Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Lync 2010 CU4 (November 2011)

Updates are;

Download the Lync.msp x86 package.

Download the Lync.msp X64 package.

Download the LyncServerupdateInstaller.exe package.

KB; http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2493736

Don’t forget after your server install to run the following PowerShell script;

Install-CsDatabase -Update -ConfiguredDatabases -SqlServerFqdn < EEBE.Fqdn > -DatabasePaths <RtcDyn log path>, <RtcDyn data path>

Where <EEBE.Fqdn> is you’re frontend server when running the Standard edition and the SQL server when running in Enterprise edition.

EMC Avamar 5 and Exchange 2010 Backups

On your Exchange 2010 Server install the following clients (or later) in this order;

AvamarClient-windows-x86_64-5.0.106-28.msi
AvamarExchangeVSS-windows-x86_64-5.0.106-28.msi

Make sure that your Avamar Backup User is a member of the local Administrator account (or recommended part of the Domain Admins).

Within Avamar you should now see the following

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Check the advanced options prior to backup within the Avamar Console depending if you have a DAG etc.

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Thursday, 13 October 2011

iTunes error 3194

Just got this error when trying to update to ios5 on iPad v2.

Check the following;
On windows PC
edit c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\host
and put a # in front of the following
74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com
becomes
#74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com
Save and Exit.

What worked for me was my PC was no longer authorised with iTunes;

Go into iTunes, store and Authorise this Computer.

Try updating again; hopefully this helps?

Monday, 10 October 2011

Samsung Galaxy SII and Exchange 2007/2010

My wife recently purchased the glorious Samsung Galaxy SII; setup was a breeze until I tried connecting it to Exchange. 

I kept getting the username and passwords do not match even though they were correct; being lazy I thought it was something I had misconfigured so I deleted the profile and started again; same error!

Did a quick Google hoping to find a solution and found lots of people with the same error; so I started digging a bit more (which was easy because I manage our Exchange environment!)

In order for Exchange integration to work on a mobile device it uses ActiveSync which is SSL and port 443 onto the Exchange Server.

If you login to Exchange OWA; Options you should see something like this; click phone and your devices will be shown to the right.

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As you can see the Samsung SII did actually connect to the Exchange Server but something happened that prevented the device from fully connecting;

What I suspect had happened was the phone did not have a pin or complex password for the Unlock screen as by default a security policy will be sent down to the phone even if the Exchange security policy is blank; the user must then accept the policy which then gets applied and the phone is accepted for ActiveSync.

In my situation this still did not work; what did work for me was removing the device from Exchange;

Select your Phone as follows;

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And carefully select the X (delete) icon as shown in red below; this will not wipe or do anything to your Phone; rather its removing the device from your Exchange profile.

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Once this has been removed; power off and back on your phone and complete the email process again; hopefully all should work. You should also accept the Exchange Security Policy and after a few minutes your emails should start to Sync.

I have noticed this scenario a few times with other Android devices and I suspect its either a bug or the device is not fully supporting Microsoft’s ActiveSync (which is licensed by the phone provider).

One other last tip; the username has to be domain\username don't get confused by the label of Domain: Username.

I hope this helps.

Monday, 8 August 2011

Exchange 2003 and Mailbox Language

Scenario; your in another country and you check your email via OWA and for some reason the language within OWA and Outlook changes?

Fix, try this:

1. Open control panel, expand "Regional and language options","Regional Option", select "English" or your chosen language.

2. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International] = "AcceptLanguage"="en-GB"

3. log off and log on to your machine

4. Start, Run

Outlook /resetfoldernames


Exchange 2010 and Mailbox Language

PowerShell prompt;

Set-Mailbox -Identity "Joe Blogs" -Languages "en-GB"

Language Codes

Friday, 5 August 2011

VMware vSphere 5 Licensing and Pricing Update

As Citizen Smith would say ‘Power to the People!’

VMware has decided to double (x2) the vRam entitlements under its new licensing rules.

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Does it go far enough?

http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/2011/08/vmware-vsphere-5-licensing-and-pricing-update.html