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Monday, December 20, 2004 11:27 PM

Live Communications Server 2005 management pack for MOM 2005

A couple of weeks ago I blogged about how to manage LCS 2005  with MOM 2000.  Here is the management pack for MOM 2005.  Rod Trent actually got there before me though!      
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Monday, December 20, 2004 11:19 PM

To export and import packages in SMS 2003

Try this tool.  The Package loader tool at the SMS toolkit has a lot of neat functionality that is used for manual package distributuion when you dont need a central site to take over distribution.  check this one out...  
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Monday, December 20, 2004 11:14 PM

MOM connector framework through firewalls

I found this informationn from the MOM security guide on the web and thought it was worth passing on:  The MOM Connector Framework (MCF) and MOM-to-MOM Product Connectors (MMPC) are new in MOM 2005 and provide the ability to share and synchronize
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Monday, December 20, 2004 3:17 PM

Pocket Streets 2005

Matt got all excited about Pocket Streets 2005 on his blog the other day.  Its even better when it's used with Map Point mobile location services on the XDAII.  That's cool!  
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:50 PM

Webcasts on Demand

Useful link if you missed any webcasts recently... http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/webcasts/ondemand.mspx
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:48 PM

Exchange RFC and standards compliance

I've been responding to a tender from a customer who wanted to know which standards and Request For Comments (RFC's) Exchange complied with.  Here is a list from the web: Its quite comprehensive but includes: SMTP o        
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:39 PM

Exchange 2003 Offline Address books (OAB) Best Practices guide

If you want to know how to deploy and manage OAB's in your organisation, then read this document.  It also has some useful tips on how to automate the deployment of OAB's when you deploy the client along with useful tips on administering
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:22 PM

Managing Free / Busy Folders and servers in Exchange 2003

I noticed that there has been an addition to the Exchange Technical Documentation library with an explanation of how free/busy data is generated.  It's quite a useful addition to your background reading as I can't find much more on the web about
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:03 PM

Using MOM 2005 with a disjointed DNS namespace

The deployment guide for MOM 2005 has an interesting excerpt about DNS.  So if you have problems when the target machine cant find the MOM 2005 server, then try this tip:   Using MOM 2005 With a Disjointed DNS Namespace. To discover
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Monday, December 20, 2004 1:49 PM

Windows Update Services (WUS) Deployment guide

The WUS deployment guide was published a couple of weeks ago, and I've just got around to reading it.  It's useful that WUS uses BITS technology for trickle downloads and allows you to migrate from SUS to WUS by using the command line utility WUSUTIL.EXE. 
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