Exchangepedia Blog: A note to visitors

It wasn’t very long ago when I got excited about getting a 1000 pageviews a day – then a milestone for this blog [reached in the week of Jan. 21, 2007 “Exchangepedia Blog crosses another landmark: over 1000 pageviews/day“]. Little did I know what was in store a few weeks down the road, thanks in […]

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DST 2007: Energy Policy Act of 2005 – the few lines…

I’ve been wanting to post about this for a few days now, and as we wind down towards the earlier onset of Daylight Savings Time this year, hopefully with most of us having dealt with DST 2007 issues already, there couldn’t be a better time than this. If you haven’t reached the finish line with […]

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DST 2007: Is there an Outlook DST “patch”?

There seems to be some confusion about whether Outlook itself has a DST 2007 patch. As noted in a previous post “DST 2007: Understanding what needs to be done and how to do it“, there’s the Outlook Calendar Update Tool – TzMove.exe (“Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook” in Microsoft-speak). This is […]

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Symantec’s State of Spam report: Spam rates declining

Here’s something that should make messaging folks happier (as happy as you can be at this point given the DST 2007 huddle a lot of us may find ourselves in… :) Symantec’s monthly State of Spam report shows some interesting trends over the past month. In particular: 1. Overall percentage of spam “at the SMTP […]

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DST 2007: The order of things, again!

As we wind down towards the DST 2007 deadline, I’ve still been getting quite a few questions about this in the past day or two. This has been covered and repeated quite a bit over the past few days, but here it is once again. Here’s what Microsoft recommends on its DST 2007 web site:1. […]

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HOW TO: Assign SendAs right using Exchange shell

In Exchange Server 2007 (and Exchange 2010), recipients are managed from the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or Exchange Management Shell (aka the Shell). EMC does not have a Security tab for recipients. You can still use Active Directory Users & Computers (ADUC) console to modify permissions on a recipient, as the documentation suggests [“How to […]

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Zenprise Webinar availabe OnDemand: Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange

Zenprise held a webinar titled “Updating Daylight Savings Time for BlackBerry & Exchange” on Friday March 23rd. The archived webinar is now available on the Zenprise web site [registration required].

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DST 2007: Exchange’s Message Tracking off by an hour

There have been reports of the Message Tracking tool in Exchange System Manager being off by an hour after you apply the DST 2007 time zone update to the operating system of a server running Exchange. This is a known issue. Message Tracking logs use UTC/GMT for logging (as do most logging and time-related functions). […]

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Switching your Linux systems to the new DST

Over on Linux-Watch, Steven Vaughan-Nichols shows you how to update Linux systems for DST 2007. As a sidenote to the above, Windows systems also use NTP (Network Time Protocol) to synchronize clocks to reliable time sources. This is required in Active Directory environments, for Kerberos v5 authentication. In an AD domain, all client computers and […]

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DST 2007 Rollup Post

If the navbar link on the left doesn’t get you quickly to the DST 2007 post you want to, here’s a list of all DST 2007 posts on this blog: – DST 2007: December 2007 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems– DST 2007: August 2007 Cumulative Timezone Update for Windows operating systems– […]

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