Never seen this before: we walked out of a bar at near midnight, and a mini-van covered in Microsoft CCS (Compute Cluster Server 2003) was parked right in front and projecting a huge video ad on the building across the street with the sound pumpin out of the pimped ride. Very cool and urban-esq. I tried a pic with my Pocket PC, but you’ll see in a previous post that it’s likely on the short list for worst camera ever…. so all I got was blackness and blur.
Monthly Archive for June, 2006
Sunday: Exchange 2007 hands on. Actually it’s only 1/3 hand’s on, but still very good coverage and designed for the 2000/2003 Exchange admin. Lots of notes taken in OneNote 2007 beta.
Issues with upgrading:
- No OMA
- No OWA rule editing (replaced with outlook rpc/http maybe. Official answer is ‘wait for SP1′)
- Transport Event Sinks. These are now GUI wizards and are then placed into the new SMTP engine for E2007 (not using IIS SMTP any more).
Notes:
- No one in the room had Ex5.5 (100+ people)
- Powershell command list: get-excommand (lists all exchange commands for powershell)
- Next version of windows mobile will have IRM client
Big Deals:
- “Remote File Access” Access file shares and SharePoint remotely (block and allow lists for servers)
- “WebReady Document Viewing” View office documents and pdf’s in browser w/o needing the real apps installed
- Resource mailboxes are a new type of mailbox that uses disabled user accounts (two types: room or equipment) (and has special info fields like capacity and custom properties)
- ActiveSync mailbox policies are new type of policy
- Schedule your out of office for sometime in the future, and have different replies for internal, external, and ‘external on your contacts list’
- ‘Calendar Concierge’ doesn’t need outlook to be running to keep your meetings up to date
- Granular free/busy control for each user (share time, share time, subject, location, share all details)
- Organizational controlled per-mailbox folders that show retention details per folder
- RMS/IRM works though ‘Remote File Access’
- Voicemail/Fax/Email all in your inbox
- ‘Edge Server’ role can be on non-domain DMZ box to do hygiene work (AV, spam)
- We may be able to get all mailboxes on one server, and replicate them to the other (offsite live mailbox server)
- We may need another server to be ‘edge server’ in the dmz (non-domain, secure by default, runs ADAM to keep AD user list (white list)). Uses LDAP-SSL through the firewall FROM inside (outbound only).
- UM Server needs IP-PBX or VoIP Gateway (which then connects to PBX).
- All internal-to-exchange email routing is encrypted by default
- Domain Keys is supported
- Push Anti-Virus to Edge and Hub servers… Mailbox scanning is now legacy (hub scans email between two people on same server).
- Organizational Folders allow you to create folders for specific groups of people (or everyone) that have specific space and expiration times set to it… the folder will be autocreated and can start the expiration time based on when it was delivered or when it was moved to this folder. (i.g. create a folder called ‘delete in 30′ and base it on when email was moved to that folder). Expiration options include moving it somewhere else, deleting, perm deleting, and ’show as expired’…
- Get there a day early, and stay up till 2am drinking draft Bud Light and shots.
- Try to use a WM5 Pocket PC to take a picture… Civil War pics look better.
I’ll be updaing this post when I find funny querks around ‘TechEd Town’.
- First up is my bud Shawn has Vista Beta 2 running and took an hour of troublshooting to access the internal WiFi network named ‘teched2006′…. I saw a guy with a Mac surfing just fine
(jk) - SPS (now Office SharePoint Server) 2007 class on Monday had lots of demo issues… there wasn’t a backup demo machine like in previous sessions so we did a lot of waiting. Still, the product looks particularly mature
I’ve seen the past pictures, and seen pics of the Boston Convention and Expo Center, but being here puts it in a whole new light. It’s Sunday, and only crew and ‘pre-conference lab’ attendees are here…. but the place is massive. It’s like a mini city.
Likes:
- Everything everywhere (WiFi, Starbucks, Food, Drink, Geeks)
- Everything ‘free’ (WiFi, Starbucks, Food, Drink)
- Easy to get here from I-90
Dislikes:
- Cheep bar draft beer is an explosive combo the next morning