June 2007

Exchange and Security MVP Chats on TechNet This Week

Microsoft is holding Exchange Server Q&A; with MVP experts twice this week. Exchange MVPs will be on hand to answer your questions about Exchange Server, Outlook, and Exchange for Small Business Server. So if you are thinking of upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 or have questions about Exchange Server 2003 we hope you can join […]

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Displaying Client IP Address in Exchange System Manager

In Exchange Server 2003, Exchange System Manager’s Logons view for a Mailbox Store (expand Storage Group | Mailbox Store | Logons) displays client logon-related details. The default view displays 1. User name 2. Windows 2000 Account 3. Logon Time 4. Last Access Time 5. Client Version. It does not display the client IP address from […]

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Safari, Meet Windows: Apple’s cool browser comes with security holes

One of the 12 reasons Apple says “you’ll love” Safari for Windows – “Now you can enjoy worry-free web browsing on any computer. Apple engineers designed Safari to be secure from day one.” Apparently, it didn’t take security researchers/experts like Thor Larholm, David Maynor and Aviv Raff too long to uncover the security holes in […]

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Exchange Server 2007: Notes on Exchange Management Console’s design

Love it or hate it, the Exchange Management Console is here to stay. I haven’t come across many folks who dislike it for its design, or think it has any usability issues (sure, it has some minor annoyances… but waiting for perfection generally means not shipping a product). Any heartburn caused by the EMC is […]

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Zenprise Wins Best Of TechEd 2007 Award

An interesting week in Orlando, as TechEd weeks generally are. The Zenprise team returned home with the Best of TechEd 2007 award! That’s 2 years in a row – first time a start-up has won Best Of TechEd two years in a row! What’s a cause for cheer for most of us – this time […]

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Moving items to Junk Mail folder doesn’t do much

Scenario: Junk mail makes it to your Inbox, without getting filtered by any of Exchange’s anti-spam filters.Action: User moves item to Junk Mail folder.Result: This accomplishes little more than having the piece of UCE moved out of the Inbox. Contrary to what many may think and like to believe, moving a message manually to the […]

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Exchange Server 2007: Can the quarantine mailbox be an external smtp address?

In Tuesday’s Birds of a Feather (BOF) session on Fighting Spam with Exchange Server 2007, someone from the audience wanted to know if an external (smtp) email address can be used as a quarantine mailbox. Exchange does no validation of the email address used for a quarantine mailbox – as long as it’s a valid […]

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TechEd 2007: Notes from the BOF Session on Fighting Spam With Exchange Server 2007

Tuesday night was a Birds of a Feather (BOF) night, with plenty of BOF sessions and chalk talks scheduled. My session on Fighting Spam With Exchange Server 2007 (not a very creative title, I know… but it got the message across :) was scheduled for 7:45 PM. I was positive I’ll probably be the only […]

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Zenprise Named Best of TechEd 2007 Finalist

Great news from the TechEd front for Zenprise – the just-released Zenprise for BlackBerry is a finalist for the Best of TechEd 2007 award in the Mobility category! That’s 2 years in a row – probably a first for any company, for 2 different products in 2 different categories! Last year at TechEd, Zenprise for […]

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Will Microsoft do a Linux?

The ever-so-opinionated John Dvorak in PC Mag: People are always looking for the be-all-end-all super-perfect Linux. It will never happen until Microsoft does Linux. Oops. Did I say that? Excerpt from the column: Has anyone besides me noticed that Linux has become the oddest “flavor of the day” product ever marketed to the computing community? […]

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