Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Update 2 is an update to Forefront UAG that provides a number of functionality updates and other improvements.

The following is provided by Forefront UAG Update 2:
• Citrix publishing support—Forefront UAG fully supports Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and its replacement Citrix XenApp 5.0.
• Citrix client computer support—Forefront UAG supports client computers with 64-bit operating systems accessing Citrix XenApp applications.
• Client Components—The Forefront UAG SSL Application Tunneling component is now supported on 64-bit Windows 7 operating systems for 32-bit applications.
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)—Forefront UAG fully supports publishing remote desktops using VDI.
• SSTP user and group access control—Forefront UAG now provides a finer authorization mechanism allowing administrators to authorize individual users or groups for SSTP access.
• SSL handshake—Forefront UAG now provides better handling of the SSL handshake including the case when the application server requires client certificate credentials for the negotiation.
• MAC address support—Forefront UAG Network Connector supports a wider range of network adapters with a larger valid MAC address range.
Find more information about Forefront UAG as follows:
• To read the latest Forefront UAG documentation, visit the Forefront UAG TechCenter library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=179306)
• To read about up-to-date issues, visit the Forefront UAG Product Team blog (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1565126)
• For support issues, visit the Forefront UAG forum (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=1565136)

Kind regards,
Catastrophic Failure “JV”

Microsoft® Office 2010 Roadshow

H Microsoft Ελλάς έχει την τιμή να σας προσκαλέσει σε σεμινάριο που οργανώθηκε ειδικά για εσάς τους συνεργάτες μας, με σκοπό να ζήσετε από κοντά την μοναδική εμπειρία του νέου Microsoft® Office 2010, μιας σουίτας εργαλείων που ενισχύει την παραγωγικότητα και βοηθά στην αποτελεσματική συνεργασία από διαφορετικά σημεία της πόλης σας, της Ελλάδος ή και του κόσμου.

Ελάτε να δείτε από κοντά πως μπορείτε να αξιοποιήσετε τις νέες δυνατότητες του Microsoft Office 2010 τόσο σε επαγγελματικό επίπεδο δράττοντας την επιχειρηματική ευκαιρία για αύξηση των πωλήσεων και της κερδοφορίας μέσω των νέων ολοκληρωμένων λύσεων και υπηρεσιών όσο και σε προσωπικό επίπεδο, χρησιμοποιώντας τις ίδιες εφαρμογές για να ανταλλάσετε, διαχειρίζεστε πληροφορία χωρίς να χάνετε κανένα δεδομένο από τους προσωπικούς σας υπολογιστές, από το κινητό σας τηλέφωνο ή από ένα Web browser.

Τέλος, θα ενημερωθείτε για τη συμβατότητα του νέου Microsoft Office 2010 με το «σύννεφο» (Cloud computing) και θα εξεταστούν όλες οι νέες εξελίξεις στον τομέα αυτό.

Το σεμινάριο θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο ξενοδοχείο Porto Palace (26ης Οκτωβρίου, Θεσσαλονίκη) την Παρασκευή, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010.

Η εκδήλωση απευθύνεται στα στελέχη πωλήσεων και στους τεχνικούς των συνεργατών μας.

Την τεχνική εκπαίδευση θα πραγματοποιήσει ο κος. Χρήστος Σπανουγάκης, MCT, MVP ενώ θα ακολουθήσει demo των χαρακτηριστικών της πλατφόρμας Microsoft Office 2010 από τον κ. Παναγιώτη Βογιατζή, Multinational Partners Account Manager της Microsoft Ελλάδος.

Δηλώστε σήμερα τη συμμετοχή σας κάνοντας κλικ εδώ.

Η συμμετοχή στην εκδήλωση είναι δωρεάν, οι θέσεις όμως είναι περιορισμένες.

Προσθέστε την εκδήλωση στο ημερολόγιο σας.

