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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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Zenprise wins InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology Of The Year award

Seems like an interesting start of the year for Zenprise – Zenprise 1.0.3, reviewed by InfoWorld last year and given a big thums up by the IT journal [read previous post “InfoWorld gives a thumbs up to Zenprise 1.0.3“], has now brought home InfoWorld’s 2007 Technology Of The Year award as the Best Exchange Troubleshooting […]

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Firefox, Internet Explorer, and CSS: Never the twain shall meet?

It’s been a long while since I designed or created a web page with any complexity, so I’ve never had to face the browser incompatibility issues. I’ve always known and at times felt the pain that web designers feel when designing something to look good on both browsers, but the chasm seems to have grown […]

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Exchange Server 2007 Scriptacular Demo Pack posted

Vivek has posted what he calls the Exchange Server 2007 Scriptacular Demo Pack on his blog. This is a bunch of scripts Vivek & Mihai wrote while Exchange shell was being developed. It contains the out-html, out-ie and out-email scripts from Vivek’s blog that I’ve talked about earlier, and some that I haven’t seen before. […]

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A little bit of Exchange is what I need: Microsoft’s Mambo Number 5

Ken Rosen, MCT Worldwide Program Manager at Microsoft, posted this recently on MCT newsgroups. Since it’s on YouTube now it’s for all to see – Microsoft’s Mambo Number 5. Part of the lyrics can be attributed to Ken. This is from the NT 4.0 days, which seem like a distant memory now. And yes, this […]

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Exchange Server 2007: Cross-Mailbox Search Using Export-Mailbox

Exchange Server 2007 includes the much-required feature that allows you search for and export messages to another mailbox. You can search all mailboxes for messages with particular keywords and export those messages to a separate mailbox, which can then be accessed by compliance/legal folks who need access to such messages. Another scenario where this feature […]

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Unsubscribe message: we’ll never forget you!

Just happened to unsubscribe from a known software company’s newsletter/sales pitch, and got this wonderful unsubscribe message… not too sure what to make of this. :) If you love something, you must set it free; thus, you are completely unsubscribed from the ***** [company name] newsletter.Though our time together was short, we’ll never forget you. […]

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Grimes Gripes About Backup Software

InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes gripes about backup software in his Security Advisor column [ “Backup Software: Bah Hambug” on Infoworld.com]. Some of the stuff he complains about are situations we find ourselves in ever so often – the bad tape drives, the dumb backup software that’s supposedly getting smarter every day, expensive technical support from […]

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Open Relay Database ORDB.org shuts down

After five and a half years, the non-profit organization ORDB is shutting down its DNS service (a Realtime Block List of open relays) and mailing list today, because the general consensus within ORDB is that open relay RBLs are “no longer the most effective way of preventing spam from entering your network”. The ordb.org web […]

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