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Tomorrow I’m leaving for my very first MVP Summit in Redmond. I’m really exited and I have huge expectations. I will travel and stay together with a dear friend and very skilled consultant, Martin Lidholm. Unfortunately you will probably not see too much of the stuff from the Summit here on the blog (yet) but I promise you that I will share all that I can!

And no, I won’t miss a single Swedish hockey game in the Olympics, I’m just going to be closer when Sweden beats the rest!

So Redmond you have been warned! :-)

After last years success I’m eager to come back for Techdays, this year in Örebro. My session this year will be about transition from Exchange 2003/7 to Exchange 2010. I will also be available for questions and demos in the MEET-section. See you in Örebro!

Microsoft has released Rollup 2 for Exchange 2007. There are a lot of fixes in this RU.

Download the rollup here

My friend Joachim started a really great initiative, a challenge to all IT Pro’s to donate money to the people of Haiti.

Of course I’m in and I want to encourage you to do the same!

I will send SEK 500 (about $50) to Red Cross, you give whatever you can and please pass the message on to other IT Pros!

Some time ago I wrote about the Deployment Assistant. Back the the only migration scenario it covered was Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. Now all possible transition scenarios are in there! Take a look, there is really a lot of great info!

Link to the Deployment Assistant!

Yesterday I found Dave’s post about Address List Segregation and wanted to link to it. I get a lot of question in forums about this and some have suggested to do it the way it was done in Exchange 2007 (there’s a whitepaper for how to) but wait!

ADL segregation will be supported but DON’T do it like you did in E2k7!

Read Dave’s blog post here

I have seen a couple of reports of problems after installing KB973917 on Exchange (more often Exchange on SBS-serves).

The problem a user get is repeated login prompts.

A solution for Exchange is to apply Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup 9. If it’s a SBS server you need to go to the Management Console, Updates and approve Rollup 9 for deployment.

Here’s a link to a friend of mine who has put more effort into this then me

Are you one of the early adopters of Exchange 2010 or do you have it in your lab? Then I guess you are pleased by the fact that Rollup 1 was released just a few minutes ago.

You can download Rollup 1 here and you find the related KB with all news in here

At TechEd in Berlin I was interview by David Tesar about Forefront for Exchange.

Watch the video at Edge

As a follow up to my post about Exchange 2007 on Server Core my friend Joachim has now completed his work and have all roles up and running on core.

Once again I want to stress the fact that this is NOT supported, read more on Nullsession.com

Come and meet MEET in Stockholm!

Have a beer and talk to members of MEET (Microsoft Extended Expert Team) at Grodan!

This event will focus on Windows Azure.

See you there!

Today Microsoft released Rollup 1 for Exchange 2007 SP2. A KB with all updates included in this rollup is available here (KB 971534).

Take your time to read the blog at the team blog too

The bits you find at this link

A feature I like in this rollup is a check for Internet connectivity to avoid problems with services that need to check certificate revocations list, if your server doesn’t have access to Internet you get a warning about that. Personally I think this will avoid a lot of trouble.

Happy patching!

If you didn’t make it to TechEd in Berlin this year I strongly encourage you to watch the keynote. Besides interesting information from Stephen Elop and others there is a great demo of Exchange by Julia White that I mentioned before.

That’s it from TechEd this year. It’s been a great week, lot’s of information, great meetings with people from all over the world, some German beer and way to little sleep. 

Microsoft has released the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant, a tool that helps you  in your deployment of Exchange 2010. At the moment assistance to upgrade (transition) from Exchange 2003 is available but there are more scenarios to come. Try it! It’s here and it’s really good!

16.10 CET today at the TechEd keynote in Berlin Exchange was officially released! I say WOHAA!

Julia White, Director, Exchange product management, did a great demo of some of the new features in Exchange 2010 and I was thrilled to see the reaction from people.

At this link you find the official pressrelease

Stay tuned for more!