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

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

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.

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

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

POP3 is great as it allows you an easy way to both import your email from hotmail, and also allow Gmail to keep checking and recieving your email from hotmail so you don’t miss anything.

Here are the steps of how to do it.

Firstly you need to open up a gmail account. Once you have your account up and running go to settings

Under Accounts and Import select add POP3 Account

settings-accounts

A popup window will show, enter your hotmail email address

Enter Hotmail email address

Googlemail should realise you have entered a hotmail account and know the pop settings (if not try the pop setting below.

Enter your password, if you want to import all your mail make sure leave a copy of the retrieved mail on the server is unchecked

Click Add account

Hotmail Account Details

Google mail will ask if you want to be able to send email via your hotmail account i.e. send email from gmail but make it appear to the recipient that is has come from your hotmail address (it will go via hotmail’s servers). If you do click to say so and an email will be sent to your hotmail to verify you are the owner.

You can wait and enter the code on the email in the below window, or simply click the link in the email. Beware the email will likely end up in your hotmail Junk folder.

Verify Hotmail for Sending via Hotmail

Google Verification email

You will then have the option in Google Mail to send email from either account

Send Email from either account

Once setup is complete Google mail will then ‘check’ your hotmail account and download all the mail in your inbox. Once this is complete your hotmail inbox should be empty and your Gmail inbox should show all the mail.

Gmail Checking Hotmail

Google mail will routinely check your hotmail for new mesages. Remember it will not download ‘junk’ email from hotmail, so it is a good idea to check your hotmail every so often just to ensure nothing you want is stuck in your junk folder.

If you have your hotmail organised into folders, Google mail won’t automatically download this mail. However in hotmail if you move the mail from the folder into your inbox, and force gmail to check your hotmail (under settings/accounts and import) Gmail can also download this mail.

Note it maybe easier to organise the email from your hotmail inbox first, then move your hotmail folder by folder, as it will be easy to label the ‘new’ mail in the gmail inbox with a label simular to the folder you had in hotmail.

Move email in folders in hotmail to inbox for Gmail to download it

Google mail works on the basis of labels rather than folders (see the gmail help for more on that), it is very easy to fillter your mail and add rules to label mail

Gmail Filters

You will also likely have a lot of email in your inbox that you want to ‘Mark as read’

Mark As Read

Gmail works on the basis of archiving email rather than deleting it, so if you want to remove items from your inbox simply archive them, that way they will still be there if you need to search for them (with googles excellent search) if you ever need it.

No NIC Windows 7

Windows 7 Device Manager no NIC

I narrowed this issue down to the fact that when running on wireless and on the battery, the laptop puts the NIC to sleep to conserve power (and you hear the removed hardware ‘bong’), a good idea, but it doesn’t seem to wake it back up when you insert a connection into it, either plugged in or not (did on vista). A reboot solved the issue but is hardly convient.

A workaround is to turn the NIC powersaving feature off in the bios, on the HP its called “LAN Power Save”, set to disable and your NIC won’t go to sleep, at the expense or a little bit of battery life.

Under the device there is also an option to stop windows turning off the NIC which I suspect may also solve the issue

Turn off NIC Powersave Windows 7

For those who are interested, below is the driver version, which is the latest from the HP site. Hopefully we’ll see this issue solved with a driver update/in the Windows 7 RTM.

Broadcom driver windows 7

If anyone else has noticed this issue or has a better resolution I’d be interested to hear. Please leave a comment or catch me on twitter

Background

OCS Standard in a test enviroment, all server 2008 x64, mediation server to intergrate CUCM (Working) along with call forking.

3 Users, John Locke, Ben Linus and Vic Maccy

John starts an IM to Ben works fine two way. John Drags Vic into IM. Ben does not see VIC in the convo (no name/presence bubble at the top) and Vic does not recieve any IM’s. After 35 seconnds get an error in Johns OC client saying

“Cannot perform the selected action. The action may not be permitted by the conferencing service. Please Try again. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator.”

Vic is booted from the OC client

Can do one to one convo’s between any parties at the same time.

Here is the error after the 3rd person has been booted.

OCS R2 management tools show the IM conference service Running

QoE agent service stopped (unrelated I believe)

IM conf service port 5062

Windows firewall off on clients and server

I get the same error even when I manually stop the conf IM service in services.msc

I have installed communicator web access on the same ocs standard sever. Not sure if this can have an effect?

Both the website Office communicator web access and Default website are using the certificate that was requested via office communications server admin tools.

I have tried deleting and creating a new certificate but get the same issue.

I have also tried requesting a separate certificate for the websites but it didn’t seem to have any effect.