Agenda

10:00 – 10:30

Προσέλευση – Εγγραφές – Καφές

10:30 – 13:00

Τεχνική Εκπαίδευση

Μέρος 1^ο – Ολοκληρωμένη λύση αυτοματισμού γραφείου με τα Microsoft Office & Small Business Server: Εγκατάσταση και παραμετροποίηση

Χρήστος Σπανουγάκης, MCT, MVP

13:00 – 13:30

Διάλειμμα για καφέ και snack

13:00 – 15:30

Τεχνική Εκπαίδευση (Συνέχεια)

Μέρος 2^ο – Ολοκληρωμένη λύση αυτοματισμού γραφείου με τα Microsoft Office & Small Business Server: Ολοκλήρωση σε επιχειρηματικό περιβάλλον

Χρήστος Σπανουγάκης, MCT, MVP

15:30 – 16:00

Διάλειμμα για καφέ – Εγγραφές: Παρουσίαση Πωλήσεων – Live Demonstration  

16:00 – 17:00

17:00- 18:15

18:15-18:30

Παρουσίαση Πωλήσεων – Live Demo

Παναγιώτης Βογιατζής, Multinational Partners Account Manager, Microsoft Ελλάς – Έβελυν Νικολάου,  OEM Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Ελλάς

· Office 2010: Η επιχειρηματική ευκαιρία & τα οφέλη για τους πελάτες σας:
Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Business Contact Manager, Publisher

· Microsoft BPOS: On-line σουίτα παραγωγικότητας

· Small Business Server: Νέα έκδοση με αυξημένες δυνατότητες

Microsoft OEM: Διαθέσιμοι πόροι κατασκευαστών και προγράμματα συνεργασίας
Έβελυν Νικολάου – OEM Partner Development Manager, Microsoft Ελλάς

18:30

Cocktail

Many of you who have migrated or are still migrating public folders from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 or 2010 have run into replication failures due to property validation. This validation was first introduced in Exchange 2007, and I initially blogged about some those issues in this old post on EHLO. I later posted a script on my personal blog that fixes some of those problems, and described another troubleshooting technique here.

While the validation was good in that it kept ‘bad’ items out of your shiny new public stores, the items usually weren’t ‘bad’ in a way that a user would ever notice. Maybe they had a null Category, or the PR_SENDER_NAME was empty, or the start/end dates on an appointment weren’t all in sync. And while my script fixes a few of the problems, some of the problems can’t be fixed and the item simply has to be deleted.

For any of you still struggling with these issues, I have good news. Exchange 2010 SP1 completely turns off validation for items in public folder replication messages. Once you apply SP1, any public folder replication problems due to validation will simply go away.

Of course, this means that on your new public stores you might end up with items that have bad Category values and similar problems. If you like, you can still use my script to correct some of those problems, but in most cases the users never notice them anyway.

Exchange 2010 SP1 will make life a lot easier for anyone still migrating public folders from Exchange 2003. We are evaluating a similar fix for Exchange 2007.

Source:  Bill Long many thanks for this great post.

Internet Explorer 9 Beta is available in many languages. You can download Internet Explorer 9 Beta in the language that matches your version of Windows or choose the English version, which works with all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. For additional information, see How do I install or uninstall Internet Explorer 9?

If you need help finding out what version of Windows you’re running, see Is my PC running the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows?

Some IE 9 Characteristic’s:

Cross-site scripting filter

Protect against online threats with cross-site scripting filter

Cross-site scripting attacks are a leading online threat. Their aim is to exploit vulnerabilities in the websites you visit. How do they work? By compromising legitimate websites with malicious content that can capture keystrokes and record your login information and password. If your login information and password is captured, your personal data could be compromised.

Internet Explorer 9 includes a cross-site scripting (XSS) filter that can detect these types of attacks. If vulnerabilities are found,Internet Explorer disables the harmful scripts. The cross-site scripting filter is turned on by default to help protect you.

Experience faster and more efficient browsing with Internet Explorer 9

All-around fast

Hardware-accelerated text, video, and graphics

The new graphic capabilities and improved performance inInternet Explorer 9 set the stage for immersive and rich experiences. Hardware-accelerated text, video, and graphics mean your websites perform like the programs that are installed on your computer. High-definition videos are smooth, graphics are clear and responsive, colors are true, and websites are interactive like never before. With sub-system enhancements like Chakra, the new JavaScript engine, websites and applications load faster and are more responsive. Combine Internet Explorer 9 with the powerful graphics capabilities that Windows 7 has to offer, and you’ll get the best web experience onWindows yet. See it in action at beautyoftheweb.com.

