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An age-appropriate diet is one that provides adequate nutrition, is appropriate for a child's state of development, and can help prevent childhood obesity.
Diet - age appropriate
Rice cereal and other foods with rice have long been recommended as first or early foods for infants and children. Recent concerns have been raised regarding arsenic content in rice. Key points about this issue are:
Parents should also offer children a wide variety of age-appropriate foods to their children. These include:
During the first 4 - 6 months of life, infants need only breast milk or formula to meet all their nutritional needs.
If breastfeeding, a newborn may need to nurse 8 - 12 times per day (every 2 - 4 hours), or on demand. By 4 months, the baby is likely to cut back to 4 - 6 times per day, however, the quantity of breast milk consumed at each feeding will increase.
Formula-fed babies may need to eat about 6 - 8 times per day, starting newborns with 2 - 3 ounces of formula per feeding (for a total of 16 - 24 ounces per day). As with breastfeeding, the number of feedings will decrease as the baby gets older, but the amount of formula will increase to approximately 6 - 8 ounces per feeding.
Never give honey to an infant, as it may contain the spores that cause botulism . An infant's immune system is not fully developed to fight off this disease.
Although an infant may sleep through the night, waking to feed may be necessary if the infant is not eating enough during the day or if they are underweight. Routine check-ups with your physician to monitor your child's growth will ensure they are eating adequately during the day. Your doctor or dietitian will inform you if waking to feed is recommended.
At 4 - 6 months of age an infant should be consuming 28 - 45 ounces of formula, and is often ready to start the transition to solid foods. Starting solids too soon may cause the infant to choke if they are not physically ready.
There are several developmental milestones to indicate an infant is ready to eat solid foods:
Start solid feedings with iron-fortified baby rice cereal mixed with breast milk or formula to a thin consistency. The cereal may be mixed to a thicker consistency as the baby learns to control it in his mouth.
Once the baby is eating rice cereal routinely, you may introduce other iron-fortified instant cereals. Only introduce one new cereal per week so you can watch for an intolerance or allergy.
Never put a child to bed with a bottle as this can cause bottle mouth , resulting in tooth decay . Use plain water if a bottle is necessary. Discuss use of water with your physician. (In some cases, use of excess water can lead to seizures in children.)
Continue to offer breast milk or formula 3 - 5 times per day. Cow's milk is not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for children under 1 year old.
The baby will begin drinking less formula or breast milk once solid foods become a source of nutrition.
After a baby has tried a variety of different baby cereals, try strained fruits and vegetables.
Amounts of fruits and vegetables eaten per day will vary between 2 tablespoons and 2 cups depending on the size of your child and how well the child eats fruits and vegetables. The consistency of foods offered may be gradually increased as your child tolerates.
Finger foods may be offered in small amounts, but avoid foods such as apple chunks or slices, grapes, hot dogs, sausages, peanut butter, popcorn, nuts, seeds, round candies, and hard chunks of uncooked vegetables that may cause choking.
Soft cooked vegetables, washed and peeled fruits, graham crackers, melba toast, noodles are good finger foods. Salty or sugary foods are not recommended. Teething foods, such as toast strips, unsalted crackers, bagels, and teething biscuits may also be introduced at this time.
Breast milk or formula should be offered three to four times per day at this age. Cow's milk is not recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for children under 1 year old.
At 8 - 12 months of age, a baby will be ready to try strained or finely chopped meats. For breastfed infants, start meats at 8 months of age (breast milk is not a rich source of iron, but infants have adequate iron stores to last until 8 months of age when iron-rich foods such as meats can be given).
As with other foods, offer only 1 new meat per week in 3 - 4 tablespoon servings -- use strained and finely ground meats, frankfurters, or meat sticks. Serving sizes for fruits and vegetables increases to 3 - 4 tablespoons, four times per day. Eggs may be given 3 - 4 times per week, but only the yolk until the baby is 1 year old, as some babies are sensitive to egg whites.
By the age of 1, most children are off the bottle. If the child still uses a bottle, it should contain water only.
After a baby is 1-year old, whole milk may replace breast milk or formula. Children under the age of 2 should not be given low-fat milk (2%, 1%, or skim) as they need the additional calories from fat to ensure proper growth and development.
Children under the age of 1 should not be given whole milk as it has been shown to cause low blood counts. Cheese, cottage cheese, and yogurt, however, may be given in small amounts.
The 1-year-old child should be getting much of their nutrition from meats, fruits and vegetables, breads and grains, and the dairy group, especially whole milk.
Providing a variety of foods will help to ensure enough vitamins and minerals. Toddlers do not grow as rapidly as babies do, so their nutritional needs relative to their size decrease during the second year of life. Although they continue to gain weight, they no longer double their weight as infants do.
Keep in mind, however, that toddlers are becoming more and more active as they learn to crawl and walk. Toddlers and small children will usually eat only small amounts at one time, but will eat frequently (4 - 6 times) throughout the day, so snacking is strongly encouraged.
Feeding tips:
Throughout childhood and adolescence, it is important that the diet include a variety of foods for proper development. The principles of the food guide plate apply to a child's diet as well as an adult's, although portions and number of servings per day are obviously less for children.
After the age of 2, it is recommended that the diet be moderately low in fat, as diets high in fat may contribute to heart disease , obesity , and other health problems later in life.
In areas where water is not fluoridated, fluoride supplementation is recommended. A diet that contains a variety of foods from each of the food groups (breads and grains, meats, fruits and vegetables, and dairy) will help prevent nutrient deficiencies.
Both the American Medical Association and the American Dietetic Association recommend that healthy children should get all their nutrients from foods rather than vitamin supplements.
The nutrients that are most likely to be deficient in a child's diet are calcium, iron, vitamin C, vitamin A , folic acid , and vitamin B6 . The American Academy of Pediatrics does not support routine supplementation for normal, healthy children. However, there is no significant risk if a parent wishes to give their child a standard pediatric multivitamin.
Children who consume little or no dairy products are at particular risk for calcium deficiency that can interfere with bone growth and development. Foods that are good sources of calcium include low-fat or nonfat milk, yogurt, and cheeses. Other foods such as broccoli, cooked greens, and canned salmon (with bones) will also provide a source of calcium in the diet; however, it is often difficult to get children to consume adequate quantities of these foods.
Iron requirements vary by age, rate of growth, iron stores, increasing blood volume, and rate of absorption from food sources. Adolescent girls will have increased iron needs due to menstrual losses. Food sources of iron include meat, fish, poultry, iron-fortified cereals, spinach greens, and dried beans and peas.
Stettler N, Bhatia J, Parish A, Stallings VA. Feeding healthy infants, children, and adolescents. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 42.
David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc; Neil K. Kaneshiro, MD, MHA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine.
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Concurrent Engineering Helps Meet Thermal Challenges of High Speed Design
November 2006
With each successive generation of Cisco products, increases in functionality and speed have increased thermal design challenges. In response, Cisco Systems has defined a temperature aware design flow that significantly improves co-design between electrical and mechanical engineers. "The new concurrent electronic/thermal engineering approach has reduced the time required to identify and solve thermal problems, making it practical to address thermal issues at an earlier stage in the design process," said Herman Chu, Technical Leader for Cisco Systems, San Jose, California. "It appears that the five days that was required in the past to evaluate a prospective board design from a thermal standpoint can be reduced to only two and a half days or less."
The power consumption of the typical PCB has risen from 200 to 600 watts in just the past few years, raising thermal design from a relatively minor issue to a major design and reliability concern. The biggest problem with the old thermal design approach was the amount of time required to perform thermal modeling. It took about five days to generate first-pass results and most of this time was spent manually entering the data and often going back to the hardware architect and other electronics engineers to obtain missing information. Of course, while the initial thermal model was being created, the board design had often changed by enough to make the thermal model obsolete by the time it was created. Cisco thermal engineers believed that the key to improving this process was to automate the flow of information from hardware design to thermal engineering.
They learned of a tool with features that seemed to offer the opportunity to improve this process. This tool, called FloTHERM.PCB, integrates with the PCB design software used by Cisco. It promotes a new design flow in which information is transferred seamlessly between the electronic and mechanical design processes. Designers begin by transferring information from the PCB design software to thermal analysis. A 3D computational fluid dynamics solver predicts airflow and temperature, for both sides of the board. Cooling management can thus be considered from the earliest stages of the design process. Placement updates made in thermal analysis can be passed back to PCB design thus providing bi-directional connectivity allowing for concurrent placement and thermal design.
The new concurrent electronic/thermal engineering approach has reduced the time required to identify and solve thermal problems, making it practical to address thermal issues at an earlier stage in the design process. The accuracy of the information used for thermal simulation has also been improved, increasing the accuracy of the simulation results. The savings are actually greater than this comparison reflects because shortening the time required to perform a thermal evaluation allows engineers to react faster and avoid putting additional time and money into a design with thermal problems. The greatest benefit of all is the additional revenues that can be generated by bringing the product to market sooner.For further information, please contact:
Nazita Saye
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In Phuket, you can choose between conventional transport and adventurous ones. If you are staying in the tourist centers like Patong or Kata beach, moving around won't be a problem. Here, accommodation, beach, shops, restaurants and entertainment activities are within walking distance. However, if you are staying in one of the isolated beaches, you need to consider transportation seriously. There are many options like taxi, tuk-tuk, minibus, public buses etc. It depends on how much you want to spend on transportation. Most expensive hotels have their own shuttle services for the benefit of their guests.
