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In the past week, we encountered a strange error in OWA for only one user in a large Exchange 2007 organization. Our user was using only OWA to access its mailbox and every time he tried to log in was not able to do it due to the following error:RequestUrl: https://webmail.contoso.com:443/owa/forms/premium/StartPage.aspxUser host address: 192.168.100.100User: Andrea TedeschiEX Address: /o=Contoso

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Recently I was engaged various times for an issue related to the Outlook 2003 and 2007 client when using an Exchange 2007 hosted mailbox. The scenario to be analyzed was the unexpected prompt for user's credentials trough Credential UI at the Outlook startup on a domain joined Windows XP/Vista client. Generally speaking, on a common similar domain environment, you should not enter your

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Analyzing performance counters of your machine may be a very time consuming operation. Also there is always something you can miss in reviewing the logs. I found a very powerful and cool tool on Codeplex site to speed up the reporting operations. You can use this to rapidly identify the most evident problems and then perform a more in-depth analysis beginning from its output.Performance Analysis

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Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator tool allows you to simplify the configuration of a new installation of Windows 2008 Server Core. This utility is made of a script collection and will be able to manage the following settings:Product LicensingNetworking FeaturesDCPromo ToolISCSI SettingsServer Roles and FeaturesUser and Group PermissionsShare Creation and DeletionFirewall SettingsDisplay

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Are you finding informations about Windows 7?There is a new blog on msdn.com called "Engineering Windows 7". E7 blog is made by two senior engineering managers for Windows 7, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky. Blog address: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7--Andrea Tedeschi Blog Linkedin Profile andrea (at) andreatedeschi (dot) com

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Yesterday I posted about the FoolDNS Project here and now I joined the beta testing program.In the next days I will try FoolDNS with IE7, IE8 Beta on Windows XP and Windows Vista and will install also some third party browsers on a XP based virtual machine. I will post soon more (public) information after my testing.--Andrea Tedeschi Blog Linkedin Profile andrea (at) andreatedeschi (dot) com

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After the retirement of IC's RC2, Mike Sterling posted about the availability on Microsoft Connect site of the final version of Linux Integration Components for Hyper-V here:http://blogs.msdn.com/mikester/archive/2008/09/10/linux-integration-components-now-posted.aspxThe actual release is localized in 12 languages and will provide the following features:Driver support for synthetic devices: The

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Let me point out the following project, currently in beta testing: FoolDNS. The project is led by Matteo Flora (his blog is http://www.lastknight.com/). The project aims to provide a service that will not store IP addresses querying the DNS: IP's would be removed from the logs after 90 minutes or when the log size reaches 1MB. FoolDNS also will block a number of DNS names (shared at this link

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Microsoft has released the Hyper-V Server 2008 Website at the following link:http://www.microsoft.com/servers/hyper-v-serverMicrosoft Hyper-V Server, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 will be available within 30 days:http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-07GetVirtualNowPR.mspx-- Andrea Tedeschi Blog Linkedin Profile andrea

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From Microsoft Download Site:Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol DocumentationThe Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol technical documentation set provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft protocols and extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to interoperate or communicate natively with

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I'm testing now the new release of Internet Explorer 8 beta. Below you can find all the links to the downloads and public docs.From Microsoft Download Site:OverviewInternet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar web browser you are most comfortable using, helping you get everything you want from the web faster, easier, more privately and securely than ever before.Faster Internet

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I was on vacation for some weeks so I was not able to publish new posts.I will start now writing again, but currently I'm very busy... so for now I will simply provide an update about the some interesting download and documents on Microsoft download site.Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guidehttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5da4058e-72cc-4b8d-bbb1-5e16a136ef42&DisplayLang=

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Overview Series: Windows Vista® Performance and Tuninghttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ab377598-a637-432c-a3c8-1607ab629201&DisplayLang=enWindows Vista and SP1 focus on delivering greater performance and overall system responsiveness. By striking a balance between speed and responsiveness, Windows Vista and SP1 deliver a level of performance that has the greatest positive

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Hyper-V Planning and Deployment Guidehttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5da4058e-72cc-4b8d-bbb1-5e16a136ef42&DisplayLang=enThis guide includes information about hardware requirements and limits, supported guest operating systems, and instructions for installing the role and management tools.--

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Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.07http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=12cb3c1a-15d6-4585-b385-befd1319f825&DisplayLang=enThis is the latest version of the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator for Windows 2003, XP and 2000.The Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator enables connection of a Windows host to an external iSCSI storage array using Ethernet NICs. This download

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There is a new very good post from Mark Russinovich Blog speaking about Physical Memory limits in Windows 32 and 64 bits. Another great reading about Windows platform internals that i would recommend.Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memoryhttp://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx--

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I would recommend to read the following newly published documents about Microsoft System Center:Managing Data Server ComplianceSystem Center provides a range of data center management solutions that help customers to proactively manage their environment. System Center delivers an integrated and extensible suite of solutions for configuration management, server compliance, end-to-end monitoring,

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If you need to draw your virtual infrastructure there is a new add-in for Visio may be useful for you in elaborating your diagram."Rack Server Virtualization Add-in provides the capability to pull the rack-server data either from an Excel spread sheet or from the user and render the Visio diagram."Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Professional Add-In for Rack Server Virtualization (Virtual Rack)http://

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/nSoftware delivers a package called netCmdlets to improve the newtwork manageability trough Windows PowerShell. The distribution include useful PowerShell cmdlets to accomplish tasks with the major network protocols such SNMP, LDAP, DNS, HTTP, SMTP, FTP and much more. You can download an evaluation version here:http://www.nsoftware.com/PowerShell/netcmdlets/default.aspxAnother wonderful thing /

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This is a very useful tool to convert your Windows 2008 Server in an excellent workstation with Windows Vista functionalities and also take advantage of Windows Server roles such Hyper-V. Windows Server 2008 Workstation Converterhttp://www.win2008workstation.com/ -- Andrea Tedeschi Blog Linkedin Profile andrea (at) andreatedeschi (dot) com

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The Powershell Team posted today a nice script to combine in a Word document all the topics from the Get-Help command. You can copy the script text in a .ps1 file or simply paste it in your script editor and run it. Here I'm using PowerGUI Script Editor: Don't forget to remove any blank line from the code, otherwise you will get an error like the following: Here's the post from the team Blog:

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There is an updated version of the IPD guide on the Microsoft website that i would recommend. The IPD guides are the new System Reference Architecture and are very useful in understanding Microsoft Server technologies and scenarios. The current release contains alsothe virtualization themes, covering Windows Server Virtualization (Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1) and now so also System

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As SUN Microsystem did more than two years ago (http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd) and the more recent IBM Green Project announcement in June (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/21440.wss) now also HP is offering datacenters as shipping containters. This 40-foot container (formally named POD) has the ability to store up to 3.500 CPU's and 12.000 HDD's.HP Performance Optimized

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The Microsoft Solution Accelerator Team recently announced the release of a new tool to allow the management and patching of the offline virtual machines. This will allow an administrator to update an offline set of virtual machines with the latest patches, avoiding the security risks associated to exposing an outdated system into the network when putting back online the virtual machine.The

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This link to the Microsoft Download Certer will help all people who wants to approach the Failover Clustering in Hyper-V to take advantage of the High Availability solution offered by the combination of these two technologies. Here you can find an easy step-by-step guide on how to configure the failover cluster and make your virtual machines high availables. You will need an Active Directory

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