Installs faster, starts faster

The shorter, streamlined installation of Internet Explorer 9 is faster than previous versions. It requires fewer decisions on your part, takes less time to load pages, and doesn’t require that you install updates separately. Once it’s installed, you’re ready to start browsing.

Pinned Sites

Get to your favorite sites faster with Pinned Sites

With Pinned Sites, you can get to your favorite sites directly from the Windows taskbar—without having to open Internet Explorer first.

Pinning a site takes seconds: click the icon to the left of the web address in One Box, the tab for the website, or the website’s icon on the New Tab page and drag it to the taskbar. That’s it. Once a site is pinned, it shows up as its own thumbnail, separate from Internet Explorer. Now all it takes is one click to get to your favorite website.

Each site that’s pinned to the taskbar has a Jump List. Some also have thumbnail preview controls like playing or pausing a video, which you’ll see underneath the thumbnail preview. And some sites you pin have icon overlays, which provide information about the status of a website, such as the number of new messages in your inbox.

By pinning a site, the site is at the center of the experience, not the browser. When a pinned site is launched from the taskbar, the browser frame and navigational controls integrate the site’s icon and primary color, providing an experience that’s tailored to the site you’re viewing.

New Tab page

Manage your favorite sites with the New Tab page

Internet Explorer 9 surfaces the websites you love most and puts them one click away. Once you’re in the browser, the New Tab page helps get you started browsing quickly, providing meaningful suggestions and information to help you decide what to do next as you browse.

Each site’s icon and primary color is used on the New Tab page to help your more easily identify each site, which is helpful when you have many sites to choose from. Also, a site indicator shows if the site is one you visit often or not. Your favorite sites are shown with the sites you visit most frequently listed first. And if your taste in favorite sites changes over time, no problem—you can close them to remove them.

From the New Tab page you can also reopen closed tabs, reopen your last browser session, or start InPrivate Browsing. InPrivatesessions won’t track page visits in the New Tab page. You can also pin sites from the New Tab page to the taskbar for quick access to your favorite sites.

Enhanced tabs

Manage multiple websites with enhanced tabs

With Internet Explorer 9, web navigation and multitasking are easier than ever.

Tear-off tabs

Tear-off tabs and Snap make it easy to view two websites at the same time

Tear-off tabs make interacting with multiple sites fast and intuitive. You can rearrange tabs within Internet Explorer 9—just like you can rearrange icons in the taskbar in Windows 7—or you can open any tab in a new browser window by dragging that tab to your desktop. If you need to view more than one webpage at a time to accomplish a task, use Tear-off tabs together with Snap. It’s a great way to show multiple webpages side-by-side on your screen.

Make access to your favorite sites easy. Drag a tab and pin it directly to the taskbar or to the Start menu. Or, drag a tab to the Favorites bar. Whichever you choose, your favorite sites will be right at your fingertips.

Add-on Performance Advisor

Browse uninterrupted with Add-on Performance Advisor

Add-on Performance Advisor is designed to ensure thatInternet Explorer 9 starts fast and stays fast by helping you control the add-ons you install.

Add-on Performance Advisor works by identifying add-ons that may be slowing down your browser and—right from the notification area—giving you the information you need to disable the add-on or fix the problem. Load times for each add-on are shown so you can see how each one impacts your browsing experience. You’re able to make an informed decision to use the add-ons you find valuable and disable those that are less useful or too slow. It all adds up to browsing that’s faster and more efficient for you.

Download Manager

Keep your downloads in order with Download Manager

Internet Explorer 9 has an integrated way for you to access, monitor, and interact with the files you download: Download Manager. It’s a single program that lets you see the status of your downloads, provides information about whether they might be potentially harmful, offers a full range of security checks on the downloaded files, and shows you the final location of your downloads.

Download Manager is integrated with the Windows download folder. It’s an easy way to interact with file downloads, which means you can sort, print, or send your downloads to another location, just as you would with other files. You can also use Download Manager to control your downloads, including everything from running or opening files to pausing or canceling downloads. You can even delete downloads from Download Manager.

