Direct File Downloading via OWA and Mobile Phones Now in SBS 2008

http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2008/07/allowing-owa-and-mobile-devices-to.html

Tested and verified.  This works, is simple to setup, and is cool!

SBS 2008 – How to repair Exchange 2007

FYI – just published repair documentation:

SBS Exchange Repair Documentation Live Today

More announcements from the SBS documentation team today.

How to repair Exchange

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd728006.aspx

Reinstall the Client Access Role in Windows Small Business Server 2008

Reinstall the Hub Transport Role in Windows Small Business Server 2008

Reinstall the Mailbox Server Role in Windows Small Business Server 2008

 

Nicholas King’s blog

Historical Post Series – ADSIEdit & ExMerge prep

The Historical Post Series are writings I produced in my former blog on Live Spaces and due their value are being reposted here.  Hope you enjoy these.

ADSIEdit.msc – to install and use for ExMerge Admin Mailbox Permissions

originally posted August 2006

Exchange 2003’s enhanced security permissions leave no default account or group with Read As and Send As permissions to Exchange Mailboxes (Enterprise Administrators, Domain Administrators, & the Administrator).  It is possible to alter the security permissions for a mailstore on its properties sheet by negating inheritance and then overriding the settings.  The only thing is it isn’t as easy to put the Genie  back in the bottle once you’re done with whatever task required this security breach.  With ADSIEdit it is possible to make the needed changes and revert back in a much cleaner way.

ADSIEdit is part of the Windows 2003 server resource tools.  In SBS these are found on disc 2 under the SUPPORTTOOLS directory.  Click support.msi, agree to the EULA, and they install.  Now you are able to type ADSIEdit.msc into the command window provided in the newly added Windows Support Tools program group.  This will invoke the tool.

A word of CAUTION.  Accidental keystrokes or mouse clicks could be extraordinarily calamitous and dangerous when using this tool – proceed with due caution.  You have been warned!

You will have to logoff and logon for the security token to be reissued with the changes.

Create DNS Service Location (SRV) records for the Exchange Autodiscover service

In earlier blog posts I’ve discussed other DNS records such as the TXT SPF record.  This is a new but very important record that you will want in place for your domain.

Here’s a list of great resources that describe this in detail and include guidance to manually create and publish the record to whomever is hosting your DNS records for the domain.

Sean Daniels very good explanation with examples

Both of those will fail in the default SBS case as the info is actually at https://remote.contoso.com/autodiscover. With Outlook 2007 SP1 and above, outlook adds a third check. It checks a SRV record, or service. When you run the Internet Address Management wizard with a partner, this SRV record is automatically set. It looks like:

_autodiscover._tcp IN SRV 0 0 443 remote.contoso.com

Microsoft KB 940881- A new feature is available that enables Outlook 2007 to use DNS Service Location (SRV) records to locate the Exchange Autodiscover service

Test your record here – https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

double-check to ensure that it was correctly published by those hosting your domain’s DNS records – my fav http://www.intodns.com (but I don’t see SRV record reported) – tech sent me to http://network-tools.com but none of the tests there seemed to fit

OfficeLabs.com – Innovative Business Applications

Found this today while doing some research on Microsoft OneNote – there are some great ideas and innovative concoctions available for your own download and discovery – think of it as the business process focused version of Live Labs:

Microsoft Office Labs

 http://www.officelabs.com/Pages/Default.aspx