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I came across the following problem today and thought I should share my fix. When a user logged into OWA 2007 Premium they receive an error "The item that you attempted to access appears to be corrupted and cannot be accessed". The problem didn't occur in OWA Light. Full details of the...

When trying to set the External addresses for the Group Expansion Server, The Address Book Files and the Meeting Content Download you would normally use WBEMTEST to set the WMI parameters. In a normal scenario, you would open each of the relevant objects e.g. MSFT_SIPAddressBookSetting, and click the...

After installing update rollup 2 for HMC 4.5 I noted a few issues with adding mailboxes and retrieving domains owned by a customer. Thanks to Kip Ng's blog post ( https://blogs.technet.com/provtest/archive/2009/02/14/hmc-4-5-rollup-2-has-been-released.aspx ) his suggestion of executing the following...

Lately I have been getting right into Powershell scripting and I have been trying to build an auditing utility which HMC 4.5 Cross Data Store (CrossDS) was supposed to provide. In building this auditing tool, I have built some basic Powershell scripts on the way that may help others understand how to...

After preparing to write up a guide on how Resource Management works in HMC I found a detailed article written by Arthur Fang and Shanming Xuan on Claudio Vacalebre's blog ( http://www.mshosting.org/Tech-Bulletins/HMC/4%20-%20Exchange%202007%20Resource%20Manager.pdf ). Quite a detailed read, but...

HMC has several roles in its delegated administration model, including the following below; Domain Admin (A member of Domain Admins / Administrators in the Active Directory Domain) Hosting Admin (An admin user of the whole HMC environment) Hosting CSR Admin Reseller Admin (An admin user of a Reseller...

While staying up to upgrade our customer's HMC to v4.5 I watched the Virtual Launch of OCS 2007 R2. Some good information little tidbits I have got from it so far; Link to the technical guides of OCS 2007 R2 (Deployment, Planning, etc.) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd440729(office.13...

Another little furfy I found tonight on a client's installation of HMC4.0. They had moved the folder "MSIShare" from C:\MSIShare to E:\MSIShare and shared the folder from there. It all worked until the HMC 4.0 to HMC 4.5 upgrade. As it seems when upgrading to HMC4.5, the installation of...

Just in case you are behind in what is happening in the upcoming release of OCS 2007 R2, Technet Edge released some videos on the new features in October last year. So if you have a spare few hours, here they are; Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and the new Attendant Console (21mins 48 sec) Presenter...

If you have installed your Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server on a Windows Server 2008 server you may find an issue where the redirection from /Exchange to /OWA doesn't work. You will get an error when you login like "The user name or password that you entered is not valid. Try entering it again."...