Web searches bring me to this link but I am using the AD as a cert server and the cert is ticked as “enable all purposes for this certificate” – looking at it via MMC in AD.

http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/commmunicatorim/thread/512bccc3-d624-4b11-91c1-5d52aca3c195/

On the OC client error log I get this error

A SIP request made by Communicator failed in an unexpected manner (status code 80ef025b). More information is contained in the following technical data:

RequestUri: sip:johnl@domain.co.uk;gruu;opaque=app:conf:chat:id:3598B4678C333F48B20EEC6D269735D7

From: sip:johnl@domain.co.uk;tag=7c9ce5966e

To: sip:johnl@domain.co.uk;gruu;opaque=app:conf:chat:id:3598B4678C333F48B20EEC6D269735D7;tag=22E174D539F280669DDF6633152AAA28

Call-ID: 087cb366f83b445cb7ec2d38a8e83ccf

Content-type: application/sdp;call-type=im

v=0

o=- 0 0 IN IP4 10.1.14.40

s=session

c=IN IP4 10.1.14.40

t=0 0

m=message 5060 sip null

a=accept-types:text/plain multipart/alternative image/gif text/rtf text/html application/x-ms-ink application/ms-imdn+xml text/x-msmsgsinvite

Response Data:

603 Decline

ms-diagnostics: 3098;reason=”No MCU Factory Available”;source=”OCSR2.domain.co.uk”

Resolution:

If this error continues to occur, please contact your network administrator. The network administrator can use a tool like winerror.exe from the Windows Resource Kit or lcserror.exe from the Office Communications Server Resource Kit in order to interpret any error codes listed above.

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On the OCS event log I get this error

OCS User Services

Invalid incoming HTTPS certificate.

Subject Name: OCSR2.domain.co.uk Issuer: domain-WIN-LMT9656GZDP-CA

Cause: This can happen if the HTTPS certificate has expired, or is untrusted. The certificate serial number is attached for reference.

Resolution:

Please check the remote server and ensure that the certificate is valid. Also ensure that the full certificate chain of the Issuer is present in the local machine.

And this warning

OCS User Services

An HTTP application request sent to an Mcu or Service timed-out. Requests will be retried but if this error continues to occur functionality will be affected.

Url: https://OCSR2.domain.co.uk:444/LiveServer/MCUFactory/

Cause: Network issues, non-provisioned MCU or non-functional MCU.

Resolution:

Ensure that the Service is provisioned and functioning correctly. If any network related errors are reported by the Service ensure that they are resolved.

Any help/pointers/ideas greatfully recieved

thanks

Tom

I found on cydia there is a plugin for boss prefs to turn on and off the download plugin, very handy! – just search for download on cydia.

Many thanks to the relevent programers and everyone in the iphone scene!

I went for another Seagate Consumer electronics drive model ST3500830ACE.

Install was easy. Just swapped the drive. At first the box just booted up blank with the HD constantly running. I then did the following:
unplug the digibox from the mains power. Press and hold the ‘left’ and ‘right’ navigation buttons on the front of the digibox whilst you plug it back into the mains. Continue holding the buttons in for about 20 seconds, and when the ring of light on the front comes on, press the ‘select’ button on the front of the digibox (between the left and right buttons you were holding). The Sky+ recording logo lights will spin backwards and, according to the Sky engineer, this will “clear the hard drive”.
Once this is done, unplug the digibox from the mains power again and this time press and hold the ‘back up’ button whilst you plug it back into the mains power. Continue holding it for about 15 seconds until 3 lights on the front of the box come on and you get a full-screen message saying “Updating system software. Do not disconnect mains supply or satellite dish.”
Leave the digibox doing its thing for about 10 minutes and it should be fixed! Try pausing and recording things again… hopefully you’ve just saved yourself £65.
If you’ve not been so lucky, call Sky* again but remember that if they try to charge you for an engineer callout, just ask to cancel your subscription and they should offer you a free callout to fix the problem – you’re more valuable to them as a paying customer than the cost of an engineer callout.

Props to http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/sky-pvr-systems/62938-sky-cant-reformat.html

All works great, pretty quiet (slight reading sound but nothing bad) and much less of a squeak.

Tempted to put the drive in an enclosure to reduce the noise further but will probably leave it alone for a bit.

Feel free to comment if you have any questions..

Update 10.10.08

All working fine still, I have noticed a few blips in audio on some recordings and the sound takes longer to start when you start to play a video sometimes (only a few seconds, but noticably longer than with the other drive). I have also notices that the program discriptions (when you press ‘i’ button) sometimes get muddled on the planner which is odd but not to much of a problem.