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Internet Explorer 9 final version with Sinhala Display language

Paddy — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:06:28 GMT

Microsoft Have released IE version 9 (Final version) with Sinhala Display language option, now you can download from the bellow link

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/downloads/ie-9/worldwide-languages

Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming for Small Businesses

Paddy — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:45:30 GMT

Award-winning virus and malware protection available for both home and work. Microsoft is announcing that, Microsoft Security Essentials will become free to use for organizations with up to 10 PCs.

Isn't it a good news for small business owners !

Tech Insights 2010 Penang, Malaysia

Paddy — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:08:39 GMT

I’m excited and looking forward for the two sessions planning to deliver at Tech Insights, Penang Malaysia.

My 1^st session on “File classification infrastructure in Windows 2008 R2” http://www.techinsights.my/Agenda.aspx

Second Session on “Enabling secure always-on connectivity using Microsoft Direct Access” http://www.techinsights.my/Agenda.aspx

See you all at the Tech Insights 2010 Penang, Malaysia.

http://www.techinsights.my/Default.aspx

Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference

Paddy — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:58:47 GMT

You are invited to the biggest SharePoint event of the year!

www.sharepointconference.asia

Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference

Tuesday October 26 2010 – Wednesday October 27, 2010

Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore

**** Early Bird Discount for first 275 Registrations***

This is THE Conference to learn about SharePoint 2010.

A beautiful location. Over 40 sessions with three tracks from which to choose; Business, Voice of a Customer – Case Studies and TWO concurrent Technical Tracks. Local and International experts. Hundreds of Business and Technical people. An opportunity like no other, and you're invited.

Full details at http://www.sharepointconference.asia.

Platinum Sponsor

Running over two days, delegates will be able to visit exhibition and information booths, attend workshops, learn from motivational customer case studies and partake in educational seminars. There is something for everyone from end users, administrators and developers to managers and CIOs. Become part of the SharePoint community, connect at the conference and enjoy on-going benefits, resources and idea sharing after the event.

Audience and Technologies

The SharePoint Conference is intended for a wide audience and has content to cover roles such as:

· Business Roles like End Users, Business Champions, Power Users and Business Managers

· Information Architects, Record and Information Managers, IT Managers, CIO and Decision Makers

· Technical Roles including Developers, IT Pro, Systems Administration and DBA's

Microsoft Technologies covered during the conference include:

· SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010

· SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio

· Integration with other Microsoft Products including Office, InfoPath, Excel, Access and Visio

· Integration with 3rd Party products enhancing SharePoint functionality

Best of Local and International Speakers and Experts

We have an exciting line up of regional and international speakers to help make this a great conference. Over the coming weeks we will highlight some of the world renowned SharePoint experts who are coming to Singapore to share their knowledge.

Pre and Post Conference Workshops

Take advantage of the additional training opportunities on Monday October 25^th and Thursday October 28^th, with intensive half day workshops with hands on labs – 12 in total to mix and match to suit your needs. These cover Business and Technical Content by top international experts. These include:

SharePoint Governance
Planning and Managing SharePoint Projects
Spicing up your Site: SharePoint Designer
Improving Business Processes with Workflow (InfoPath and SharePoint Designer)

Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
Business Intelligence in 2010
Improving Document Management
Power User 2010
SharePoint 2010 Overview
SharePoint Development

Full details at Get to the Point Workshops. These workshops are HIGHLY recommended. Note that workshop costs are additional to conference registration and places are limited.

Accommodation

Accommodation should be booked directly with the hotel. Full details on accommodation rates are available on the Conference Website. There are a number of other hotel and motel options in the area.

Registrations Available Now

Group Registrations for 5 or more participants are available and will receive a 20% discount
Early Bird Registrations of $SGD300.00 will apply to the first 275 delegates who register.
Regular Registration fee is $SGD400.00

These rates include GST and also include attendance at the Networking Event 5:30-7:30 Tuesday 26 October.

Connect with SPC SEA

Web site: http://www.sharepointconference.asia/
Linkedin: http://events.linkedin.com/SharePoint-Conference-South-East-Asia/pub/364552
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/SharePoint-Conference-South-East-Asia/135980859759693
Twitter: #SPCSEA @spcsea

Password Reset option available in Exchange 2007 SP3

Paddy — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:25:48 GMT

This was one of the feature many Administrators ware waited for, though it’s available in Exchange 2010, it was something ignored in Exchange 2007, but now with the release of SP3, Administrators can allow OWA users to change their passwords, this comes really handy when you have many mobile users in your environment, though it’s available in SP3 by default this feature is turned off, you need to change following registry key in your CAS server in order to make it available to end users.

To enable the password reset feature

Log on to the Exchange server that is running the CAS role by using an account that has local administrator rights.
Start Registry Editor, and then locate the following registry subkey:

HLKM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange OWA

Create the following DWORD value if it does not already exist:

Value name: ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled Value type: REG_DWORDValue data: 1

Exit Registry Editor.

