Trustworthy Messaging Get Started é mais um documento técnico da colecção Microsoft IT Showcase que descreve alguns métodos de segurança que podem ser utilizados para proteger mensagens de correio electrónico.
O documento foca os seguintes tópicos:
Microsoft Junk E-mail Reporting Tool version 1.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook é a ferramenta que faltava ao Outlook para poder reportar mensagens como spam. Este mecanismo já existia por exemplo no serviço gratuito de e-mail da Microsoft, o Hotmail.
The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool submits e-mail to Microsoft when you explicitly choose to do so. If you receive a junk e-mail and want to report it to us for analysis, first select the e-mail in Outlook and then click the junk e-mail button on your tool bar. You will see a pop-up window asking whether you want to report the selected e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates. When you click “Yes” to confirm that you’d like to report the selected e-mail as junk e-mail, the junk e-mail will be deleted from your Inbox and sent to FrontBridge, a Microsoft company, for analysis to help us improve the effectiveness of our junk e-mail filtering technologies.
Hoje é dia de aniversário deste blog. Foi no dia 27 de Outubro de 2004 que este projecto viu a luz do dia e o balanço até agora, pelo menos a nível pessoal, é bastante positivo.
São 454 posts (ou 455 se incluirmos este) sempre subordinados ao tema de messaging em geral, mas com particular incidência no Microsoft Exchange.
Quanto às efemérides deste último ano, há a assinalar o aparecimento das versões Beta do Exchange Server 2007 e o nascimento de mais um blog da minha autoria no site da MSExchange.org: Rui J.M. Silva Blog. Para outros acontecimentos relativos ao ano anterior consultem o post do ano passado, "subject: exchange" - 1 ano depois.
Obrigado a todos os leitores, mais ou menos assíduos, e continuem a mandar sugestões.
Há uns meses atrás coloquei aqui um posto sobre um produto que a Microsoft tencionava desenvolver, uma espécie de Midsize Business Server.
Este produto começa agora a ver a luz do dia, chama-se Centro e está disponível publicamente uma versão Beta.
Aqui ficam mais informações, directamente do "The SBS and Centro Community Lead Blog":
So, what is "Centro" you ask...........?
I am glad you asked.... :)
We are looking for a few good testers to help influence the direction of this new Microsoft® Windows Server Solutions Product. Do you have three 64 bit machines that you can spare to test some of the most exciting technology Microsoft is working on? I know the system requirements are a daunting one, but this is the only way we can test "Centro". So, if you are already on the Longhorn Beta or the Exchange Beta, then you are already two thirds of the way there.
The "Centro" Product team is looking to you to help test the Beta of "Centro". “Centro” is the code name for a new Microsoft® infrastructure solution that will help midsize businesses with less than 250 PCs in their environment. Centro will bring together key server products for midsize businesses, including Windows Server “Longhorn,” Exchange Server 2007 and security technologies, plus a new, integrated management experience. Centro is designed for IT professionals in midsize companies, helping them with server technologies that are easier to purchase, install and manage.
Details:
If you are interested in joining the "Centro" Beta please go to http://connect.microsoft.com click on Invitations sign in with your Windows Live ID (Passport ID) and enter the following invite ID; Extr-GHBC-JCJM. You will be asked to take a short Survey. Once you complete the survey look for an email from MsftConn@microsoft.com. If you don't already trust this address, please add it to your trusted email addresses.
A Eileen Brown disponibilizou, mais uma vez, a lista de Webcasts para Novembro de várias tecnologias. Aqui ficam os links para os mais interessantes:
Num esforço para difundir a utilização do Sender ID, a Microsoft resolveu disponibilizar esta tecnologia de segurança para correio electrónico ao abrigo do programa Open Specification Promise (OSP). Basicamente isto quer dizer que qualquer pessoa vai poder utilizar o Sender ID sem ter de se preocupar em assinar qualquer acordo de licenciamento.
"REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 23, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Sender ID Framework specification for e-mail authentication is now available under the company’s Open Specification Promise (OSP), an irrevocable promise to every individual in the world that they can make use of the covered Microsoft® technology easily and for free. This is another step forward in the company’s commitment to delivering interoperability by design."
O Internet Explorer 7 foi disponibilizado na sua versão final durante a semana passada. Bem a propósito, a Microsoft acaba de disponibilizar um patch para o Exchange Server 2003 SP2 que corrige um problema que ocorre no Outlook Web Access (OWA) quando se utiliza este browser.
