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Exchange Server Databases and SQL

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:04:14 GMT

Hello folks,

Is Exchange Database going to use SQL? I have received the same question in almost all trainings that I delivered. So, the MSExchangeTeam blogged about it, check this out: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/07/16/451784.aspx

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

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Exchange Server 2010

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:57:42 GMT

Hello folks,

Today was announced the Exchange 2010 Beta Public, check this out: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1898ed2c-2f88-48ac-824e-d3d20fad77d7

Cheers,
Anderson Patricio

End of Life Extension for Sybari Antigen 8.0

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:43:54 GMT

If you are a Sybari Antigen 8.0 for Exchange or SMTP Gateways customer, check this out:

Microsoft has decided to extend the end-of-life for Sybari Antigen for Exchange 8.0 and Sybari Antigen for SMTP Gateways 8.0 from December 31, 2008 to December 31, 2009. This decision was made to accommodate the antivirus needs of customers who are still running versions of Exchange prior to Exchange 2000 and who have requested additional time to upgrade in 2009.

The terms of the Sybari Antigen for Exchange 8.0 and Sybari Antigen for SMTP Gateways 8.0 end-of-life extension are as follows:

No product support will be provided after December 31, 2009.
Customers will not be able to receive antivirus engine definition updates after December 31, 2009.
New customers will not be allowed to acquire or deploy Antigen for Exchange 8.0 between December 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009. Only customers currently running Sybari Antigen for Exchange 8.0 or Sybari Antigen for SMTP Gateway 8.0 will be supported.
If an existing Sybari Antigen for Exchange 8.0 or Sybari Antigen for SMTP Gateway 8.0 customer has a contract that expires between now and December 31, 2009, Microsoft will only extend the licensing agreement for the 8.0 version until December 31, 2009.

If you are an existing Microsoft customer, please contact your Microsoft Account Manager to extend your license .cfg files for these products. If you are not an existing Microsoft customer, please send an e-mail to fssadmin@microsoft.com to extend your license .cfg files for these products.

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Windows Search 4.0 has been released

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:16:49 GMT

Hello folks,

A new version of Windows Search was released yesterday. This new version has some improvements related to Exchange Server/Outlook. Check this information that came from the Windows Vista Team Blog (http://www.windowsvistablog.com).

Speaking of accessing Microsoft Exchange Server - if your organization selects not to use Microsoft Office Outlook in cached mode, you can set a Group Policy to index Exchange in online mode. Windows Search 4.0 will then index with minimal impact to the server. Our internal testing of this configuration shows significant decrease in the load on the server and the network as compared to Windows Desktop Search 3.01.

You can also download it from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157

Best Regards,
Anderson Patricio

ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 Features and SAN certificates support

Anderson Patricio — Sun, 25 May 2008 07:06:23 GMT

There is a new post about the new features of ISA Server 2006 SP1 in the ISA Server Team blog. One of these upcoming features will be the SAN Certificates support.

This Service Pack introduces new features and improved functionality for ISA Server 2006 Enterprise and Standard Editions. The new features focus primarily on enhanced troubleshooting mechanisms designed to help you identify and resolve ISA Server configuration issues. Also included in this package are the updates we've promised for so long, such as SAN certificate support.

New Exchange Server Techcenter

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:37:00 GMT

Hello folks,

Yesterday, the new Exchange Server Techcenter was launched, here are the main links

Exchange Server TechCenter: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/default.aspx
Library: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124558.aspx
Community page: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb341336.aspx

Best Regards,
Anderson Patricio

The Designing Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 beta exam is available

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:47:38 GMT

The Pro: Designing Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 beta exam is available. In the beta process the number of this exam will be 71-237.

How Do I need to study to pass in this exame? You can find more information at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-237.mspx

Good luck!

Ice Rocket : Certification, Design, Exchange 2007

Talking about Exchange Server 2007

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:40:03 GMT

There are a lot of new features in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 such as SCR (Standby Cluster Replication), Tools for Public Folders, IMAP and POP; IPv6 support, PST export and import and more..

Ice Rocket : Exchange Server 2007 SP1

How the Transport Dumpster works with a CCR cluster

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:39:02 GMT

Matt Richoux has explained to us how the Transport Dumpster configuration works in a Exchange Server 2007 CCR Cluster. There are some important points that we can resume as it follows:

Dumpster works only with CCR implementation
The maximum size of the Transport dumpster queue per storage group is for all the storage groups
To disable the dumpster we should define to 0
the cmdlet used to define is set-transportconfig
an eventid 2099 will appear when a failover event occurs
the recommended size of MaxDumpsterSizePerStorageGroup should be 3 times more than the maximum message size
when the limit is reached the first in is the first out

Transport Dumpster is a new feature of Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport servers through which the transport can defer the deletion of certain emails in their queues. The condition for an email to be retained in the transport dumpster is that at least one of the recipient's mailboxes must resides on a CCR mailbox server. This retained email can later be re-delivered if necessary. The amount of mail retained in the queues is a Organization wide setting on the Transport Settings container.

Ice Rocket : CCR, Dumpster, Get-TransportConfig

A quick tour of Queue Viewer in Exchange Server 2007

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:16:45 GMT

Flora Lee has explained to us about the new queue viewer found in Exchange Server 2007, in this article she explains only GUI side but we can do the same procedures showed in this post also by using Exchange Management Shell.

