Tag: Exchange
OWA Exchange 2010 direct windows file share acces and SharePoint sites discontinued….!?!?
by BassQ on Dec.16, 2009, under Exchange
One of the options that has been taken out of Exchange 2010 is the Document Access in Outlook Web App (OWA). Though it isn’t heavily used by most of the medium to large companies, it is useful for smaller companies to access files when the staff are out of the office.
Let me explain with screenshots. Below is OWA 2007 and the last link (Documents) is what we are taking about here. This is used to access files on the internal file servers from outside the network, ofcourse depending upon the access configured by the administrator.
But, what about Outlook Web App (OWA) in 2010? There is no Document Access in the new web access interface. You can see it at the screenshot.
OWA Virtual directory still have forms for managing remote server, with allow and block list for servers.
Microsoft state that the feature introduced in Exchange 2007 where by – documents in file shares on the network local to the exchange server can be accessed (read-only) via the documents interface in OWA – is available in 2010.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb430754(EXCHG.140).aspx
However the OWA interface does not include the documents section that 2007 did so despite the EMC having the options to enable and configure this, there does not appear to be any way to access it through the interface…
Microsoft has discontinued this feature, with a view to to use SharePoint. For now…. I hope!
Office 2010 Downloads
by BassQ on Nov.19, 2009, under Exchange, Office, SharePoint
Office 2010 Pro: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/default.aspx
64-bit Client Installation of Office 2010
Describes and illustrates the 64-bit client installation of Office 2010.
Microsoft Office Web Apps (Beta)
Microsoft Office Web Apps are new web-based tools that extend the Microsoft Office 2010 experience to your browser. Office Web Apps enable you to view, do light editing, and share your Office documents from virtually anywhere. With these online companions to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote you’ll always have the tools you need, wherever you are.
Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit
The Microsoft Project 2010 (Beta) SDK contains documentation, code samples, “How to” articles, and programming references to help customize and integrate the Project 2010 clients and Project Server 2010 with other applications for enterprise project management.
Download details FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Beta
For organizations looking to help users find information and expertise quickly and easily through a search capability able to address their most challenging needs – includes all the search features and integration capabilities of SharePoint Server 2010, plus a more engaging and conversational search experience, use of context to provide specific search experiences for different needs (such as departments or geographies), advanced content processing capabilities that create metadata and add structure to unstructured content, and deep platform flexibility, scalability, and extensibility. For use with SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition.
Download details FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Internet Sites Beta
For customers looking to offer engaging and conversational search experiences on websites using SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites – this product also adds powerful content processing that enhances the meaning and structure of your information, along with deep platform flexibility and search scalability. For use with SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise Edition.
Download details SharePoint Foundation 2010
This download contains an installable version of Windows SharePoint Services 2010 Beta, that can be used to assess and test the new functionality in this release.
Download details Access Database Engine 2010
This download will install a set of components that can be used by non-Microsoft Office applications to read data from and write data to 2010 Office system files such as Microsoft Access 2010 (mdb and accdb) files and Microsoft Excel 2010 (xls, xlsx, and xlsb) files. Connectivity to text files is also supported.
ODBC and OLEDB drivers are installed for application developers to use in developing their applications with connectivity to Office file formats.
Download details Visio 2010 (Beta) Viewer
The Visio 2010 (Beta) Viewer allows anyone to view Visio drawings and diagrams (created with Visio 5.0, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, or 2010) inside their Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or later Web browser.
Download details Visio 2010 (Beta) Software Development Kit
The Microsoft Office Visio 2010 (Beta) Software Development Kit (SDK) contains the latest documentation, samples, header files, libraries and tools that you need to develop custom solutions for Microsoft Office Visio 2010 (Beta).
Download details Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta x64
Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta gives you powerful, visually enhanced ways to successfully manage and deliver a wide range of projects. Easier and more intuitive, Project Professional 2010 Beta provides flexible choices to simplify planning, collaboration and resource management.
Download details Microsoft Project Professional 2010 Beta 32 bit
Download details Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 Beta
Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 provides contact management, sales, marketing and project management for the small business or small team.
Download details Office 2010 (Beta) Administrative Templates and OCT
This download includes updated Group Policy Administrative Template and Office Customization Tool OPA files; an updated Office Customization Tool; and ADMX and ADML versions of the Administrative Template files.
Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack
Volume editions of Microsoft Office 2010 client products require activation. Key Management Service (KMS) is a local volume activation method. To activate your Office 2010 client installations with KMS, you will need to set up a KMS host.
SharePoint 2010 Products Beta MP
A System Center Management Pack for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Beta (the product are: SharePoint Server 2010, Project Server 2010, Search Server 2010).
SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta) MP
A System Center Management Pack for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta.
Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010 Beta
Beta release of Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2010
Microsoft Office 2010 (Beta) Filter Packs
Microsoft Office 2010 (Beta) Filter Packs
Access 2010 Beta Download: Access Runtime
The Microsoft Office Access 2010 Runtime enables you to distribute Access 2010 applications to users who do not have the full version of Access 2010 installed on their computers.
This download contains the Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta release.
SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Enterprise 2010 Beta
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise that enables extranet and internet sites using the full power of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
This download contains the Microsoft Visio 2010 Beta release.
SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Enterprise 2010 Beta
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise that enables extranet and internet sites using the full power of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010, the business collaboration platform for the Enterprise and the Web.
Search Server 2010 Express Beta
This is a Beta version of Search Server 2010 Express.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Designer 2010, the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications.
This is a Beta version of SharePoint Designer 2010, the tool of choice for the rapid development of SharePoint applications.
Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta
Project Server 2010 Beta ensures organizations select and deliver the right projects, while gaining greater visibility and control of resources leading to improved productivity and better business performance.
Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide!
by BassQ on Nov.10, 2009, under Exchange, Microsoft, Windows Server
Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/09/453096.aspx
It is my distinct pleasure to announce today the global availability of Exchange Server 2010. This has been an amazing journey from conception to launch, and the team has delivered an unprecedented line up of innovations in this release. I am incredibly proud of the team and our product.
The dedication of the Exchange community working side by side with us to deliver Exchange 2010 has been inspiring for me. I want to thank you for your commitment over the past 3 years helping us develop new ideas, make product enhancements and test pre-release bits to ensure our final product is rock solid. I believe Exchange has the most impressive IT Pro and Developer community in the world today. We could not have shipped this product without you!
In return, I hope you realize the full value of everything Exchange 2010 offers. We are all working in a very challenging economic environment today. Being cost conscious has never been more important – but also helping your organizations differentiate themselves and compete effectively is just as critical. I am delighted to see how Exchange 2010 is helping early adopters accomplish these goals. I want to share just a sampling of their stories, so you can see for yourself.
Organizations are cutting costs and simplifying administration with Exchange 2010.
“Performance with large mailboxes greatly exceeds our expectations. With the growing amount of data that needs to be retained, it is not uncommon for us to have 30-gigabyte plus mailboxes, making these performance improvements crucial to our business. I have been using Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 for e-mail since June and have been extremely satisfied with the performance and the user experience. It is a robust, very stable platform. And, we found RBAC to be a huge benefit. That is something I have needed for a long time-to have more granular rights for administrators and lower-level IT staff to do targeted tasks.” – Alexander Diaz, CIO, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
“The cost savings from switching from fiber channel to SATA disks is about 70 percent. The I/O system of Exchange Server 2010 is really optimized. If you look at Exchange Server 2007, it’s good; but Exchange Server 2010 is really great. You can significantly reduce the disk costs when you run Exchange Server 2010.” – Thomas Keck, CIO, Elabs
“We’re always moving users around. We’ve been doing that with custom scripts in Exchange Server 2003, but we will definitely be using the Online Move Mailbox feature in 2010. Now we can move them without taking the mailbox offline.” – Allan Tagg, SVP, Global Messaging Exec, Bank of America
Organizations are improving everyday productivity and meeting the expectations of a new generation of workers with Exchange 2010.