Download Manager also works with Smartscreen Filter to help protect you from malicious downloads. Potentially risky downloads are immediately blocked. Download Manager then clearly identifies higher risk programs so that you can make an informed decision to delete, run, or save the download.

Whether downloading a small file or several large files, you can still browse without interruption. And if a download is interrupted, you’ll be able to quickly resume downloading the next time you startInternet Explorer 9. So if you encounter a network connection problem or have to shut down your computer, you can pick up right where you left off.

Tab isolation and recovery

Browse uninterrupted with Internet Explorer 9

If you lose your connection to a website while usingInternet Explorer 9, your entire browsing session won’t be lost. Reliability features like tab isolation, Automatic Crash Recovery, and Hang Recovery keep you browsing without hiccups.

Browse uninterrupted

Website crashes are isolated to individual tabs, not entire browser windows. If a site crashes on one tab, the rest of your browsing session isn’t interrupted. You keep browsing, undisturbed. After the problem is identified, Internet Explorer 9 automatically recovers the tab. If one or more of your tabs closes or crashes unexpectedly, they’re automatically reloaded, and you’re returned to the site you were on before the crash. Internet Explorer 9 also includes new support for hang recovery, so that you will be prompted if the website you’re trying to access is not responding or is timed out for some reason.

Clear messaging

Internet Explorer 9 communicates problems when they arise. Tab or hang recovery messaging, integrated into the Notification Bar, clearly states what the problem is, so you’re able to better understand what, if anything, you need to do to address the issue.

One Box

Surf or search with One Box

Whether you want to navigate to a website or start a search, you have a single place to go in Internet Explorer 9—One Box.

Surfing and searching—all in one place

With One Box, surfing or searching the web is a snap. You can start typing a web address and AutoComplete anticipates what you’re looking for to help you get to your websites quickly. And because search functionality is integrated into One Box, you don’t have to worry about remembering the full web address—type in familiar terms like “news” or “music” and you can get to the sites you love in a flash.

Trying to locate something on the web? Searching from One Box gives you a quick way to find what you’re looking for. Depending on the search providers you use, as you type words, search suggestions, search results—including visual search results—and headline matches or other relevant suggestions are shown in the drop–down list. Click a suggestion to run the search without having to type any more words. And you can add search providers or change the provider you want to use right from the bottom of the drop–down list as well.

Your privacy

The privacy of information that you enter into One Box is an important part of the Internet Explorer promise. You’re in control of what information, if any, gets shared with search providers. From the address bar drop-down list, you can choose to turn on search suggestions or turn them off. If you choose to turn search suggestions on, the text you type is sent to the search provider as you type it rather than being sent after you finish typing and press Enter.

• HTML5, Hardware Accelerated: First IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers

Kind Regards
Catastrophic Failure “JV”

The primary function of this Add-in is to add a couple of buttons to the Outlook ribbon to prevent people from doing a reply-all to your message, or forwarding it (using a facility built into Outlook & Exchange which is really lightweight compared to using IRM machinery, but which is not exposed in the existing UI).

However, it also includes a check for email goofs such as omitting attachments or subject lines. This works with both Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, as long as you’re using an Exchange account.

When you install this thing, you’ll see a couple of extra buttons at the end of the ribbon: No Reply All and No Forward. As the names suggest, clicking on these will prevent recipients of your emails from performing those two actions, clicking again toggles the relevant option off again.

Download it from http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/60860f41-88ab-4bb4-8104-765feca9cfed/default.aspx

Unzip to somewhere on your local PC and run setup.exe.

Kind regards,
Catastrophic Failure “JV” 

New Threat items known so far

• Mass mailer Seems to mail via mapi somehow from clients we do not believe it is via Outlook though
• http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Worm%3aWin32%2fVisal.B MSAV Encyclopedia writeup for this threat.