For short trips, tuk-tuks are very convenient. These are small taxi trucks seen in plenty all over Thailand. However, agree on the fare before the journey. The drivers have a tendency to overcharge tourists. A short trip within the town area should be anywhere from 50 baht to 100 baht. For longer trips, the fare will go up depending on the distance and your
bargaining ability.
Songthaews are daytime buses that operate services to and from Phuket Town to other destinations. This is a safer and cheaper way to travel. In addition, you get to experience the local culture and can meet local people during the journey. These buses run from Phuket Town to the destination and is back again in Phuket Town by evening. It starts from the bus terminal near food market in Phuket Town. You can see them parked along the one-way road here. All of them display their destination prominently. All you have to do is to spot the right bus and get in. These buses do not have any fixed stops along the way. You can stop them anywhere, if you want to get down or get in. To get in, just wave your hands at the driver as the bus approaches. The fare will be in the range of 15 to 25 baht, depending on the distance of the journey.
Local buses
Local buses run frequently between destinations during the day hours of 7.00am until 6.00pm. As there are no fixed bus stops in Thailand, if you want to board the bus, you have to flag them down as they approach. You can find buses going to different destinations in the busy roads here. In Phuket Town, most buses are parked along Ranong Road, opposite to Thai Airways office. Just go there, find the bus going to the right destination, and get in. In Patong, the best place to catch a bus is Phra Barmee Road, where you can flag them down. The average fare in these buses is 20 baht. However, if you want to search your kitesurfing school in Phuket in a hurry, this is not the transport for you. They stop all along the way to allow passengers get down or get in. But if you want to see the country and meet local people, there is no better way than this.
Hire cars and Motorbikes
Some hotels and private companies offer cars and motorbikes for hire. If you are planning to explore the island, this is a necessity. Before hiring, make sure that you have valid license to drive and the vehicles insurance papers are proper.
This becomes vital in case of an accident. In case of motorcycles, insurance is typically not included, even if the hire company claims otherwise. You will end up paying the damages and medical bills if accident happens. You should possess a Thai or International license for claiming any insurance.
Patong has lots of adventure to offer biking enthusiasts. The roads are excellent and the exotic landscapes add charm to the trip. The Andaman Sea providing a beautiful background, it will be a trip any biker will enjoy. There are some out-of-the-way places to try out as well. Honda Dream is the favorite bike of locals as well as tourists. However, Patong has bike shops (Rat-U-Thit Road at Patong Beach) that focus on dirt bikes and road cruisers for the adventure-seekers. Before venturing on Thai roads, be warned that the road-users here have no regard for laws and road rules and you may see unforeseen and unsafe behavior on roads. During rainy season, the roads are very slippery due to oil spills and the chances of skidding are very high. Be safe and cautious and enjoy the country.
Motorcycle taxi
Phuket Island has motorbike taxis that operate round the clock. You can find the drivers, wearing colored vests in street corners, looking for passengers. The fare depends on the distance, the time of the day and your bargaining ability. It is not a safe means of transport, but fast and convenient.
Car rental
Cars and jeeps are available for hire and it is one of the best and hassle-free ways to get around Phuket Island. Before hiring the vehicle, check the insurance papers to make sure that they are in order. In case of accident, the responsibility of damages is with the driver.
If you are enjoy my short introduction of Phuket and love to know more about Kiteboarding lesson in Phuket, please check out my Kitesurf website.


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Your might have noticed Phil playing a new version of his signature Jackson PC1 in menacing Satin Black. The PC1 Ninja is now available to the public in two different versions - one with a maple fingerboard and another with an ebony fingerboard. The limited-edition run will feature only 25 of each model. For more details on the limited-edition run PC1 Ninja go HERE
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Rise up! Gather round, here is part 2 to Joe's recent Q&A. Also listen to part 1 HERE
On this day in DEF LEPPARD history - 3 August 1987 – HYSTERIA album was released! HYSTERIA is Leppards's fourth studio album which charted at #1 on Billboard Top 200 chart in the U.S. and #1 on the U.K. Album Chart and spawned seven hit singles.
Watch this interview from 2012 as Joe Elliott & Phil Collen discuss Hysteria.
Jackson 30th Anniversary limited edition PC1 Custom (Splatter)
About 6 years ago Mike Kotzen, Artist Relations at Jackson Guitars was at my house and asked if I could think of anything that we could do to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jackson Guitars. We came up with a plan to paint and personalize 30 guitars with a unique artwork that had me going to the Fender/Jackson factory in Corona, California at intervals for the next year (it's only a 35 minute drive from my house if the wind is blowing in the right direction). I loved the whole concept. I really got to see from the ground up what really goes into the deeply involved process that creates a custom Jackson guitar.
Interestingly enough, although I've always loved art I hadn't drawn or painted anything since I started playing guitar at age 16 and soon realized I'd exchanged one art form outlet/expression for another and although I'd matured as a musical artist my drawing and painting absolutely sucked. I was where I had left off at 16 but any technique that I had, had left me 30 odd years ago due to lack of practice hence giving credence to the old "if you don't use it you'll lose it" phrase, a powerful metaphor for anything in life.
This being said I opted out of a drawing or painting but instead chose to personalize the guitars in a paint splashing extravaganza ala "Jackson Pollock" style, where I chose 4 colors that would stand out. The first being "Fire Engine Red" that I would literally splatter like blood, resembling a CSI crime scene and wait for that coat to dry or with the aid of a hairdryer or the amazing drying room at Jackson which helped along the process. Sometimes the batch would be as big as 9 guitar bodies or as small as 3 and sometimes if the paint hadn't dried I'd have to come back another day to start the next color.
We finally finished the 30 guitars plus a few extra artist proof guitars of which this is one of two that I own. Mine have thicker necks than the other 30 guitars. This was just in time for the 2010 NAMM trade show. I also played it on the 2009 Manraze UK tour, when we opened up for Alice Cooper. I've since seen some of these 30 guitars as far away as Australia and Japan. I also gave the tattoo artist Kat Von Dee a PC1 Splatter as a gift for the beautiful job she did in creating tattoos for my wife and I. Kat had it on display in her shop which I saw on the show for several episodes. The original guitar on Kat's wall was my gift to Mike Kotzen-artist relations at Jackson Guitar. It was the only PC1 Splatter that had three pickups. When we finished the guitar for Kat we exchanged hers out and Mike got his guitar back. So for those who are really into detail and want to dig deep you might notice that the PC1 Splatter guitar on Kat's wall goes from having three pickups to two. I also hand splashed a custom Fender/Jackson hybrid bass for my wife as a wedding present. She's got the only PC Splatter Fender/Jackson 4 string left-handed bass in the world. I even included a blue (her fave color) gem in the body. It's included in the photo with my splashed amps.
The guitar isn't a standard PC1 as it has an ebony finger board with 1 Jackson shark fin marker on the 12th fret for a start and no middle pickup, just a Dimarzio Super 3 in the bridge position and a Jackson driver/sustainer/pickup in the neck position. My guitars are loaded with FU-Tone titanium bridge and saddles and have 13-54 gauge D'addario strings. Apart from the color splashing over a black body I wrote Phil in Japanese. I did so in white ink. Each guitar is also numbered progressively in the Japanese numeric system. To accomplish this feat I was coached by Dave Kurihara at Jackson Guitars. To practice these numbers and names I painted on anything and everything from paper to blocks of wood and even amplifiers (check out my Fender Cyber Twin when I played on the Jimmy Fallon show and on the Voice).
I did a bunch of artwork on canvas and even went to the Fender Showroom in Corona, Ca to splash a giant Fender Strat that is on display in the Cleveland Rock & Roll Hall of Fame foyer (last time I saw it). There are permanent red splatter stains on the ceiling of the Fender Showroom's performance room to this day.
Anyway if you want to hear this guitar it's featured heavily on Manraze's second album 'Punkfunkrootsrock'. It's the rhythm guitar on 'Over My Dead Body' and the outro solo on 'Edge Of The World'. I play it occasionally on the current 2014 summer tour on 'Let's Get Rocked'. Tonight Sat Aug 2nd we're in Atlantic City. Think I'll play it tonight.
Our favorite singer is celebrating today in Boston as Leppard gear up tonight for the 2nd leg of their summer tour w/ KISS. Have a great day, Joe!
With the recent tour break, Joe had some time to answer many of the great questions that were submitted last month to his Facebook Q&A. Thanks to all that sent in their questions. For those who's questions were not answered, we will do this again soon. Look out for parts 2 and 3 of the Joe Elliott Q&A coming in the next few days!
Listen to Pt. 1 of Joe's answers on SoundCloud NOW!
Joe discusses family life, touring with KISS, DOWN 'n' OUTZ side project and more. Listen NOW!