“Our salespeople need to respond quickly to dealer concerns. With Exchange Server 2010 and voice-to-text conversion, within 20 seconds after a dealer leaves a voice-mail message, our users see an e-mail preview on their cell phone. Our mobile employees might check voice mail anywhere from 5 to 10 times a day, at 5 to 10 minutes a session. By using Office Communications Server 2007 R2 and taking advantage of the voice-mail preview feature in Exchange Server 2010, they can increase their responsiveness while saving more than 15 minutes a day. From a business perspective, that’s an incredibly valuable productivity increase.” – George Hamin, Director of E-Business and Information Systems, Subaru Canada
“Having Conversation View on the new mobile client is really nice. It provides an extremely fast and efficient means of surveying my inbox and taking needed actions on the go.” – Steven Schafer, Director of Collaboration and Network Services, Global Crossing
“By taking advantage of Outlook Web App, employees can start being productive from new locations almost immediately. As soon as they get their workstation and network connectivity, administrators can quickly provide them with access to e-mail and IM at a moment’s notice without having to manage a lot of logistics. That’s tremendous. Just simplifying the process of giving our remote employees access to e-mail and IM with Exchange Server 2010 will increase the productivity of our IT administrators by at least 20 to 30 percent.” – Dan Evans, Manager of Messaging and Collaboration, Morgan Keegan & Company
Organizations of all sizes are better managing risk and the cost of compliance with Exchange 2010.
“With Exchange Server 2010, we can give the auditors permission to pull mail out of mailboxes themselves, rather than having me pull the data and ship it to them in a PST file. Now the nine hours a month I spend on compliance will be cut down to zero. Getting rid of PST files using Exchange Server 2010 solves a whole series of nightmares that I’m sure every Exchange Server administrator has had” – Andrew McNair, Wintel Infrastructure Manager, Cell C
“By using the compliance features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, we can save about $400,000 in hardware and software costs. That’s a big savings.” – Joseph Nguyen, Systems Architect at a large U.S. university.
“With Exchange Server 2010, we can set up transport protection rules for things like social security numbers to comply with HIPAA and for voice mails to ensure that they can’t be forwarded outside the company.” – Thomas Dechmann, Senior Principal IT Technologist, Medtronic
I’m also particularly proud of the work the team has done delivering Exchange as a server and a service. This has been an incredible engineering endeavor that no one else in the industry comes close to delivering. Today, we’ve successfully scaled Exchange 2010 to more than 15 million Outlook Live accounts around the world and, moving forward, to millions more with Exchange Online. Our promise to deliver a seamless Exchange experience on premises with the server, in the cloud as a service or a combination of the two truly gives customers choice and peace of mind.
You can see more customer results from the case studies published today, read about the launch in press coverage, hear from MBD President Stephen Elop in his TechEd Europe keynote launching Exchange 2010 and this evening at the Exchange Connections conference in Las Vegas in my keynote.
I know many of you are already underway with your Exchange 2010 deployments and many more will be starting today. The Exchange Server 2010 bits are available for download now. As always, keep the feedback coming. Listening to customers and partners is how the team has made Exchange the premier e-mail solution across the globe and that’s the way we intend to keep it.
Thank you!
- Rajesh Jha
OK you can now get RTM bits of Exchange 2010 through Technet, MSDN and I assume Volume licensing and Action Pack downloads.
Technet details:
File Name: mu_exchange_server_2010_x64_dvd_x15-82068.iso
Date Posted (UTC): 11/9/2009 6:41:51 AM
ISO/CRC: 02374C73
SHA1: BBD6224FD72283142F9A8EC13615E11391C02BAB
Available to Levels: TechNet Plus SA Media; TechNet Plus (Retail); TechNet Direct (Retail); TechNet Plus (VL); TechNet Plus Direct (VL); TechNet Cert Partner; TechNet Gold Cert Partner; TechNet Plus Consumer Service Professional Pilot
Other downloads:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 eval
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your customers by meeting their demands for greater business mobility.
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server eval
Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by including multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners. It also integrates with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to provide the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering in a single solution.
Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation
Documentation about Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
Exchange Server 2010 Release Notes
This download contains a stand-alone version of the Exchange Server 2010 Release Notes.
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server MP for SC Ops Mgr 2007
The Management Pack for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server monitors the availability, security, configuration and performance of an FPE deployment.
Exchange Server 2010 UM Language Packs
These downloads contain pre-recorded prompts, grammar files, text to speech data, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) files, and Voice Mail Preview capabilities for a specific language that is supported by Exchange 2010 Unified Messaging. Warning: This UM language pack must only be installed as an add-in to Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging.
Microsoft Forefront Server Protection 2010 Privacy Statement
This document describes the privacy policy for Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange and Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint.
Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 will be supported!
by BassQ on Nov.07, 2009, under Exchange, Windows Server
We always talk about listening to customers and sometimes this is written off by many as ‘marketing speak’. In fact, we do take feedback seriously and no input is more important to our engineering processes than your voice.
Earlier this year we made a decision in one direction, and due to the feedback we have received on this blog and elsewhere, we have reconsidered. In the coming calendar year we will issue an update for Exchange 2007 enabling full support of Windows Server 2008 R2. We heard from many customers that this was important for streamlining their operations and reducing administrative challenges, so we have changed course and will add R2 support. We are still working through the specifics and will let you know once we have more to share on the timing of this update.
So, keep the feedback coming. We are listening.
Kevin Allison
GM Exchange Customer Experience
Source; http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/04/453026.aspx
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1
by BassQ on Oct.25, 2009, under Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows XP
The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method to identify missing security updates and common security misconfigurations. MBSA 2.1.1 is a minor upgrade to add support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
To easily assess the security state of machines in an environment, Microsoft offers the free Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) scan tool. MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Microsoft Windows systems.
MBSA 2.1.1 builds on previous versions by adding support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As with the previous MBSA 2.1 release, MBSA includes 64-bit installation, security update and vulnerability assessment (VA) checks, improved SQL Server 2005 checks, and support for the latest Windows Update Agent (WUA) and Microsoft Update technologies. More information on the capabilities of MBSA 2.1 and 2.1.1 is available on the MBSA Web site.
MBSA 2.1.1 runs on Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows 2000 systems and will scan for missing security updates, rollups and service packs using Microsoft Update technologies. MBSA will also scan for common security misconfigurations (also called Vulnerability Assessment checks) using a known list of less secure settings and configurations for all versions of Windows, Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000, 2002 and 2003 only.
To assess missing security updates, MBSA will only scan for missing security updates, update rollups and service packs available from Microsoft Update. MBSA will not scan or report missing non-security updates, tools or drivers.
Choose the appropriate download below for English (EN), German (DE), French (FR) and Japanese (JA) for x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) platforms.
Download details Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1.1 (for IT Professionals)
Source: http://bink.nu/news/microsoft-baseline-security-analyzer-2-1-1.aspx
Complete Video of Steve Ballmers Keynote at Technet live
by BassQ on Oct.10, 2009, under Microsoft, Weblog, Windows 7, Windows Server
Source: http://www.ngn.nl/ngn/STEVEKEYNOTE
On the 8th of October Technet_live was being held in The Hague, this included the Windows 7 introduction in the Netherlands. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft presented the Keynote. NGN-member Alex Warmerdam filmed the whole keynote with his mobile phone, and got to ask Steve Ballmer a question as well.
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Released!
by BassQ on Aug.25, 2009, under Microsoft
Service Pack 2 for Exchange 2007 has been released today!
This marks an important milestone in the development process for Exchange Server 2007. Our team has provided a couple of blog posts here and here outlining what is available in this service pack release. During this week, we will feature a series of posts to add additional information which will hopefully assist in answering questions you may have on SP2.
As we mentioned previously, there are many important updates to Exchange 2007 in this service pack including:
- Enhanced Auditing – New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers. It allows the right balance of granularity, performance, and easy access to audited events via a dedicated audit log repository. This simplifies the auditing process and makes review of audited events easier by segregating audited events in a dedicated location.
- Exchange Volume Snapshot Backup Functionality – A new backup plug-in has been added to the product that will enable customers to create Exchange backups when a backup is invoked through the Windows Server 2008 Backup tool. Exchange Server 2007 didn’t have this capability on Windows Server 2008 and additional solutions were required to perform this task.
- Dynamic Active Directory Schema Update and Validation – The dynamic AD schema update and validation feature allows for future schema updates to be dynamic deployed as well as proactively preventing conflicts whenever a new property is added to the AD schema. Once this capability is deployed it will enable easier management of future schema updates and will prevent support issues when adding properties that don’t exist in the AD schema.
- Public Folder Quota Management – SP2 enables a consistent way to manage quotas by improving the current PowerShell cmdlets to perform quota management tasks.
- Centralized Organizational Settings – SP2 introduces new PowerShell option that enable centralized management of many of the Exchange organization settings.
- Named Properties cmdlets – SP2 enables Exchange administrators to monitor their named property usage per database.
