July 2008 - Microsoft Teams & Staff

Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers

Hey everyone, This is Jerry Bryant. I am the Business, Operations & Communications Manager on the Security Response Communications team. I am writing to let you know about a new process we are implementing regarding the questions and answers from our monthly security bulletin webcast. Attendee’s...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 4:53 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Filed under: Webcast Q&A

Update: A study of Exchange 2007 SP1 Hub throughput with different message sizes

Background This is a follow up to my recent post: A study of Exchange 2007 SP1 Hub throughput with different message sizes . Please refer to this post for full background information and test details . I promised in that post that I would add results...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2008 3:44 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, Exchange 2007, Role: Hub Transport

Increased Threat for DNS Spoofing Vulnerability

Hi. Bill here. Today we released Microsoft Security Advisory (956187) to warn you of public exploit code available for Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-037 (Vulnerabilities in DNS Could Allow Spoofing (953230). We have investigated the public exploit code and have determined that customers who have installed...

Published Fri, Jul 25 2008 1:01 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group - 7/30

Please join us next Wednesday July 30th, 4-7PM PST for the next meeting of the UCDoers - Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group meeting ! The UCDoers will meet at the McKinstry Company located at: 5005 Third Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 5:15 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Community

Where does the time go? -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd

Enterprise Communications Support (formerly known as Exchange Messaging Support) has recently seen an increase in support incidents around the -519 Jet_errLogSequenceEnd issue. In this blog I will explain this issue in detail, why it may occur, how to...

Published Wed, Jul 23 2008 1:51 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, Troubleshooting

Windows Search 4 coming to WU

Hello folks, I am finally back from a long vacation, hopefully everyone is doing alright. Since there has been a lot of movement in the blog, I also wanted to bring to your attention the post that the MU folks have just added to their blog which relates...

Published Tue, Jul 22 2008 5:18 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

EWS CAS to CAS Request Proxying

In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, the EWS team added a new feature called EWS Request Proxying. It is sometimes also referred to as EWS Proxy or HTTP Proxy. Not much has been said about this feature, but if you care about performance, it is important...

Published Fri, Jul 18 2008 1:32 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Development, Outlook Web Access, Role: Client Access

Reminder - Windows Search 4 coming to WU soon...

Hi everyone – Thought I’d drop a line and remind you that we’re planning to release Windows Search 4.0 ( KB940157 ) via Windows Update sometime in late July. Windows Search 4.0 updates previous versions of Search in Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP SP2 and Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2008 7:14 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: Windows Update, Content

So many drivers...

Hi all, Anyone who added "Drivers" to their WSUS synchronization options may have noticed a large number of driver updates showing up in their WSUS server recently, and the majority of them have the same title. We wanted to let you know what's...

Published Wed, Jul 16 2008 7:07 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Vista SP1 available on WSUS

Hey all, You may have noticed that yesterday we made Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available on WSUS to help make it easy for you to deploy into your organization. There are a couple of different packages so I thought I’d jot down a note so you could understand...

Published Wed, Jul 16 2008 7:02 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Exchange Server Documentation Updates - July 2008

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates . To see what...

Published Wed, Jul 16 2008 3:29 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Documentation, Documentation updates

iPhone 2.0; Welcome to Exchange!

If you've not heard; Apple released iPhone 2.0 today which includes a software update to the existing iPhones in the market (yes, we mentioned it when it was announced as well). We're thrilled to add them to the family of Exchange ActiveSync...

Published Fri, Jul 11 2008 8:04 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Outlook Web Access, Role: Client Access, Mobility

Update 2: Microsoft Security Advisory (954960)

Hi. Bill here. I want to let you know that customers running Windows Server Update Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2008 may experience an issue installing the update provided in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 954960 . The update does not correctly elevate privileges, which are required...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2008 9:23 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

Revision for MS08-037

Hello, This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to take a moment and let you know about a revision that we’ve made to MS08-037 today. After the release of MS08-037 , we became aware of reports of ZoneAlarm customers experiencing issues after applying the security updates. We started investigating these reports...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2008 5:04 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Storage Deep Dive

Wanted to let you know about this Webcast as it is happening next week... Ross Smith IV is presenting; you can expect an awesome look into designing Exchange 2007 Storage! You can find the details and register here: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Exchange...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2008 1:12 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Community, Storage, Role: Mailbox