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9Feb

Vista Drivers!

by Christopher Kusek (PKGuild) Informational, Microsoft

Well, I’ve found this excellent site with Vista Drivers, and with that, I provide you this link.

www.radarsync.com/vista

This page appears to be a nice consolidated source of Vista drivers – all stacked up and loaded in a single location.

For those of us running Vista, I would not hesitate to run not walk! to get these drivers!

Hope this helps you, I know it’ll help me. :)

Christopher Kusek

19Jan

Outlook is no longer part of the Exchange CAL!

by Christopher Kusek (PKGuild) Exchange, Informational, Licensing, Microsoft

While reading about some of the new changes to licensing with 2007/Vista, etc I came across this incredible mention.

I mention it very specifically as I have an entry farther down exclaiming that in 2003, Outlook is tied to your Exchange licensing. That however is no longer the case. While certainly you can get around this with having your CORE Cal’s for Office, or the Enterprise desktop, this will mean some changes of experience or interpretation from the licensing stand point. So, with that said, the below is the ‘final’ word, or atleast published on VARBusiness. If I get additional links on this off of MS’s site, I shall include it there respectively.

10. The Open Value upgrade from Office Pro to Office Enterprise costs $70. Outlook is no longer part of the Exchange CAL.

VAR Business Article – http://tinyurl.com/2pk58k

Christopher Kusek

14Jan

Outlook 2007 on Vista using RPC over HTTP "OutlookAnywhere"

by Christopher Kusek (PKGuild) Exchange, Informational, Microsoft

Disclaimer: The following solution does work and has worked for me. And until further notice (I find an alternate solution to this, will be my solution for now)

I ran into a bit of an awkward situation. RPC over HTTP was not working on my Vista Ultimate box when I started using Outlook 2007. I discussed with other people and they were all fine, however they were using Outlook 2003, so not clearly the indicator I was hoping for.

Having some others test with their Outlook 2007 clients, I ran into further failure to communicate, resolving in the need to find a solution!

I did find just one solution (which does work, until further notice).

This solution resides in the following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\RPC

With the creation of the key DefConnectOpts (set to DWORD = 0).

The DefConnectOpts registry value helps to turn down some connection optimizations added in Outlook 2007.

So not exactly what I’d prefer, but it is something which will work when you do want your RPC over HTTP Functionality to work for you.

Some awkward things regarding this is, I did not even have the RPC key present in the registry, which prompted for the creation of that key so I could set that DWORD value. So for now, anyone having similar problems with Vista/OL2007 or somesuch and are looking for some resolution, I did find success here. I’ll continue to find a “better” solution which doesn’t involve client-hacking to go about fixing it.

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\RPC
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type DefConnectOpts, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click DefConnectOpts, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
7. Exit Registry Editor.
8. Check the effect by using the NetBios name.

Error messages when you try to connect Outlook 2007 to Exchange Server: “The action cannot be completed. The connection to the Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable” or “Your Microsoft Exchange Server is unavailable”
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=913843

Some additional notes which may help resolve this problem:

Adding another dword value of EnableRPCtunnel with a value 1.

Christopher Kusek

26Nov

Technical Offerings

by Christopher Kusek (PKGuild) Informational, Microsoft

This is another in a series of presentations I’ve been working on.

This is the 4th version of the draft I’m working on.

The technical offerings included will be how you can utilize the often unknown features made available on TechNet, MS Partner and even Cisco’s Partner E-Learning Connection. I’ll detail this more later as I work out the verbal presented version of this which I’ll convert into a written form.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/vlabs/default.mspx Virtual Labs
http://www.microsoft.com/events/default.mspxMicrosoft Events and Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/TechNet Featured Labs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/virtuallabs/MSDN Featured Labs
https://partner.microsoft.com/US/trainingevents-Partner Training & Events
http://readysetgo.upsellusa.com/Microsoft Partner University
http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.mspxMicrosoft Podcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/default.aspx-Technet Magazine
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/subscribe.aspx-Magazine Sub
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/tnradio/default.mspx-TN Radio
http://www.cisco.com/go/loginpec/-Partner E-Learning Connection

Christopher Kusek

Feel free to comment, and look for the future final version of this document in PDF and in PPTX

Technical Offerings – Draft Version 4

17Sep

Next week, CWUG and MMCUG Meeting.

by Christopher Kusek (PKGuild) CWUG, Informational, Microsoft

This coming week brings us the MMCUG (Midwest Messaging and Collaboratioin Users Group) and the CWUG (Chicago Windows Users Group)

Both events will take place at the Downers Grove Microsoft Offices.

If you’re interested in Exchange (MMCUG) and Virtualization (CWUG) I’d advise you check out their websites and signup.

www.cwug.net

www.mmcug.org

Christopher Kusek

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