- New User Interface for Managing Diagnostic Logging- SP2 enables Exchange administrators to easily configure and manage diagnostic logging from within the Exchange Management Console.
As always, we encourage you to use our Exchange Software update forums to post your question so that we can ensure a response.
Links:
1. Download SP2 here.
2. Before installing, read the release notes here.
3. Questions? Ask us here.
Thanks!
The Exchange Customers Experience Team
Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate Available For Download!
by BassQ on Aug.21, 2009, under Microsoft
I am happy to announce that Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is feature complete and available for download!
You can download it herehttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd185495.aspx
I want to highlight a couple of interesting new things in the Release Candidate:
Support for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2: The Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is now supported on the 64-bit versions of the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
In place upgrade from Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate to Exchange Server 2010 RTM: You can start planning and deploying your Exchange Server 2010 test environment today knowing that it will be possible to perform an in place upgrade with the final version expected to be available later this year. You won’t need to reinstall your servers or reconfigure your Exchange settings once you have deployed the Release Candidate. This will save you time while allowing you to start evaluating the latest product capabilities now.
Co-existence with Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2003: If your current test environment is Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2003, Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate is able co-exist with either of the two versions. This will enable you/your company to start planning your upgrade, test critical scenarios and experience the benefits of the latest version of the product. For Exchange Server 2007 co-existence, Service Pack 2 (SP2) is required, and will be available later this month.
Exchange Web Services Managed API (EwsAPI) – Looking to develop or migrate your current Exchange applications? See the new improvements to the interface for developing client applications that use Exchange Web Services. Download the API from here.
Management Pack for Exchange Server 2010 (SCOM MP) - The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 management pack is designed for monitoring Exchange Server 2010 events, collecting Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. You will need System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 or System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to run and monitor Exchange Server 2010 with this management pack.
Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer – This tool enables you to test client connectivity and inbound email scenarios beforehand. Access this tool from here.
Microsoft Exchange Server JetStress Tool for Exchange Server 2010 – This tool helps administrators verify the performance and stability of the disk subsystem before putting Exchange Server in a production environment.
Microsoft Exchange Load Generator (LoadGen) for Exchange Server 2010 – This is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, IMAP, POP and SMTP clients on Exchange servers and it has been optimized for the newest version of the product.
For customers who tried downloading earlier, but were unable to, know that this has been resolved. You can download the Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate from here.
Technical content on the Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate can be found here.
Exchange Server 2010 Release Candidate video can be viewed here.
For additional technical details, please visit What’s new in Exchange 2010 on TechNet.
Exchange 2010 RC1 download this week!
by BassQ on Aug.17, 2009, under Microsoft, Windows Server
From http://bink.nu/news/exchange-2010-rc1-download-this-week.aspx
Sources tell me that Microsoft will release Exchange 2010 Release Candidate 1 for public download this week!
So get your labs ready with Windows 2008 R2 to start testing out the next generation of the world’s most popular e-mail servers.
Exchange 2010 will help organizations reduce costs, protect communications and delight e-mail users with capabilities to do the following:
Lower costs with more flexible deployment and management options. Exchange 2010 provides organizations with the same enterprise-grade capabilities whether deployed on-premises or as a service from Microsoft or partners — or as a mix of both. Further, for customers deploying the server, the new release simplifies the way organizations provide always-on communications and disaster recovery, meaning administrators spend less time managing their e-mail system. Exchange 2010 further improves performance running on lower-cost direct-attached storage, enabling organizations to dramatically reduce storage costs by up to 85 percent without sacrificing performance or reliability.
Protect information and meet compliance requirements with the new e-mail archive. As e-mail volume grows, companies must address increasing compliance, legal and e-discovery concerns, but today, according to Osterman Research, only 28 percent of organizations currently archive their e-mail content (Osterman Research, 2008). Exchange 2010 introduces an integrated e-mail archive. The new solution makes it easier to store and query e-mail across the organization using the Exchange software that organizations already know and use.
