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Exchange Server 2010 News & Reviews..

2009-04-15T13:34:47Z

Exchange Server 2010 Reviews Microsoft Exchange 2010 Beta Looks Solid from Core to Cloud (and related slideshow Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Includes Welcome Improvements ) – eWeek First look: Exchange 2010 beta shines – InfoWorld Exchange Server 2010 News Broader Office 14 testing coming by fall - CNet Next Exchange features e-mail 'mute' button - CNet Microsoft Brands Office 2010, Releases Exchange Beta – PC World / IDG Microsoft fends off Google with Web browser-friendly Exchange 2010 - Computerworld...(read more)

www.TestExchangeConnectivity.com

2009-03-26T17:46:30Z

Nice tool to help you sort out problems accessing Exchange from out on the Internet. For more information see the blog on You Had Me At EHLO.. here and there is a quick presentation on Edge.TechNet.com here . Test EAS with Windows Mobile 5, EAS with Windows Mobile 6 (& autodiscover), OutlookAnywhere via Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 (& autodiscover) and inbound SMTP… The tool will give you a pretty detailed report of where any failure might be and also links to TechNet in the way ExBPA does...(read more)

What are all these changes to Active Directory?

2009-03-24T16:50:07Z

This is a great blog if you are wondering about some unusual behaviour in Active Directory – specifically the following: “- Why has my AD database size increased by 500MB in the last three weeks? - I see lots of AD replication in Domain Controller monitoring. What are all these changes?” Go to the Ask the Directory Services blog on Technet; How do I find out what changes are going on in my Active Directory? “In order to find the cause for the problems, you should find what has changed in the...(read more)

CCR or SCC?

2009-03-18T21:31:41Z

Have had this discussion on many occasions and this 3Sharp whitepaper by Missy Koslosky would have proved very useful as an external reference point… High Availability Choices for Exchange Server 2007: Continuous Cluster Replication or Single Copy Clustering In conclusion… (this isn’t the only bit I read) “Exchange Server 2007 is a mission critical application. Organizations rely on the services and data Exchange provides, and keeping these highly available is of the utmost importance. Native,...(read more)

DPM in Paperback…

2009-03-18T11:48:14Z

Just found this DPM book: ‘ Mastering System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 ’ by Devin L. Ganger (Author), Ryan Femling (Author) [..both 3Sharp, LLC] Has anyone read it? Is it any good for Exchange?...(read more)

Microsoft and Google in the Education Cloud

2009-03-18T11:19:52Z

This is worth a quick read if you are interested in what’s happening with Exchange in the cloud at Live@Edu and Google Apps … “Both Queensland University for Technology (QUT) and Ohio State University (OSU) have now signed up to Live@edu, Microsoft’s online cloud suite designed for students, including Hotmail, SkyDrive and Workspaces. Over 100,000 students from these two universities are now using Live@edu, after extensive testing resulted in Microsoft getting the deal and Google being pushed our...(read more)

Want more Virtualisation?

2009-03-16T14:19:03Z

Go to VirtualizationFeed.com and get the latest on virtualisation in Microsoft and in the wider world. Also worth keeping track of what’s happening in the #virtualization community on Twitter at the same place ....(read more)

To my fellow bloggers..

2009-03-13T15:57:12Z

Quick list of the blog articles that have helped me and might help you… 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky 20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider How to Write With Confidence 7 types of blog posts which always seem to get links and traffic We need a blogging revolution What is the point of blogging? 9 benefits of twitter for bloggers 5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter...(read more)

A bit of love from Network World…

2009-03-11T13:05:44Z

Exchange alternatives: Pros and cons Testing shows Microsoft's Exchange still tops for features and management hooks @ http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/030909-exchange-alternatives-test.html “In this Clear Choice Test, we explore how Exchange alternatives stack up against Microsoft's offer, as well as each other. Our testing focuses on products for midsized deployments of 1,000 mailboxes or less. We tested six Exchange alternatives: CommuniGate Pro ( CommuniGate Systems ), Kerio MailServer...(read more)

Deploying Exchange 2007 on VMWare?

2009-03-10T18:31:21Z

VMWare Podcasts – VMWAre Infrastructure 3 Podcast: Disaster Recovery (DR) for Exchange using VMWare @ http://www.vmware.com/resources/podcasts/server_consolidation.html by Scott Salyer, VMware Technical Solutions Architect Using VMWare infrastructure we can help increase the flexibility of your high availability solution for exchange Reduce cost Enhance availability of Exchange through VMWare and MS Exchange features Scott makes a lot of the inflexibility of a non-VMWare Exchange design – you have...(read more)

Free Powershell eBook

2009-03-09T21:59:06Z

‘Effective PowerShell: The Free eBook’ from Keith Hill available on Keith Hills’ blog here . Definitely worth a look…...(read more)

Friday Dilbert

2009-03-06T16:27:44Z

You gotta laugh…...(read more)

I used to do it this way…

2009-03-05T16:54:39Z

Just found some useful stuff on a colleagues blog - Gerod Serafin ; a field engineer in the US. It’s a series of blogs showing the difference in administering Exchange Server 2007 from Exchange Server 2003… Part 1 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007 Delegating Server Administration Part 2 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007 Synchronizing Public Folder hierarchy replication in 2003 vs....(read more)

Software plus Services Guide & Business Advisor Podcast

2009-03-04T16:39:19Z

Not something I would normally blog about but will be interesting to any of our partners who operate in this space. Guide to Opportunity: Software-plus-Services https://partner.microsoft.com/UK/productssolutions/40099765 This 16-page guide explains how partners can exploit our Software-plus-Services strategy. Microsoft executives and partners explain how Software-plus-Services can create major revenue opportunities for partners; and cost savings for customers, especially in the current economic climate....(read more)

Offline defrag a replica database…

2009-03-04T13:01:09Z

Let’s leave the “ why would you? ” to one side for the moment but is it actually possible or supported to defrag a continuous replication target database? Well not surprisingly er ‘No’. An offline defrag creates a new database with a new signature (“When defragmentation is complete, the original database is deleted or saved to a user-specified location, and the new version is renamed as the original.”) and therefore whilst it will be possible to defrag the database you’ll break replication....(read more)