Microsoft
Microsoft buys Whale Communications
Microsoft’s buying Whale Communications – maker of SSL VPN appliances. Having used Whale in a secure Outlook Web Access deployment, I have high regard for…
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Security
Administration
New Exchange fixes change permissions model, may disrupt Blackberry, Goodlink, and other services
A recent change in the Exchange permissions model may disrupt Blackberry, Goodlink and other services. Many folks may have already applied hotfixes that changed the…
Administration
IMF: How to exclude recipients from IMF filtering
Microsoft recently released a hotfix for Intelligent Message Filter that adds functionality to exclude certain recipients from IMF filtering using an exclusive list, or only…
Anti-spam
IMF Confusion – Store threshold rating text in UI
A major source of confusion regarding the Store threshold value used by Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) is the IMF UI itself. This is documented in…
Administration
Troubleshooting IMF: Important performance counter
Earlier today I saw some strange behavior with Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) v2. Incoming internet mail wasn’t getting scanned by IMF. Outlook did not show…
Exchange 2003
Exchange Server 2003 gets Common Criteria certified
Your favorite messaging server – Exchange Server 2003 (don’t tell me it’s NOT Exchange Server 2003 as of now… though that may change some time…
Administration
Exchange Server 2003 SP2, using SenderID? You need this hotfix!
If you’ve just upgraded to Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and have enabled Sender ID filtering, you need to apply a hotfix to prevent…
Anti-spam
Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and IMF
Before you install Exchange Server 2003 SP2 you need to uninstall Intelligent Message Filter (IMF). When you do this, the settings from the SMTP virtual…
Active Directory
List users with automatic email forwarding enabled
Here’s a script written in response to a newsgroup post today on microsoft.public.exchange.admin. Exchange Server allows you to automatically forward inbound mail for one recipient…
Outlook
Unblock Outlook attachments
Ever found Outlook’s long list of blocked attachments annoying? It’s one thing to protect users from malicious code, but should someone who knows what they’re…