Hi Folks, If you use Antigen/ForeFront Security and you are using any of these engines: AhnLab, CA, Sophos and also SpamCure, then you must read the post that the ForeFront Team published. Basically, those ones won't be longer updated as explained below: The AhnLab, CA, and Sophos engines will be retired on Dec. 1, 2009. After December 1 st , customers will not receive any updates for these retired engines. In order to make sure your Antigen and Forefront products continue to scan efficiently

Hi folks, Exchange Server 2010 is just around the corner and today we are going over the witness server/directory creation in a regular member server. The first question is why? Well, we already know that in this new release we can have only 2 servers and provide high availability for all roles the essential roles with those two servers. Remember that the same thing was accomplished with 4 servers in Exchange Server 2007 (2 CAS/HUB and 2 MBX - CCR). However DAG witness has some requirements, such

Hi Folks, Really nice post from MSExchangeTeam explaining the Exchange 2010 version-based routing. Long story short, Exchange 2010 Hub will communicate only with a Mailbox Exchange 2010, if you have an Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox a Hub 2007 is required to communicate with the legacy mailbox. By now, you've seen a few of our Spotlight on Exchange 2010 postings. If you have, hopefully you're excited about the great work that has been going on to make Exchange 2010 the best version of Exchange

Hi Folks, Some of the ForeFront names, such as ForeFront Server Security Management Console, ForeFront Protection Manager, ILM or ForeFront Identity Manager make you crazy to figure out which is the name of current version and the next version? Well, the product family is not small and specially at this point they may cause some confusion with so many names. This page can help you out to memorize the current product names and their future names: http://www.microsoft.com/Forefront/en/us/trial-software

Hi Folks, Exchange Server 2010 introduced the certificate management through Exchange Management Console. In order to manage it, just expand Server Configuration and click on the required server on the left and on the bottom you will see certificates available for that server and at the Toolbox actions you will be able to all available options. In this post we are going to renew the certificate created during the server installation. Let's click on Renew Exchange Certificate as shown in the figure

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM), formerly known as Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" delivers an integrated identity management solution with powerful self-service capabilities for Office end-users, rich administrative tools and enhanced automation for IT professionals and .NET and WS-* based extensibility for developers. FIM 2010 provides organizations with unique workflow driven solutions to manage user accounts, passwords, groups and distribution lists as well as certificate-based

Hello folks, DPM 2010 beta is available and this beta supports Exchange Server 2010 DAG protection! :) Overview of DPM 2010: http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/dataprotectionmanager/en/us/2010beta-overview.aspx You can download it from here: https://connect.microsoft.com/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?SiteID=840&DownloadID=22070 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://msmvps.org/blogs/AndersonPatricio http://www.andersonpatricio.org Technorati : DAG backup , DPM 2010 , Exchange Server 2010 Del.icio

Hi folks, MSExchangeTeam blogged about the architectural changes in the Recover Deleted items in Exchange Server 2010. Users often delete data from their mailboxes that they later want recovered. Recovery of these deleted items is the most common reason for IT admins to recover data from traditional point-in-time backups today. With previous versions of Exchange Server, administrators implemented two solutions to enable single item recovery, dumpster and restores. Both had their issues, unfortunately

Hi folks, Continuing the Archive Mailbox Week.. Today, we are going to talk about Archive Mailbox Name and Quota. Change the Archive Mailbox name... Using Exchange Management Console, we can double click on an user and go to the Mailbox Features tab, and get Properties of Archive item. Then, we can change the name of the Archive Mailbox ... and the results can be seen on either Outlook Web App or Outlook 2010. Changing the warning quota for the Archive Mailbox... We can also use Exchange Management

Hi folks, In the previous post we saw how to create an Archive Mailbox and also how to enable it in an existent mailbox. Today's post we are going to identify a mailbox that has an Archive Mailbox using Exchange Management Shell and Console and also how to get statistics from an Archive Mailbox. Identifying an Archive Mailbox... That is really easy, basically a Mailbox that has an Archive Mailbox has a different icon. We can notice that the user Anderson.Patricio has a different icon than a regular