"This update resolves an issue where the Outlook Web Access (OWA) form would stop responding when you compose a message using the S/MIME control on a client running Internet Explorer 7.0 and accessing a mail server running Exchange Server 2003."
Está disponível uma nova actualização para o filtro Junk E-mail do Outlook 2003.
O download está disponível aqui ou através do Microsoft Update. Como é habitual, está acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:"This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail."
O site Microsoft TechNet vai dedicar uma semana à divulgação de webcasts sobre PowerShell. Aqui fica a lista:
And Now for Something Completely Different:
Introducing Windows PowerShell
You’ve probably heard by now about this new technology from Microsoft first called “Monad” and now officially named Windows PowerShell. What is this? Do I want to learn this? Do I have to learn this? Where do I get it? How does it work? Not to worry, the Scripting Guys are here to answer your questions. In this first of five Webcasts you’ll be introduced to Windows PowerShell and given an overview of how it works and what it’s all about.Monday November 6, 2006
One Cmdlet, Two Cmdlet, Three Cmdlet, Four:
An Introduction to Windows PowerShell Commands
"Doeth the Eagle mount up at thy commaund?" No, that’s not a typo; apparently, that's how the word command was spelled back in the 1700's. Boy, how things have changed: the word is now spelled Cmdlet, or at least it is if you're a Windows PowerShell user. In this webcast the Script Guys explore these new beasts known as Cmdlets, the heart and sound of Microsoft’s new command shell/scripting technology.Tuesday November 7, 2006
Objects, Objects Everywhere:
Working With Objects in Windows PowerShell
One of the coolest new features introduced by Windows PowerShell is the ability to work with objects directly from the command line. Although WSH scripters are somewhat familiar with the concept of objects, as a Windows PowerShell user you need to live and breath objects. In this webcast, the Scripting Guys explore all things object in Windows PowerShell. If you listen carefully and don't speak out during the presentation, they’ll even help you instantiate an itty-bitty .NET object for you to call your own.Wednesday November 8, 2006
New Kid on the Script Block:
Writing Scripts with Windows PowerShell
Yes, Windows PowerShell is a great tool for working at the command line; however, it’s an equally good tool for writing scripts. In day 4 of Windows PowerShell week, the Scripting Guys introduce you to the fine art of writing scripts with Windows PowerShell.Thursday November 9, 2006
Amazing But True:
Things You Never Dreamt You Could Do With Windows PowerShell
In this, this fifth and final Windows PowerShell Week webcast, you’ll see definitive proof that the Loch Ness monster exists; you’ll meet a man who was abducted by aliens; and you’ll hear from a real, live ghost. But that’s nothing: just wait until you see some of the incredible things that can be done with Windows PowerShell.Friday November 10, 2006
Going 64-Bit with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 é um novo documento da colecção Microsoft IT Showcase, disponibilizado recentemente.
Almost two years prior to the Microsoft® Exchange Server product group's decision to support Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on the 64-bit platform only, the Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) group began to migrate from 32-bit to 64-bit server hardware. All server computers purchased for messaging purposes after the year 2004 are 64-bit systems and suitable for Exchange Server 2007. By running the new Exchange Server version on the 64-bit platform, Microsoft IT can keep pace with ever-increasing performance expectations, raise mailbox quotas by up to a factor of 10, lower storage costs, and eliminate tape backups to save an additional $5 million U.S. per year.
E em Português! É verdade, a Microsoft Portugal está a organizar alguns ciclos de webcasts, sendo que o próximo vai ser dedicado ao Exchange Server 2007.
Para efectuar o registo basta seguir este link.
Aqui fica a lista completa:
A primeira recomendação de leitura é dedicada ao pessoal do Asterisco ;-)
A Microsoft disponibiliza alguns documentos técnicos bastante interessantes sobre o tema Messaging Hygiene. Para quem é fã de podcasts, está agora disponível How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks.
"Detailed discussion on how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unwanted e-mail (a.k.a. spam) and malware-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic. The paper documents how Microsoft IT uses Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 technologies, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, and third-party solutions to both reduce the quantity of spam routed through the corporate messaging infrastructure by filtering at the gateway layer and then remove the threats in remaining messages posed by viruses, worms, and their common distribution vectors, such as file attachments."
