August 2008 - Microsoft Teams & Staff

New Visual Studio 2008 Product Category

And the new categories keep on coming! There will be a new product category added to your WSUS server Products and Classifications dialog, under the Visual Studio family today. The new category will be titled Visual Studio 2008. The Visual Studio 2008...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 5:47 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

IE 8.0 Beta 2 on WU

For all you WU users who happen to be running Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 system, we wanted to let you know that today we’re releasing IE8 Beta 2 to Windows Update so that getting the latest Beta is super easy and convenient for you (note IE8 Beta 2 will be made...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 5:26 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: Microsoft Update, IE 8.0

New categories appearing on WSUS

Hello folks! Today you will see two new product categories in your WSUS Synchronization Options dialogs: Windows Server 2008 Server Manager – Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Dynamic Installer and Windows Server 2008 Server Manager Dynamic Installer...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 4:43 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

A Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package is available for Windows Server 2003

Just wanted to post a quick note that yesterday we have released a new Scalable Networking Pack (SNP) hotfix rollup package for Windows Server 2003 . This is all in relation to a blog post on the subject that we have posted a while ago. Mike has posted...

Published Thu, Aug 28 2008 10:20 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 VSS Backups

There have been some blogs on VSS backups in the past. Over last few months, we have worked on several cases where troubleshooting VSS was required. Seeing that the documentation around how to troubleshoot this is somewhat lacking, we decided to put together...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 12:04 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Troubleshooting, Storage

TechNet Webcast - MCS Talks Enterprise Architecture session 3 - Messaging

The third session in the MCS Talks Infrastructure Architecture Webcast series will build on the previous sessions by sharing MCS field experience of how messaging solutions are being implemented today. Enterprises face many decisions when deploying Microsoft...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 7:47 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Webcast

New Product Family

Hello folks, The MU team has published a note on their blog regarding a new category on Windows Update and WSUS in preparation for Win 7 beta updates and drivers in the not so distant future. Thanks! WSUS Team.

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 3:46 PM by WSUS Product Team Blog

Voice Mail and Discoverability with Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging

Exchange 2007 was the first release of Exchange to include Unified Messaging (UM) and this was the first time many of our customers started considering replacing their existing voice mail systems with UM. As with any new technology, many have sent in...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 1:27 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Transport & Routing, Unified Messaging

New Product Families - Windows 7

Yesterday a new product category for Windows 7 Client was published to Windows Update and was made available to WSUS (another one for Windows 7 Server should be appearing soon as well). As with all of our other new product categories, this is for Microsoft teams who are publishing Windows 7 beta drivers...

Published Thu, Aug 21 2008 12:25 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updated to v 15.6

Please go to our Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator updates tracking page to see what is in this new version! A blog post explaining the calculator (updated for this new version) is here . Comments welcome! - Ross Smith IV Share this...

Published Wed, Aug 20 2008 2:52 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Storage, Role: Mailbox, Clustering, Tools

Microsoft Virtualization and Licensing Announcements

Today Microsoft announced some significant changes to its licensing and support policies for applications in hardware virtualization environments. There are two key parts of the announcement worth highlighting for Exchange customers: Microsoft now supports...

Published Tue, Aug 19 2008 6:07 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Hyper-V, Virtualization

Exchange 2003 ESM for Windows Vista released

Just wanted to drop a quick note that we have now released a version of Exchange 2003 Exchange System Manager (ESM) that runs on Windows Vista. this has been a frequent request so - now it is here! You can download the package and related release notes...

Published Mon, Aug 18 2008 9:11 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, Administration

Utilizing Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook V3.0 functionality in the Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool V 2.0

This August 2008, Microsoft has released an update to the Outlook Time Zone Update Tool. This new version (Version 3.0) offers, amongst others, better support for Israel and Brazil with regards to time zone handling and rebasing of calendars. The Exchange...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 3:12 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Tips 'n Tricks, Exchange 2007, Administration, Outlook, Tools

Things to Know about Windows Search 4.0 installation...

Hey everyone, Windows Search 4.0 has been available on WU for a few weeks now, and we've been getting some questions about installation failures and error code 0x643. We've done some investigation and found out that the installation failure in this case may actually be caused by the computer...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 2:02 PM by Microsoft Update Product Team Blog

Filed under: Windows Update, Content

Security Bulletin Webcast Questions & Answers - August 2008

Hi, During this month’s webcast we were able to address 15 questions in the time allotted. There were several questions regarding ActiveX for the Cumulative IE Update (MS08-045), the Access Snapshot Viewer (MS08-041), Outlook Express Messenger (MS08-050) and the ActiveX Kill bits Security Advisory. We...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 12:33 PM by The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC)