While you were out: Scheduling meetings and OOFs

Although it’s been an accepted (and expected) practice to setup OOF auto-responses while you are out of office, I haven’t been a big fan of OOFs in the past. My reasons: 1. I often forget to turn off OOFs once I’m back in the office, or forget to set these up in the first place— […]

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Removing internal host names and IP addresses from message headers

Another frequently asked question about SMTP mail – how can I remove internal host names and IP addresses from outbound Internet mail? More often than not, this results from the belief that somehow if the outside world finds out an organization’s internal IP addresses and host names, it makes the organization vulnerable. Auditors love to […]

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Released: Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 2 has been released. Description of the roll-up can be found in KB 948016. Besides all the fixes from Update Rollup 1 (for SP1), this rollup includes fixes for the following issues: – 940462 The public folder store may take several minutes to mount on an Exchange 2007 server […]

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HOW TO: Remove the Public Folder Store

This is a fairly common question — you’re trying to remove the Public Folder store on an Exchange 2007 server and get an error that some Public Folder replicas still exist. You’re certain you’ve removed all Public Folder replicas from that server. What next? Here’s a little procedure documented in How to Delete Multiple Public […]

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Moving on to the Exchange team

“Vista Gets Compromised” couldn’t be the best blog post to kick off a Microsoft career with— and yet, that happened to be my last post before I joined Microsoft. (To be fair, it wasn’t Vista’s fault.. read the comments in that post..) Sorry for the radio silence over the past weeks— it is rather unusual. […]

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PWN to OWN Contest: Vista gets compromised

Update on the PWN to OWN contest at the CanSecWest conference. After the MacBook Air got compromised in 2 minutes, Shane Macaulay claimed victory over the Fujitsu laptop running Windows Vista. Yes, Windows Vista was compromised at the tail end of Day 2, at 7:30 p.m., thanks to a vulnerability in Adobe Flash. More in […]

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Mac, meet PC: PC, the Mac’s already hacked!

The Event: CanSecWest’s PWN 2 OWN contest, Vancouver, CanadaThe Contenders: Mac OS X Leopard, Microsoft’s Windows Vista, and Linux.The Challenge: Compromise the OSThe Prize: $10,000 + laptopThe Winner: Charlie Miller Apparently, the OS that’s safer by design is the first to get compromised, after the rules were relaxed a little bit. 2 minutes is all […]

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Errata: Edge Subscription and Synchronization white paper

The white paper on Edge Subscription and Synchronization has the following error: Under Recipient Information: Distribution groups are not replicated to ADAM. Distribution Groups are in fact replicated to ADAM using EdgeSync. In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Distribution Group membership (the member attribute) is also replicated. On Windows Server 2008, ADAM is replaced by Active […]

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India not looking to ban BlackBerry, keen to resolve issue

India’s Dept of Telecom (DoT) says it has asked Indian wireless carriers to specify a timeframe by which they will resolve all security concerns. India is not looking to shutdown BlackBerry services, but it is keen to resolve the issue. There has been a lot of speculation about the DoT having given a 15-day notice […]

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“Save XP” Campaign: InfoWorld responds, and the facts about downgrade rights

Note to readers: I haven’t had to keep a post on hold for as long as I”ve kept this one, contemplating whether I should post it or not. After much thought, I’ve decided to post this, because it is important to know the facts about downgrade rights, and to clarify my position on this debate. […]

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