With Unified Messaging (UM) language packs installed you enable callers and OVA (Outlook Voice Access) users to interact with the Unified Messaging system in multiple languages. Each UM language pack includes :

• TTS engine (Tex-to-Speech)
• ASR (Automatich Speech Recognition)
• Voice Mail Preview
  * Voice Mail preview is currently only  available in : English (US) – (en-US), French (France) – (fr-FR), Italian – (it-IT).

Installing UM Language packs for Exchange 2010 can be done in two ways. First you have to download the correct Exchange 2010 UM language packs. The UM langauge packs for Exchange 2007 cannot be used! Continue reading »

Problem

When you’re building (or already) have a active/passive Exchange 2007 cluster and you try to move the cluster to the other node, it’s possible you receive an error like this :

The installation on node ‘NODE’ is inconsistent. ConfiguredVersion=, UnpackedVersion=8.2.176.2. An upgrade might not have completed successfully.

As the error already explains, there is a version problem. To understand this problem you need to know a little bit about the installation steps Exchange does while installing. Continue reading »

Yesterday Microsoft released the first Exchange 2010 rollup, number 1. You can download the update here.

A nice addition is that Blackberry Enterpris Server (BES) is now fully supported with Exchange 2010 Rollup 1.

More details about the update can be found here.

Exchange 2010 is Code Complete. In November the product will be available.

More info on the Microsoft blog

I’m having troubles installing the Exchange 2007 SP2 (Service Pack 2) management tools on my 64-bits Windows 7 release. I tried it on a Windows 7 RC Ultimate 64-bits and a Windows 7 RTM Enterprise 64-bits edition. Same issue appears on Continue reading »

I just saw an interesting interview with Adam Glick about Exchange 2010 and Windows Mobile 6.5.

A short summary of the interview about the new features:

Windows Mobile 6.5 and Exchange 2010

• Conversations and Continue reading »

As I’m reading more and more about Database Availability Groups, I’m getting very excited about this new feature in Exchange 2010.

I found some interesting links for those of you who want more information :

• Exchange Genie
• MSExchange.org
• Technet Blog Jesús Nacimiento Navarro

To help administrators with the remote connectivity to Exchange, Microsoft has created a website which will definitly help with troubleshooting remote connectivity issues. The great thing is that the website acts like a client (Outlook or Mobile) trying to connect to Exchange through SRV records (_autodiscover._tcp.domain.com) and autodiscover (among other things).

These tests include :

• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Connectivity Tests
  Exchange ActiveSync with AutoDiscover
  Exchange ActiveSync
• Microsoft Exchange Web Services Connectivity Tests
  ActiveSync Provider AutoDiscover
  Outlook Provider AutoDiscover
• Microsoft Office Outlook Connectivity Tests
  Outlook Anywhere with AutoDiscover
  Outlook 2003 RPC/HTTP 
• Internet Email Tests
  Inbound SMTP Email Test

View the website : Test Exchange Connectivity

The Microsoft Exchange Team has published some good articles about Exchange 2010 and high availability. The main subject is the database availability groups which are available in Exchange 2010.

In Exchange 2007 CCR and SCR where introduced. You needed a Windows Cluster Continue reading »

The Microsoft Exchange Team announced the release for Service Pack 2. It’s expected in Q3 of 2009.

This Service Pack will be required for transitioning to Exchange 2010.

You’ll be able to upgrade directly to SP2 for all Exchange 2007 versions (RTM, SP1).