What’s new in Exchange 2007 SP3

Download Exchange 2007 SP3

Windows Live Essentials Beta available for public

Paddy — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:23:06 GMT

Microsoft have released public version of Windows Lice Essentials Beta,

you can download it from http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta

Discover new innovations and new improvements in Windows Live.

Good Job Windows Live Team

Have fun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Setting up permission on Exchange 2010 folders using ExFolders

Paddy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:51:23 GMT

With the release of Exchange 2010, WebDAV support for Exchange 2010 has taken off, so PFDAVAdmin (earlier version of ExFolders) is no longer usable to set permission on exchange folders.

ExFolders is the replacement of PFDAVAdmin for Exchange 2010 .

You can download this tool from http://msexchangeteam.com/files/12/attachments/entry453398.aspx

You must this tool from an Exchange Server 2010 machine with the Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology service, which means it will not currently run on a tools-only install. This might change in the future.

To run the tool : ExFolders.exe must be placed in the server's Exchange \bin folder. If you try to run it from anywhere else, it will simply crash.

Currant build of this program is not signed. In order to allow it to run, you can import the “TurnOffSNVerificationForExFolders.reg” file on the server where you want to run the tool

After importing the tool you can simply run the ExFolders.exe

And then select the GC and the Exchange Database which you wants to set permissions

Then Select the mailbox of the folder you wants to set permission

Right click and select folder permission

Then add the users and give the appropriate permission you want to give

Then click on commit changes

Then Right Click again on the root folder you wants to set permission

Click on Propagate Folder ACEs

Click on the check box in front of the user you wants to set permission and select Add/Replace to propagate the permission on all chilled objects or select remove if you wants to remove the permission from all chilled objects.

No Single Instance Storage in Exchange 2010

Paddy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:47:33 GMT

With a big change is store schema, Exchange 2010 don’t support Single Instance Storage, which means if you send 2 MB attachment to 10 people with in the same database, it will take up 20 MB of your database size, in previous versions Exchange DB only had one instance of that 2MB attachment.

With the removal of Single Instance Storage from 2010, the exchange product team estimates an increase in database size of upto 20%. This has to be considered when designing a 2010 environment. As the Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) is optimized for handling large (10Gb+) mailboxes in 2010. So this limitation is not a very big problematic when you conceder the scalability options available in Exchange 2010.

Announcing Additional Upgrade Scenarios for the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant!

Paddy — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:31:30 GMT

Microsoft has added new scenarios to the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant!

· Upgrading from Exchange Server 2007

· Upgrading from a mixed Exchange Server 2003/2007

· New Exchange Server 2010 installation

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Home

Error message when you try to remove Exchange Server from a mailbox server that no longer hosts mailboxes: "One or more users currently use a mailbox store on this server"

Paddy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:17:44 GMT

When you try to decommission Exchange 2000 or a 2003 Server from your exchange environment you will get the above error even after moving al mailboxes and services to another Exchange server in the same Org.

This happens because of you are having a user with his Exchange home server set as the server name you are trying to uninstall. Home server is defined in Active Directory with msExchHomeServer attribute

To find and move the affected mailbox to a running exchange server in your organization and perform your uninstall process without troubles, follow the steps below.

Go to Administrative Tools –> Active Directory Users and Computers

Right click on the Domain container and select Find.

In the Find Users, Contacts, and Groups dialog box, click the Exchange tab, click to select the Show only Exchange recipient’s check box, and Users with Exchange mailbox and then click Find Now.

Now to get msExchHomeServer attribute you need to change the view columns.

Go to the View menu, click Choose Columns.

In the Choose Columns dialog box, click Exchange Home Server in the Columns available list, click Add, and then click OK.

Click the Exchange Home Server column to sort the results in the Exchange Home Server column.

Now you can determined is there any user with Home Server attribute set to the affected server, so that you can either move that mailbox to any other available Server or remove the mailbox if its not required.

Download Exchange 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams…

Paddy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:34 GMT

This cool download contains architectural diagrams that illustrate the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server role and Hub Transport extensibility

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6eb8c09a-6ea4-442a-9faa-de33265ceb84&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29#tm

Exchange 2010 Deployment Assistant

Paddy — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:04:28 GMT

Another awesome work by the Exchange Team.

The Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant allows an Administrator to create Exchange 2010 on-premises deployment instructions that are customized to their environment. The Assistant asks a small set of questions, and based on a customer’s answers to those questions, it provides a finite set of instructions that are designed to get the customer up and running on Exchange 2010 and well on their way to decommissioning legacy servers. The idea is that, instead of wading through the 2000+ topics in the Exchange 2010 library, a customer can answer a few simple questions, and the Assistant gives them just enough customized content to do the upgrade.

