January 2007

IMF: Updates live again

This just came in from Scott Roberts – IMF updates are live again. The latest update is dated Jan 11, 2007, version 6.5.7891.0. Given the questions in different forums since the updates were paused/stopped, and particularly between yesterday (when the updates were supposed to kick in) and today – are some users really hooked to […]

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SCRIPT: Show mailbox quotas (including Store & Policy quotas)

I had earlier posted a script that lists users’ mailbox limits/quotas [read previous post “SCRIPT: Show mailbox limits“]. That script only picks up users who have their mailbox limits set individually, bypassing the “normal” users who have their mailbox storage limits set by the Store or a System Policy. A related script that resets the […]

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Are blogs on their way out in 2007?

Josh Maher posted a prediction on his blog not too long ago – Blogs will be replaced in 2007 [read “2007 Predictions: Blogs will be replaced“]. By Wikis & video. Hmm…. when a blogger – and a good one at that, imo – predicts that, it’s time to pause and think! I don’t disagree with […]

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What is the *real* maximum password length?

I’ve for long been an advocate of using long passwords, using entire phrases/sentences instead of a single more complex but short password. Some Windows Server 2003 documentation states the maximum password length is 28 characters (e.g. Enforcing Strong Password Usage Throughout Your Organization says “Although Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 support passwords […]

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Zenprise wins SearchExchange.com’s Product Of The Year Award

Barely into 2007, Zenprise has yet another feather in its cap – SearchExchange.com has selected Zenprise as Product Of The Year in Exchange Server Reporting & Management category! Runners up in the category are Quest MessageStats and IPSwitch. “Zenprise Inc.‘s second-generation namesake product received excellent marks from our judges for performance, ease of integration, ease […]

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iPhone buzz refuses to die down after a Mac-less MacWorld

The furore surrounding Apple’s iPhone announcement refuses to die down (depending on whether you’re a faithful Mac/iPod user wedded to Apple, a Microsoft-basher – and there’s no dearth of these – or not). However, sanity seems to be returning to the world. The fact is, what many consider to be the sexiest phone ever to […]

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Zenprise as starship Enterprise: Meet Spock & Captain Kirk

“TWO ENTREPRENEURS in Fremont are hoping to reach ‘Star Trek’ status with their e-mail troubleshooting software”, starts this report on InsideBayArea.com and in Bay Area newspapers. It’s titled “E-mail doctors arrive on Zenprise to help“. The mission: “To boldly go where no software has gone before”… I’m mostly clueless about Startrek – memories of watching […]

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IMF: Updates stopped in December, to resume on Jan. 17th

A lot of users wondered why there were no updates to Microsoft’s Intelligent Messages Filter (IMF) in recent weeks. Many Exchange administrators wondered if it was a problem with their servers when they saw IMF hadn’t been updating automatically – some even posted on different Exchange forums wanting to compare the versions on their servers. […]

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Forwarding office email to personal email accounts

CNET News.com has a report titled “Firms fret as office e-mail jumps security walls“. Many organizations are concerned about employees forwarding work email to their personal, often web-based email accounts provided by free services like Yahoo! Mail, Google’s Gmail, or Microsoft’s Hotmail/Windows Live Mail. At times employees may do this to simply get to their […]

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Enabled by default: SMTP Tarpit in Exchange Server 2007

From a recent discussion, and something I’ve been wanting to post about for a while: SMTP tarpitting is enabled by default on Receive Connectors in Exchange 2007 (and Exchange 210). What is SMTP tarpitting? It’s the process of introducing a delay in SMTP connections from hosts that are suspected of inappropriate SMTP behavior – for […]

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