DREAD - Jackson custom PC1 with reverse Jackson headstock
If you've seen any dates on this tour I play DREAD on "Armageddon It" and "Pour Some Sugar On Me". This guitar is one of my touring guitar favorites. It's basically a PC1 body with the Jackson driver/ sustainer in the neck position and a DiMarzio Super 3 in the bridge position. You can't see the pickup as it has a plastic cover on it to enhance the extremely elaborate paint job executed by the excellent visual and graphic artist Johnnie Grez. I heard that this paint job took 52 hours to complete. When you hold the guitar up to the light you can see why-especially on the back. Some of the water designs and dreadlocks are raised which you can feel when you touch it with your hands and/or look at it from a distance. It's almost 3D. The other thing is that Johnnie painted DREAD with glow in the dark paint (my other glow in the dark Jackson BELA gets much love and is currently imprisoned in a glass coffin at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. Check it out if you're in Cleveland cause I'll be bringing it out for that one show only for those of you who keep asking about the 'vampire' guitar).
The subject matter of DREAD is a deadlocked monster loosley based on the creature from the movie "Predator" hence the name DREAD. We skipped the middle pickup on this guitar to give Johnnie a little more artistic freedom plus I never use the middle pickup when I play live. It has FU-TONE titanium block and bridge saddles and a Floyd Rose tremolo bridge. It's equipped with 13-54 gauge D'addario strings.
This guitar also has a few different features for me. I wanted to go back to the classic Jackson headstock that I have on my 80s Jacksons only reverse it-really a tribute to Jimi Hendrix from me. There's an ebony fingerboard which apart from having a different feel has a completely different sound. It's smoother and creamier-great for lead tones and shredding for some reason. The neck has a good chunk to it that transfers to the sound when you're playing rhythm. I'll get the neck sizes to you guys later as I'm now in cahoots with Kurt Walton at Jackson and he'll be getting the exact specs as all this stuff is recorded. Pretty cool huh?
Another little detail related to this guitar is if you look closely at the chain I have hanging off my hip it's actually the "Predator", or the head at least, making the chain links. You'd have to zoom in on that so we've actually done that for you in the photos CLICK HERE
Oh, by the way if I'm not mistaken, I believe there was another guitar made for someone out there with the same spec and artwork as DREAD, so if you're out there I'd love to see some photos.


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NASA's Alien Anomalies caught on film - A compilation of stunning UFO footage from NASA's archives
zoltan2 wrote:NASA's Alien Anomalies caught on film - A compilation of stunning UFO footage from NASA's archives
capricorn wrote:Thanks Zoltan, I've always felt that the Nasa videos are some of the most compelling evidence of extrateresstrial craft. Its nice to see it in complication form.. some i havent seen before too.
Also, I do I appreciate David Sereda's work. He has a very new age perspective on things (some of which can be a bit much for me) but nonetheless, very interesting. He is involved with an initiative called voice entertainment which provides some interesting content. Here's the link if you've never been there before.
Also, I dont know if you have ever heard of Regina Meredith, she runs a site called Conscious Media Network which is somewhat along the same line of work that David Sereda is doing. Lots of good info there too.


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Predicted Actions Enabled
Categories & Subject Descriptors: User Interface evaluation, Interaction Styles.
General Terms: Experimentation, Human Factor, Performance.
Keywords: Customization, interaction Techniques, menu design, user study, Adaptable Interface, Adaptive actions, Predict actions.
As Administrators we are very much aware of every user friendly mailbox policies and features which might help the everyday user in your organizations. I would like to touch upon a topic which might not be that very important and useful from an admin point of view but something which most of the Microsoft office administrators may be familiar with. It's not a widely used feature but is very much similar to Adaptive menus in legacy MS Office applications like word, excel etc..
What is it all about?
Here, we are speaking about an OWA MAILBOX POLICY which is by default disabled for all Outlook Web App (OWA) users and which can be enabled by exchange administrators. PredictedActionsEnabled is an Outlook Web App Feature, and which helps an Outlook Web App user to customize the commands and icons they see according to what they are doing. This is very similar to Adaptive Menus feature from earlier Office applications. This is a very complex approach which is appreciated by users who have a regular pattern of use, but can be disliked by users who do not want their menus or available buttons to be constantly changing. This is a feature which is NOT a USER CONTROLLED Feature. Even then we do not know much about the PredictedActionsEnabled feature as it's not widely in use by users in OWA, so if it's beneficial or a pain is yet to be identified. We aren't even sure if users are aware that they have such a feature available to be explored.
Setting values for this Policy:
As administrators are aware, there are many OWA mailbox policies which are only available through Exchange Management Shell (EWS). PredictedActionsEnabled is one of them.
To check if it's there in your environment try this cmdlet
Get-OWAMailboxPolicy XXX |fl
This is what you'll probably see…
RecoverDeletedItemsEnabled : True
InstantMessagingEnabled : True
TextMessagingEnabled : True
ForceSaveAttachmentFilteringEnabled : False
SilverlightEnabled : True
InstantMessagingType : None
DisplayPhotosEnabled : True
SetPhotoEnabled : True
AllowOfflineOn : AllComputers
SetPhotoURL :
PlacesEnabled : False
AllowCopyContactsToDeviceAddressBook : True
PredictedActionsEnabled : False
UserDiagnosticEnabled : False
FacebookEnabled : True
LinkedInEnabled : True
WacExternalServicesEnabled : True
WacOMEXEnabled : False
ReportJunkEmailEnabled : False
WebPartsFrameOptionsType : SameOrigin
AdminDisplayName :
ExchangeVersion : 0.10 (220.127.116.11)
Name : Enterprise
DistinguishedName : CN=Enterprise,CN=OWA Mailbox Policies,CN=ENTERPRISE,CN=Microsoft
Although, this feature has a "FALSE" Value by default, it can be set to "TRUE" by using a simple power shell cmdlet.
Set-CASMailbox -Identity Default -OWAMailbox policy -PredictedActionsEnabled $true
Now to the icing on the cake:
Thanks for reading the article but the bad news is, that this feature/parameter currently can't be changed in EXCHANGE 2013. Feedback has been sent to Exchange product/testing team (Confirmed by Microsoft Contingent Staff).
Closing comments:
Hopefully in your environment (apart from EXC 2013) you can try and use these feature and come up with questions and suggestions.
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Office 365 & Exchange 2013 In-Place Hold & E-Discovery
Data Governance and preserving Email has always been an important security concern in almost every type of business environments.
Attorneys in particular need access to search emails that are relevant for legal and compliance purposes.
With Office 365 – The process of searching, preserving and accessing email records was available all the time. The Technical terms that every Office 365 Admin should know when dealing with preserving emails are:
1. Litigation Hold … now, In-Place eDiscovery & Hold.
2. Discovery Management
3. Multi-Mailbox Search
With Exchange 2013 and Office 365, Multi-Mailbox Search is known as In-Place eDiscovery. The one place to visit in Office 365 portal to manage the email preservation is "In-Place eDiscovery & Hold "
Let's talk Technical now with Office 365. Consider the below Scenario.
SCENARIO: I'm an Office 365 Admin for my company. My Attorney wants to search and access emails and if required export the emails and he wants full access. The Attorney also wants to know how he can do this?
I login to the Office 365 portal first @ https://login.microsoftonline.com/
Once I login, I click on Admin at the top side of the portal and select Exchange. This opens up Exchange Admin center.
Now, I need to give the Attorney guy required permissions to perform Discovery Search and also place mailboxes or mail items he wants in-hold or to perform query based search.
All I need to do is to add Attorney to an admin role called 'Discovery Management',
Now, I need to train my Attorney so that he can do his legal work.
Attorney said: 'I want to access emails for all users in the Org which has 'confidential' term in the subject.
Ok, Here you go, Mr. Attorney. You have been given an Admin role which means you are a Discovery Manager now.
Following steps are done on Attorney's mailbox. His OWA in particular.
Open Exchange Control Panel. The ECP portal is: https://outlook.office365.com/ecp/
Since the Attorney user has been added as a member for Discovery Management admin role group, The Attorney's ECP will show Compliance Management tab where he can create in-place hold like shown below:
Attorney user created a new in-place eDiscovery & hold query with keywords 'Confidential' and hold indefinitely and specified Mailboxes for the Search query to be kept in-hold.
Attorney user can search, export the search results to PST, preview the search results & even copy the results to the Discovery Mailbox. The steps are very user-friendly and easy to do.
The Search results can be previewed and also copied to the DiscoverySearch mailbox.
- In-Place Hold in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online includes additional features like Query-based Search, types of items to preserve (email, calendar, notes), maximum of 5000 users per In-place hold object and placing multiple holds on a mailbox.
- By default, the Discovery Management role group doesn't contain any members. Administrators with the Organization Management role are also unable to create or manage discovery searches without being added to the Discovery Management role group.
- Members of the Discovery Management role group have Full Access mailbox permissions for the Discovery mailbox that's created by Exchange Setup.
- You can open Discovery Mailbox from OWA by removing the mailbox attribute to hide from GAL.
