Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Microsoft Bows to EU, Makes Comm Protocols Public
• No More IIS in Exchange 2007
• Open Source E-Mail Could Gain On Microsoft's Exchange: Yankee Group
• Open-Xchange Goes After Exchange
• Exchange Server 2007 Series (Part 12 of 24) Questions and Answers Log (02-28-07)
• Exchange Server 2007 Webcast Series (Part 13 of 24) Questions and Answers Log (03-02-07)
• Exchange Server 2007 Webcast Series (Part 14 of 24) Questions and Answers Log (03-07-07)
• Jetstress: Unevenly distributing users across storage groups
• Jetstress: You may receive ESE event ID 215
• Minimizing excessive Offline Address Book downloads with Exchange 2003
• PowerShell for IT Admins
• More Quota madness - this time MailboxStatistics
• Eseutil - A quick and easy tutorial
• Eseutil /p – A quick and easy tutorial
• Auditing Mailbox Access Using Exchange System Manager and Event Viewer
• Moving an Exchange Server 2007 Database between Mailbox Servers
• What is going on in the background when you add an SMTP Proxy address to a user account?
• Guidance on Active Directory design for Exchange Server 2007
• How to install Exchange Server 2007 Schema Extensions within a 32-bit Active Directory environment

Realtime Nexus eBooks

A Realtime Nexus é uma editora de livros online que disponibiliza as suas publicações mediante um registo grátis. Há já algum tempo que eu acompanho as publicações disponibilizadas e devo dizer que a qualidade é sempre de alto nível.
Decidi reunir aqui os links para os eBooks relevantes sobre o tema Messaging. Tal como vos disse, o download é gratuito, sendo apenas necessário um registo grátis.

• The Administrator Shortcut Guide to Blocking Spam with Sender Validation (Alan Sugano) - Written by notable computing expert Alan Sugano, this guide will familiarize you with Sender Validation and how it compares with other anti-spam solutions (blacklists, key word filters, Heuristics and Bayesian filtering, etcetera). Since there are many different Sender Validation solutions to choose from, Alan will also help you discover what to look when choosing the right system for your business.
• The Administrator Shortcut Guide to Email Protection (Paul Robichaux) - The Administrator Shortcut Guide to Email Protection will give you critical, need-to-know information to help you properly protect your corporate messaging system from a wide variety of external and internal security threats. Although the book focuses on Microsoft Exchange-based enterprises, the concepts, principles, and methodologies presented within are universally applicable to virtually all messaging platforms.
• The Definitive Guide to Controlling Malware, Spyware, Phishing, and Spam (Dan Sullivan) - The Internet is home to malicious programs that can steal, destroy, and make data inaccessible; spyware that ignores social conventions of privacy to track Internet users' activities online; phishing scams that bring the art of the con artist to new threatening levels; and spam, the inevitable electronic counterpart to direct mail that requires so little investment even miniscule response rates justify its use. This guide explores some of the most pressing threats to businesses and organizations from the Internet along with best practices for addressing them.
• The Definitive Guide to Exchange Disaster Recovery and Availability (Paul Robichaux) - Understanding Exchange disaster recovery can take a while. The first step, naturally enough, is to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of Exchange protection. Later chapters of this guide will describe the specific technologies you can use to improve the availability and recoverability of your messaging system and its related business services; first, though, we have to start with an explanation of the causes of downtime, the general classes of availability and protection technology, and ways to assess your Exchange environment to determine the most effective methods for you to better protect your Exchange infrastructure.
• The Messaging and Web Security Essentials Series (Dan Sullivan) - The Messaging and Web Security Essentials Series is an online article series focused on helping security professionals address the ongoing task of keeping an organization secure from the multitude of online and messaging threats.
• The Shortcut Guide to Exchange Server 2007 Storage Systems (Jim McBee) - The conventional way of planning for Exchange Server storage is to throw a lot of disk storage at the server and hope that is sufficient. Mail storage requirements continue to grow for even average users; these users place more and more capacity requirements not only on disk storage but also on disk I/O capacity. As current capacity requirements are exceeded, the storage system must provide scalability. The Shortcut Guide to Exchange Server 2007 Storage Systems, authored by Microsoft Exchange MVP Jim McBee, covers Exchange Server storage capacity requirement planning, the basics of using iSCSI SANs, and best practices for scalability and SAN operations.
• The Tips and Tricks Guide to Secure Messaging (Jim McBee) - Threats against email systems have evolved to the point that protecting users, mail servers and bandwidth is no longer as simple as installing antivirus software. By some estimates, spam, phishing schemes, viruses, and other unwanted content now make up 70% of all email traffic into an organization's mail servers. The Tips and Tricks Guide to Secure Messaging by messaging expert Jim McBee introduces IT managers and messaging system administrators to the evolving threat landscape, emerging technologies for data protection, and best practices for protecting users, messaging system resources, and organizational data.

