Rain City Guide: Seattle companies get no love

Just back from a good part of a week spent on the Microsoft campus, discussing Exchange developments – far more exciting than the new gadgets being unveiled at CES in Vegas all week. Though it rained almost every single day, and even snowed the night before I arrived, the weather wasn’t really that bad, and […]

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SMTP Connector Myth: Messages are always routed over SMTP Connectors with more specific address spaces

An Exchange Server message routing myth forever being propagated (including by me!): If 2 SMTP Connectors (or Send Connectors in case of Exchange Server 2007) exist, one with a more specific address space, like exchangepedia.com, and one for a more generic address space like *, messages are always routed over the Connector with the more […]

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Recipient Policies: Can separate policies for Email Addresses and Mailbox Manager Settings be applied?

Exchange Server 2003/2000’s Recipient Policies can have settings to generate email addresses for recipients, and Mailbox Manager settings to manage mailbox content. (The Exchange Server 2007 equivalents are 1. Accepted Domains + Email Address Policies to generate email addresses, and 2. Managed Folder Mailbox Policies (with default or custom Managed Folders + Managed Content Settings) […]

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Reader Tip: Redirecting shell output to the clipboard

Exchangepedia reader Guamaniac has an interesting tip in the comments on “Exchange 2007 Content Filter: The Whitelist Is Here!“: Get-ContentFilterConfig should give you a list of all the content filter settings on that particular Transport server. And I know this is the simplest of features in PowerShell, but I just love the fact that you […]

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Masquerading SMTP Virtual Servers: Changing the fqdn and masquerade domain

You can change the fully-qualified domain name (fqdn) used by a SMTP virtual server from its properties | Delivery tab | Advanced | Fully-qualified domain name. In the following example, we change the fqdn of a SMTP virtual server from its default – letter.exchangelabs.net, to postcard.exchangelabs.net. Figure 1: Changing the fully-qualified domain name in SMTP […]

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Keeping tabs on Antispam filters: A few handy scripts in Exchange Server 2007

One of the more useful improvements in Exchange Server 2007 is the abundance of logging for different features and components (read previous post “Exchange Server 2007: How many logs hath thee?“). In particular, the antispam agent logs fill an important gap in monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting message flow as it relates to antispam agents (read […]

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Zenprise at Fenway Park: How the 2007 World Champion Boston Red Sox’s IT Shop Keeps BlackBerrys in the Game

I haven’t posted too many updates from Zenprise lately. Zenprise v3.3 will ship soon, and the regular stream of customers throughout the year has been a great validation of Zenprise’s approach to monitoring and real-time troubleshooting of Microsoft Exchange Server and BlackBerry environments. The exciting news – standing here during the attendee party at TechEd […]

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Disabled mailboxes: Can they really receive email?

Some truths you live with for a lifetime, like Outlook users cannot send email using an alternate email address (with Outlook in MAPI mode – read previous post: “HOW TO: Send as alternate email address“). Others change as Microsoft Exchange evolves, either through new versions of Exchange server, or service packs and hotfixes. Disabled mailboxes […]

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Redmond on Exchange’s Evolving Strategy

Tony Redmond outlines his perspective of how Exchange will evolve over E14 and onwards in this Windows IT Pro article. The key areas, according to Redmond, are automation, virtualization, mobility, Unified Communications, Information Management, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Read “Exchange’s Evolving Strategy” on WinItPro.com (requires subscription).

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Schwartz: Zero tolerance for zero retention

On the first anniversary of the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (PDF), which provide guidelines for e-discovery, InfoWorld editor Ephraim Schwartz discusses the implications in his Reality Check column. Read more in “Zero tolerance for zero retention“.

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