July 24, 2014 Posted in: Microsoft Office 365 Integration One Comment
Office 365 – Attachment Enhancements in OWA
Hello All
Earlier in the year at the Microsoft Exchange Conference, Office 365 team announced an enhanced document collaboration experience in Outlook Web App for Office 365 users. Today office 365 team introduced few of these enhancements, which aims to improve the way people interact with files as attachments in their email.
What's new in Office 365 OWA? Below are features listed briefly that were introduced today by Office 365 team:
- Side-by-Sideview of document and email: When you open the attachment, you can now see the contents of that document in context (or "side-by-side") with the email itself; you can see both at the same time. No more flipping back and forth between windows to get all the information you need. You can perform all of the standard messaging actions (reply, forward, and so on) right from within this view
- Easy document editing and reply: When you're ready to edit the attachment and send your comments back, you no longer need to download the attachment, make your changes, rename the file, reattach it, and send your email reply back. You can now do all of this without leaving this new side-by-side view. To do this, you simply click Edit a Copy right above the attachment and message.
This new copy of the attachment is live, and any changes you make are automatically saved. Once you're finished with your changes, you can simply type a response in the email and click Send.
- Bigger attachment view: The user experience for attachments in the attachment well has been updated, so now when you attach files, they're bigger and better looking than they've ever been before.
- Download all attachments: This feature was available with outlook.com from quite a while now. You can now download multiple attachment at once in the form of a single zip file.
Note: This feature only supports attachment created with office 2007 and above. It will support viewing all Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, as well as .PDF files and most types of pictures.
Conclusion: Above enhancement will give end users richer experience in OWA clients and make emailing more efficient platform for them.
References: View article…
July 3, 2014 Tags: Document Collaboration, Exchange Online, Exchange Online OWA, Office 365, Office 365 OWA, outlook web access Posted in: Office 365 No Comments
You Do not have permissions to Schedule Lync Meetings
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Many times I've seen delegates complaining that they're unable to create Lync meeting on their manager's or boss's Outlook calendar, even though they've appropriate permission to create normal meetings. Today we'll cover what permissions are required by delegate to carry out same operation and look at sefautil.exe as our rescue tool in these scenarios.
Issue: Delegates receive error "You do not have permissions to schedule Lync meetings on behalf of the owner of this account. Please contact owner of this account to get delegate permission in Microsoft Lync"
Cause: As the error states, the issue is due to lack of appropriate permissions for delegate on manager's or owner's calendar OR Lync account.
Resolution: For delegate to be able to create Lync meetings on their manager's calendar, they should have:
- Editor or above access on user's Outlook calendar: To achieve this, you can
- Add assistant as delegate in Outlook by going to File – Account Settings – Delegate Access.
- Alternatively, you can add the calendar permission by going to user's Outlook calendar section and selecting Calendar Permission under Home tab
- If you do not wish to manage permissions from user's workstation and rather would prefer to manage it from server (my favorite), you can run below cmdlet on Exchange Management shell to configure calendar permissions:
Add-MailboxFolderPermission <manageralias>:\calendar -user <delegatealias> -AccessRights Editor Get-MailboxFolderPermission <manageralias>:\calendar -user <delegatealias>
- You can configure AccessRights as Editor/PublishingEditor/Owner as per requirements. If you wish to check permissions before adding:
- Assistant should be added as Lync delegate on manager's Lync account: Once you've ensured permissions on Outlook calendar are correct, you need to ensure that delegate is added as Lync delegate on manager's Lync account. To do same, you can:
- Add assistant as delegate using manager's Lync client. On manager's Lync client, go to Settings – Tools – Call Forwarding Settings – Edit My Delegate Members as shown below.
- Again, if you are not fan of disturbing high end users with assistants to configure small settings and would prefer to manage it from backend, you can use Sefautil.exe for same which is discussed in later portion of this post below.
Once you configure both Outlook and Lync delegate access as described above, assistant should see a prompt stating "<Manager> has added you as delegate" on his/her Lync client and should now be able to create Lync meetings on their manager's calendar without any issue.
What is Sefautil?
SEFAUtil (secondary extension feature activation) is a command-line tool that enables Microsoft Lync Server communications software administrators and helpdesk agents to configure delegate-ringing and call-forwarding settings on behalf of a Lync Server user. The tool also allows administrators to query the call-routing settings that are published for a particular user.
The SEFAUtil tool allows the administrator to enable/disable/modify call forwarding on behalf of the user. The administrator can specify the target (in the form of a SIP URI) or use a target that has already been published by the user. This tool also allows administrators to add or remove delegates on behalf of the user. The tool supports enabling or disabling simultaneous ringing, delayed ringing, or call forwarding to delegates
This tool requires administrators create a trusted application in the central management store for Sefautil using Lync Topology Builder.
The features in this tool allow administrators and helpdesk agents to do the following:
- View all call routing settings for a user (includes call forwarding, delegation, team ringing, and simultaneous ringing)
- Enable/disable/modify call-forwarding setting (includes destination and no-answer timer)
- Enable/disable/modify call-forwarding immediate configurations
- Enable/disable/modify delegation settings
How to use Sefautil for managing delegates?
The SEFAUtil tool can be run only on a computer that is a part of a Trusted Application Pool. UCMA 3.0 must be installed on that computer. To run the tool, a new Trusted Application with the sefautil application ID must be created on that pool.
- To Check user's or manager's existing call forwarding setting:
SEFAUtil.exe /server:lyncserver.contoso.com firstname.lastname@example.com
User Aor: sip:firstname.lastname@example.com
Display Name: Katarina Larsson
UM Enabled: True
Simulring enabled: False
User Ring time: 00:00:20
Call Forward No Answer to: voicemail
Set the Call Forward/No Answer Destination
- To add delegate for user's or manager's Lync account:
SEFAUtil.exe /server: lyncserver.contoso.com sip:email@example.com /adddelegate:email@example.com
User Aor: sip:email@example.com
Display Name: Katarina Larsson
UM Enabled: True
Simulring enabled: False
Delay Ringing Delegates (delay:10 seconds): firstname.lastname@example.com
- To remove delegate for user's or manager's Lync account:
SEFAUtil.exe /server: lyncserver.contoso.com sip:email@example.com /removedelegate:firstname.lastname@example.com
User Aor: sip:firstname.lastname@example.com
Display Name: Katarina Larsson
UM Enabled: True
Simulring enabled: False
User Ring time: 00:00:30
Call Forward No Answer to: voicemail
Conclusion: Troubleshooting Lync meeting permission issue is mostly straight forward i.e. if you've configured Outlook calendar and Lync delegate access properly, you should not see this issue coming. You can find more details regarding above information in our reference section below.
- http://blogs.technet.com/b/meacoex/archive/2011/04/23/configure-simultaneous-ring-delegate-ringing-and-call-forwarding-settings-on-behalf-of-a-lync-server-2010-user.aspx
- http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj945659.aspx
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2671103
Occasionally it might get more typical in nature. If you have encountered such typical scenarios, please do mention same in comment box below.
Thank you for reading, in the next blog we will be covering automation of Lync server performance monitors and discuss Call Quality management (CQM) and Key Health Indicators (KHI) for Lync server environment.
July 3, 2014 Tags: Lync call forwarding, Lync delegate, Lync delegate error, Lync delegate issue, Lync meeting error, Lync online meeting, Outlook delegate, Outlook Lync meeting, Sefautil Posted in: Lync 2013, Lync Server 2010, Office 365, Outlook 2 Comments
Lync cannot connect to the Exchange Server
Hello All
I was working with couple users today who had issue with Lync conversation history not saving within their Outlook clients even though the option was enabled to save conversation history within client.
Issue: Conversation history folder appears in Outlook, however the Lync conversation history is not saving in the folder.
We covered similar thread few months ago where we explained scenario where conversation history folder doesn't appears itself and conversation history doesn't saves in Outlook:
As covered in our previous post, The conversation environment feature leverages both Exchange Web Services (EWS) and MAPI to manage Conversation History items. Unlike previous versions of Lync, EWS is now the primary method used to provide Microsoft Exchange integration features for the Lync client. MAPI will be used if EWS is unavailable, but only in a limited capacity. For more details, we encourage you to read resource kit chapter Understanding & Troubleshooting Exchange server integration
Today's issue was different from above though as conversation history folder was present, just conversations were not saving in the folders.
In idle scenario, under Lync configuration information, the MAPI and EWS status should show OK:
And we should see EWS cached data in user's registry HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Communicator\[User SMTP Address]\Autodiscovery
When we checked the Lync configuration information, two users had two different EWS status which we'll cover in this post.
Scenario 1 – EWS Status – EWS Unavailable: For first user, under Lync configuration information, EWS status showed as unavailable and below error was shown on Lync client:
User had EWS Internal and External URLs populated in his client i.e. Lync was able to extract EWS URLs using Autodiscover service, however wasn't able to connect to it. Hence the status.
