Lync: July 2011 update

Lync Client 2010 (64bit)
kb 2571543
link Microsoft download

Lync Client 2010 (32bit)
kb 2571543
link Microsoft download

Lync Server 2010
kb 2493736
link Microsoft download

Lync 2010 Group Chat Server
kb 2571550
link Microsoft download

Exchange 2010 - Manage Full Access Permissions

You need to give another user access to a mailbox?

Use the Manage Full Access Permission wizard to grant Full Access permissions to users or groups for a selected mailbox. You can also use this wizard to remove Full Access permissions from users or groups.

When you grant the Full Access permission to another user for a mailbox, that user will be able to log on to the mailbox and access its entire contents.

Find the mailbox in the EMC (Exchange Management Console)

Right click the mailbox and “Manage Full Access..”

Click Add and Find/Select the User/Group you want to give access to.

Click Manage and the permissions will be applied.

 

PowerShell is much quicker though.

Adding Permissions

Add-MailboxPermission -Identity "mailbox_you_need_access_to" -User "user_or_group_looking_access" -AccessRights Fullaccess -InheritanceType all

Removing Permissions

Remove-MailboxPermission -Identity "mailbox_you_need_access_to" -User "user_or_group_remove_access" -AccessRight FullAccess -InheritanceType All

 

Adding the Mailbox into Outlook

In Outlook 2007/10 Open your account Settings ..

Select your account and click Change

Choose the More Settings ..

Add the email Account that you want to access.

Click Ok, Next and Finish.

From Outlook Web App (OWA)

Right Click your name above the Inbox.

Select Open User’s Inbox ..

Enter the name of the mailbox you want to open; and click Ok.

OR

In Outlook Web App, go to Options

Manage, Another User

Find the user and Click Ok.

Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 Removed from Download Center

Microsoft have discovered an issue impacting some customers who have installed Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 into their Exchange environment and as a result have removed SP1 RU4 from Download Center and recommend customers do not proceed with any planned deployments of SP1 RU4.

A small number of customers have reported when the Outlook client is used to move or copy a folder that subfolders and content for the moved folder are deleted.

For more information please visit.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/07/13/exchange-2010-sp1-ru4-removed-from-download-center.aspx

Coming soon VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi 5)?

Whats new?

ESXi 5 host / 512 virtual machines / 160 logical CPUs / 2TB of RAM
32 vCPUs / 1TB of RAM per VM
VMFS-5 64TB (Thin Provision Stun / Space Reclaim)
Image Builder (custom esxi builds)
Auto Deploy (pxe boot and image deployment)
vCenter Virtual Appliance (Linux based virtual center)
vSphere Storage Appliance (local disk presented as NFS storage)

Cloud Infrastructure

 

 

For more info please visit
http://www.vmware.com

Data Storage Changes for SharePoint 2010

Microsoft Share Point 2010 database increase from 200gb to 4tb; check out the Microsoft SharePoint Team blog for more information.

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=988

Exchange 2010 – Export Database to .pst

Have you ever wanted to export/backup your Exchange 2010 mailboxes to a .pst file?

Make sure you have created a share and your user has access to that share; please replace databasename with your Exchange Database name and replace uncpath with your fileshare.

This command will cycle through all users in the Database and export their mailboxes to alias.pst

Open the Exchange 2010 powershell prompt and run the following command.

$Export = get-mailbox –Database "databasename" ; $Export|%{$_|New-MailboxExportRequest -FilePath "\\uncpath\$($_.alias).pst"}

Exchange 2010 – build numbers and rollups

How do I find my Exchange 2010 build number?

Exchange Management console:

1. Start the Microsoft Exchange Management console.
2. Expand the Server Configuration objects.
3. On the right side, notice the Exchange version number.

Exchange Management shell:  

1. Start the Microsoft Exchange Management shell. 
2. Run the following command:

   get-exchangeserver
   or
   get-exchangeserver | fl

How do I find my Exchange 2010 rollup number/version?
Well that’s a different story; and one that is best described by the Exchange Guys here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/03/08/3409469.aspx

Exchange build numbers and release dates.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158530

Office 2010 – Service Pack 1 (SP1) Build Number?

So, Microsoft have released SP1 for Office 2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460049

If you have version/build 14.0.6023.1000 then congratulations you are using Office 2010 SP1.

If you select File/Help and

you will get the SP1 information.

SCCM 2007 – Console Rights for View Only

Have you ever needed to give remote users access to the SCCM console?  But only wanted to give them View/Read Only access?

On the SCCM Server add the user or group to the ..

then as SCCM Admin add the the user to the Security/Users

and right click user and select “User Security Rights”

start off with Add/Class

then Site/Read

you can then add read access to other classes as required.

Also check out the “Manage ConfigMgr Users Wizard”

Windows 7 Login Scripts – network share not mapping.

We recently encountered an issue with Windows 7 login scripts; specifically drive mappings not being presented.

If a different user logged onto the same PC the login script processed the request and the drive gets mapped, weird eh?

Things to check;
(1) UAC enabled?
(2) The user logging in has admin rights to the PC?

Solutions to try;
(1) Temporarily disable UAC and see if the Policy/Script works
(2) Remove the user in question from the local Admin Group on PC
(3) Refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624/en-us