Microsoft Forefront Products

• FCS/FEP/MSE anything that uses the MSAV engine/signatures is currently waiting for new signature set should have signatures that address this in build 1.89.1389.0 and higher.
• 1.89.1390.0 has just been published Out of Band.  (4:10 pm Pacific)
• If you are using any of the Forefront Exchange security products you can set up filtering rules to block messages based on content or subject line. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/worm-win32-vb-wf-email-virus-defending-with-forefront-security-forefront-protection-antigen.aspx
• FOPE is aware of the situation and we are currently blocking this threat
• FOPE should protect most BPOS-S customers who are not infected already.

If you are not a MSAV customer contact your AV vendor and work with them to get samples and definitions!

Action Plan

Exchange Server 2007 / 2010

Transport

Depending on the volume of incoming mail you may need to Pause all transport servers so nothing new is coming in

1. Set a Transport Rule to Delete any incoming messages

GUI – from the EMC

Organization Configuration > Hub Transport > Transport Rules

New Transport Rule

Fill out the rule Name and any necessary comments and leave Enable Rule checked

Next

Conditions: When the Subject field contains specific words "Here You Have"

Actions: silently drop the message

click New to create the rule and restart the Transport service

2. Delete messages in the queues

Get-TransportServer | Get-Queue | get-message | where{$_.MessageSubject -eq "Here you have"} | remove-message

Mailbox Cleanup

1. Export and delete virus messages from mailboxes

Get-Mailbox -Server Server1 | Export-Mailbox -SubjectKeywords "Here you have" -DeleteContent -TargetMailbox VirusMailbox -TargetFolder VirusMsgs -Confirm:$false

** remember to create the target mailbox "VirusMailbox" first **

** hide this target mailbox from the GAL**

2. Preventative Measure – Disable MAPI access

Run syntax to remove MAPI access from all mailboxes in that store:

get-mailboxdatabase <name> | get-mailbox | Get–casmailbox

get-mailboxdatabase <name> | get-mailbox | set-casmailbox -mapienabled $FALSE

Then enable each user as their outbox is cleaned out

Exchange Server 2000/2003

1. Use ExMerge to remove the infected emails from mailboxes

2. Clearing queues

Manual: In E2K3 we can stop the SMTP Service and the do string search in Queue folder for the subject words of virus message, and we can delete it that way.

Automated: We have a Tool to do this in CTS but it is not available externally open a ticket with CTS Exchange Server team to request assistance with this piece.

Some quick and dirty updates.

Export-Mailbox command

You can limit this command by specific folders with the –IncludeFolders option and also if your customer is afraid of deleting legitimate mail you can make use of date restriction to only export mail within a certain date range. Example below

Get-Mailbox -Server Server1 | Export-Mailbox -SubjectKeywords "Here you have" –IncludeFolders “/Inbox” –StartDate “09/08/2010” –EndDate “09/09/2010” -DeleteContent -TargetMailbox VirusMailbox -TargetFolder VirusMsgs -Confirm:$false

Tools

There is a tool that can be used to run reports against mailboxes to determine who has a large number of items in their Outbox. For additional information on this contact Support.

ExMon can be used to determine what user or workstation may be hammering the message store and may need to be taken offline

See the following for instructions on using Exmon to find the offending clients http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Microsoft-Exchange-Server-User-Monitor.html This works with every supported version of Exchange currently available.

Working with Transport – new information

One customer has almost 1.5 million messages so you may need to purge on a queue by queue basis

Get-message -queue "serverqueue" | where{$_.Subject -eq "Here you have"} | suspend-message

Get-message -queue "serverqueue" | where{$_.Subject -eq "Here you have"} | remove-message

This command only processes 1000 messages at a time so you need to change the “ –ResultSize “ to Unlimited.

If there are other transport rules they may need to be temporarily disabled. Remember if you are running exchange 2007 PRE-SP3 they will not be able to remove messages from the submission Queue. Best bet is to pause transport and let the rule do its thing.

Kind Regards
Catastrophic Failure “JV”

Automatic mailbox distribution is a new feature in Exchange Server 2010.

If you don’t provide a mailbox database when you create a new mailbox on an Exchange 2010 server, Exchange picks a mailbox database for you.

Now, you might see this as a really cool feature, or you might think it’s pretty scary.

