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Exchange 2007 Migration with Cisco Unity 5.x – Part 1
Tweet One of my customer’s has been using Cisco’s Unity product for some time now (now that we are closer to having Exchange 2007 running there, we are evaluating Exchange 2007′s UM capabilities along with OCS 2007 and finding it may be more cost effective to move off of Cisco in the long term). More about the strategies of the technology later… for now, I’ll talk more about the Cisco Unity modifications required to keep UM working while Exchange is migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007…. Before we go to far, I want to point out that the configuration in question here is a single Forest, Single Domain, all of the Exchange servers are in this domain, two sites (one unity installation per site), and Unity is configured in failover mode. The first … Read entire article »
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Pacific Northwest UC Doers User Group Meeting – 4/29
Tweet Wednesday April 29, 2009 from 5:00pm – 7:00pm Microsoft Campus Building 41 – Townsend Room (Corner of 156th Ave. NE and NE 31st St.) Redmond, Washington The Pacific Northwest UC Doers group is still going strong!! Fourth Quarter in a row and we are going to move to the Microsoft Campus for a little while. We have had the last few over at the gracious McKinstry offices (Thanks you so much, we hope to return to your offices soon!!). This meeting will be held on the heals of the INTERACT 2009 conference so there will be loads of great people to meet and things to talk about. More info to come soon! If you have something to discuss, have a presentation you’d like to give, or have things you’d like to see on this quarter or … Read entire article »
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Moving POP3 email to Exchange Online
Tweet The guys over at the Microsoft Online Services blog recently released a PDF guide for migrating from a POP3 environment to an Exchange Online environment. After reading through the pdf, I found that the basic overview did well to cover the steps necessary to migrate (handy in fact considering I was in the process of planning a migration for a customer)… Given that Exchange Online has just barely been available to customers, it is impressive that there is really this much guidance already. There is a Solution Accelerator for planning your move to Microsoft Online, the IPD guide (Exchange Online – Evaluating Software-plus-Services) I talked about earlier, and various blogs and websites like MSExchange.org discussing the ease of use, the Microsoft Exchange Online Forums, among others. The cost thing is something to consider, my friends over at … Read entire article »
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Microsoft Online – Summary
Tweet Microsoft Online is definitely a good addition to the Microsoft suite of offerings. The administrative interface and AD-sync options allow customers to engage with the solution easily and for those smaller organizations really take the leap to shared uniform messaging without the bother of an internal shared network. With that as a starting point, organizations can grow into a dedicated offering where mailbox sizes and customization is at offered and will cater to much more complex customers. My earlier reviews of the sign-up process, setting up a new domain space, Accepting inbound email on Exchange Online, Creating Users, Accessing email, and service requests are all a place to get more information. One area that is skipped in most of the Microsoft offered planning excersises is how to grow from Exchange Online Standard -> Exchange … Read entire article »
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SCR Failover Using /RecoverCMS Fails with RU3 Installed
Tweet Recently I was at a customer site who is using CCR & SCR for the replication strategy. The configuration has been going great and we have all the users routed through the Client Access Servers for OWA & Activesync. With all this success, we were anxious to get started on our SCR testing. The client was a little worried about how SCR failovers would happen and of course nervous about losing data. Not to worry, we’ve done these failovers with a reasonable amount of success for a few years now…. Well halfway through the failover, we have the databases restored and try to take over the cluster…. and Boom!!! A Big annoying error pops up stating: You must perform disaster recovery using the same version of Exchange as the last installed version. The … Read entire article »
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Exchange 2007 CAS Installation Error
Tweet Recently I was at a customer site helping to get Exchange 2007 up in their lab environment. This customer in particular has a lot of projects going and just didn’t have time to implement all of them on their own (I’m seeing a lot more of this these days). The customer had gone through and done some Exchange 2007 work previously in the lab, but due to the incoming projects didn’t have time to finish it up. Due to this they ripped out what they had and left a somewhat semi-installed Exchange 2007 server in their Exchange 2003 org. I know this scenario is fairly common. But the interesting thing I ran into was after I manually removed the remnants of the Exchange 2007 server they had left in the domain. … Read entire article »
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Microsoft Online – Part 5 Service Requests
Tweet By now, your bound to need a service request… Not to worry though!! The experience is not too bad at all!! My case was an account unlock. In one of those, “oops we’ll get that feature in by RTM” moments, I found an annoying reason to submit a service request. so I went to the support tab, Clicked New…. and went on my way… The things required to submit a ticket were straight forward and felt much more like a corporate ticketing system instead of a Microsoft Support request. In the end, I had a new active service request. And within two hours I had a phone call back to discuss my issue and ge tthe case resolved. The guy on the phone, William Fiddes, was great and had all of my questions … Read entire article »
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UCDoers Meeting Recap
Tweet The last UCDoers meeting was great!! Per Farney and Greg Taylor from the Microsoft Certified Master’s program came and gave us the run down on the program. They left us with a deck, but sadly no recording of what they said, I guess you have to attend to get the details. The meeting didn’t stop there though…. SQLSoft stopped by and gave the attendees $250 off any MS class. This was great of them to do. We have asked them to come back and keep giving attendees FREE stuff!! They agreed of course We had a discussion about the difficulties of prioritizing implementations of new products as an IT organization. With MS releasing all of these things at once to save Marketing dollars, how are IT departments to properly prioritize which … Read entire article »
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