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I have an decent excuse for not reporting this earlier.

I had 4 infected and impacted wisdom teeth removed this morning. As strange as it sounds, I haven't felt this good in a long time. I suspect they had been bothering me and festering for a long time.

With that out of the way, I recommend installing this rollup as a precursor to Exchange 2007 SP1.

The fixes include:

KB 930463 - You receive NDR messages for some recipients when you send e-mail messages on an Exchange 2007-based server

KB 937656 - You experience problems in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2007 after daylight saving time (DST) starts in New Zealand in 2007

KB 936300 - A mailbox move operation stops responding when you move a mailbox from an Exchange 2003 mailbox store or from an Exchange 2007 mailbox store to another Exchange 2007 mailbox store

KB 932561 - Appointments that are sent from one Exchange organization to another by using Exchange 2007 may be incorrect by one hour if one organization is in the Western Australia time zone

KB 937861 - You receive a non-delivery report (NDR) message when you try to send an e-mail message to a third-party connector address by using a third-party connector on an Exchange 2007-based computer

KB 938359 - The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service stops responding in Exchange 2007 after you enable the Standard Response option on a moderated public folder

KB 940052 - Error message when you use the Exchange Management Console to try to reconnect a mailbox to a user account: "The specified mailbox is not unique on database"

KB 933314 - Mobile devices cannot send e-mail by using the AirSync feature in an Exchange Server 2007 organization that has more than one thousand accepted domains

KB 939560 - Users cannot download offline address books in Exchange 2007 when you use Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration version 4.0

You can download it directly from here, and read about the changes here.

By the way, Elan has a good writeup on Exchange 2007 SP1 and Windows 2008 over here.

Hopefully, no rogue blog writers will steal it.

This KB has some good guidance on troubleshooting and/or fixing certificate errors for intranet users that are receiving certificate warnings but external users (Outlook Anywhere) do not.

I recommend reading over the article completely but the 'quick fix' for this issue is to do the following:

1. Start the Exchange Management Shell.

2. Modify the Autodiscover URL in the Service Connection Point. The Service Connection Point is stored in the Active Directory directory service. To modify this URL, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
Set-ClientAccessServer -Identity CAS_Server_Name -AutodiscoverServiceInternalUri https://mail.contoso.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml

3. Modify the InternalUrl attribute of the EWS. To do this, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity "CAS_Server_Name\EWS (Default Web Site)" -InternalUrl https://mail.contoso.com/ews/exchange.asmx

4. Modify the InternalUrl attribute for Web-based Offline Address Book distribution. To do this, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
Set-OABVirtualDirectory -Identity "CAS_Server_name\oab (Default Web Site)" -InternalUrl https://mail.contoso.com/oab

5. Modify the InternalUrl attribute of the UM Web service. To do this, type the following command, and then press ENTER:
Set-UMVirtualDirectory -Identity "CAS_Server_Name\unifiedmessaging (Default Web Site)" -InternalUrl https://mail.contoso.com/unifiedmessaging/service.asmx

These steps assume that a host record exists in the DNS to map the FQDN that you specify to the IP address of the CAS server.

As always, you will want to replace every instance of mail.contoso.com with your actual domain information.

Test drive the Beta 2 of Exchange 2007 SP1 without impacting your production environment. Check out Standby Cluster Replication (in theory), and some of the Powershell additions since RTM. It is going to be a good service pack!

You can download the Virtual PC / Virtual Server prebuilt images here.

This can be handy during a migration from Notes to Exchange 2003 and/or better interop between Lotus Notes URL links and Outlook Web Access. You can now unblock "notes://" URL links with this hotfix.

Please note:

After you apply this hotfix, you must create the AdditionalSafeURLScheme registry entry. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK
2. Click the following registry subkey: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\ParametersSystem\InternetContent
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.
4. In the details pane, type AdditionalSafeURLScheme, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click the AdditionalSafeURLScheme registry entry, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type NOTES, and then click OK.
Note: You can add other URL prefixes as necessary by using a comma-separated list.
7. Exit Registry Editor.

Has hell frozen over or am I reading this correctly? Microsoft and Cisco have agreed to make their Unified Messaging products interop and work together. I've seen it first hand with Exchange 2007 and Cisco's phones, but this is a good thing overall!

Read more about it here.

KB 939531 details the requirements for unified messaging integration. As you can tell by reading over the document, a lot has changed/fixed/added since RTM.

A unified release fo unified communications.

Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2 was released yesterday to MSDN and TechNet Plus. To go along with it, Forefront for Exchange SP1 Beta 2 came out too.

Noteworthy E2K7 SP1 items
1. Standby Continuous Replication
2. Office Communications Server 2007 integration
3. Windows Server 2008 support
4. New and enhanced Exchange ActiveSync Policies
5. Zune and XBox OWA themes

Elan goes into more detail about Exchange 2007 SP1 here.

Noteworthy Forefront for Exchange SP1 item - support for Exchange 2007 SP1!

You can download Forefront for Exchange 2007 SP1 here.

Sometimes I can't believe the things people do sometimes.

Look at the website here (my coworker's site)

Look at the website here (notice how the content and screenshots look alike?)

As of today, 08-13-2007, they are practically identical, if not word for word in most entries. Not only that, the second site is hotlinking the graphics directly from the original site.

Unbelievable.

Original

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Update: 08-14-2007 - The website mentioned above went offline with a generic "Under construction" page instead.

SYMPTOMS
The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service encounters virtual memory fragment issues on a server that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. When you check the performance counter on the Exchange 2003 server, the VM Total 16MB Free Blocks counter of the MSExchangeIS performance object drops to zero. To resolve this problem, you must restart the server every two weeks.

Read more about it here.

I would be curious to hear real-world results with this hotfix. I have a server that I suspect might be running into this issue, but it hasn't been proven or disproven yet.

Office Communicator Server 2007 RTM download is here, and Office Communicator 2007 RTM download is here.

A .msi containing over 30 different documents for OCS 2007 and OC 2007 is available here.

The SDK is available here.

The Resource Kit is available here.

The Web Scheduler is available here.

Sidenote: "Appear Offline" functionality, and hyperlinks within OC 2007 are disabled by default but are controllable by the ADM group policy files.