Anti-Spam Comparison

The folks over at msexchange.org have just posted a useful comparison chart of anti-spam products, they also invite you to submit suggestions of other anti-spam products that should be included:

http://www.msexchange.org/articles/Server_Based_Antispam_Comparison.html

Michigan Small Business Server User Group Meeting

Date/Time: September 8th 2004 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Microsoft Office, Southfield

Brad Billison, Microsoft Partner Technology Specialist, will talk on Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and the Intelligent Messaging Filter

Using General Purpose Public Folder Trees in Exchange 2003

This article explains how you can create and use General Purpose Public Folder Trees in Exchange 2003

http://www.MSExchange.org/pages/article.asp?id=699

New Build of ADModify .NET Available

http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces/viewuploads.aspx?id=f5cbbfa9-e46b-4a7a-8ed8-3e44523f32e2

This release adds the A, B, and C drives to the available drive list for home folder and terminal server home folder.

Updated Exchange Server 2003 Administration Guide Available

This guide explains how features work in the Exchange Server architecture, and how to configure and manage these features for optimal results. This content ranges from configuring global settings at an organizational level, to managing individual servers, to managing Exchange clusters. After reading this guide, you will have a solid understanding of what it takes to configure and manage your Exchange Server 2003 organization.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=98e45481-1458-4809-97d6-50d8aeebd8a1&displaylang=en

Updated Exchange 2000/2003 Front-end Back-end Topology Whitepaper Available

Replaces: “Using Microsoft Exchange 2000 Front-end Servers”

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server support using a server architecture that distributes server tasks among front-end and back-end servers. In this architecture, a front-end server accepts requests from clients and proxies them to the appropriate back-end server for processing. This guide discusses how Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange 2000 Server support the front-end and back-end server architecture. This guide also describes several front-end and back-end scenarios and provides recommendations for configuration.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e64666fc-42b7-48a1-ab85-3c8327d77b70&displaylang=en

One way to migrate from Exchange 5.5+ org to Exchange 2003 Sp1 org

Just posted by Ted Kolvoord over on the Exchange Team Blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange/archive/2004/08/25/220305.aspx

A Wholistic View into Exchange Storage Management - David Sengupta

David over at The P0stmaster blog has just published an interesting article on Exchange Storage Management.

http://p0stmaster.blogspot.com/2004/08/sengupta-david-wholistic-view-into.html

Migration of Lotus Notes/Domino Applications to the Microsoft .NET Environment

This book describes how to transition Lotus Notes/Domino applications to the Microsoft platform. The goal of the book is to provide a step-by-step explanation for the migration of Notes/Domino applications to the Microsoft platform. The migration strategy uses a reference architecture, combined with established best practices developed in partnership with our customers and our top partners, who are experienced in these transitions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=80567a4f-1239-4de1-8692-1e49bc59f8ff&displaylang=en

Working with the Exchange Server 2003 Store

The Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 store is a storage platform that provides a single repository in which you can manage multiple types of unstructured information. This guide provides in-depth information to make administration and troubleshooting tasks easier for you to perform.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d438545-7697-4384-bd24-87e0cd3378cd&displaylang=en

Quest Software - Exchange eBooks Available

Quest Software has made available a couple of eBooks one covers Exchange 2003 and the other covers Exchange 2000, well worth checking out:

http://wm.quest.com/reg/marketing/ebook/ebooks.asp

Should I use the SP1 cross-site move?

Once again Evan has produced an excellent article: Should I use the SP1 cross-site move.

Mailbox Management Article on msexchange.org

Marc Grote has just published a new article over at msechange.org, called Mailbox Management

“In this article I will give you an overview of Exchange 2003 Mailbox Management. We will cover the following topics: Mailbox creation, Recipient Policies, Mailbox Management, and Mailbox Recovery.”

MOM 2005 and Exchange 2003 Webcast

The /3Gb Switch

Raymond Chen, has written some excellent posts on his blog talking about PAE, AWE and the /3Gb switch, he has justed posted a summary of all the posts.

http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/22/218527.aspx

99,999 Innocent Bystanders Spammed

I have just finished reading a pretty good article from Microsoft Research regarding Spam (yes, I know I should be doing something more exciting on a Friday evening), here is the link:

http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=672

Simpler-Webb Inc's Exchange Resource Manager

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 20, 2004--Simpler-Webb, Inc. announced that Exchange Resource Manager (ERM) reached a significant milestone in its global adoption with the first ERM sale into the African continent. "Africa was the last of the six major continents for Simpler-Webb, Inc.'s ERM to penetrate," says Andy Webb, President of Simpler-Webb, Inc. ERM now actively manages thousands of resources for hundreds of companies on all the major continents.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040820/205397_1.html

Upcoming Exchange Webcast: Strategies for migrating from Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003

The Webcast will be held Tuesday August 24th at 10:00am (PST), more info can be found on this link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;884081

Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes periodically after you install Exchange Server 2003 SP1 (KB872963)

Gerod Serafin has just blogged about it here.

The Future of Exchange Data Storage, plus some other bits

According to SearchExchange.com Microsoft will be releasing more information about the future of Exchange Data Storage sometime in October 2004, they also mention that Microsoft's Best Practices Analyzer for Exchange will be released in September 2004, and Microsoft Edge Services will be released in 2005, you can read the whole article here.