Currently, content is available for customers upgrading from Exchange 2003. Additional upgrade scenarios will be available in the tool in early 2010.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exdeploy2010/default.aspx#Home

Missing Out of Office assistant option in outlook 2003 tools menu

Paddy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:24:49 GMT

I had a user who said he’s missing his Out of Office assistant option in outlook 2003 tools menu.

He’s able to access his Out of Office assistant option through OWA but not with Outlook 2003, then I found the issue, you can follow the below instruction to get Out of Office assistant option back in outlook 2003.

Open Outlook

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, click Other, click Advanced Options, and click Add In Manager.

2. If Exchange Extensions Commands appears in the list of add-ins, click to select it.

3. If Exchange Extensions Commands is not on the list, click Install. From the list of add-ins that appears, double-click Emsuix.ecf

This should solve the missing Out of Office assistant option issue.

How-to Change logon screen in Windows 7

Paddy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:12:14 GMT

If you want to change your logon screen background to a image that you like instead of the default one, there are many ways to do that.

one is changing the registry key

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\Background

and setting the OEMBackground key value to 1.

and then creating a folder “info\backgrounds”under %windir%\System32\oobe\

and then placing your image file with a size of 256kb with a file name of backgroundDefault.jpg.

that is too much to do to change my logon image, here is the simple and easiest way.

download this free and simple tool and you are done, you can put any image into your logon screen with few clicks.

http://tweaks.com/software/tweakslogon/

Note: if your image don't match with your screen resolution this tool will adjust it accordingly, so make sure you select a image with required size and quality

Exchange Server 2010 RC mailbox server role un-installation error

Paddy — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:37:43 GMT

I tried uninstalling my Exchange 2010 server which was running all my server roles and I came across with the following error when it try to uninstall the mailbox server role.

"Uninstall cannot continue. Database 'Mailbox Database 2315386291': This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes. To get a list of all mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database . To get a list of all arbitration mailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database -Arbitration. Before you can remove this mailbox database, you must disable, move, or remove user mailboxes and move arbitration mailboxes. "

I tried removing all the mailboxes using the GUI, even after removing all the mailboxes i was getting the same error, then I tried removing the database itself, but no luck, even the database cannot be removed until you remove the arbitration mailboxes out of the database,

even though you remove all mailboxes using GUI there are arbitration mailboxes which is NOT visible in GUI are present in a mailbox server.

To remove the arbitration mailboxes you need to follow the below steps. (You need to use Exchange Management shell for this, no GUI)

1st you need to get arbitration mailbox IDs before you can remove them, for that go to Exchange Management Shell and run the following command.

Get-mailbox -arbitration | fl name, identity

I don’t have the screen shots put here because I already uninstalled my server.

After running above command you can get the list of arbitrations mailboxes and mailbox IDs associated with them.Then you run the following command with related mailbox ID to remove them one by one.

Remove-mailbox -identity "domain.com/Users/SystemMailbox{1f05a927-563f-4671-8a1b-487764400889}" -arbitration -RemoveLastArbitrationMailboxAllowed

Or you can run below command to remove all arbitration mailboxes out of the server
Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | Remove-Mailbox -Arbitration -RemoveLastArbitrationMailboxAllowed

Now you can proceed with your un-installation of your Exchange 2010 mailbox server.

Happy un-installation!!.

Paddy

Internet Explorer 9 final version with Sinhala Display language

Free Microsoft Security Essentials Coming for Small Businesses

Tech Insights 2010 Penang, Malaysia

Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference

Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference

Tuesday October 26 2010 – Wednesday October 27, 2010

Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore

Take advantage of the additional training opportunities on Monday October 25th and Thursday October 28th, with intensive half day workshops with hands on labs – 12 in total to mix and match to suit your needs. These cover Business and Technical Content by top international experts. These include:

Registrations Available Now

Group Registrations for 5 or more participants are available and will receive a 20% discount Early Bird Registrations of $SGD300.00 will apply to the first 275 delegates who register. Regular Registration fee is $SGD400.00

These rates include GST and also include attendance at the Networking Event 5:30-7:30 Tuesday 26 October.

Password Reset option available in Exchange 2007 SP3

Windows Live Essentials Beta available for public

Setting up permission on Exchange 2010 folders using ExFolders

No Single Instance Storage in Exchange 2010

Announcing Additional Upgrade Scenarios for the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant!

Error message when you try to remove Exchange Server from a mailbox server that no longer hosts mailboxes: "One or more users currently use a mailbox store on this server"

Download Exchange 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams…

Exchange 2010 Deployment Assistant

Missing Out of Office assistant option in outlook 2003 tools menu

How-to Change logon screen in Windows 7

Exchange Server 2010 RC mailbox server role un-installation error

Group Registrations for 5 or more participants are available and will receive a 20% discount
Early Bird Registrations of $SGD300.00 will apply to the first 275 delegates who register.
Regular Registration fee is $SGD400.00