Troubleshooting Scenario 1: EWS unavailable is generally caused due to:
1. Proxy/PAC file configuration on user's workstation: In certain environments, all internal & external URLs are configured to go via proxy server and depending on infrastructure configuration, the proxy server may or may not be able to communicate directly with Exchange server on behalf of Lync client. At this point the communication breaks between Lync & Exchange server causing the issue. To resolve this issue, make sure EWS/OWA namespace is bypassed from proxy either using Internet explorer/group policy or hard coded in PAC/Proxy file itself
2. Invalid IP address or configuration issue: In this scenario, Lync was able to resolve the Autodiscover DNS values but was unable to contact the site due to invalid IP address or reverse proxy configuration.
3. Invalid Windows Credentials: User is logged in to windows using different credentials than normal user account (like admin account) due to which either Lync is unable to authenticate against EWS service OR Proxy server is unable to authenticate on behalf of user. In either scenario, EWS connection will fail and status will stay unavailable. To resolve the issue, ensure user is logged in using proper account and authentication is working without issue.
Resolution 1 – In my case, it was point 3 above i.e. user was logged in using his admin account into Windows which wasn't authenticating as expected into EWS. Once user logged in using his normal windows account, the EWS status turned OK and conversation history started to save as expected.
Scenario 2 – EWS Status – EWS is not fully initialized: In this scenario, user doesn't has EWS URLs populated in the Lync configuration/client altogether and EWS status stays in "EWS is not fully initialized"
User gets same error notification on Lync client stating "Lync cannot connect to the Exchange Server"
Lync client's MAPI status was ok, Lync & Outlook Autodiscovery was working ok as well. However, Lync client wasn't able to determine internal and external EWS URLs.
Troubleshooting Scenario 2: The issue can be caused due to one of following:
1. Invalid DNS or DNS Lookup failure: If Lync client is unable to find appropriate DNS A or SRV record to reach out Exchange autodiscovery service for looking up EWS URLs, it fails to populate them in Lync client itself. To check if this is issue, you can use nslookup command for troubleshooting and ensure proper DNS records are populated.
2. Invalid certificate or untrusted certificate: If Exchange certificate authority is not trusted by local client/workstation, Lync cannot reach out to Autodiscover URL and hence doesn't gets any response back with appropriate EWS information. To fix this issue, ensure certificate authority used to generate exchange certificates is also trusted by workstations in your environment.
3. Untrusted Server name for Sign-in Address: If client is connecting to a server that is unknown to Lync. Lync must have your permission to verify whether to trust this server.
Above prompt can come for Lync client trying to connect to Lync server during sign-in OR Lync trying to connect to Exchange server after sign-in. This doesn't reflects any issue in configuration, it is a security feature. Lync will not connect to any unknown server until you confirm that it is trusted.
Resolution 2 – In my case, it was point 3 above i.e. when Lync was trying to connect to Exchange server, above prompt was displayed, however user ignored the prompt due to which Lync didn't process the autodiscover response from Exchange server. Hence the EWS information stayed blank on Lync client.
To prevent the dialog box from being displayed, you can edit the following REG_SZ registry value:
• Lync 2010 – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Communicator\TrustModelData\
• Lync 2013 – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Lync
Add the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the server-based computer that is displayed in the Trust Model Dialog to the existing value data that is listed in the TrustModelData registry value. This will be the Lync Server/Exchange Server/Exchange CAS array for which you're getting the prompt shown above.
If you have an Active Directory environment, you can push this registries via Group Policy as well. You can find sample GPO HTML report attached below for reference.
In above example, we've added Exchange CAS arrays name mobile.contoso.com, mobile.fabrikam.com to existing value of TrustModelData. You can also download this file from Onedrive -> http://1drv.ms/1mbSmul
Conclusion: Lync not saving conversation history to Outlook client OR Lync status not changing based on Outlook calendar information are couple of most common issues encountered with Lync/Outlook integration. Depending on environment configuration and client side configuration, the troubleshooting can be complex. Hopefully above information gives you some starter points to check and reduce the troubleshooting time for you accordingly.
For more information regarding above post, please refer to reference section below.
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2531068
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833618
• http://exchangeserverinfo.net/2013/02/lync-unable-to-save-conversation-history-in-outlook/
In our next post, we'll be discussing about Outlook delegate and Lync meeting issues. Till Next Time !
June 28, 2014 Tags: EWS, Exchange web services, Lync, Lync conversation history, Lync EWS Integration, Lync Exchange Integration, Lync Outlook Integration Posted in: Exchange Server, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server General, Lync 2013, Lync Server 2010, Office 365 One Comment
Exchange – OABGen Encountered Error
Hello All
I was working with a client who recently moved their public folder databases to a dedicated public folder server such that they can remove that load from production mailbox servers, which made sense.
Part of this movement included moving of Offline Address Book (OAB) generation server as well, as they wanted to keep public folder distribution of offline address book available (even though with Exchange 2010 onwards, it uses web distribution method unless Outlook client is older than Outlook 2007 SP2) and to keep OAB generation server same as public folder server
Issue 1 – Everything went as per plan (I will write up the details of movement in other post), however, post movement of OAB generation server, we encountered below errors on the public folder server with respect to OAB generation:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeSA
Date: 6/25/2014 5:12:32 AM
Event ID: 9330
Task Category: (13)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Server-PF01.contoso.com
OABGen encountered error 80040115 (internal ID 50004ca) accessing Active Directory Server-DC00 for ".
– \Default Offline Address Book
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeSA
Date: 6/25/2014 5:12:32 AM
Event ID: 9334
Task Category: (13)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Server-PF01.contoso.com
OABGen encountered error 80040115 while initializing the offline address book generation process. No offline address books have been generated. Check the event log for more information.
– \Default Offline Address Book
The error generally is caused if one of following condition is true:
• Server is not added properly to Active Directory domain and is unable to read the configuration partition properly. Since all other services were running properly, it didn't seem like issue.
• Authenticated users do not have read/list permission on offline address book object. Since the issue started happening post movement, this didn't seem like cause of issue either and when double checked, permissions were there correctly for Authenticated Users group.
• Server is unable to reach the domain controller reported with Error 9330. When I pinged and did some network troubleshooting, this didn't seem like an issue either since both domain controller and exchange server were on same subnet.
On further digging, I realized that domain controller and exchange server are in different AD domains and client used Append these DNS suffixes option on NIC to try out all AD domains in particular order.
When checked the NIC, it was missing the AD domain which Server-DC00 was in and hence exchange server was unable to reach out to Server-DC00 for OAB generation.
Resolution 1- We added all required AD domains in the Append these DNS suffixes configuration of primary NIC so that it can contact all required domain controllers in environment without any issue.
Issue 2 – Once the domain controller issue was fixed and we used Update-OfflineAddressBook command to force update the OAB files, we encountered below errors in the logs:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeSA
Date: 6/25/2014 8:57:28 AM
Event ID: 9331
Task Category: (13)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Server-PF01.contoso.com
OABGen encountered error 80004005 (internal ID 50103b7) accessing the public folder database while generating the offline address list for address list '/'.
– \Default Offline Address Book
Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchangeSA
Date: 6/25/2014 8:57:28 AM
Event ID: 9335
Task Category: (13)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Server-PF01.contoso.com
OABGen encountered error 80004005 while cleaning the offline address list public folders under /o=Contoso/cn=addrlists/cn=oabs/cn=Default Offline Address Book. Please make sure the public folder database is mounted and replicas exist of the offline address list folders. No offline address lists have been generated. Please check the event log for more information.
– \Default Offline Address Book
The above errors are pretty straight forward, basically stating that system attendant mailbox is unable to find copy or replica of OAB on public folder database referred by mailbox database of the same server. This generally happens if:
• Public folder database is inaccessible.
• MAPI connection issue to public folder server if it is on a different network.
In our case, since the public folder database was on same server and accessible, above two reasons weren't cause of issue
Resolution 2 – We added the public folder server as replica of Offline address book system public folder and after the contents were replicated, the OAB generation process started to work without any errors or as expected.
For reading more about troubleshooting OAB generation in an Exchange 2013 environment, refer to our blog below:
Hope above information save some troubleshooting time on your side. You can read more about above issues on below reference articles.
In our next post, we'll be discussing about moving public folders in an Exchange 2010 environment and moving & forcing OAB generation process for end user clients.
1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dgoldman/archive/2007/11/15/oab-generation-fails-to-generate-with-errors-9330-and-9334.aspx
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922251
June 27, 2014 Tags: Exchange OAB, Exchange OAB Generation, Exchange OABGen Error, OAB, OAB Generation, OABGen, OABGen Errors, Troubleshooting OAB Posted in: Exchange Server, Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server General, Outlook No Comments
IMPORTANT – Security Vulnerability in Lync
Hello All
Microsoft has released security bulletin on June 10th identifying security vulnerabilities in Lync Server 2010/2013 web components and Lync 2010/2013 desktop clients.
Security Risk Involved: An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Lync Server fails to properly sanitize specially crafted content. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially execute scripts in the user's browser to obtain information from web sessions.