Improve user productivity with the ultimate inbox experience. Basex Inc. recently estimated that the average number of corporate e-mail messages received per person per day is expected to reach more than 93 by 2010. In addition, businesses lose $650 billion annually in productivity due to unnecessary interruptions including those from e-mail (Basex, 2008). Exchange 2010, together with Microsoft Outlook 2010, will give people more control over their communications with features such as these:
-MailTips. Warn users before they commit an e-mail faux pas such as sending mail to large distribution groups, to recipients who are out of the office or to recipients outside the organization, helping protect against information leaks and reduce unnecessary e-mail messages.
-Voice Mail Preview. See text previews of voice mail directly in Outlook.
-Ignore Conversation. This e-mail “mute button” allows people to remove themselves from an irrelevant e-mail string, reducing unwanted e-mail and runaway reply-all threads.
-Conversation View. Combine related e-mail messages in a single conversation to reduce inbox clutter.
-Call Answering Rules. Create customized “Press 1 for …” call-routing menus with Exchange voice mail.
-Consistent Experience. Use Outlook on the PC, a mobile phone or a browser for the same experience with enhancements in Outlook Mobile and Outlook Web Access.
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 available in Q3 2009
by BassQ on May.17, 2009, under Microsoft
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is the industry’s leading server for e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging. Exchange Server 2007 is the foundation for a dynamic and holistic unified communications experience, and has been designed to meet the challenges and address the messaging needs of today’s businesses. Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables customers to increase their operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server 2010, which is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. A public beta of Exchange Server 2010 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010 .
Customer Benefits
Key new features of Exchange Server 2007 SP2 unveiled today include:
- Enhanced Auditing – New Exchange auditing events and audit log repository enable Exchange administrators to more easily audit the activities occurring on their Exchange servers. It allows the right balance of granularity, performance, and easy access to audited events via a dedicated audit log repository. This simplifies the auditing process and makes review of audited events easier by segregating audited events in a dedicated location.
- Exchange Volume Snapshot Backup Functionality - A new backup plug-in has been added to the product that will enable customers to create Exchange backups when a backup is invoked through the Windows Server 2008 Backup tool. Exchange Server 2007 didn’t have this capability on Windows Server 2008 and additional solutions were required to perform this task.
- Dynamic Active Directory Schema Update and Validation – The dynamic AD schema update and validation feature allows for future schema updates to be dynamic deployed as well as proactively preventing conflicts whenever a new property is added to the AD schema. Once this capability is deployed it will enable easier management of future schema updates and will prevent support issues when adding properties that don’t exist in the AD schema.
- Public Folder Quota Management – SP2 enables a consistent way to manage quotas by improving the current PowerShell cmdlets to perform quota management tasks.
- Centralized Organizational Settings – SP2 introduces new PowerShell option that enable centralized management of many of the Exchange organization settings.
- Named Properties cmdlets – SP2 enables Exchange administrators to monitor their named property usage per database.
- New User Interface for Managing Diagnostic Logging – SP2 enables Exchange administrators to easily configure and manage diagnostic logging from within the Exchange Management Console.
Pricing and Availability
SP2 is available at no additional cost to customers that have purchased Exchange Server 2007. SP2 is slated for release in the third quarter of 2009. More information on Exchange Server 2007 SP2 will be available on the Exchange Server Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/exchange on the release date.
Goodbye PST files! Archive E-mail to GMAIL
by BassQ on Feb.22, 2009, under Weblog
Source: http://www.buit.org/2009/02/10/e-mail-archive-in-the-cloud-goodbye-pst-files/
We email each other a lot nowadays. I spend a significant amount of time behind my Outlook client everyday. Reading and writing emails. I especially like all the “FYI” (For Your Interest) mails. Usually they are very interesting but there is no direct action required. So, you need to save this email for awhile. Your inbox grows rapidly this way and online email providers understand this. They give you a 7 Gb mailbox or more!
But your company IT department is less generous. You’ve got a 100Mb mailbox within your organisation. This means you’ll have to clean your mailbox every week at least and because you want to save a lot of mail you create your first offline archive, a PST file. A PST file will always result in loss of data. During every migration or system failure someone forgets to backup it’s PST files and has lost all his communication of the past years.
Until your IT department wakes up and puts the whole mail service in the cloud, you can use a good alternative. Put your whole email archive within a Gmail mailbox!
