Toby and I talking about our “Microsoft Office 365: From Simple Migration to a Hybrid Environment” session at At Tech-Ed Australia 2011.

If you missed it, the recorded session and slides are available for download here: http://cgoo.se/ndiUkE

This post is slightly off-topic compared to my regular posts, but its something I’ve been thinking about for some time now and has been one of those things sitting on my to do list that always gets trumped by something more important.

While my blog has never been inaccessible from mobile devices, I have never really put much thought or effort into improving the experience for mobile users. I was recently reading some interesting statistics on the explosive growth of mobile internet usage and that prompted me to do something about it. These statistics are probably best summarised by this:

You will now be able to access all the same content from your mobile device in a much more mobile friendly manner. And just because I am a geek I’ve even added a .mobil domain name so you’ll also be able to access it at http://cgoosen.mobi

I also wanted to share this great video that goes into some smartphone mobile marketing statistics. Don’t worry.. I don’t ever intend on introducing ads or marketing of any kind here, I just think the stats are interesting.

Inforgraphic source

I recently saw this at Tech-Ed Australia and finally managed to track it down so I could share it. I think it’s such a great video and just excites me about the "future of productivity".

After an interesting and somewhat different keynote, Tech-Ed 2011 has officially kicked off. While everyone is enjoying a few cold ones, I thought I would take the time to tell you about some of the sessions I am excited about attending this year.

There are many great speakers at Tech-Ed this year, these are just some of the sessions I plan to attend.

• EXL310: "Upgrading to Exchange 2010: Notes from Field" with Colin Lee and Sofiane Behraoui
• EXL309: "Microsoft Lync 2010: How to go big with voice" with Brendan Carius and Selvan Loganathan
• OFS-OFC309: "From Zero to Productivity with Office 365" with Ben Walters, Chris Oconnor and Lee Hickin
• EXL303: "Exchange Server 2010: High Availability Concepts" with Scott Schnoll
• EXL304: "Load Balancing with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010" with Andrew Ehrensing

Then of course there is my session with Toby Knight, EXL-OFC311: “Microsoft Office 365: From Simple Migration to a Hybrid Environment” we will be in Arena 1B at 5 PM tomorrow… we’ve got some great schwag so make sure you stop by!

I’ve seen this error around a few times over the last while but have never really paid too much attention to it:

It seems it only occurs in the management console if you have IE9 installed on your Exchange 2010 SP1 server. Previously the recommendation was to uninstall IE9 or just live with it. I recently installed Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP1 in my lab environment and it seems to have fixed this error.

Obviously I would recommend thorough testing before deploying any updates in production, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that it does seem to fix this error as well.

I’ve been having a problem with remote mailbox moves to Office 365. The move completes successfully and everything works ok, but it always generates the following error:

“Could not load type 'Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.RequestPriority'…”

I’ve seen this mentioned a few times on the Office 365 community forums and some of my colleagues are also seeing this. The good news is that after installing Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP1 this error no longer appears.

Earlier today the Exchange team announced the release of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1. Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 resolves the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

• 2275156 - The inline contents disposition is removed when you send a "Content-Disposition: inline" email message by using EWS in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2499044 - You cannot save attachments in an email message by using OWA if the subject line contains special characters in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2509306 - Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2514766 - A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly run the Add-ADPermission command on an Exchange Server 2010 server that is outside the role assignment scope
• 2529715 - Slow network or replication issues after you change the number of virus scanning API threads in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• 2536704 - Mailbox users who are migrated by using ILM 2007 cannot use the Options menu in OWA in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2537094 - French translation errors occur when you edit a response to a meeting request by using OWA in an Exchange Server 2010 SP1 environment
• 2554604 - A RBAC role assignee can unexpectedly manage certificates that are outside the role assignment scope in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2555800 - You cannot use the GetItem operation in EWS to retrieve properties of an email message in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2555850 - You cannot delete a mailbox folder that starts with a special character in its name by using Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2556096 - The columns in the .csv logging file are not lined up correctly when you perform a discovery search on a mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2556107 - The columns in the .csv logging file are not lined up correctly when you perform a discovery search on a mailbox in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2556133 - A device that uses Exchange ActiveSync cannot access mailboxes in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2556156 - Extra.exe crashes when it performs RPC activity checks against an Exchange Server 2010 server
• 2556352 - "ChangeKey is required for this operation" error message in Outlook for Mac 2011 in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2556407 - Certain client-only message rules do not take effect on email messages that are saved as drafts in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2559926 - "There are no items to show in this view." error message when you try to view a folder by using Outlook in an Exchange Server 2010 environment
• 2572958 - The "Test-OutlookConnectivity -Protocol HTTP" command fails with an HTTP 401 error in an Exchange Server 2010 environment

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Have you ever had to figure out what version of Exchange a build number is referring to or vice versa? There is a very handy TechNet article that lists every build number and release date since Exchange 4.0.837 (Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition, June 11 1996)

Bhargav Shukla also has a great script that can be used to find Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 build numbers in your environment.

It’s almost time to head to the Gold Coast for Tech-Ed 2011. I will be tweeting and blogging from the conference as usual. I will also be speaking this year so if you are attending, be sure to come over and say hi.

Microsoft’s Toby Knight and I will be presenting session EXL311 entitled “Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office 365: From Simple Migration to a Hybrid Environment”. Whether you’re looking to migrate all of your mailboxes to the cloud or planning to run a hybrid environment, this is the session for you. We will cover how and when to take advantage of the Simple Exchange Migration which supports migrating existing Exchange on-premise customers who want to move all of their mailboxes to the cloud with full data fidelity. You will also learn how rolling out an Exchange 2010 server in your current Exchange environment prepares you for seamless integration with Exchange Online. Whether you are piloting a few users or moving a large part of your workforce to the cloud, we give you the technical details on Exchange-to-cloud integration that you need to be successful.

The session is currently scheduled for Wed, 31 Aug at 5 PM. See you there!

During the month of June I was fortunate enough to attend the Microsoft Certified Master rotation at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington.

I am delighted to announce that after a very long month of waiting for the results of the final “qual lab”, I passed and have earned the Microsoft Certified Master | Exchange Server 2010 certification.

The MCM program differentiates itself through expert-led training. The curriculum is
developed in conjunction with Microsoft product engineering teams and delivered by industry-renowned instructors and practiced experts within their fields of discipline. Instructors use their numerous years of experience to ensure that students receive authoritative information on the successes and challenges of applying course concepts to real-world customer situations. I knew it would be challenging, but when day 1 ended up being 17 hours long we all knew we would be in for more than we could have ever imagined.

In order to successfully pass and be able to call yourself an MCM you need to get through 3 very difficult theory exams and then face the beast, otherwise known as the “qual lab”. Without going into it in too much detail, it is a very intense 3 weeks. How intense? read Bojan Nenadic’s Blog

I have to say thanks to all my rock star instructors and classmates.. I am humbled and truly grateful to have shared this experience with you all.