The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted file or webpage. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
Recommendation: For administrators and enterprise installations, or end users who want to install this security update manually, Microsoft recommends that customers apply the update immediately using update management software
Note: The security updates in MS14-036 and MS14-032 are not related. Customers should install the updates in both bulletins for the software installed on their systems. MS14-036 is related to Lync client on user workstations and is not related to Lync Server.
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-036 – Critical
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS14-032 – Important
• MS14-032: Vulnerability in Lync Server could allow information disclosure: June 10, 2014
• MS14-036: Description of the security update for Lync 2010: June 10, 2014
June 13, 2014 Posted in: Lync 2013 No Comments
Backup Up Lync Server Environment
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In this post we'll be discussing Lync Server environment backup requirements and how we can assist in streamlining this process for you.
On a broad scale, Lync components backup can be categorized into following:
• Settings and Configuration Requirements: The following table outlines settings & configuration that you need to backup and restore.
Type of data |
Where stored |
Description / When to back up |
Topology configuration information |
Central Management store (database: Xds.mdf) |
Topology, policy, and configuration settings. Back up with your regular backups and after you use Lync Server Control Panel or cmdlets to modify your configuration or policies. |
Location information |
Central Management store (database: Lis.mdf) |
Enterprise Voice Enhanced 9-1-1 (E9-1-1) configuration information. This information is generally static. Back up with your regular backups. |
Response Group configuration information |
Back End Server or Standard Edition server (database: RgsConfig.mdf) |
Response Group agent groups, queues, and workflows. Back up with your regular backups and after you add or change agent groups, queues, or workflows. |
• Data Requirements: Here is a list of the Lync Server data that you need to back up so that you can restore Lync Server service in the event of a failure.
Type of data |
Where stored |
Description / When to back up |
Persistent user data |
Back End Server or Standard Edition server (database: RTCXDS.mdf) |
User rights, user Contacts lists, server or pool data, scheduled conferences, and so on. This user data does not include content uploaded to a conference. |
Archiving data |
Archiving database (database: LcsLog.mdf) |
Instant messaging (IM) and meeting content. |
Monitoring data |
Monitoring databases (LcsCDR.mdf and QoeMetrics.mdf) |
Call detail records (LcsCDR.mdf) and Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics (QoeMetrics.mdf). |
Persistent Chat data |
Persistent Chat database (mgd.mdf). |
Persistent Chat Data is actual chat content being posted in chat rooms. This data is often business critical. |
• File Store Data Requirements: In an Enterprise Edition deployment, the Lync Server file store is typically located on a file server. In a Standard Edition deployment, the Lync Server file store is located by default on the Standard Edition server. Typically, there is one Lync Server file store that is shared for a site. The Persistent Chat file store uses the same file share as the Lync Server file store.
Type of data |
Where stored |
Description / when to back up |
Lync Server file store |
Typically on a file server, file cluster, or a Standard Edition server |
Meeting content, meeting content metadata, meeting compliance logs, application data files, update files for device updates, audio files for Response Group, Call Park, and Announcement applications, and files posted into Persistent Chat rooms. |
• Additional Backup Requirements: Other necessary components that are not part of Lync server itself:
○ Active Directory Domain Services
○ Certificate authority and certificates
○ System Center Operations Manager
○ PSTN Gateway Configuration
○ Infrastructure Information
○ Microsoft Exchange and Exchange UM
Now that's a lot of variety of data to backup. Not good for lazy administrator within you at all. So our lazy administrator gets to work and writes two scripts that will help you backup this data in one go. You can download the scripts from below:
What do these scripts do? These scripts helps you backup your Lync server environment based on above guidelines by Microsoft.
What do these scripts backup? These scripts backup following for your Lync infrastructure:
• Lync Server settings and configuration which includes topology zip file, Lis Information and response group configuration Information.
• Lync File Share
• User contacts and conferencing data.
• Lync server certificates along with their private key with password as server's name in CAPS
• (Additional) Lync SQL databases. Currently we haven't provided parameter for same but you can expand script to do same as well. Since most environment prefer their own SQL backup routine independent of application itself.
How do these scripts work? Ah good question, the scripts take BackupLocation as parameter which specifies any location local or on network. Script then creates folder within that location with server name from where its been run from. In there, it backs up or dumps the data depending on other parameters you've chosen.
You can choose to include all three components to be backed up i.e. Configuration, Data, Certificate OR you can choose only one of component to be backed up. For example, to backup certificates, you need to run script from local server but you don't need to backup Configuration & user data from each server. They can be done from only 1 server.
The script keeps the previous copy of folders created for 1 day i.e. when you run script second time, it'll rename the previous created folder and create a new one accordingly. If you run third time, it'll remove the folders created on first run.
It also dumps certificate store information into a csv file within same folder. Now why do you need it is discussed below.
For more details on how to use these scripts, download the scripts locally and run below commands in powershell to read help:
• Get-Help .\Get-Lync2010Backup.ps1 -Detailed
• Get-Help .\Get-Lync2013Backup.ps1 -Detailed
Why do I need csv with certificate information? Basically I was having hard time tracking all certificate expiry dates in Lync environment. Sure we have SCOM which alerts us 1 week prior to expiry and we can modify the rule to alert us more in advance/frequently but if by any chance we miss that alert and certificate expires, well it'll be "I LET CERTIFICATE EXPIRE ! EVERYBODY PANIC !"
To help with same, we wrote below script that helps us keep track of expiry dates on weekly basis. You can download the script from below
How this script works? It reads all the csv files created in backup location by LyncBackup script and it populates them into a nice looking HTML which can be sent via email automatically as required. This way you've a customized report and alerting of your own that fits your need. Some might argue that if you still miss this email, true, but at-least this one is not hidden between swarm of other alerts SCOM generates, so makes it easier compared to same.
For more details on how to use this script, download the script locally and run below command in Powershell to read help:
Get-Help .\Get-LyncCertificateDetails.ps1 -Detailed
You can find these scripts in this folder as well -> http://1drv.ms/1mbSmul
Update (06/27/2014): We've added another column in Get-LyncCertificateDetails which depicts number of days remaining in certificate to expire from the day of report run and color codes the data accordingly. If any certificate is close to expire, it changes the subject line of report accordingly as well.
Conclusion: Lync backups can be tricky at times, specially due to variety of components involved like SQL/DFS/CA etc. Hopefully you find above information helpful and above scripts help make your job easier and make you a Rockstar in front of your boss !
Thanks for reading !
June 5, 2014 Tags: Lync, Lync 2010, Lync 2013, Lync Backup, Lync certificate, Lync certificate expiry, Lync certificate monitoring, lync server 2010, Lync Server 2010 Backup, Lync Server 2013, Lync Server 2013 Backup, Lync Server Backup Posted in: Lync 2013, Lync Server 2010 One Comment
What is Enterprise Vault?
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New on our site, we'll be starting posting blogs and knowledge articles about Symantec Enterprise vault server but before we start doing same, we should know what it exactly is first.
What is Enterprise Vault in a nutshell?
Enterprise Vault, the industry leader in archiving, enables organizations to efficiently store, effectively manage, and easily discover and retrieve unstructured information as needed for business
Primarily Enterprise vault is used in environments to archive emails from Exchange server environment. Additionally, it can also be used to archive file servers, SharePoint environment and SMTP archiving i.e. archiving emails from servers running Windows SMTP service.
Symantec is placed highest in Gartner's Magic Quadrant as of 11th November 2013 for vision & execution in Enterprise Information Archiving:
Release information:
• Current Major Release used in production: Enterprise Vault 10.0.4
• Newest Release for production: Enterprise Vault 11
• Newest Release in beta: Enterprise Vault 11.0.1
Key Features
• Unified Document Archiving Software Platform moves less-frequently accessed information off of expensive primary storage to lower-cost storage
• Global deduplication of Archived Content (i.e. email, files, sharepoint, IM, databases.)
• Easy to use Compliance and an E-Discovery options to enable roles-based search and access for self-service users to search, preserve, review and export electronically-stored information and messages
• Policy-based management and workflow to automate archiving processes and take control of data sprawl
• Supports virtualization infrastructure for flexible deployment without additional hardware
Additional Archiving Features
• Built-in Data Classification Services (DCS): Based on Symantec Data Loss Prevention technology, add context and relevance for more granular control over identification, retention, and deletion of Exchange messages Identify and flag email with private and sensitive information, such as social security numbers, bank accounts and phone numbers
• Discovery Accelerator Custodian-based Search: Quickly find all relevant information across email, SharePoint, files, IMs, etc., based on custodian Target searches to individual custodians within a case for increased search precision and recall
• Archive Microsoft File Servers and SharePoint Content: Extend governance to file servers and SharePoint. Archive SharePoint document libraries for storage optimization and compliance. Archive SharePoint document libraries, wiki's custom SharePoint lists, social content and more.
• Social Media and Website Archiving: Extend compliance policies to sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn Preserve social media communications for eDiscovery requests
• Archive to the Cloud: Leverage Cloud Storage Connectors to designate AT&T Synaptic, Amazon S3 and others providers as a storage tier for archiving.
