Exchange 2007

Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync

Users of Apple’s new iPhone 4 phones or iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPod Touch users who upgraded to iOS 4 have been reporting issues synchronizing to Exchange Server using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). The issue with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, also results in additional load on Exchange Server, which may cause performance issues […]

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cc:Betty: A cool web app you may want to block

If you haven’t looked at Palo Alto-based cc:Betty yet, perhaps you should. cc:Betty promises to keep everyone on the same page. Still in beta, it’s a useful web app that helps users organize their email communication, collects email content, catalogs attachments and files, and also maintains your contacts. It’s also amazingly simple to use. Besides […]

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Bulk mailbox creation: Import passwords from a file

Automating bulk mailbox creation required fairly advanced scripting skills in Exchange 2003/2000. Thanks to the Exchange Management Shell (aka “the shell”) in Exchange 2010 and 2007, this task is greatly simplified. It doesn’t require any advanced scripting skills and it can be accomplished by relative newcomers to Exchange Server with very little knowledge of the […]

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Windows 2008 R2 Support Coming for Exchange 2007

Exchange 2007 will be supported on Windows Server 2008 R2, Kevin Allison, GM Exchange Customer Experience, posted on the Exchange team blog today. With the general availability of Exchange 2010 just around the corner, Microsoft had earlier decided not to update Exchange 2007 to support its latest server operating system. Exchange 2007 is supported on […]

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iPhone OS 3.1 Security Changes and Exchange ActiveSync Policy

Apple implemented device encryption in the iPhone 3GS, improving its odds of being considered for enterprise deployment. However, users using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) to connect to their Exchange 2007 mailboxes couldn’t take advantage of it, even when encryption was required by an Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policy, because the device didn’t tell Exchange it can support […]

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Export and Import Content Filter Words or Phrases

In Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007, you can add custom words or phrases as good or bad words to modify the Spam Confidence Level (SCL) assigned to messages. Messages with a good word or phrase are assigned an SCL of 0 and bypass other antispam agents that fire after the Content Filtering agent. Messages with […]

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Exchange 2007 SP2 Released, Adds PowerShell v2 and Exchange 2010 Support

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 is now available for download. SP2 adds support for Windows Powershell v2, and allows coexistence with Exchange Server 2010. SP2 also adds support for VSS backups of Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008. More in Details of Exchange 2007 SP2 in-box backup when running on Windows Server 2008 on […]

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Windows 7 and Direct Access: The Anywhere Experience

Over the past few weeks, Windows 7 Release Candidate has been widely downloaded, used, praised (including by some very vocal critics), and loved. It’s easy to fall in love with the Windows 7 user experience, and I don’t just mean the lovely wallpapers and themes that are in stark contrast to the kind of visual […]

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Macs discover AutoDiscover: Exchange Server Support in Snow Leopard

Apple’s iPhone and new Mac hardware announcements are certainly going to get a lot more airplay today, but there’s something Exchange users (who use Macs) will welcome. Snow Leopard, Apple’s forthcoming Mac OS upgrade adds Exchange Server support to the Mac. From Phil Schiller’s keynote at Apple’s WWDC 2009, the following screenshot (courtesy Engadget) shows […]

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Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer: Test Exchange from outside the firewall

Exchange 2007 brought with it a number of Exchange shell cmdlets that let you test Exchange functionality (scroll down to the end of this post for a list of the test cmdlets). But how do you test Exchange services are actually available and usable from the Internet? Have you longed for an Exchange cmdlet like […]

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