Schmidt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:31:09 +0000

The IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Overview URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The module can be used to [...]

Exchange Client for Android

Peter Schmidt — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:58:12 +0000

A third party Exchange Client for Google Android (The Google Mobile platform) has been confirmed. It’s being developed by Aardvark Labs and is currently in limited beta. The client will provide real-time, wireless synchronization of email, calendar, and contacts for the Google Android OS and T-Mobile G1. Public launch of the Exchange Client begins Q1 of 2009 [...]

Apache Emulation on IIS 7.0

Peter Schmidt — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000

Stumpled across a interesting new module for IIS 7.0: Helicon APE (APache Emulation) by Helicon Tech, currently in beta and available for download. Helicon Ape is a unique module that emulates Apache execution environment on Microsoft IIS. It literally implements Apache configuration model (like .htaccess and httpd.conf files) and all most demanded Apache modules in a [...]

URLScan 3.1 Released

Peter Schmidt — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:45:24 +0000

About a week ago, the IIS Team released an updated version 3.1 of the URLScan tool. If you are running ver. 3.0, it’s recommended that you upgrade to URLScan 3.1. URLScan is the tool to protect your websites against SQL Injection Attacks, the new version is updated to handle new variation of attacks. Our internal security team [...]

IIS Media Pack 1.0 Released

Peter Schmidt — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:55:30 +0000

The IIS Team has released the final version (1.0) of the IIS Media Pack. IIS Media Pack 1.0 currently includes the Bit Rate Throttling and Web Playlists extensions for IIS 7.0, which enable you to: Save bandwidth costs by throttling the speed at which content is downloaded Decrease network traffic by metering your media deliveries Monetize media assets with [...]

Relocate your Groove 2007 files to another disk

Peter Schmidt — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:42:02 +0000

If you are like me and you use Groove 2007 and also have several partitions on your disk, I use a smaller partition for the OS and another one for data etc. I’ve found a great guide on how to relocate your Groove 2007 data files to another disk and it works for Groove 2007 in [...]

MS Web Deployment Tool – Beta 2 Released

Peter Schmidt — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:46:16 +0000

Microsoft has released the latest version of the new Microsoft Web Deployment Tool for Internet Information Services (IIS). It the new wonder tool for migrating web servers and sites, in it’s current form it supports the following features: Migrate entire servers or individual sites from one machine to another (IIS6 –> IIS7) Sync Servers, Sites, and Applications (IIS6 [...]

Wordpress URL Rewrite on IIS 7.0

Peter Schmidt — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:13:06 +0000

Found this special ISAPI “WordPress URL Rewrite”, it’s a free ISAPI application for IIS 7.0. The features are: Can run with multiple WordPress installations in an IIS Web Site (for example: / and /MyBlog/) Has a configurable path Exceptions list (for example: defining /Forum as an exception would prevent any pages in this folder from being re-written) Works [...]

OCS – Communicator videos

Peter Schmidt — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:34:39 +0000

Microsoft has put online some small, but very informative videos, about how to use the Communicator client. Great for new users to the Communicator. Subjects are: Use Office Communicator for Instant Messaging How to Save Time with Tagging How Presence Can Make You More Productive How Your Contact List Can Make You More Productive addthis_url [...]

Messaging security

Peter Schmidt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:04:27 +0000

This post is not directly Exchange related, but more general about one way of enhancing messaging security, so it’s actually relevant no matter what messaging platform you have. In this post I’ll try to outline some of the hosted mail gateway security products that are available on the market. A mail gateway is generally used to [...]

Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup Update 4 Released

Peter Schmidt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:04:45 +0000

As previously written in one of my earlier posts and on msexchangeteam.com, a pre-release version of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580) was inadvertently made available to Microsoft Update, the Microsoft Update Catalog, and Windows Software Update Services (WSUS) servers for download and soon after taken offline again. Now the final [...]

Experts Exchange – Free Access

Peter Schmidt — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:38:41 +0000

Simon Buther aka Sembee has blogged about how to get free access to the Experts Exchange forums. Experts Exchange is a large international IT community for IT professionals. To get full access to site you need to pay, but there is a option for free signup as well. Read Simons full blog post on the free access [...]

Microsoft Web Platform – beta released

Peter Schmidt — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:49:47 +0000

Microsoft has announced and release the first beta of the Microsoft Web Platform. The Microsoft Web Platform is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including the IIS7, SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer. The Microsoft Web Platform is a reliable, high-performance [...]