MM&M UG UK

Here is a tip from a colleague of mine at Dimension Data, Sam Taylor. When configuring Office Communicator Mobile you may well find that it will not work unless you add an allow rule to the client filter. Not sure why, but the original setting is to block...

By default it is required that in order to be able to administer users for OCS, (i.e. to enable and configure and delete them) you need to be a member of the RTCUniversalServerAdmins group. You will also require the OCS MMC snap-in which extends the Active...

Hi, It seems that there is a new version of Exchange System Manager 2003 which actually supports Vista! For more info take a look at the link below: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3403d74e-8942-421b-8738-b3664559e46f&displaylang=en...

Hi, I have always known that Live Communication Server (LCS) and Office Communication Server (OCS) were able to be configured to use something called Public IM Connectivity (PIC). However, I had never had the chance to actually use it until this week....

Hi. Here are the details of our September MMMUG meeting. This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. This month we have a exciting session led by John Stewart-Murray from Dialogic. John will be introducing...

I have recently been working with a client to create a resource booking system using Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007. Generally we had the functionality nailed, however, one part of the system was the use of Outlook Category colors to identify different...

Hi, This came up recently on a forum and I thought it worth mentioning. "Since moving to win2008 DC/GCs (and ex2007sp1 on win2008 as well) all of a sudden we have been unable to manually create rpc/http profiles with Lookout 2007. Automatically created...

Hi, As some of you might know, there is a new Exchange section on the Simple-Talk site. I have written an article for them about Exchange 2007 as a resource booking system. Take a look at the link below: http://www.simple-talk.com/exchange/exchange-articles/using-exchange-2007-for-resource-booking/...

Hi, A while back the guys at Train Signal sent me a copy of their latest Exchange 2007 training DVDs by fellow Exchange MVP Dave Shackelford. Now honestly, I didn't have a lot of time to look over them, however, a colleague who is studying for his Exchange...

Hi, I recently found this useful resource listing the various ports that different Microsoft applications make use of. No doubt this will be of use when troubleshooting pesky firewall issues! http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832017   Cheers Natha...

Here is this months UC rollup mail from MSFT: Enjoy! News You Had Me At EHLO... http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx Office Communications Server Team Blog http://communicationsserverteam.com/...

Hi, Here are the details of our July MMMUG meeting. This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. This month we have a great session led by top speaker Gordon McKenna! Gordon will be going into depth about how...

I'm a bit slow off the mark with this one but here is the latest UC information from MSFT.   Unified Communications News You Had Me At EHLO... http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx...

I guess I may have mentioned this on here before at some point, but last year I was lucky enough to be asked by Jim McBee to write a chapter of a book he was involved with. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Implementation and Administration (pub. Sybex/Wiley)...

Here is a bunch of links and info about the UC products from MSFT. Enjoy!   News You Had Me At EHLO... http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx Office Communications Server...

Hi, I haven't blogged for a while due to one thing or another (being rather busy at work, being ill, and trying to sort out a rather large 2008 Community Launch event) Anyhow, I just received a most welcome email informing me that my MVP for Exchange...

Over the last few months I have been working with a couple of my colleagues from the UK IT Pro User Groups to put together a special event which will take place in April. On Tuesday and Wednesday 8th/9th of April we will be holding the 3rd Combined IT...

Over the last few months I have been working with a couple of my colleagues from the UK IT Pro User Groups to put together a special event which will take place in April. On Tuesday and Wednesday 8th/9th of April we will be holding the 3rd Combined IT...

Microsoft recently sent out the latest updated information for the Unified Communications area. Here it is!     Unified Communications News You Had Me At EHLO... http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx...

Hi All, See below details of the March MMMUG Meeting. This month the event will be held in Warwick at the office of Berica Ltd.   As promised we are finally moving out of the capital for some events, and this time, we will be focusing on both Exchange...

This is a topic which has come up on one of our internal mailing lists at work. It brought up some interesting info which I thought I would share.   Here was the question: A client is looking at Open Source messaging as opposed to Microsoft Exchange....

Hi, Following on from my recent post about Exchange certificates and how to set them up for Exchange 2007, I notices a useful post on Jim McBee's blog. http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2007/11/exchange-2007-certificate-command.html Basically, digicert...

Hi, I have been quite busy recently! So there are now a bunch of new articles available on the MMMUG site. They can all be found on the Articles page linked below (or individually as shown lower down!)   http://www.mmmug.co.uk/content/ArticleList.aspx...

Hi, Here is a problem I was struggling with last night which I have fixed this morning and thought I would share!   I was trying to use Exchange Management Shell to disable a send connector to an Edge server. It works fine, expect I am prompted about...

Hi, Here is a post I reworked from a forum which I moderate. I thought it had an interesting solution which I would share. The scenario is as follows: A user is using Office 2003. She has her mailbox as well as an additional shared mailbox resource where...