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Exchangepedia Blog crosses another landmark: over 1000 pageviews/day

Some time over the last week, this blog crossed another landmark – it’s now getting over 1000 pageviews a day! Thanks for visiting – I’m glad you find these posts useful and/or interesting! :) (Yes, it is a big deal for me!)

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Applying Mailbox Manager policies to a sub-folder

When you create a Recipient Policy to apply Mailbox Manager settings [for reference, read KBA 319188 “How to use recipient policies to control mailboxes in Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003“], the policy properties include the default mailbox folders like Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items, et al. You can apply the policy to additional folders by […]

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Oliver Rist talks about bumps in the road to Exchange Server 2007

InfoWorld columnist Oliver Rist writes about bumps in the road to Exchange Server 2007 [read it on Infoworld: “Brace for Exchange 2007 bumps“]. I love Rist’s columns and can be considered a regular reader. Issues he outlines:Issues #1 & 2: Exchange Server 2007 won’t run on the next version of Windows server, codenamed “Longhorn server”. […]

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IMF: Updates live again

This just came in from Scott Roberts – IMF updates are live again. The latest update is dated Jan 11, 2007, version 6.5.7891.0. Given the questions in different forums since the updates were paused/stopped, and particularly between yesterday (when the updates were supposed to kick in) and today – are some users really hooked to […]

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Are blogs on their way out in 2007?

Josh Maher posted a prediction on his blog not too long ago – Blogs will be replaced in 2007 [read “2007 Predictions: Blogs will be replaced“]. By Wikis & video. Hmm…. when a blogger – and a good one at that, imo – predicts that, it’s time to pause and think! I don’t disagree with […]

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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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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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