To find out more about this feature, please read :

Where Did That New Exchange 2010 Mailbox Go?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff872148.aspx

Kind regards,
Catastrophic Failure “JV”

Do you still remember the time when you had to dismount the stores in order to check it’s integrity, and running "Isinteg -S "servername" -Fix -Test AllTests" at a regular command line, once or twice, depending on the errors/ warnings ???

Well, those days are gone 🙂

In Exchange 2010 SP1, ISInteg is no longer a standalone program.

The functionality provided by the ISInteg tool has been rolled into two new Exchange Management Shell cmdlets:

• New-MailboxRepairRequest
• New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest

Note: Like other Shell cmdlets, these are subject to Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) scoping restrictions. For details, see Understanding Management Role Scopes.

Cool Features

These new ISInteg cmdlets come with some cool new functionality!

• The cmdlets work with the database mounted. It’s no longer required to unmount the database to perform an integrity check or fix database errors.
• You can repair logical corruption at the mailbox level.
• You can fix corrupt search folders.
• You can fix the Provisional Fid.
• You can fix Aggregate Counts.

ISInteg can now work at the database or mailbox level

How does it do that? Well, the new schema in Exchange 2010 effectively partitions the database by mailbox. So the top problems fixed by ISInteg are now mostly limited to the affected mailboxes only. Previous versions of ISInteg required the database to be offline while validation and fixing are in progress. In Exchange 2010 SP1, the ability to do these checks at the mailbox level removes the need to dismount the database. It is actually required to have ISInteg operate against an online database!

New-MailboxRepairRequest

The New-MailboxRepairRequest cmdlet detects and fixes the following types of mailbox corruptions:

• Search folder corruptions (SearchFolder): Repair tasks now look for all folders named in ptagSearchBacklinks, ptagSearchFIDs, and ptagRecursiveSearchFIDs and verifies that each folder exists. If the folder no longer exists, then it will remove that folder from the list.
• Aggregate counts on folders that aren’t reflecting correct values (AggregateCounts): Repair tasks tally all messages in a folder and keep a running total of various counts and sizes. Once the iteration is complete, it will verify the computed counts against the persisted counts on the Folders table record for the folder. If there is a discrepancy, it will update the persisted counts to reflect the computed counts.
• Views on folders that aren’t returning correct contents (FolderView): Repair tasks will iterate over all views for a folder and for each one, bring the view fully up to date and then reconstruct a temp copy. If there is a discrepancy between the existing view and the contents of the temp table, it will delete the view so it can be rebuilt from scratch the next time it is requested.
• Provisioned folders that are incorrectly pointing into unprovisioned parent folders (ProvisionedFolder): Repair tasks can fix Provisioned folders incorrectly pointing into unprovisioned parents or vice versa.

Syntax

New-MailboxRepairRequest -Mailbox <MailboxIdParameter> -CorruptionType <MailboxStoreCorruptionType[]> [-Archive <SwitchParameter>] [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-DetectOnly <SwitchParameter>] [-DomainController <Fqdn>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]

New-MailboxRepairRequest -Database <DatabaseIdParameter> -CorruptionType <MailboxStoreCorruptionType[]> [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-DetectOnly <SwitchParameter>] [-DomainController <Fqdn>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]

Parameters

• Database, Mailbox and Archive: You can repair an entire mailbox database or a specified mailbox by specifying either the Database or the Mailbox parameter. You can’t use both. To repair the archive mailbox for the specified user, use the Archive switch.
• CorruptionType: (at least 1 required) you are already familiar with, we discussed them above:
  • SearchFolder
  • AggregateCounts
  • ProvisionedFolder
  • FolderView

  You can run a repair task with multiple parameters if you separate them with a comma (as shown in the Examples section below).

• DetectOnly: (Optional) The DetectOnly switch secifies that you want this command to report errors, but not fix them. You don’t have to specify a value with this switch.
• Other Optional Parameters: This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type "get-help about_commonparameters".

  New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest

  The New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest cmdlet detects and fixes Public Folder replication state problems.

