Uncategorized

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 […]

More →

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 […]

More →

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 […]

More →

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 […]

More →

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 […]

More →

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? […]

More →

TechEd 2007: Let’s talk about fighting spam with Exchange Server 2007

If you’re going to be at Microsoft TechEd 2007 in Orlando next week, and are interested in sharing your experiences in fighting spam using Exchange Server’s anti-spam features, here’s a Birds-of-a-feather (BOF) session just for you. What: BOF session “Fighting Spam With Exchange Server 2007“When: Tuesday, June 5th @ 7:45 PMWhere: Microsoft TechEd, Orlando, FL […]

More →

Exchange Management Shell Quick Reference

Do you find yourself frequently searching for documentation related to Exchange shell commands? Can you find your way around but need a quick reference you can look up frequently without having to search for anything? Microsoft has an Exchange Management Shell Quick Reference doc on their web site – it’s an HTML doc but the […]

More →

New-Mailbox Parameters

When creating a new mailbox using the New Mailbox wizard in the Exchange console, you are required to enter a number of parameters. The Completion page/dialog box in the wizard shows the shell command used under the hood to create the mailbox. This functionality is quite useful in understanding the commands used by such wizards, […]

More →

Happy Birthday OWA: Outlook Web Access Turns 10!

Outlook Web Access, the web-based interface for accessing Exchange, turns 10 today! Released on May 23, 1997, as part of Exchange 5.0, OWA went by the name “Exchange Web Access” back then. OWA has come a long way since Exchange 5.0 – abandoning its ability to live on a separate (non-Exchange) IIS server on the […]

More →