Standby Continuous Replication (SCR): Replay and Truncation Lag

Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) is a new High Availability feature in Exchange Server 2007 SP1. It uses Continuous Replication (also used by LCR and CCR) to replicate Storage Groups from a clustered or non-clustered mailbox server, known as a SCR source, to a clustered or non-clustered mailbox server, known as a SCR target. SCR is […]

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India wants access to BlackBerry encryption algorithms to fight terrorism

India’s half a million BlackBerry users may have to live with the prospect of the Indian government having easy access to their wireless communication. India says it needs access to RIM’s encryption algorithms, used to encrypt email sent and received by BlackBerry smartphones, to fight terrorism. The Indian government is delaying a license to offer […]

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Routing outbound mail using a particular IP address

A question that frequently and inevitably pops up when discussing Exchange transport is that of being able to route outbound mail using a particular IP address. The Exchange Server 2003/2000 transport architecture was confusing for many newcomers— the difference between an SMTP Virtual Server and an SMTP Connector being the main cause of this confusion. […]

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iPhone, meet Exchange: Apple announces Exchange ActiveSync support

Finally, Apple announces Exchange ActiveSync Support. Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior VP of Marketing, announced minutes ago what many have suspected all along – Apple chose to go with Microsoft by licensing EAS. Schiller demonstrated EAS on the iPhone, including the ability to remotely wipe an iPhone. Without taking names, Phil also criticized the BlackBerry approach […]

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iPhone, meet Exchange: Will Apple make them talk?

March 6 is here, and the iPhone’s software roadmap, including the much talked about “enterprise features” should be public in a few hours, along with the release or another announcement of the iPhone SDK. In the past, there have been plenty of rumors and some “confirmations” about Apple having licensed Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol […]

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HOW TO: Delegate recipient administration for an OU

Exchange Server 2007 allows easier delegation of administration responsibilities, based on the following predefined administration roles:1) Exchange Organization Administrator 2) Exchange Server Administrator 3) Exchange Recipient Administrator 4) Exchange Public Folder Administrator and 5) Exchange View Only Administrator. Figure 1: Exchange Server 2007 allows delegation of administrative responsibilities The delegation wizard in the EMC allows […]

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InfoWorld’s campaign to “Save Windows XP”

I’ve been an avid reader of InfoWorld for as long as I can remember. It is one of the finest trade publications out there. In case you’ve missed it, they’ve been running an online campaign to “save Windows XP”. A few weeks ago, they announced that 75,000 XP users had signed up for it (Read […]

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Released: Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 6

Exchange Server 2007 Update Rollup 6 is now publicly available. This update is for Exchange Server 2007 RTM – you do not need to install it on servers running Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Description of the rollup can be found in KB 942846. In keeping with the new servicing model for Exchange server (read previous […]

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How to forward mail to an external email address

In Exchange Server 2003, mail for a recipient can be forwarded to an alternate recipient by modifying the recipient’s Delivery Options in ADUC | recipient -> properties | Exchange General tab. Figure 1: Use Delivery Options to auto forward email to an alternate recipient in Exchange 2003 If you need to forward mail to an […]

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Zenprise and the BlackBerry Blackout of 2/11/2008

At Zenprise, we do not revel in outages and issues that cause service disruptions or service deterioration for our customers. However, when such incidents do occur – whether in the Exchange messaging infrastructure or in BlackBerry service, we take pride in the fact that Zenprise is able to help customers by providing early warnings and […]

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