From the monthly archives:

June 2007

HOW TO: Add Email Addresses To Public Folders

June 29, 2007

A previous post shows how to add an additional email address to a mailbox/recipient [read "HOW TO: Add additional email addresses to a recipient"]. How do we add email addresses to Public Folders? It should be pretty simple – If Get-Mailbox shows the emailaddresses property for a mailbox, and Set-Mailbox allows you to use the [...]

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HOW TO: Grant Full Mailbox Access permission

June 28, 2007

Follow-up to previous post “HOW TO: Assign SendAs right using Exchange shell” – the ability to assign SendAs and ReceiveAs permissions is preserved in Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC), but the ability to grant Full Mailbox Access permission isn’t available. Full Mailbox Access is a mailbox permission (without getting into a debate about what’s [...]

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Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise CALs: Let Microsoft do the filtering

June 28, 2007

Microsoft introduced the concept of Standard and Enterprise Client Access Licenses (CALs) for Exchange Server 2007. In previous versions, only the server part of Exchange came in Standard or Enterprise flavors, the latter allowing you the use of enterprise features like more number of Storage Groups and Stores, no limits on Store sizes, clustering, etc. [...]

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Apple Licenses Exchange ActiveSync for the iPhone?

June 26, 2007

Has Apple finally seen the light, and licensed Exchange ActiveSync from Microsoft? Will iPhone users be able to get Exchange email pushed out to their iPhones using DirectPush? Gadget blog Engadget.com reports on rumors that indicate what many thought nearly impossible (but certainly something that would make a lot of sense for Apple – read [...]

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Numbers talk: Vista most secure OS of all?

June 25, 2007

Today’s issue of Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo newsletter/column (read “Microsoft: Vista More Secure than OS X, Linux” on WinITPro.com) served as a reminder of the stuff I missed at TechEd in Orlando – my first year with exhibitor and staff (yes, they actually issued me one of those as well) badges. Subject: Jeff Jones’ Vista 6-month [...]

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HOW TO: Create Address Lists for Equipment Mailboxes

June 21, 2007

Exchange Server 2007 lets you create room and equipment mailboxes. Having these designated as resource mailboxes – either room or equipment – has its advantages as these get setup for resource booking without having to go through the cumbersome process of logging into such mailboxes and configuring calendar settings for each so they can be [...]

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Some more details on SCR

June 21, 2007

Besides Terry Myerson’s post on the team blog providing some details about SP1 (read previous post “Exchange Server 2007 SP1: A bag of goodies!“), there weren’t a lot of details about SCR available publicly until TechEd 2007 in Orlando earlier this month. Looking at the search engine keywords used to reach this blog, and the [...]

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Address Literals in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010

June 21, 2007

RFC 2821 allows the use of a literal form of a recipient’s address, which uses the destination system’s IP address enclosed by square brackets in the domain part, as an alternative to a domain name. Commonly known as address literals, this form of addressing helps in delivery of mail to a recipient when the recipient’s [...]

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French govt bans BlackBerry citing security risks

June 20, 2007

In an interesting twist, the French government has banned members and their advisors from using BlackBerrys, citing security concerns arising from the fact that data flows through servers in the U.K. and N. America. Says InfoWorld, “This concentration of data poses a threat to national security, according to Alain Juillet, senior economic intelligence advisor to [...]

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Are privacy concerns about Google overblown?

June 18, 2007

Most folks view privacy differently, and have varying levels of concern (or the lack thereof) about it. Nevertheless, the growing footprint of Google services that we live with, including the pending acquisition of Double Click’s significant advertising network and Google’s new services like Street View, and the ongoing expansion of Google’s footprint to cover almost [...]

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