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As part of the recent upgrade to Outlook Live R3, PowerShell V2 CTP3 will be required to connect to Outlook Live beginning on Monday (4/13/09). PowerShell V2 CTP2 will no longer establish a connection and will result in a failure notification. To connect to Outlook Live, please download and install the...
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One of our Exchange Escalation Engineers, Brad Hughes, in conjunction with one of our PMs, Shawn McGrath, has just launched a new tool that can be used by customers to test the internet-facing aspects of an Exchange Environment; it is called the Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer , and it is...
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Some customers may have noticed in Outlook Web Access for Outlook Live that the Tasks folder has disappeared. This is in fact the case, but Tasks in OWA will return sun-tanned and ready for action again in our next service iteration, R4, several months from now. In the meantime however, Tasks is/are...
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Some customers make extensive use of standard distribution groups in Outlook Live to organize and communicate with users. Just like it is possible to create and manage mailboxes with CSV files… the same is true of groups, and you can write a script to do this. You should use CSV Parser as a guide here...
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A topic that comes up in conversations I have with customers from time to time has to do with all of the different ways Exchange can be consumed as a service. Well… m’colleague, Mark Garcia has just blogged on this here: http://blogs.technet.com/ucedsg/archive/2009/03/10/what-are-my-choices-for-exchange...
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A customer asked me today if there is a quick way to modify an attribute across all of their mailboxes with the same value. The attribute in question was PostalCode. There are a several different ways to do this… probably the best way is to use the CSV Parser script with a csv file containing the updates...
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Just a quick shout out to one of my customers in Oregon… Coos Bay Public Schools . They have just released a case study with us on their Live@edu deployment! http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003627 Go Coos Bay! Jonny
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I do a load of workshops with customers, and in support of this, I had created what can loosely be described as a Workshop Manual. Anyway, I have just updated it for use with R3/Outlook Live and the latest and greatest versions of the PowerShell/WinRM CTP releases. Here it is: It has even now got a Table...
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A question that came up LOTS in the past on Exchange Labs had to do with disabling user access to mailboxes… the typical scenario was that an institution wanted to carry our an investigation about a student, and pending the outcome, no access to email should be permitted. This scenario has now been addressed...
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So, my first podcast on R3… and I thought I would start at the beginning… where else? Double-click to view in full screen Download To interact with Outlook Live through PowerShell, you will need to authenticate using your administrator LiveID and create a remote PowerShell session (in R2, these were...
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Exchange Labs is undergoing an exciting transformation as we upgrade to the latest service release of the offering; R3. As part of this upgrade, we are also be taking the opportunity to announce our final release branding of the service ; it will now be known as Microsoft Outlook Live®. The URL that...
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M'colleague, Richard Wakeman has just kicked off his blog on ILM/MIIS. Any of you that lan on using this a a technology to sync your on-prem identities with the LiveID service would do well to check it out and start raming up on just how powerful and flexible this technology and related technologies...
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A topic that I get asked about from time to time by customers has to do with mail migration from a legacy mail service to Exchange Labs. We are still working on our own migration tools, but this is not to say that migration is impossible today; you do have some options. You can get your end user population...
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A customer asked me about this during the week... the answer is yes, it is possible to have multiple instances of CSVParser running. Each full admin account that you create can have 2 instances of Powershell running (will rise to 3 soon) and in each session you could be running CSVParser to populate...
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Just last week at the CES show, Microsoft released a new technology called Microsoft Tag - the site is here: http://tag.microsoft.com . So what is it, and how is this relevant to education? Well imagine putting posters up around your institution with a little tag, just like the ones you see below in...