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Symbiotech is proud to be a registered reseller of PaperCut™ Software products

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:03:56 +0000

Symbiotech is proud to be a registered reseller of PaperCut™ Software products (South Africa).
PaperCut™ is the leading solution to monitor, quota and report network printing and internet use. PaperCut is renowned for its combination of powerful features and ease-of-use. PaperCut is now tracking the printing of over a million users in more than 60 countries worldwide.
Features:

Print Quotas
Printer Cost Recovery and Reporting
Internet Quotas and Usage Tracking
Free 40-day unrestricted trial

PaperCut NG™:
PaperCut NG™ is the latest generation product to monitor, report, control and quota network printing and/or internet usage. It’s a premium solution integrating the latest software technologies, innovative ideas and best features.
PaperCut ChargeBack™:
PaperCut ChargeBack™ is designed specifically for the needs of engineering, graphic design, legal, and accounting firms. It actively requests users, via a popup window, to allocate print jobs to accounts. It allows businesses to track printing expenditure at the document level and recover costs from clients or projects.

Symbiotech is proud to be a Microsoft Silver Certified Partner in Identity and Security.

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:58:56 +0000

Symbiotech is proud to be a Microsoft Silver Certified Partner in Identity and Security.

Microsoft Exchange Migrations Support

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:48:16 +0000

Symbiotech’s focus is consulting which is centered on product offerings from Microsoft, Quest Windows Management Software, Burstek and PowerMAN.

Many of our engagements are project based which includes but is not limited to:

Integration
Automation
Designs & Blue Prints
Deployments
Migrations (using native tools or Quest tools)
Application repackaging

Microsoft Infrastructure Consulting:

Windows Operating Systems
Active Directory
Exchange Server
Forefront Security Suite
Microsoft Clustering
Certificate Services
Internet Information Server
System Center
Office Communications Server

Exchange Designs, Migrations and Support

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:18:57 +0000

Symbiotech is still a leader in the market when it comes to Exchange Designs, Migrations and Support.Microsoft Exchange Migrations. We are very proud to announce that we have done numerous Successful Migrations in Africa, Europe and rest of the world.

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Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 Download

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:59:37 +0000

Released yesterday Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level. It also provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback. This enables organizations to deploy a single set of updates.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will help you:
-Keep your PCs supported and up-to-date
-Get ongoing updates to the Windows 7 platform
-Easily deploy cumulative updates at a single time
-Meet your users’ demands for greater business mobility
-Provide a comprehensive set of virtualization innovations
-Provide an easier Service Pack deployment model for better IT efficiency

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda&displaylang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 has been released

Nicolas Blank — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:14:33 +0000

I’ll spare you the marketing, here are the three links you may be most interested in.

The download link is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50b32685-4356-49cc-8b37-d9c9d4ea3f5b&displaylang=en

The release notes are here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff728620(EXCHG.141).aspx

MOST important – what’s new:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459257(EXCHG.141).aspx

The CAS role has improved even more, with numerous improvements, including the ability to federate with self signed certificates (that’s not a typo), but read on….

I’d like to mention a few more things which I’m excited about:

The multitenancy support is awesome, so is the depreciation of isinteg allowing individual mailbox repairs, so is the installer installing the required dependencies, so is public folder client permission support being added to the ECP, being able to reset a single virtual directory from a cmdlet, faster OWA, etc,etc.

Bit of a ramble but there you go. Have a read, get excited and if you were waiting for SP1 to deploy Exchange 2010 you finally have it!

Outlook 2003 and exchange 2010 – enabling encryption – where was that GPO and other issues

Nicolas Blank — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:26:25 +0000

By now you’ve noticed that Outlook 2003 doesn’t do encryption out of the box, and you KNOW there’s a better way of doing this than touching every desktop by hand – here it is:

KB2006508 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2006508 talks you through how to build the GPO for Outlook 2003 and 2007

While were talking about Outlook not connecting – KB924625 mentions a number of issues you may face troubleshooting Outlook connecting to 2007/2010

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924625

While were talking Outlook and Exchange two articles are also super interesting:

Common Client Access Considerations for Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2010 http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/23/454711.aspx

and

Understanding RPC Client Access
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee332317.aspx

And while were talking about clients and what they’re doing:

Exchange Server User Monitor

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9a49c22e-e0c7-4b7c-acef-729d48af7bc9

While there’s plenty more material out there, I wanted to put a marker in the ground and start somewhere – I’m hoping I’ll update this post as I dig up more.

