Administration
Connect to Office 365 Using a PowerShell Function
When you sign-up for Exchange Online (or Office 365, which includes Exchange Online), an Exchange organization is created for you in Microsoft’s datacenter. One of…
Category
Exchange 2010
Archiving & Compliance
Microsoft to release PST Capture tool to search, import and destroy PST files
Microsoft has announced it will release PST Capture, a free tool to search .PST files, import them into Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Online and…
Administration
UDP notifications support back in Exchange 2010, Outlook 2003 users rejoice
If there is a legacy client for Exchange 2010, it must be Outlook 2003. Released in October 2003, Outlook 2003 is two versions and almost…
Exchange 2010
Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, and do technical books still matter?
After tech-reviewing a few books and coauthoring Exchange Server 2007: The Complete Reference, I’ve shied away from writing another technical book. It’s an intense effort,…
Administration
Exchange ActiveSync: What is the Allow/Block/Quarantine List?
If you’re an Exchange admin happy about how Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) just hums along with mobile devices supporting the EAS protocol, and the multitude of…
Exchange 2007
Virtualizing Exchange? Microsoft addresses misleading VMWare guidance
Are you planning on deploying Exchange Server in a virtual environment, using hyervisors (aka hardware virtualization) such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V or VMWare’s ESXi/vSphere Hypervisor? Microsoft…
Archiving & Compliance
Exchange 2010 Personal Archives and Client Access
In Exchange 2010, you can provision Personal Archives for your users. A personal archive, or an archive mailbox, is an additional mailbox where users can…
Apple
Office 2011 for the Mac hits the store shelves, Outlook 2011 makes the Mac a corporate citizen
Mac users can now stop envying Windows users for having the latest and greatest version of Microsoft Office. Office for Mac 2011 has just hit…
Administration
Using Get-Hotfix to get a list of installed hotfixes
Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 requires a number of hotfixes to be installed. These are listed in Exchange 2010 Prerequisites in Exchange 2010 documentation…
Administration
Exchange 2010 SP1 and the Office 2010 Filter Packs
In Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007, Exchange Search uses Windows Search to index messages and supported attachments. Installation of 2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter…