Microsoft Business Productivity Online

Vox is announcing availability of the Microsoft Online Services. Below you will find a link that you can use to initiate a free 30 day trial. The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite includes:

 Hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007
Hosted Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007
Hosted Live Meeting 2007
Hosted Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007

https://mocp.microsoftonline.com/site/services/bpos/signup.aspx?offer=suite”eid=2860610e-b5ef-4480-8ae4-7beaff86a513

** Business Productivity Online Standard Suite ** Sign up for a 30-day trial!
This trial includes 20 user licenses for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Live Meeting, and Office Communications Online

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Please contact Chad McGreanor at Vox Network Solutions if anyone has any questions:

cmcgreanor@voxns.com

Vox Network Solutions is a Microsoft Certified Partner and a Microsoft Small Business Solutions Specialist

Millions Switch from Notes to Exchange

“In our last fiscal year (July 2008-June 2009), more than 4.7 million people began the switch to Exchange and SharePoint from Notes”, Exchange marketing director Julia White posts on the Unified Communications blog.

Read more here:

http://blogs.technet.com/uc/archive/2009/07/23/notes.aspx

OWA HTTP Redirect URL in Exchange 2007 sp1 on server 2008

This is not as easy as it sounds.  Here is what I done.

By default, IIS7 has built-in automatic HTTP Redirect feature which allows us to redirect to any URL without us having to write any custom scripts.

To accomplish the task, you can follow these steps on the CAS server role hosting OWA:

Step 1:

0, install http redirect feature in the IIS role

1,Log on Interne Information Services (IIS) Manager

2, Switch back to Features view of the "Default Web Site" and double click on "Error Pages".

3, In the Actions pane, click on "Edit Feature Settings" and under "Error Responses", select: "Custom Error Pages". Then click OK

4, In the Actions pane, click on "Add" and configure the following

a) Status code: 403.4

b) Click on Respond with a 302 redirect and provide the absolute URL: https://owa.mycompany.com/owa

Note: Make sure you are using "https"

Step 2:

1,Open IIS 7 Manager

2,Highlight the Default Website and ensure we are in the Features View

3, Double click on HTTP Redirect icon

4, Check the option "Redirect requests to this destination:" and type the absolute OWA URL: https://owa.mycompany.com/owa

5, Under Redirect Behavior section, select the option "Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories)"

6, From the drop down, select the Status code: Found (302)

7, Click Apply to save the settings

8, Run IISRESET /noforce command in CMD for the settings to take effect.

Exchange Event ID 9554

I recently encountered some weird Event ID 9554 erros appearing in the event log with the following details…

Unable to update Mailbox SD in the DS. Mailbox Guid: 00e30e16-0f89-4b65-bbcc-f39e7ed1ffe6. Error Code 0×80070005

I found a tool called ADFIND that can be downloaded here:  http://www.joeware.net/freetools/tools/adfind/index.htm

Basically what is happening is that the permissions for the GUID’s mentioned in the log are not inheriting the permissions from the parent.  We had 2 accounts doing this and another admin had modified the individual permissions for those accounts and caused the error.

Using the ADfind tool you can find out the actual user name of the account having the problem and go to properties in AD users and computers and check the allow inheritable permissions from parent to propagate to the user.

Use this syntax:

C:\AdFind>adfind -gc -b "" -binenc -f " msExchMailboxGUID={{GUID:00e30e16-0f89-4b65-bbcc-f39e7ed1ffe6}}" –dn

You should receive a user account in the output.  Replace the GUID information with information from your own error.

Exchange 2007 External test site

I just found out that there is a external test site that will test all of your external settings for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.  It will test autodiscover settings, Outlook Anywhere settings and alot of others.  Site link is below:

http://testexchangeconnectivity.com

Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008 Outlook Anywhere not working

I have recently began working with Exchange 2007 and Windows Server 2008.  After I disabled UAC and all the firewalls (yes there is more then 1) it was actually usable.  I installed Exchange Server 2007 which I have done many times before and configured all the autodiscover settings and went to fire up Outlook anywhere and it did not work.  So I read around and saw there were some issues with IPv6 with Exchange Server 2007 SP1 if you did not have Update Rollup 4 or greater.  I had Update Rollup 8 installed so I did not think that would pertan to me.  So here is the errors I got:

When attempting to connect using Outlook 2007:

• The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action.

 

When I tested connectivity using http://testexchangeconnectivity.com I got the following:

“Failed to ping RPC Endpoint 6004 (NSPI Proxy Interface)”

So I went back to the server and tried to telnet to each rpc port on the CAS server. The ports RPC over HTTP uses are 6001, 6002, and 6004.  I could connnect to all of them except 6004.  The solution to the problem was to disable IPv6.  Solution below:

 I went to the network card properties and de-selected IPv6 and then went to the HOSTS file and commented out :::1    localhost then added the hostname and fqdn of the cas server.  This could be the same server you installed all of your roles on, or a seperate CAS server.  Then I added the ip address of the server as well:

ssfex1   10.1.2.2
ssfex1.ssf.voxns.com 10.1.2.2

Attempted to telnet to ssfex1 6004 and everything worked.  i tested connectivity at http://testexchangeconnectivity.com and all tests passed.  Then I tried Outlook 3007 again and was able to connect this time.

So apparently IPv6 is still an issue even if you have all of your patches on.