  Syntax

  New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest -Database <DatabaseIdParameter> -CorruptionType <PublicFolderDatabaseCorruptionType[]> [-Confirm [<SwitchParameter>]] [-DetectOnly <SwitchParameter>] [-DomainController <Fqdn>] [-WhatIf [<SwitchParameter>]]

  Parameters

  • Database: (required) Specifies the Public Folder database on which you will run this command. You can use one of the following values:
    • GUID of the database
    • Database name
  • CorruptionType: (required) Pretty easy, there’s only one value.
    • ReplState
  • DetectOnly: (optional) Specifies that you want this command to report errors, but not fix them. You don’t have to specify a value with this parameter.
  • Other Optional Parameters: This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type "get-help about_commonparameters".

  Examples

  New-MailboxRepairRequest -Mailbox administrator@contoso.com -CorruptionType SearchFolder, AggregateCounts, ProvisionedFolder, FolderView

  New-MailboxRepairRequest -Mailbox administrator -CorruptionType SearchFolder, AggregateCounts, ProvisionedFolder, FolderView -WhatIf

  New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest -Database PFD01 -CorruptionType ReplState -DetectOnly

  Some additional examples are provided in the cmdlet help. You can retrieve them using the following commands, or refer to New-MailboxRepairRequest and New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest cmdlet reference:

  Get-help New-MailboxRepairRequest -examples
  Get-help New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest -examples

  I recommend that you get to know the cmdlets by using the cmdlet reference docs, or by using the following commands to retrieve detailed help from the shell:

  Get-help New-MailboxRepairRequest -detailed (or -full)
  Get-help New-PublicFolderDatabaseRepairRequest -detailed (or -full)

  There are, obviously, some things to remember :

  • Only 1 active repair task is permitted to be running per server if the active task is a database level repair.
  • Only 100 mailbox level active repair tasks are permitted to be running at once per server.
  • There is no -Server parameter to do all databases or mailboxes on a server.
  • The repair task dies on database dismount or store stop/crash.
  • The only way to stop a repair is to stop the store or dismount the database.
  • Mailbox access will be disrupted for the mailbox that is being repaired.
  • Repair for a mailbox will skip a mailbox if it has been quarantined.
  • Repair will cause a move-mailbox operation to be delayed until the repair is completed.

  You can find the whole article at : http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/08/23/455899.aspx

Kind regards,
Catastrophic Failure “JV”

Now that Service Pack 1 is out for over week, it’s time to know a bit more about it’s know issues, as well as work arounds, and the most frequently asked questions, or FAQ.

We can start by reviewing the mother of all questions :

The Upgrade order

The order of upgrade from Exchange 2010 RTM to SP1 hasn’t changed from what was done in Exchange 2007.

So, you should upgrade server roles in the following order:

1. Client Access server
2. Hub Transport server
3. Unified Messaging server
4. Mailbox server

On other question that I was already asked was :

Prerequisite download pages linked from SP1 Setup are unavailable

When installing Exchange Server 2010 SP1 the prereq check may turn up some required hotfixes to install. The message will include a link to click for help.

Clicking this link redirects you to a page saying that the content does not exist.

We’re working to update the linked content 🙂

Meanwhile, please refer to the TechNet article Exchange 2010 Prerequisites to download and install the prerequisites required for your server version (the hotfixes are linked to in the above table, but you’ll still need to install the usual prerequisites such as .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, Windows Remote Management (WinRM) 2.0, and the required OS components).

You can find all the details about SP1 at :

You Had Me At EHLO… : Exchange 2010 SP1 FAQ and Known Issues
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/09/01/456094.aspx

Kind Regards
Catastrophic Failure “JV”

And yes, here it is the RTM version of the so long waited Service Pack 1 for the Exchange Server 2010 🙂

I know it’s summer time and that we all should be staring at the sea, but there is work to be done so that our customers feel most valued during all year.

The announcement was done by Kevin Allison, General Manager of the Exchange Customer Experience Team and the link is here :

You Had Me At EHLO… : The Future of Exchange Starts Here: Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Is Now Available
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/08/25/455861.aspx

The download link is also available at :

Download details: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50b32685-4356-49cc-8b37-d9c9d4ea3f5b&displaylang=en

Kind Regards
Catastrophic Failure “JV”