Ice Rocket : Exchange Server 2007, Queue Viewer

Exchange Server 2007: Platforms, Editions, Product Keys and Versions

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:21:43 GMT

Scott Schnoll posted a very interesting blog post on his blog, where he goes over some frequently asked questions about Exchange Server 2007. He talks about:

Editions and Licenses
32-bit vs. 64-bit
Exchange 2007 and Virtualization
Evaluations and Product Keys
What's Missing from the 32-bit Version
Final Build - Version Confusion
ISOs and EXEs

Ice Rocket : Editions, Exchange 2007, Platforms, Product Keys, RTM, Versions

Webcasts about Exchange 2007 certifications

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:17:18 GMT

Trika Harms has blogged about two sessions explaining Exchange 2007 certification program, it will be very interesting.

February 15, 2007 - English language Live Meeting. Rob Linsky (he's Microsoft Learning's cert product manager, you've probably heard him speak at an event or one of our other meetings...) will talk about the new exams, associated training, and implications for people planning to work with Exchange 2007 or who hold an MCSA: Messaging or MCSE: Messaging certification. As usual, we'll have 2 meetings with the same content to make it easier for people to attend worldwide and ask questions.

Here are the links:

Exchange 2007 Certifications (Session 1)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032322921&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Exchange 2007 Certifications (Session 2)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032322922&EventCategory=2&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Ice Rocket : Exchange 2007, certifications, webcast

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Help

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:38:45 GMT

This download contains a standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Help.

Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=555f5974-9258-475a-b150-0399b133fede&displaylang=en&tm

Ice Rocket : Exchange 2007, help

Enabling Forefront Security Anti-spam Updates

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 03:12:58 GMT

An important factor in maintaining consistent spam protection over time is ensuring updates to the anti-spam filters are in place.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 leverages the proven Microsoft Update infrastructure for providing anti-spam filter updates and, by default, administrators can visit the MU site to retrieve content filter updates that are being published every two weeks.

An increased level of protection is offered to Enterprise CAL customers, where spam filter updates are more frequent and diverse http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/preview/edition_compare.mspx

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Exchange Server 2007 alternative to Standby Cluster

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:30:46 GMT

Matt Richoux has explained to us how to recovery CCR and SCC cluster environments in Exchange Server 2007.

NOTE: When we say "Exchange 2003 Standby Cluster" we are referring to the configuration discussed here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/DROpsGuide/2493c2d6-618c-4c49-9cb1-fff556926707.mspx?mfr=true

Exchange Server 2007 does not support a Standby Cluster like Exchange 2003, so what are your options?

With Exchange 2007 we have the ability to recover an Exchange cluster with the exsetup /recoverCMS switch. This is similar to the functionality we have with Exchange 2003 with the setup /disasterRecovery switch with a standalone system.

Note: In Exchange 2007 an Exchange Virtual Server is now called a Clustered Mailbox Server (CMS).

Ice Rocket : CCR, Exchange Server 2007, SCC

Exchange 2007 Beta Exam is available...

Anderson Patricio — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:03:14 GMT

I received today the promo code to do the exam 70-236 called Configuring Exchange Server 2007. If you are like me you will try to find some information about the exame, so I did this search..here it is the result http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exams/70-236.mspx

Ice Rocket : 70-236, exam, exchange 2007

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Private Beta

Anderson Patricio — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:00:26 GMT

Mu Han bloged about the new version of LCS, called Office Communication Server 2007 but at this momente it will be available only 2500 companies and my company is not one of them :(

I am happy to tell you that we opened a private beta of our new version of Office Communications Server 2007, to 2,500 companies. What's special about this version is that it has a lot of the VoIP capabilities built in. The coolest thing I have experienced as an early tester is the freedom to make VoIP and video calls no matter where I am without going through the trouble of VPN.

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Exchange Server 2007 Transport Rules Editor GUI

Anderson Patricio — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:31:03 GMT

This subject was my first article that I've written in the MSExchange.org, you can check out it at http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Transport-Rules-Exchange-Server-2007.html

The post of today in MsExchangeTeam talked about the same subject, as it follows:

Exchange Server 2007 provides an easy and flexible way to set rules for message routing and content restriction by Transport Rules. Transport Rules allow administrators to quickly apply corporate or compliance policies to e-mail messages that flow through an Exchange organization. Transport Rules can be managed with an Exchange Management Console Transport Rules Editor wizard or within the Exchange Management Shell (shell). The Transport Rules Editor wizard is designed to be very similar to the Outlook Rules Wizard, a familiar interface. This blog post introduces the Transport Rules Editor GUI and illustrates how to use it to accomplish an Ethical Firewall scenario.

Technorati : Exchange 2007, Transport Rules
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Supported Client in Exchange Server 2007 environments

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:30:57 GMT

I've been seeing a lot of questions about Outlook versions and Exchange Server 2007. Here is the question:

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/evaluation/clients.mspx

Technorati : Exchange 2007, client, supported

Exchange Serve 2007 RTM is coming..

Anderson Patricio — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:22:13 GMT

The default page of Exchange at Microsoft website has a new look and all of the links on the leftt side are about Exchange 2007.

Check it out http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/ and pre-register to Exchange Server 2007 RTM.

Technorati : Exchange 2007, preview