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Installing Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 and Language Packs

// August 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I have installed the Final SP1 build onto my Exchange 2010 lab server. All went smoothly, below are the details and some screenshots.

Here are the pre-req’s the installer flagged

This computer requires the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs. Please install the software from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191548

Install hotfix Microsoft Knowledge Base article 982867 from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB982867.

Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.218.11&e=ms.exch.err.Ex28883C&l=0&cl=cp

This computer requires the update described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 979744 (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=3052&kbid=979744). Please install the required update to proceed.

Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.218.11&e=ms.exch.err.Ex28883C&l=0&cl=cp

Install hotfix Microsoft Knowledge Base article 983440 from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB983440.

Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.218.11&e=ms.exch.err.Ex28883C&l=0&cl=cp

This computer requires the update described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 977020 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977020). Please install the required update to proceed.

Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.218.11&e=ms.exch.err.Ex28883C&l=0&cl=cp

This computer requires the Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API, Core Runtime 64-bit. Please install the software from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=180957.

Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.218.11&e=ms.exch.err.Ex28883C&l=0&cl=cp

This computer requires Microsoft Server Speech Platform Runtime (x64). Please install the software from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=180958.

Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.1.218.11&e=ms.exch.err.Ex28883C&l=0&cl=cp

This computer requires the Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs. Please install the software from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191548

All the pre-req’s installed fine, a number of reboots

SP1 installer Screenshots

New Crazy Themes

Language Packs

Here are the SP1 language packs, not sure if these relate to the Beta or final, pretty sure it’s final, but use at your own risk

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ee7d3f0e-81bd-46ce-8f23-a38199e2c6ee

I have downloaded and installed the en-GB language pack, hope to find the time to test this out properly tomorrow

Language pack installer screenshots

New language pack now available

Vacant positions within Technical Services at ONI Plc

// July 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

Customer Support Engineer

– This role will be essentially field based and the individual should be at least CCxP & MCSE qualified with a minimum of 2 years hands on experience in fault finding and installations. 

TAC Consultant

– This role is permanently based within the ONI TAC. The individual will be CCIE qualified with a number of years fault finding experience. They should also possess mentoring skills for the TAC team.

TAC Senior Support Engineer

– This role is permanently based within the ONI TAC. The individual will be CCxP qualified with ideally Microsoft server and SQL skills.

TAC Support Engineer

- This role is permanently based within the ONI TAC. The individual will be at least CCNA qualified but ideally be well on their way to gaining a CCxP.

TAC Gold Team Supervisor

– The individual should have at least 18 months experience in managing small teams in a Service Desk environment. They should have mature and professional approach to their work with a proactive attitude when dealing with Customer issues.

If you are interested and think you are suitable, please email a CV to tomtechietom@googlemail.com thanks

My Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 Schedule

// July 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

For those who are interested\struggling to choose between all the good sessions at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010

The full list is here http://www.mspartnerconference.com/Topic/List

Below is my schedule, there are some doubles where I will decide on depending on what colleagues go to.

Can’t get Cisco CUCiMOC to sign in – SOLVED

// December 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I am trying to get CUCiMOC working in a lab environment for a demo.

I have the following setup

LAB01 physical server, Hyper-v Server 2008 R2 hosting:

Server 2008 Active Directory (2003 functional level), DNS, DHCP, Cert Services 10.50.10.10

Server 2008 OCS Enterprise 10.50.20.10 and 10.50.20.11 for pool IP

LAB01 physical server, Server 2008 R2, Vmware workstation 6.5 hosting

CUCM7 7.0.2.21900-10 10.50.20.20 setup as per the CUCIMOC deployment instructions

3750 switch doing routing

I have some physical laptops and Virtual machines connected to the domain (XP and Vista). The OCS appears to be working fine (can sign in, IM, no address book errors on the client).

However when CUCiMOC tries to sign in it fails

I have also tried onidev\billg and onidev.co.uk\billg

I can’t get CUCiMOC to sign in, tried with multiple users and on multiple machines.

Client machine can reach the LDAP server

I am probably missing something obvious, any suggestions very welcome

Below are details of the Group Policy setup:

The Group policy is setup

All these settings as default value I believe

And I can see the group policy is applying to the client machines.

All machines can ping each other

All windows firewalls are off

The CUCM is syncing to the Active Directory with LDAP to get the user information, which is working successfully

Solution: CUCM needed an update patch

Thanks

Tom

Upgrading a jailbreak iphone to 3.0, what happens?

// June 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

I thought some people might be interested in what happens when you upgrade a jailbreak iphone to the 3.0 iphone firmware.

I had a 2.2 jailbreak iphone with cydia, irealsms, clearcam and a lot of cool addons such as calender lock screen, notifier, custom ringtones, apple and 02 logo’s. I have an O2 sim so network log isn’t a concern.

I love the iphone jailbreak but do think that all the winterboard apps did affect the reliability, I was seeing a number of apps inc tweetie and safari crashing so it was time to start afresh.

I removed some of the cydia/winterboard addons (but not all), then downloaded itunes and plugged in.

“you iphone can be upgraded to 3.0″, click yes, it downloads the firmware and installs. Some people have reported it taking a long time to backup their existing apps, but mine seemed pretty fast (prob all done in about 20 minutes).

New firmware installed, it rebooted. All the cydia/jailbreak apps (irealsms, clearcam) were gone. Not much of a surprise there. I will miss irealsms’s quick reply feature but the iphone default client will do. All the other gui modifications were gone, execpt the % battery indicator which strangly stays (others have reported this too).

I had a couple of  ipa’s not downloaded from the apple store. These stayed on the iphone but no won’t run (load then quickly quit). Not really much of a concern since I buy the apps I use often (not many really) but maybe a concern for others.

Overall it is a great upgrade experience, all settings (mail, ssl cert, bluetooth etc) all stay in place which is really smart.

I am sure jailbreak 3.0 will be out soon, and I like to jailbreak just on principle that I want to do whatever I want with my hardware, but for the moment I am glad to be on 3.0

If you have any specific questions feel free to comment or catch me on twitter @tomarbuthnot