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The Windows Updates Compatibility Test for HMC 4.0 of this month has completed( exclude update 968930 ), all test cases for BVT (Build Verification Tests) are regressed and the test result is Pass . Items in yellow section are updates newly installed...

The Windows Updates Compatibility Test for HMC 4.5 of this month has completed( exclude update for Windows Server 2003 KB968930, update for Windows Server 2008 KB974145 ), all test cases for BVT (Build Verification Tests) are regressed and the result...

Hi all, today we have a guest publisher here on the HMC MSDN Blog of mine. Grahame Ash, a Principal PFE just like me, who also takes care of HMC customers in EMEA posted a FAQ internally for others who want to find out more about HMC. I liked it...

The Windows Updates Compatibility Test for HMC 4.0 of this month has completed( excluding update 968930 ), all test cases have been regressed and the overall test result is Pass . Items in yellow in the section below are updates newly installed in...

Hi All, The Windows Updates Compatibility Test for HMC 4.5 of this month has completed( exclude update for Windows Server 2003 KB968930, update for Windows Server 2008 KB974145 ), all test cases are regressed and the overall result is Pass . ...

OK we finally released HMC 4.0 Rollup 3, which is for the full solution and contains all previousely released fixes that shipped previousely. More details are in the following KB Article Update Rollup 3 for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration...

IMPORTANT Notice: the Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB968930) causes the Exchange 2007, Exchange 2007 Mobility and Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging providers to fail with an error similar to the below: <response> <errorContext description...

NOTE : Please don’t install Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB968930) . This update will case cause an error in the Exchange 2007 Provider , we have an acvtive bug to fix that issue. See this post for more details The Windows Updates Compatibility...

While we are working on getting this information on to http://technet.microsoft.com/serviceproviders I am posting this here because I get asked about it almost daily. NOTE : Please don’t install Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB968930) . This update...

Update Rollup 6 for HMC 4.5 is now available here http://support.microsoft.com/?id=979704 . Note that this Rollup requires Exchange SP2, with Rollup 1. Microsoft has released an update that is dated December 2009. This update fixes issues in the following...

This is a short note that the HMC product group has released a critical hotfix for both HMC 4.0 and HMC 4.5. The issue is as follows   HMC 4.x uses the Exchange 2007 default mechanism to stamp the legacyExchangeDN. As a result, it uses just the alias...

Well, here is another one of my "How To" topics. I get asked quite a bit: "How do we interact with MPS so we do not have to use Notepad and Provtest.exe." So I would call this principle "Calling MPS programatically". OK. So the good news first...

One question that comes up quite often is whether HMC Provisioning is "thread safe" i.e.. does it support multiple simultaneous provisioning actions. The answer to this question can be complicated, the simple answer is "yes, but there are caveats." ...

Well it has been a while, well a long while since I posted here. It is a shame how simple things fall off the cliff between work and family. I do promise though to be better from now on. First a quick update on where I am at these days. My...

OK OK I understand this is not the newest of news, and it seems it took us forever to get this out the door. But thanks to patient users, testers and last but not least our UA folks the MPS SDK 2.0 has finally been released to the web about a month and...

OK we finally got the SDK out the door and it will be available for download within the next 24 - 48 hours at the Microsoft Download Center at this Link MPS SDK Beta 1 Direct Download Link After you download the SDK unzip the Package to a location...

This is going to be a short one :-) The MPS SDK for Visual Studio 2005 is going to be in Beta by the end of next week. If you want to get a early preview of the SDK tools and Docs please drop me a short note. You will need a completed NDA on File with...

Hello fellow coders. Here is part 3 of the how to develop a MPS Provider article. Today I am going to focus on writing a provider which actually does something relatively useful. The SMTPMailProvider (as I will call it from now on) will enable a MPS...

OK Now that you have set up your environment (if you have not check out my previous post ) let’s get some code done. On the MPS Engine Server where you installed Visual Studio open the Visual Studio IDE. Select File/New and you should see a new...

Developing custom MPF Providers in Visual Studio 2003. This post is about getting the prerequesites set up and configured....

Something I get asked a lot and actually this is a great and valid question so let me swing back in time a little and lets look where MPS Came from and what it was designed for. 1999: MPF is born and released as the provisioning solution for the First...

Back from a great vacation and all recharged here an update from snow less, rainless, sunny Redmond, WA. The " Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 3.0 " is out the door, and for the very first time in history (yeah I know sounds like a cliché...

Boy have we been busy lately. Working with the group in Microsoft who owns the MPF Engine we made it happen. The last Windows 2000 dependency in the Solutions for Windows Based Hosting is history, or at least will soon be ... Beginning with the release...

So how do we start this out? This is my first blog since back in the BBS times when I ran a FIDO Point in Austria ....(man am I that old already :-{) Welcome is probably a good start ;-) As a Program Manager at Microsoft I'm responsible for the Microsoft...