Bharat Suneja

Sony Ericsson jumps on the Windows Mobile bandwagon with Xperia X1

If you’re in the market for Windows Mobile smartphones, your choices are going to grow at a rapid pace this year. Amongst the more exciting announcements at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona – Sony Ericsson’s first Windows Mobile phone, the Xperia X1. Yes, Sony finally jumps on the WinMo bandwagon. The Xperia X1’s all-metal […]

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Exchange Server 2007 SP1: The most obscure (but relevant) changes

Recently I was asked by a fellow MCT (and now Exchange MVP) to list 3 most obscure (but relevant) changes in Exchange Server 2007 SP1. The first thing that came to mind was the change made to Back Pressure settings. Back Pressure stops inbound mailflow on transport servers if system resources fall below a certain […]

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List mailboxes with Full Mailbox Access permission assigned

In “HOW TO: Grant Full Mailbox Access permission“, we saw how to assign and view mailbox permissions, including Full Access. Here’s how you can get a list of mailboxes with explicitly-assigned (i.e. not inherited) Full Access permissions. You can specify a single mailbox and retrieve the permissions assigned on it by using the Get-MailboxPermission cmdlet. […]

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Zenprise alerts customer about data outage at AT&T

The end-to-end view of BlackBerry® service provided by Zenprise has always been of (a lot of) interest to me. Besides detecting specific issues impacting users, Exchange and infrastructure issues affecting BES, what has been particularly exciting is our ability to detect issues with RIM’s SRP network, and also those with carrier networks in use by […]

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Renew self-signed certificates in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

In Exchange 2007 and later, Exchange Setup creates a self-signed certificate to protect communication with Exchange services such as SMTP, IMAP, POP, OWA, EAS, EWS and UM. Exchange’s self-signed certificates meet an important need – securing communication paths for all Exchange services by default. The self-signed certificate meets an important need – securing communication paths […]

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InsideMicrosoft: Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures

I haven’t written much about the exciting new developments with Windows Mobile, and the high expectations with it. Without a doubt, the iPhone has raised the bar a few notches, with typical Apple design finesse and consumer orientation (Yes, still no EAS, and still tethered to a really slow data network!). If you’ve been waiting […]

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Assigning SCL to messages scanned by 3rd-party antispam filters

Here’s a problem I had a hard time resolving on Exchange Server 2003. Exchange Server 2007’s Transport Rules resolve this within minutes. Pretend you’re taking a Microsoft exam: Scenario: “You are the Exchange administrator for your organization… “. Exchange has the Content Filter Agent (CFA), and the Edge Transport Server role designed to be a […]

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The Saga Continues: White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003

The saga of Messaging Records Mismanagement continues, with interesting bits and pieces surfacing every once in a while. Elizabeth Williamson and Dan Eggen report in the Washington Post: From 2001 to October 2003, the White House’s practice was to use the same backup tape each day… Although the White House said in the filing that […]

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Rain City Guide: Seattle companies get no love

Just back from a good part of a week spent on the Microsoft campus, discussing Exchange developments – far more exciting than the new gadgets being unveiled at CES in Vegas all week. Though it rained almost every single day, and even snowed the night before I arrived, the weather wasn’t really that bad, and […]

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SMTP Connector Myth: Messages are always routed over SMTP Connectors with more specific address spaces

An Exchange Server message routing myth forever being propagated (including by me!): If 2 SMTP Connectors (or Send Connectors in case of Exchange Server 2007) exist, one with a more specific address space, like exchangepedia.com, and one for a more generic address space like *, messages are always routed over the Connector with the more […]

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