Some simple steps:
1. Open a new Gmail account
2. Within Gmail, go to Settings, Forwarding and POP/IMAP and enable IMAP
3. Configure your emailclient to connect with the Gmail mailbox (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12913 )
4. Drag and drop all the folders and mail items from your mail archive (PST file) to the Gmail mailbox (this took me a while)
5. Remove the Offline Archive and your done!
From now on drag all the emails you want to keep to the Gmail mailbox and it’s always available. You can even search your archive from an internet café, simply by going to gmail.com and logging in with your credentials.
The mail items within Outlook are also offline available and Windows Vista or 7 automatically indexes them!
Exchange 2007 Anti Spam ability
by BassQ on Aug.07, 2008, under Weblog
Exchange 2007 has continued to improve upon its Anti Spam features with each version of the product. In this article I want to focus on installing and configuring the antispam agent on a hub transport server.
Installing Anti Spam Agents
By default the Anti Spam agents are not installed on the hub servers ***these must be installed on each hub that you want to utilze the agents ****
Open EMC
Organizational Configuration
Select the Hub Transport Server
As you can see there is no reference to the anti spam agents
Lets go ahead and install the Agents"
1. Open EMS
2. you can change to the directory or input the path to the powershell script (I chose to change to the directory) Change to C:\progroam files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts (assuming install directory is default)
3. ./install-AntiSpamAgents.ps1
After the agents are installed the Transport Service needs to be restarted
Lets go back to EMC–Organizational Configuration — Hub Transport
We now have an Anti Spam Tab with a number of items to configure
CONFIGURATION:
Now that we have installed our Anti Spam Agents lets take a look at what we can configure. Some configuration can only be done from EMS and some can be done from both EMS and EMC.
Content Filtering
IP Allow List
IP Allow List Providers
IP Block List
IP Block List Providers
Recpient Filtering
Sender Filtering
Sender ID
Sender Reputation
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Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for OpsMgr2007
by BassQ on Jun.28, 2008, under Weblog
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 management pack is designed to be used for monitoring Exchange 2007 events, collecting Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this management pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage Exchange servers and identify issues before they become critical. The management pack monitors and provides alerts for automatic notification of events indicating service outages, performance degradation, health monitoring, and centralized management.
This Management Pack requires Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1.
Apple licenses Microsoft ActiveSync for iPhone!
by BassQ on Mar.07, 2008, under Weblog
What will this mean for Windows Mobile?
Live reporting from Engadget at Apple Press conference:
I’m really excited to be the one to talk to you abut iPhone in the enterprise. We’ve had some great customers at the forefront wanting to adopt the iPhone into their enterprises.” Talking about using Genentech using a fleet of iPhones. “We have a lot of great university customers.” Stanford, for example; hundreds of iPhones for faculty and staff.“There are a lot of things enterprise customers have told us that have hold us back from being HUGE in the enterprise. What do they want to take the iPhone into the enterprise. What do they want? Push email — huge request. They want great calendar integration. They want it pushed to them wherever they are.
10:05AM – They want push contacts, global address list, Cisco IPsec VPN, they want authentication and certs, enterprise class WiFi (WPA2 / 802.1x), security policies, enterprise configuration tools, and they want remote wipe.
“That’s a long list of important features enterprise customers want. Well, I’m excited to be the one to tell you today, we’re doing ALL these things in the next release of the iPhone software.”
“Microsoft has come up with a much more advanced architecture, where the iPhone can work directly with the Exchange server in a more reliable and affordable way. We’re building Exchange support so you get push email, push calendaring, push contacts, global address lists, and the ability to remote wipe it.”
“The same email app, calendar app, and contact apps that customers really love will get information directly from the Exchange server.” So no new apps on the iPhone for using Exchange.
Continue at source!
NOW there is an official MS press release too!
Q&A: Microsoft Helps Connect Apple iPhone Users to Microsoft’s Exchange Server
Terry Myerson, corporate vice president for Exchange, talks to PressPass about the importance of the new agreement between Microsoft and Apple to offer built-in support for Exchange on the iPhone, and the increasing popularity of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 among mobile professionals.
Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 is now released
by BassQ on Mar.01, 2008, under Weblog
On the heels of rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 RTM we released few days ago, we have just released rollup 1 for Exchange 2007 SP1.
- if you are for any reason still on Exchange 2007 RTM, then rollup 6 for RTM is for you
- if you have already deployed Exchange 2007 SP1, then rollup 1 for SP1 is for you
More information can be found here:
Description of Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
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