Nic

Exchange 2007 SP3 w/support for Windows Server 2008 R2 Now Available

Nicolas Blank — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:04:27 +0000

Moving on from news about how great the rollups for Exchange 2007 post SP2 are, SP3 has hit the shelves with the biggest line item being that it adds support for Exchange 2007 running on Server 2008 R2.

That’s not all though, while there are a number of changes I’m going to pick a few:

Windows 7 support has been added for 2007 management tools along with the capability to co-host with Exchange 2010 admin tools
Password Reset functionality for IIS7
Disclaimer character support for Right to left character sets such as Arabic and Hebrew
all the updates that are included in Update Rollup 4 and earlier for Exchange 2007 SP2

Exchange 2007 is not dead :)

Nicolas Blank — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:01:24 +0000

No Exchange 2007 is NOT dead – on the contrary, it’s getting better as is proved by the lasted blog post entitled Overview of Exchange 2007 SP2 Rollup Installation. This post and the previous post announcing the release of the rollup made it quite clear that support for Exchange 2007 is ongoing and quite healthy! Fact is the Exchange 2007 AND Exchange 2010 role requirements calculators saw recent updates, with this in mind if you’re still thinking of moving towards Exchange 2007 or have an existing investment in Exchange 2007, it’s rally helps build piece of mind to see this much activity around both versions. in fact you would have seen a number of posts on exchange 2007 SP2 on the Exchange teams blog as well as the fantastic news of the beta of Exchange 2010 SP1 ready for download.

Released: Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010

Nicolas Blank — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:40:45 +0000

A quick mention and a quote from the original post. I’d like to encourage anyone who is in an architectural or operational capacity to subscribe to the Exchange teams blog.

Quoting from the original blog post:

Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 982639) to the download center.

KB 982639 lists all the fixes included in this rollup. Here are some of the product improvements and critical bug fixes we’d like to call out starting with 5 improvements we made to prevent crashes in very unique scenarios.

KB 980852 The RpcClientAccess process on an Exchange Server 2010 server crashes when you access a mailbox by using a MAPI application

KB 979801 An error message is generated in Exchange Server 2010 when you use Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant

KB 980364 The Exchange Transport service on an Exchange Server 2010 server crashes when a certain message is processed

KB 980353 A MAPI application that is used to access Exchange Server 2010 mailboxes crashes when the application accesses an address book

KB 979790 An IMAP4 client crashes when accessing an Exchange Server 2010 mailbox

We corrected a few replication issues some of you encountered.

KB 980149 The Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy command fails when it is used to add a database copy to a Database Availability Group in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

KB 981961 Event ID 4033 is logged and the Free/Busy replication from an Exchange Server 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2010 server fails

KB 979921 You cannot replicate a public folder from one Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 server to another, and Event ID 3079 is logged on the target server

One unique thing added was an ability for an administrator to adjust filtering of XML attachments so an OWA user can save them. Some customers were facing a compliance versus level of security tradeoff. See more about configuring this option in KB 983200, which discusses adding administrator control over attachment stripping. We also included at least eight other fixes that some of you requested in this release which we already had worked on for a service pack but are able to deliver to you sooner.

KB 982639 has more details about this release and a complete list of all fixes included in this worthwhile rollup.

Forefront users:

For those of you running Forefront, be sure you perform these important steps from the command line in the Forefront directory before and after this rollup’s installation process. Without these steps, Exchange services for Information Store and Transport will not start back up. You will need to disable ForeFront via "fscutility /disable" before installing the patch and then re-enable after the patch by running "fscutility /enable" to start it up again post installation.

Questions / discussions of the Update Rollup and issues

Please go to our Update forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesoftwareupdate

GPO Execution Policy Issue

If you use a GPO to define the Windows PowerShell execution policy, you probably had problems installing previous RUs. We have addressed this problem in this Update.

Availability on Microsoft Update:

We plan to release this update on Microsoft Update in about 2 weeks.