Bharat Suneja

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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SMTP Virtual Servers: Some irksome defaults you should change

The SMTP stack provided by IIS’ SMTP svc in Exchange Server 2003/2000 changes significantly when Exchange is installed on a Windows server. Some ESMTP extensions are added to support Exchange, it gets Exchange’s Advanced Queuing Engine (AQE) implemented in phatq.dll, and the Categorizer (phatcat.dll). The mailroot path is moved from IIS’ default (\inetpub\mailroot) to \exchsrvr\mailroot. […]

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Exchange Server 2007: More questions answered

In an earlier post, I tried to answer some questions about Exchange versions (32-bit and 64-bit issues), amongst other things [read previous post: “Exchange Server 2007: Questions before business launch“]. Users have a lot of questions about the differences between Enterprise and Standard editions, the 32-bit version strictly meant for testing/learning (and not supported in […]

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How To Allow Relaying in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

In Exchange Server 2003, you can allow anonymous SMTP hosts to relay mail by adding their IP address(es) in SMTP Virtual Server Properties | Access tab | Relay. Hosts that require anonymous relay capability include application servers and devices such as copiers, which scan documents and send them as email attachments. Figure 1: Controlling relay […]

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