“HMC provisioning issue: Adding machine into default OAB CAS Pool in Exchange 2007″

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ATTENTION HMC hosters - are you telling your customer you support iPhone? Figures this morning told of 1 million iPhone sales since launch.

Here’s the link the the EHLO article

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I have always been of the opinion that a ‘presentation’ is given by a person and that tools such as PowerPoint or Keynote should be used to deliver punch, highlights and provide a flow to the message. The details of the message can be included in speaker notes for sure, but the actual delivery comes from the person.

I’ve sat through more than a few (too many if I’m honest) presentations where the ’speaker’ simply reads through the information presented on the screen in fabulous verbosity! not fun and certainly not a valuable use of either of our time! So here’s my new presentation paradigm, put highlights on the screen to get attention, use graphics and animation where appropriate and timely to do so - a picture can say a thousand words, but sitting through pretty builds can just get boring. Make sure the notes supplied contain all of the information you are going to use - that’s what note are for, the slides should be clean and crisp.

And finally if your presenting, present, don’t simply read from the deck. Anyone can read, you have to engage.

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I wanted to share this little bit of knowledge, I couldn’t find any information out there so I played around until things worked.

Scenario:
I buy Office 2008 for the Mac - Home and Student Edition because it’s cheaper and I don’t have an Exchange server.
I update as updates come along, like the diligent user I am (should user be highlighted there.. I’m not sure!)
I use the Mac Mail application for ALL of my email, because I like it and it works well. I use iCal for my appointments for the same reasons.
I take on a job where I’m given a mailbox on an Exchange Server. Now, Mail will connect to an Exchange server using the IMAP protocol and this is fine on the whole, unless that Exchange SErver is 2007 in which case appointment invitations are irretrievable (this is an Exchange issue I believe as Outlook on a PC connecting with IMAP does the same thing).
Joy! I’m allowed to download Entourage with Exchange access from the service provider of the Exchange system - it’s hosted you see, a solution i wholeheartedly support of course!
Pain! I install the new Entourage and then am prompted to do an update, the update fails with the message:-

"You cannot install Office 2008 12.1.0 Update on this volume. A version of
the software required to install this update was not found on this volume."

This is of course no fun, it’s even less fun when I find that non of my Office applications now work either!

The solution was to remove the Office Suite from the machine (dragging the folder from Applications to the Trash and emptying it), re-booting, re-installing the Suite from the DVD, re-installing the new Entourage from the DMG I downloaded and then letting the updater loose on the system.

It looks like the bottom line on this is - if you change ANYTHING in Office, do it from a FRESH installation before you update. This is more than tedious, even today I had to re-downloaed SP1 and then get the 12.1.1 update too, this process is only going to get longer until the restrictions that the updater seems to be hitting are mitigated.

But it’s working now so I’m (reasonably) happy!

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• Work clothes x number of days with clients
• Tee-shirts x evenings away
• Jeans and cargos (1 pair each)
• Smalls to cover all of the changes.

Sometimes though I find myself thinking “If only I’d packed…”. Today is one of those times. Andover near Boston seems like a nice place, this is what I can see of it through the torrential downpour streaming from the skies outside the Chillis I’m currently ensconced within (GOOODD Habanero Wings!)

I got pretty wet on my walk here from the hotel to get my ‘MUST STAY AWAKE’ meal - actually as a side bar I’m interested in finding out anyone else’s routine to beat the clock? I have only 5 hours to gain somewhere but it seems that these short trips of destined to be tired and off-kilter! My usual routine, and this time was no exception, is land, get to hotel, get checked in, have an evening meal and stay awake until as late as possible (typically 9-10 pm). I then awake as fresh as a daiy at about 4 am ready for the world!!

Anyway, tonight’s meal segment of the process at Chillis (good margueritas too) has been accompanied by the thrumming of rain on the roof and I’m thinking that perhaps a raincoat might have been a good choice.. next time perhaps!avel

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Please note that unless you are seeing this particular issues in YOUR HMC deployment you should only apply these hotfixes if they are marked as ‘required’. IF you need help with the installation of these hotfixes Planet Technologies can undertake this on you behalf for a small fee through their On-Line Consulting service.

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Initial thoughts were that Silverlight was a client thing, so anyone wanting to host / deliver sites using this content type would not need anything on their servers and would just be able to FTP the Silverlight code up for things to work.
That is essentially correct, but you could also get a blank page or server error if some specific MIME types do not exist on the server.

Extension           MIME Type
.xaml                  application/xaml+xml
.xap                    application/x-silverlight-app

Options/workarounds:
-The service provider adds the MIME types for the entire server
-The site owner (if he is delegated the right) creates the MIME types at the site level

For .xaml files there is another alternative if these two options aren’t available. Rename the .xaml file to .xml file and it works, note however that this would have to be done for all files.

The good news for all of you cutting-edge hosters and web-geeks (like me) is that IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 has these MIME types set as part of the installation. So unless you’ve been playing around with the MIME type configuration, these workarounds will not be required.

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• Create Web-Sites, Web Applications, Virtual Directories and Application Pools
• Change Simple Configuration Properties on Web-Sites, Application Pools, Web Applications and Virtual Directories
• Add and Change Complex Configuration Settings
• Query Run-time Data (Web-Site State, Application Pool State, Currently Executing Requests)
• Execute Advanced Configuration Tasks, Scripting, Integration with other PowerShell Snap-Ins and features
• Search and Discover Configuration Settings

Here’s a very quick example of how powerfull this stuff is… with the Provider installed the following powershell command creates a site in IIS7! (Line break for formatting purposes!)

New-Item iis:\Sites\TestSite -bindings @{protocol="http";bindingInformation=":80:TestSite"}
 -physicalPath c:\test

This is going to be REALLY useful for anyone who wants to automate the deployment of IIS7 web sites and services on Windows Server 2008. For a full walk-through of this fantastic addition to Powershell check out the learn.iis.net site.

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It announced that Apple announced they have licensed the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol and are building support into the iPhone. I’m pleased to say that, as far as I can see the addition of this piece completes the package for me. With the addition of 3G connectivity to the handset I can see no reason (pricing notwithstanding) why we won’t see the adoption of this - let face it VERY cool - piece of kit.

Other handset updates:

• Nokia has revved their Mail for Exchange application and now supports it on most of the N and E Series smartphones. Mail for Exchange can be downloaded here.
• Sony Ericsson is shipping some cool phones with EAS support. Check out the W960i Walkman. And two that often get grabbed out of my hands are the Z750i featuring a “hidden” external display and the sleek K630.
• Palm is shipping the Palm Centro with EAS support.
• Remoba announced its EAS implementation, RemoSync, and expects to make it available soon.

- J.

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