A lot of people are confused as to how exactly you should configure DNS for Exchange 2007. But this isn't just limited to DNS, but how do you set up your Send Connectors, Receive Connectors, how both connectors relate to DNS and the SMTP banner, and how to allow your Connectors to advertise TLS to the outside world.That's what the purpose of this article is for. What FQDN … [Read more...] about Exchange 2007 Mail Flow (DNS Records, Connectors, and TLS)
Recovering from Server 2008 CCR Cluster Failure with Forcequorum
Server 2003 and Server 2008 Cluster Models are different in the following ways:Server 2003 utilizes the Shared Quorum Model for Single Copy Clusters and utilizes Majority Node Set for Cluster Continuous Replication Clusters. Server 2008 utilizes Majority Node Set for both Single Copy Clusters and Cluster Continuous Replication Clusters. When using Single Copy … [Read more...] about Recovering from Server 2008 CCR Cluster Failure with Forcequorum
PowerShell and its future
As has been stated in the past, I am currently learning PowerShell (I am new to scripting). Unfortunately, the last month has been a bit busy for me and I haven't been able to focus on PowerShell at all. But I'm getting back into it now. Upon getting back into it, I discovered a couple cool utilities as well as information about PowerShell's future and figured I would share … [Read more...] about PowerShell and its future
Advanced Group Policy Management 3.0
I've been checking out Microsoft Desktop and Optimization Pack a little bit lately. There are some fantastic tools in here such as:Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly known as SoftGrid) Microsoft Asset Inventory Service Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset Microsoft System Center Desktop Error … [Read more...] about Advanced Group Policy Management 3.0
October Communicator 2007 MSP Patch
Microsoft has released an updated MSP Patch for Office Communicator 2007. This can be downloaded here and more information is available here.This is resolves the following issues:* KB958659 - When you use telephony mode=4, you can only manually set the URI information in Communicator 2007* KB957793 - A Communicator 2007 client is unusually slow at startup* … [Read more...] about October Communicator 2007 MSP Patch
