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FYI - If you don't know already. Important A configuration change is coming to Outlook Live In April 2011, we will begin upgrading Live@edu Outlook Live customers from the current email filtering platform to Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE). FOPE is a hosted service that helps protect inbound and outbound email from spam, phishing scams and email policy violations. It provides administrators with much greater flexibility and control than the current system, including the ability to safelist an IP address range (CIDR) and set up encrypted TLS connections. There is no impact on end users during this upgrade, and administrators do not need to take any action to prepare for the upgrade. After the move to FOPE is complete, your IP filtering administrative experience changes and much more functionality is available. Domains that are upgraded to FOPE will receive all features, except those that are specific to on-premises deployments, such as configuration of domains or adding users, which are not available to hosted domains. For more information about FOPE and how to manage and configure settings, please see the following resources: • Complete documentation: FOPE User Guide • An entire set of 32 videos including 4 introductory videos for FOPE. This is what you can expect for the upgrade schedule: • Customers must first be moved to the Outlook Live service update to become eligible for upgrade to FOPE. If you have already upgraded to this platform or on-boarded directly to this platform, we will inform you before we upgrade you to FOPE. • If your domain is not yet upgraded to the latest service update, we will notify you when that update is scheduled and you can expect upgrade to FOPE to follow after your Outlook Live upgrade is complete. We will also notify you before we start the upgrade to FOPE. • If your email filtering system has already been moved to FOPE as part of an early adopter programme, we will modify your user interface to provide access to the FOPE admin centre after your upgrade to the Outlook Live service update is complete. • Not all customers will meet the upgrade criteria at this time. The following configurations will prevent simple upgrade to FOPE: º Skiplisting is in place. This means that you have added IP address entries to the gateway server field in SMP. For more information about this scenario, please see the help topic IP Safelisting for Mail Delivery and Relay. º More than 40 IP addresses are safelisted in SMP. Our standard upgrade process can only support up to 40 IP address entries. Manual setup is required to preserve the current settings. º A shared address space configuration where MX records do not resolve to Outlook Live. • We will follow up with these customers as they are identified to process a manual upgrade. Please see the help topic IP Safelisting for Mail Delivery and Relay for more information about safelisting configuration. You may be able to make modifications to your configuration to meet migration criteria. • Although you must upgrade to FOPE, you may choose to delay the upgrade when you receive notification that your domain is scheduled. All upgrades must be completed by 1 November 2011. This is what you can expect during the upgrade process: • You will receive an email notification about one week before your specific upgrade is scheduled to start. You can delay the upgrade to FOPE at that time by contacting Live@edu Support within 3 business days. You will be expected to identify an acceptable timeframe for your upgrade when you contact Support. All upgrades to FOPE must be completed by 1 November 2011. • During the upgrade period you will not be able to update safelists and the SMP user interface for configuring safelists will be disabled. • The upgrade process will sync your domain information, currently safelisted IP addresses and administrator account information to FOPE. This step enables outbound mail flow through FOPE. After this step has been completed successfully, we update DNS records to enable inbound mail flow through FOPE and send an email message to verify that all operations were successful. These steps are timed carefully to ensure that there is no disruption to mail flow. • We will notify you by email after all the upgrade steps have been completed. All safelist configurations will now be done in the FOPE administration centre, which can be accessed through single sign-on from ECP or from SMP. Thanks! Live@edu FOPE upgrade team CONNECT Support Contact Info United Kingdom 0800 917 7708 - English Phone Support Hours English 24x7 Website COMMUNITY Have questions? Get answers. Visit Live@edu Answers © 2011 | Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399

If you don't know what cards are in your server, do you know the make and model of your server? If its HP, IBM etc...

"Hi Use the PFMC in Exchange 2007 and the Powershell. You can also use Outlook to manage permissions. Sukh " :-) Put the onus onto the owners if they can be trusted. Sukh

could always try xp mode on Win 7

Very straight forward for permissions and propagating to sub-folders etc...but at the same time very dangerous tool which can destroy your PF. Sukh

Then the most easy option is PFDAVAdmin. Are you comfortable with this? Sukh

If you want to manage permissions then you can always use PFDAVAdmin. PFDAVAdmin is easier to manage permissions What do you want to do? Sukh

yes you can. Best performed on the scheme master. Sukh

Use the PFMC in Exchange 2007 . If you're the IT guy/Exchange admin, then you should set-up a group with PF access to all PF and add your admin account to that so that you can manage permissions. Also, if the PF have owners, they should be able to set permissions too. Sukh

Hi Use the PFMC in Exchange 2007 and the Powershell. You can also use Outlook to manage permissions. Sukh

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@JoskosSolutions - Have you benchmarked SAN's if so what ones? Do you have any baseline on performance on the SAN's you recommend? Any tested performance metrics you can share. I agree cloud is the way to go depending on the env, for school this seems a good approach or a mixture as stated (on-premise/cloud). Even with Veeam - Have you managed to restore data after the dumpster within a reasonable tme frame? (depends on RPO/RTO obviously). Also, using another school as a DR site can be a good idea, however, there will be some serious costs involved, maybe cloud would be better in terms of what id offeref, enterprise data centres. Another reason why the government is doing the Building schhols for future etc...

How many DC in your domain? Could be an issue with sysvol/netlogon replication. Check for the script on each sysvol/netlogon and see if this exists? Sukh

Have you checked the operational logs as stated by the error? Can you post error? Sukh

Hi What issues are you having with certificates? Gatt has also asked a few questions I'd ask Sukh

You should be fine. Makre sure you take a backup (system state) at least. Also backup the DHCP DB. It is supported however, always best to to a fresh install. Sukh

Hi Are you able to reproduce this issue? Is it effected for all users or some? Is the issue on all PC's or some? Sukh

Hi Do you get any error messages when you try to RDP? Can you login locally and check the event logs for errors? Can you telnet to 3389 on the target server from a PC? Can you RDP using the /admin switch? Sukh

Hi see this How to fix Server Manager Errors after installing updates (HRESULT:0x800F0818 / HRESULT:0x800B0100) - Microsoft GTSC Romania - Enterprise Platforms Support - Site Home - TechNet Blogs if this does not work , provide log info from event logs Sukh

Hi No you cant, but you can use Remote Web Access to access documents remotely. Sukh

@JoskosSolutions - What are your thoughts on this topic? Anything to add? Sukh

@JoskosSolutions - PM who?

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@witch - If you cant see the volume then your issue is drivers are required. Inject drivers. To create your derivative capture image from an existing Windows PE image that already has all the drivers injected: •Add a Windows PE image to your server. •Mark the image as offline (disabled). •Mount the image using the Windows AIK toolset (ImageX and Mountrw). •Inject all the drivers offline using PEIMG.exe. (Now your Windows PE image has all the drivers it needs.) •Mark the image as online (enabled). •Create the capture image based off of this Windows PE image. Sukh

Hi What sorted it? Sukh