Mar24
End-User Protection is a new feature of System Center Data Protection Manager 2010. It’s very advantageous for the IT department to protect end-user workstations such as Accounting, Executives, and Sales staff. The protection comes in the form of VSS snapshots of the desired data, set to a schedule. I’ll walk you through a typical “Agent” install by pushing to a target workstation from the...
Posted by Robert Mouton on
Wednesday, 24 Mar 2010 03:28.
Mar24
This article explains how to use Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010 to recover data from offline storage (OST) files. Without Outlook, this procedure generally requires the purchase of third-party OST-to-PST conversion software. When using “Cached Exchange Mode”, Outlook stores a local copy of your mailbox in an Offline Storage file with a .OST extension. This file is located at C:\Users\<userna...
Posted by Greg Tate on
Wednesday, 24 Mar 2010 08:19.
Mar19
Microsoft announced in this press release yesterday that Dynamic Memory will be added to Hyper-V in the Service Pack 1 release for 2008 R2. While there is not a specific ship date for SP1, I would guess based on past release cycles that it could be late Q3 or early Q4 2010. So what is Dynamic Memory and how will it benefit customers? First, let’s talk about the hypervisor in Hyper-V and compare...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Friday, 19 Mar 2010 11:13.
Mar11
After migrating from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, we began noticing that address book downloads failed during a manual send/receive operation with: ‘error (0x8004010F) operation failed. An object cannot be found.’ Basically, this error is happening because Outlook 2007 and higher clients rely on web based distribution of the offline address book, and that address book is not found on ...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 01:51.
Mar8
The default speakerphone setting for a SNOM phone is ‘quiet room.’ This can cause the recipients on the other end of the phone to complain about call quality. After playing around with some of the settings we found that the most optimal setting is ‘normal room.’ This is found in the Setup > Advanced > Audio > Handsfree Mode. After making a change, be sure to click on the Save button. T...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Monday, 8 Mar 2010 03:28.
Mar8
Office Communications Server 2007 R2 allows for delegates to schedule Live Meetings or Conference calls on behalf of other users. There are three steps required to set this up. Step 1 - On the manager’s system, share the calendar with the delegate as follows: 1. In Outlook, click Calendar. 2. On the File menu, point to Folder, and then click Properties for Calendar. 3. In the Calendar...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Monday, 8 Mar 2010 03:01.
Mar4
In my blog series covering the transition from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010, I mentioned here that Blackberry Enterprise is fully supported, and that RIM announced a free version on February 16th called BES Express. BES Express was first made available for download on March 2nd. On March 3rd, RIM announced that each BES Express download qualifies for one free support incident. There is a compar...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 4 Mar 2010 05:22.