March 2007

Computerworld: Microsoft’s ‘MVPs’ say they’re often its sharpest critics

During last week’s MVP Summit, ComputerWorld carried an interesting article on Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program, titled “Microsoft’s ‘MVPs’ say they’re often its sharpest critics“. As Paul Robichaux noted on his blog, “…and no, I’m not saying this just because he quoted me”. What I found interesting was the ensuing debate in the article’s […]

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HOW TO: Remove values from multi-valued properties using Exchange shell

Related to the previous posts “HOW TO: Add additional email addresses to a recipient” and “HOW TO Update multi-valued attributes in PowerShell” – removing one or more values from a multi-valued property is equally easy (though not a one-liner… ). The following example shows you how to remove a domain from the list of BypassedSenderDomains […]

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Add additional email addresses to a mailbox

In Exchange 2010/2007, you can use Email Address Policies to generate email addresses for your recipients (mailbox users, mail users, distribuiton groups, public folders, etc.). In Exchange 2003/2000, this was done by Recipient Policies. Policies are a great way to assign standardized email addresses across your organization – for example: <firstinitial><lastname>@<domain>. Users frequently request additional […]

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Exchangepedia Blog: A note to visitors

It wasn’t very long ago when I got excited about getting a 1000 pageviews a day – then a milestone for this blog [reached in the week of Jan. 21, 2007 “Exchangepedia Blog crosses another landmark: over 1000 pageviews/day“]. Little did I know what was in store a few weeks down the road, thanks in […]

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DST 2007: Energy Policy Act of 2005 – the few lines…

I’ve been wanting to post about this for a few days now, and as we wind down towards the earlier onset of Daylight Savings Time this year, hopefully with most of us having dealt with DST 2007 issues already, there couldn’t be a better time than this. If you haven’t reached the finish line with […]

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DST 2007: Is there an Outlook DST “patch”?

There seems to be some confusion about whether Outlook itself has a DST 2007 patch. As noted in a previous post “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“, there’s the Outlook Calendar Update Tool – TzMove.exe (“Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook” in Microsoft-speak). This is […]

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Symantec’s State of Spam report: Spam rates declining

Here’s something that should make messaging folks happier (as happy as you can be at this point given the DST 2007 huddle a lot of us may find ourselves in… :) Symantec’s monthly State of Spam report shows some interesting trends over the past month. In particular: 1. Overall percentage of spam “at the SMTP […]

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DST 2007: The order of things, again!

As we wind down towards the DST 2007 deadline, I’ve still been getting quite a few questions about this in the past day or two. This has been covered and repeated quite a bit over the past few days, but here it is once again. Here’s what Microsoft recommends on its DST 2007 web site:1. […]

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HOW TO: Assign SendAs right using Exchange shell

In Exchange Server 2007 (and Exchange 2010), recipients are managed from the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or Exchange Management Shell (aka the Shell). EMC does not have a Security tab for recipients. You can still use Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) console to modify permissions on a recipient, as the documentation suggests [“How to […]

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Zenprise Webinar availabe OnDemand: Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange

Zenprise held a webinar titled “Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange” on Friday March 23rd. The archived webinar is now available on the Zenprise web site [registration required].

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