Key Benefits
• Enterprise archiving reduces storage footprint and costs by up to 60% or more by moving deduplication and compression closer to the source while retention and deletion policies keep information for only as long as it is needed
• Streamlines backup and recovery times by moving older, infrequently accessed data from production sources into a centralized archive
• Enables an in-depth search of Electronically-Stored Information (ESI) across the enterprise, giving organizations clear visibility into and control of the discovery, assessment, and management of unstructured and semi-structured information
• Allows for immediate early case assessments, legal hold and review without manual, time-consuming collection processes
Conclusion: Enterprise vault has many advantages over other archiving solutions available in market including in-house Exchange server 2013 archiving solution. Specially in legal area, there's none stronger than Enterprise vault in present that I know of. With release of Enterprise vault 11 and it being available for archiving items from cloud solutions like Office 365, Google etc. it definitely is recommended solution that you can look into for your environment.
In coming posts, we'll be comparing Enterprise vault with Exchange archiving solution and also discuss new features that are available with Enterprise vault 11 which you should consider before deploying.
Meanwhile, please refer to reference section below for more details about this product.
• Enterprise Vault Introduction Video: http://www.symantec.com/products-solutions/products/videos-lightbox.jsp?cid=enterprise-vault-archiving-overview
• Gartner's Magic Quadrant Report: http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1MOTFJE&ct=131106&st=sb
Hope you find above information helpful and will enjoy reading more about enterprise vault in coming weeks
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Exchange – Search Folder in Mailbox
Hello All
Recently we completed migrating PST files (personal folders) from user's hard drives to their mailboxes. It was one big painful effort but glad its finally completed.
Either way, post migration we started seeing some issues/calls where end users started losing folders from within mailbox or could no longer locate it. Not sure about you guys but it didn't make sense to me since all the folders were in the mailbox.
In efforts of searching for particular folder, we used following ways:
- Expand all folders in OWA and try to locate for the missing folder. Most inefficient way, it's like trying to find needle in haystack if users have more than 10K folders.
- Search for emails within mailbox using Search-Mailbox cmdlet and review the results/output in target mailbox. This might do the trick but it'll yield lot of results and might return more folders than needed.
- Use Outlook VB Macro to search for folder using its name. It looked ok for 1 / 2 user but in long run it seems tedious and lengthy to first copy the macro on user machine then use it.
- Use below exchange management shell cmdlet:
Get-MailboxFolderStatistics <mailbox name> | Where-object {$_.FolderPath -like "*<keyword of folder name>*"} | Select-Object FolderPath.
Above cmdlet will return all folder along with full path that might have the missing folder. This helped me a lot at various occasions but still wasn't fit for lazy admins like myself.
So I decided to write a quick & dirty script that will allow me just to type mailbox name and folder name keyword to search for and give me results same as above cmdlet does named Search-MailboxFolder.
Script takes input from administrator in parameter format which includes mailbox name and possible mailbox folder name which user is missing. Based on inputs script searches for said folder and displays the result in console/shell.
1. Exchange Management Shell/Exchange Module
2. Mailbox Name
3. Mailbox Folder Name Keyword.
For more details on how to run/use this script, run below cmdlet after downloading script:
Get-Help .\Search-MailboxFolder.ps1 –Detailed
You can also download the script from -> http://1drv.ms/1nsMKT6
Further Enhancements:
You can add more to this script like:
- Generate emails for end user directly including all folder paths in return.
- Search for particular folder for all mailboxes or set of mailboxes and report as needed.
- Search and delete particular folders in all or set of mailboxes in your environment etc.
Conclusion: Turns out users in my environment were accidentally dragging & dropping folders within some other folders and then not able to find or recall what happened to given folder.
There are several occasions or scenarios where you might find yourself in similar situation. When you do, hope you find above script and information helpful & to your rescue.
For any additional script ideas or requirements, please drop them in comment section.
Thanks for reading !
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The College News Volume VII. No. 7. BRYN MAWR, PA., WEDNESDAY,* NOVEMBER 10, 1920 Price 10 Cents 8KETCHES IN ALUMNAE MONTHLY Contributed by President Thomas A series of articles by President Thomas on the "Basin of the Mediter- ranean" will appear in the Alumnae Monthly, according to an announcement made in the November Quarterly. One article will be devoted to each of the small nations bordering the Mediter- ranean, according to the Quarterly. Miss Thomas will describe particularly their attitude toward the League of Nations. The first article will appear in the Jan- uary number of the Monthly. SOPHOMORE PLAY TO BE ONE OF BERNARD SHAW'S COMEDIES Frances Knox and Eleanor Mathews to Take Principal Parts Hinting that the scene of the play is to be laid in the East and that it is by Bernard Shaw, the Sophomore Play Committee refuses to divulge more. The performance will take place Friday eve- niag, November 19th, at 7.45 o'clock. The principal parts are taken by F. Knox and E. Mathews, who are sup- ported by a large cast. The play is coached by Dr. Howard Savage, who coached 1917's Senior Play, 1919's Sopho- more Play and 1922's Sophomore Play. E. Vincent is stage manager. Subordinate committees for the play have been chosen, which include� Scenery: D. Meserve, chairman; E. Rhoads, R. McAncny, H. Humphreys. Costumes: F. Childs, chairman; J. Rich- ards, M. Morseman, D. Fitz. Properties: A. Frazer, chairman; H. Wilson, B. Worcester, V. Miller. Lights: I. Haupt, '17; D. Fitz. College Council Meets in Deanery Business Proves Many-Sided The first meeting of the College Council, organized last November, to discuss mat- ters of general ColkgC interest and to treat of subjects that do not fall under any of the four associations, was held on Novem- ber 5th, in the Deanery President Thomas presided. An interpretation of the announcement made at the Christian Association recep- tion, "that Freshmen shall not sit on com- mittees until after their second quiz" was made. Hereafter Freshman elections to committees shall take place immediately after Thanksgiving, and during the rest of the semester Freshmen shall be allowed to sit on committees and do light work. President Thomas said that the chairman of the committee should be responsible for seeing that the work was not too heavy. It was a sense of the meeting that the Undergraduate Association and the Grad- uate Club confer with President Thomas and Dean Smith <>n the possibility of a course in Public Speaking, to be pVM Monday evenings from 8.00 to 9.30. This course would be separate from the Debat- ing Gul). In order to save the students' time, it was decided that Miss Applebee and Miss Adair should draw up new slips covering all details of the use of the gymnasium Students in future will get these slips from Miss Adair's office, get President Thomas's permission if the entertainment is of a new kind, see Miss Madison about the date, fill out the slip and leave it with Miss Adair. The rest of the arrangements will then be made by the office, and the student may come back for the signed slip later. The question of non-resident students sleeping in the halls of residence was brought up and passed in the Council (C*auaat4 �a Plea I) READS PLAY INTERESTINGLY Miss Spinney Does Minor Parts Well Not so Pleasing in Choruses Specially Contributed by Katherine L. Ward, '21 The rendering of Gilbert Murray's translation of the Hippolytus by Miss Spinney was interesting on several counts�both for what it was and for what it was not. It is worth noting the fact that though, as Miss Spinney said, the play was first presented over 2000 years ago, it was not Euripides' play that was given Friday evening�nor even Gilbert Murray's. It would have been hard for Euripides to recognise his own work, if he had chanced to wander into the chapel and watch for a while the recitation that was being given against that effective background of blue cur- tains and burning tapers. The charac- ter of the play had been quite changed by the translator. It was padded, ampli- fied, and said in two pretty words what Euripides said in one fiery word. Then, Miss Spinney's ruthless cutting of the translation did away with the im- pression of Phaedra's love-sickness as a cruel and subtle malady, and gave the "nobility" of her character a salience, which even the translation did not war- rant. The barbaric effect of Euripides' study in Greco-Cretan moeurs was, of course, quite lost. The Hippolytus, as thus paraphrased by Murray and telescoped by Miss Spin- ney, was nevertheless an interesting thing. Miss Spinney surmounted handi- caps one would have thought almost in- �uperabkf in a play presented by only one person. The smaller character parts, the huntsman and the nurse were well characterized. The first scene between Theseus and his son, was well done, the shift in persons being so skilfully man- aged as to leave the attention free to enjoy her rendering of the lines. In the choruses the performance was uneven. The first showed Miss Spinney's flexible voice to advantage in the invocation to Artemis. In others, the result was not so fortunate. One person gesticulating alone in the middle of a platform cannot hope to produce so pleasing an effect as a full chorus in an elaborate, rhythmic dance. SHANTUNG DEBATE NOVEMBER 17 Teams Chosen From Competition "Resolved: That the Shantung clause in the Versailles treaty is justifiable," is the wording of the question to be de- bated next Wednesday evening, by two teams of the Debating Club. The meet- ing, open to the college, will be held at 8.30 P. M. in the Mcrion Sitting Room. The teams, chosen by competitive try- outs, are: Affirmative, C Bickley, '21; O. Pell, '22; V. Liddell, '22. Negative, J. Flexner, '21; F. K. Liu, '22; G. Rhodes. '22. The following alternate teams, to hold