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[ISSUE 1]

Problem Description:

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Some meeting requests from external domain are received as .msg attachment. Thus no Accept/Decline buttons. The meeting requests in question are with extended characters and in HTML format.

Cause:

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Exchange 2003 unexpectedly converts the .ics files.

RESOLUTION:

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 Exchange 2003 is unable to convert .ics files to Outlook meeting items for multiple-event iCal files

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;925873

Related information:

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The formats of meeting request:

In Outlook, meeting requests are saved in the MAPI format, which is a binary format. All of the e-mails transferred in the Internet, including meeting requests, are in the MIME format, which is an International standard that almost all mail servers can understand. When we send a meeting request to an Internet recipient, an e-mail in the MIME format is created and the meeting request is encapsulated in it. In the MIME message, the meeting information can be saved in two forms:

Recipients are receiving winmail.dat attachments:
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/alwaysrtf.asp

A good write up on what to do with winmail.dat attachments.  I haven't seen any in a while so I think either exchangedefender.com is handling mine or I've brainwashed myself into ignoring them.

Desktop shortcuts disappear in Windows 7:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978980/

Vote on this please:  System Maintenance tool should not delete unused or broken desktop shortcuts | Microsoft Connect:
https://connect.microsoft.com/site470/feedback/details/541344/system-maintenance-tool-should-not-delete-unused-or-broken-desktop-shortcuts

This will be one of the annoying rollout gotchas of Windows 7 I'll be talking about at SMBnation East.  I've hit this twice in our office.  If you leave your computer on (and in SBS world we do) over the weekend, you come back Monday morning and your tax software icons are gone.  People in the office are still a icon on the desktop world.  I can change their OS out to anything and as long as the apps worked and the icons didn't move they wouldn't notice what OS I gave them.  (Yeah I'd have to ensure the background image was the same).

For now I'm turning off the system maintenance option because I can't have the tax software icon be gone on Monday morning.

For those keeping track ... this is the nic in my server.  Used to be I would update that nic driver when I built the server and never ever ever look at it again.  Now I check if there are newer drivers when I get the HP alert emails just in case.

Notice: (Revision) HP NC375i /NC375T Quad Port Gigabit Server Adapter - NIC Is Designed to Only Use the Auto/Auto (Optimum Connection) Speed/Duplex Setting - c01916242 - HP Business Support Center:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01916242&dimid=1170844702&dicid=alr_mar10&jumpid=em_alerts/us/mar10/all/xbu/emailsubid/mrm/mcc/loc/rbu_category/alerts

 The Official SBS Blog : A Tip for Preventing Certain Sharepoint Connectivity Failure in SBS 2008:
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2010/03/12/a-tip-for-preventing-certain-sharepoint-connectivity-failure-in-sbs-2008.aspx

Little bit of backchannel on this.  I personally have never had an issue installing the Sharepoint service packs.  Eriq Neale and Philip Elder have.  It appears that on some types of servers you may hit this issue.  Yes I'm using all of the lovely fuzzy accounting wiggle lingo to ensure that you understand I do not know why I never hit it and Eriq and Philip have on certain machines.  Therefore as SP2 is soon to be a required service pack level for SharePoint v3, when you build a box you may want to do this step proactively just to make sure SharePoint sp3 comes out fine.

A white dot may appear on the top-left corner of the screen when an Aero theme is selected and “Enable transparency” is unchecked:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2020674/en-us

High CPU usage or irregular behavior occurs in virtual machines that are running in Windows Virtual PC:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981285/en-us

The "Allow the printing of background colors and images" Group Policy does not take effect on a computer that has Internet Explorer 8 installed:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;980077&sd=rss&spid=13418

Running Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer On Single Operating System is Unsupported:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2020599&sd=rss&spid=13418

Bytes sent and bytes received are not reported or are incorrect after configuring Virtual LANs:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;2019615&sd=rss&spid=14134

The right side of the first page of a printed .eml file may be truncated on a computer that has Internet Explorer 8 installed:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;980333&sd=rss&spid=13418

Dean shared this KB article. 

You may want to check your Arbeid frakoblet and make sure it's not a Arbeid tikoblet.

The "Arbeid frakoblet" button does not change to "Arbeid tilkoblet" after you click the button in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977832/

I think I'm turning into my fuddy duddy years.  I don't get foursquare. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7419911/Kevin-Rose-My-Foursquare-data-will-tell-my-life-story.html

http://foursquare.tumblr.com/post/441568658/happy-birthday-foursquare 

I don't get the attraction of logging into a site and telling people that I'm not home.  I don't get the attraction of posting everything of my life story of where I am any hour of the day or night.  There's already a site that looks for twitter posts to identify people not home so you can go rob them.

I don't think it's wise to be posting EVERYTHING and not keeping some things private?  What about you?

That said, I will tell you right here and now on my blog that I will be at the Save Mart Center on Thursday, June 17th starting at 7 p.m.  Hint as to why and what for.

I think I know why the VLSC web site is going to be worked on again ...

I can't get to my product keys today

https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/home.aspx

The Volume Licensing Service Center will be taken off-line for scheduled maintenance starting Friday, March 12th at 06:00 PM PST. We expect to be back Sunday, March 14th at 3:30 PM PST.

If you were planning a weekend project, now is your time to get your media downloaded.