Unified Comm

I wrote Trika an e-mail last week asking about what was required for the MCITP in Exchange because the Microsoft Learning website originally indicated that passing either 70-237 or 70-238, as long as you had also passed 70-236.

The end result was an update to the MS Learning website and a post from Trika about it.

It looks like it came out a few days early. I know I will be downloading this and build up a few VMs to give it a go. The fun really starts when you combine it with Exchange 2007 Unified Communications.

Grab the trial versions of the public beta here.

Register for it here.

Read more about the announcement here.

After many hours of troubleshooting and rebuilding servers into the wee hours of the morning, my coworkers have determined, through trial and error and much frustration, that if you downloaded Exchange 2007 32-bit in December 2006, you will have a working unified messaging install.

If you have downloaded Exchange 2007 32-bit from Microsoft's site since sometime in January or February 2007, you will most likely receive an MSI error code 1603. We've reported it, through many avenues, to Microsoft, so that they will hopefully check and possibly fix the binaries that are available for download from Microsoft's site.

I will edit/revise this entry once I have more solid information but I figured this was worth writing about!