two trial debates with the teams before the open debate, were chosen: To debate against the affirma- ti\e side, A. Donun, "22; R. Beardsley. '23; L Affelder, '23; against the negative, M. Lawrence, '23; E. Kirkpatrick, '23; S. McDaniel. '23. The club, at a meeting on October 27th, voted to debate the Shantung ques- tion, rather than the Irish question, which had been posted. FRE8HMEN ELECT 0FFICER8 Anne Shiras Is President At the Freshman elections held last Wednesday Anne Shiras was made presi- dent, Elizabeth Howe, vice-president and treasurer, and Ethel Teft, secretary. Miss Shiras is the scholar for the New England division, and in her Senior year at Miss Walker's was head prefect. Miss Howe was vice-president of hef class in her Junior year at Shipley, and in her Senior year was leader of the choir and of the Mandolin Club. Miss Teft, who came from Miss Spence's, was temporary secretary. GHOSTS WALK SIDE-BY-SIDE; PARTY FOR SOPHOMORES Seniors Entertain 1923 With Hallowe'en Stunts Orange lights cast a lurid glow over a scene of mystic revel at the Hallowe'en party given by the Seniors to 1923 in the gymnasium last Saturday night. From their haunts among the corn, black-robed spectres spread their arms in ghostly welcome. In a far corner a witch brooded over her cauldron, while above her owls hooted and black cats arched their backs in recognition of their broomstick relative. Dead leaves rus- tled and swirled under the rhythmic tread of the dancers, and overhead golden balloons bobbed eerily in time to the swaying shadows. In dusky corners lurked wandering spirits of different ilk. One told weird tales of past and future, and from potent vessels drew forth the fate of each ques- tioner. Others presided over the revels, enticing the adventurous to try their lurk at bobbing apples and warning the unwary away from the fiery brew. Con- tests of various sorts held sway. A. Smith, '23, proved herself the most glut- tonous cater of pumpkin pie, and K. Raht, '2i, and M. Holt, '23, showed their genius at the dance as it is not done. MERION FALLS BEFORE VAR8ITY Game Ends With Final Score 6-1 Rallying in the second half of the game against the Mcrion Cricket Club last Saturday, Varsity was victorious with a final score of 6-1. In the first half the offensive of both teams was disorganized breaking through the defense for only one goal as against the six scored in the second period. The first goal was scored by M. Tyler early in the game after a dribble by E. ("ceil. For the rest of the half neither forward line was able to break through iln opposinn defence for a goal. IflSfl Town>cnd, at center half, and Miss Ma- deira, right full-back, blocked the Brown forwards, while Miss Duncan, left full- back, started for Bryn Mawr with her heady -tick work and passing. At the openinir of the second half the Mcrion forwards rushed the ball to the edge of the circle only to be blocked by E. Donohue, who passed to C. Bickley for a long dribble ending in a goal by E. Cecil. The third goal was scored by C. Bickley after a long run, followed by a spectacular tally for Merion by Wat Mutch after a clever get-away at the 25-yard line. Then followed three goals in quick succession by C Bickley, M. Tyler and M. Faries, bringing the total score to six for Bryn Mawr as against one for Merion. During this half the forward line rallied and showed skilfull team work, evading the powerful Merion defense time after time In the back- (CoariaMd m Pat* a) TAGORE TO SPEAK ON MYSTICS Poet Wrote Verse at Age of Six; Spent Youth in the Himalayas "Village Mystics of Bengal" will be the subject of Rabindranath Tagore's lecture Friday evening in Taylor Hall, under the auspices of the English Club. Admission is $1.00 for reserved, $1.50 for unreserved seats, and all proceeds go to the maintenance of Tagore's school for boys at Shantineketan. The Indian poet is described in a Book- man article, November loth, as "a slim man over six feet in height, with a high turban and long gray robe that makes him look still taller, a full brow, deep brown eyes, a long grayish beard, flowing hair, and features that remind one of the Christ as he is seen in De Vinci's pictures." "The story of Tagore's life, as his In- dian biographer Roy tells us," reads a re- view in the Bookman for August 15th, "is like that of almost every great genius; the youthful precocity, the unremitting revolt against alien and established conventions and institutions, and above all the sudden birth of an exalted idealism which has remained with him throughout his life. "Until Tagore was ten years old, his father, universally known in India as Great Sage, left him severely alone, and then, sud- denly becoming aware of the extraordinary quality of the youthful poet's mind", for Tagore had been writing verse for four years, went alone with him to the Hima- layas to train him in the school of nature. "In the months spent in the mountains, Tagore roamed about as he pleased. Here he read nearly every important work writ- ten in Bengali, and also learned Sanscrit, F.nglish, botany and astronomy, besides his constant production of poetry and his strides in what his biographer calls 'lessons in responsibility.' "After a year spent in London trying to fathom the intricacies of the English legal mind, he returned to Bengal, and at the age of sixteen started in earnest on his career as poet and writer." ENDOWMENT FUND DONORS COME TO VIEW^COLLEGE Six hundred Endowment Fund donors visited the college last Thursday, at the invitation of President Thomas. The entire campus was on exhibition for them, athletic matches were staged for their benefit, and tea was served at the Dean- ery. A corps of undergraduates acted as guides to the points of general interest All the athletic fields were given over to representative sports. Beginning at 4 o'clock was a first-team hockey game between '23 and '24 on the first field, and a second-team game between the Seniors and Juniors on the second field. On the upper field was a basket ball match of teams chosen from the three upper classes, and apparatus work by the higher teams, and the tumblers who per- formed on May Day. On the tennis courts, first, second and third team play- ers contested. Tea was served at the Deanery from 3.30 until 6.30 o'clock. The receiving line, headed by President Thomas, wa� made up of trustees. Endowment Fund Committee members, faculty and ahim- nae, and included Mrs Frederick J. Man- ning (Helen Taft. '15). Mrs Richard S. Francis. Mrs. F. Louis SUde, and Miss Gertrude Ely. The tables scattered about the house and garden were presided over by faculty members, wardens and alumnae
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Helpful Hints and How-To's For Keeping Your Pet Safe, Happy and Healthy for a Lifetime
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Hot Cars, Loose Pets
Auburn, Alabama —
Brutus, Duke, Coco, Lola and Jake...sure, they're fairly common pet names, but they're also the names of just a few of the pets that died last year because they were left in cars on warm (and not necessarily hot) days while their owners were shopping, visiting friends or family, or running errands. What's so tragic is that these beloved pets were simply the victims of bad judgment.
Want numbers? An independent study1showed that the interior temperature of vehicles parked in outside temperatures ranging from 72 to 96° F rose steadily as time increased. And cracking the windows doesn't help.
Elapsed time | Temperature rise inside vehicle |
10 minutes | 19°F |
20 minutes | 29°F |
30 minutes | 34°F |
60 minutes | 43°F |
1 to 2 hours | 45-50°F |
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quote:I will be at walmart at midnight on release day.
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Monday, December 9, 2013
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College's student newspaper Editor-in-Chief Melissa Dubrawka and News Editor Maggie Hess joined their adviser, Westminster Lecturer of Public Relations Delores Natale, at the National College Media Convention in October in New Orleans.
The group joined more than 2,300 students, journalists and advisers at the conference. The event included sessions and workshops on a variety of topics, including reporting and editing tips, information on a career in freelancing, organizing multimedia operations, copyright and fair use in the Internet era, and practicing an ethic of empathy. The keynote speaker was Hoda Kotb from the "Today Show" and "Dateline NBC," who highlighted her personal experiences in the field.
"This conference is very beneficial for our student publications," Natale said. "Each year the Holcad editors make sweeping changes to the publication after attending the conference. This year, in particular, we received overwhelmingly positive reaction and comments related to the changes in our publication."
While at the conference Natale and Dubrawka presented "Survey Says: Build a Better Survey for Student Media." Natale discussed using survey methods to determine readership of college media, and Dubrawka presented the student viewpoint of surveys, to an audience of more than 25 students and faculty.
Natale also attended sessions designed specifically for advisers, including one on the topic of how to teach writing, from which she obtained a grading rubic she plans to utilize in Westminster's journalism courses. Natale, who earned undergraduate and master's degrees from Westminster, joined the faculty in 2001.
Dubrawka, a senior English major, is a daughter of David and Sheila Dubrawka of Tionesta and a graduate of West Forest High School.
Hess, a junior English major, is a daughter of Karen Jasper of Everett and a graduate of Chestnut Ridge High School.
Contact Natale at 724-946-7348 or email for additional information.
About Westminster College...
Founded in 1852 and related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Westminster College ranks first in the nation as "Best College for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math," according to Forbes.com. Westminster is a top-tier liberal arts college and a national leader in graduation rate performance, according to U.S. News Best Colleges guide. Westminster is also honored as one of "The Best 378 Colleges" by The Princeton Review, and is named to the President's Honor Roll for excellence in service learning.
Nearly 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students benefit from individualized attention from dedicated faculty while choosing from 41 majors and nearly 100 organizations on the New Wilmington, Pa., campus. Visit www.westminster.edu/advantage to view "Advantage: Westminster" A Strategic Plan 2010-2020.
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