Microsoft has released today the Release Candidate of Small Business Essential 2011. Ideal as a first server for small businesses with up to 25 users, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials provides a cost-effective and easy-to-use solution to help protect data, organize and access business information from virtually anywhere, support the applications needed to run […]
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Recently, I started to configure my Exchange 2010 Server as UM server. To do that, I’m using Trixbox as a software IPBX. I successfully configured my IPBX as well the Exchange UM role (dial plan, user UM enabled…). During my test I was able to reach the Exchange auto attendant or leave voice message, but
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If you published your Exchange 2010 services (OWA, Outlook Anywhere, EAS…) using ForeFront Unified Access Gateway (ForeFront UAG), you may have trouble with Outlook Anywhere after you deployed the Service Pack 1 for Exchange. Indeed, Exchange Web Services and Autodiscover Service may not work anymore when connected remotely. The first thing is to check if
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As you may already know, you can access to a SharePoint site using an iPad; at least using the Safari browser. However, there is an important point to know. The iPad can ONLY access to a SharePoint site published on standard HTTP/HTTPS communication ports (80 or 443). If you set a different port for hosting
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Microsoft has published the TechDays 2011 application for Windows Phone 7. With this application you have access to the sessions description (this already includes room ), you will be notify in live for any change (time schedule, room…), have access to the TechDays 2011 blog, speaker bio… Go to the Marketplace
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I’m using ForeFront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) and ForeFront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) for a while. These servers are virtualized using Hyper V R2 and running Windows Server 2008 R2. Almost since the initial installation of both software I experimented slow server starting (about 20 min to start) while other server were running smoothly. I
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Microsoft has released a tool to analyze the vulnerability surface of your platform before or after a product installation. This tool is now in beta. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=e068c224-9d6d-4bf4-aab8-f7352a5e7d45&displaylang=en It’s compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (R1 and R2) in x32 bits and x64 bits.
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To follow my previous about an issue with SharePoint Designer when accessing a SharePoint site published with UAG (http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2011/01/07/sharepoint-uag-issue-with-sharepoint-designer-when-accessing-sharepoint-site-through-uag/) here is an update. To avoid the error ‘The server could not complete your request’, you have to disable the smuggling protection located on the Web Server Security tab on the application property
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Following my previous post, here is a quick step to install and use the IIS warm up module. Download the IIS Warm Up module from http://www.iis.net/download/ApplicationWarmUp Launch the setup program and follow the wizard; there is almost nothing else than accepting the license agreement. Once the setup is finished, you have to enabled the module.
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Many of SharePoint administrators have implemented a warm up script to improve responsiveness of SharePoint after a server reboot or an IISRESET. For example, with SharePoint 2010 you may have created a PowerShell script like this one: # Warmup the local SharePoint sites Function Warmup-Site { Param([string]$url) Process { $wc
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