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Windows Mail (Março 2007)

Está disponível uma nova actualização para o filtro Junk E-mail do Windows Mail.

"Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content."

O download pode ser obtido via Microsoft Update ou seguindo o link correspondente à arquitectura do sistema operativo:

• Definition Update for Windows Mail (x32)
• Definition Update for Windows Mail (x64)

Como é habitual, está acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

• Description of the definition updates for Windows Mail (KB905866)

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Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Release Notes

Apesar de a versão Beta só estar disponível publicamente no mês que vem e a versão RTM estar agendada apenas lá mais para o fim do ano, já é possível fazer o download das Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Release Notes.

Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Beta 1.
This document contains the following sections:

• Features that are available in SP1 Beta 1
• Installing SP1 Beta 1
• Known issues
• Workarounds for selected known issues
• Legal notice

Para mais informação sobre as novas features do SP1, consultem este post no blog You Had Me At EHLO: Talking Exchange 2007 SP1...

MVP Summit 2007

Ainda não tinha tido a oportunidade de escrever sobre o MVP Summit 2007, que ocorreu de 12 a 15 de Março em Redmond.
Do ponto de vista social foi mais uma vez um sucesso, dado que tive oportunidade de conhecer algumas pessoas com quem já me relacionava no mundo online (na foto, o Jorge Diaz do Chile, eu e o Anderson Patrício do Brasil, todos MVPs de Exchange Server).
Do ponto de vista técnico, as sessões foram muito boas, especialmente uma sessão de Q&A com o Brent da Microsoft, cujo conteúdo não posso divulgar, uma vez que estou sujeito a um NDA. Um dos tópicos bastante interessante foi sem dúvida a próxima versão do Exchange Server, nome de código Exchange 14 (é fácil perceber porque saltaram a 13).



Foi também bastante agradável a quantidade de posts que a Microsoft ou os seus colaboradores fizeram acerca deste Summit. Aqui ficam alguns exemplos:

• The 2007 MVP Global Summit
• Where will you be March 12-15th?
• Microsoft Recognizes Most Valuable Professionals at 2007 MVP Global Summit
• Bill Gates: 2007 Microsoft MVP Global Summit

Desta vez aproveitei a escala em Newark no regresso para dar um saltinho até à Big Apple. Olha eu aí com o Fellow MVP Alexandre Janeiro ;-)

E pronto, para o ano, em Abril, há mais (espero...).

Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Demo

A Microsoft disponibilizou na semana passada algumas demonstrações sobre a Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino, a ferramenta de migração da plataforma IBM para uma solução Microsoft. A guerra entre os 2 gigantes continua...

• Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Demo: Messaging/Calendaring Coexistence and Migration - This flash demo shows the pre-existing configurations in the Transporter Tool Suite for Lotus Domino messaging/calendaring coexistence and migration. The demo shows the coexistence capabilities by sending messages and calendar requests between a Domino user and an Exchange user within an organization. It also demonstrates the user/mailbox migration of an existing Domino user to Active Directory and the Exchange platform.
• Microsoft Application Transporter 2006 for Lotus Domino Demo: Workflow Application Migration and Comparison - This Flash demo shows a typical Lotus Domino workflow application and how SharePoint and InfoPath can be used to provide the same functionality. The demo also walks through a migration of the application data using the Microsoft Application Transporter 2006 for Lotus Domino, and compares the ease of creating a workflow enabled process using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer.
• Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Technical Demo: Settings and Configurations - This flash demo shows how to setup and configure the Microsoft Transporter Tool suite for Directory Synchronization, SMTP Mail Routing for Messaging Coexistence, Free/Busy Connector for Calendaring Coexistence, and migrating user accounts and mailboxes from Lotus Domino to Active Directory and Exchange for a complete User/Mailbox Migration.

Webcasts de Exchange & Office em Abril

A Eileen Brown publicou a mais recente lista de webcasts de Exchange e de Office, disponíveis no mês de Abril:

• Office Webcasts for April
• Exchange Webcasts for April

Outlook 2007 Rules Get Started

Mais uma apresentação técnica da colecção Microsoft IT Showcase. Desta feita o assunto são as regras no Outlook 2007. No documento de PowerPoint Outlook 2007 Rules Get Started podemos observar alguns exemplos de como organizar mensagens de mail e de voz.

Managing your e-mail can take a lot of time and energy. Create specific rules in Outlook 2007 to route mail into folders, forward mail to other people and devices, and to receive notifications when mail arrives from specific parties.
Topics in this guide:

• Route E-mail from Distribution Lists
• Organize Voice Mail Messages
• Collect Responses for a Meeting Request
• Flag E-Mail Messages
• Create Customized Rules
  

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Março 2007)

Está disponível uma nova actualização para o filtro Junk E-mail do Outlook 2003/2007.

"This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail."

O download está disponível para as versões Outlook 2003 e Outlook 2007, ou através do Microsoft Update. Como é habitual, está acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

• Description of the Update for Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter (KB931764)
• Description of the Update for Outlook 2007 Junk E-mail Filter (KB931766)

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Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Disk Performance Testing with Jetstress 2007
• Installing Exchange 2007 into a Small Business Server 2003 domain Part 1 Preparing and Installing
• Working with Recovery Storage Groups in Exchange 2007
• Using Transport Rules: Creating Disclaimers in Exchange Server 2007
• SEC Goes After Scam E-Mails on Stock
• Entrust to Ensure Exchange Compatibility
• ISA 2006 Update for Exchange 2007 Fails (miserably)
• A crash course in Exchange Server and DNS
• How to set up a Deleted Items Retention policy in Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft and Exchange on DAS – Muddy Waters Clear (A little)
• Microsoft receives an ‘F’ for daylight savings time change
• Understanding Core Exchange Server 2007 Design Plans
• Exchange 2007 ActiveSync Performance Monitor Counters
• Windows Mobile Emulator
• Q&A: What do capacity percentage and throughput percentage do?
• There is a list of known issues fixed in upcoming April release.
• How to use OABInteg's oabfldcheck and proxytest to troubleshoot OAB Generation issues and Missing objects after an OAB downloads
• How to programmatically create Offline Address Books in Exchange 2003
• New Version of OABInteg has been posted on Gotdotnet
• How to create an Offline Address Book using Visual Basic
• Losing reminders in Outlook 2003
• Getting to know the legacy Routing Group Connector in Exchange 2007
• Alternative UPN Suffixes and New-Mailbox GUI
• Quota madness
• HOW TO: Assign SendAs right using Exchange shell
• HOW TO: Add additional email addresses to a recipient
• HOW TO: Remove values from multi-valued properties using Exchange shell
• script: List Distribution Groups
• Enabling POP3 in Exchange Server 2007
• Locating Exchange Server 2007 CAS role in the perimeter?
• Finding Stale Address and Telephone information in the GAL with a script
• Safelist aggregation
• FYI: DST 2007 exposes those who misuse CDO 1.21
• Exchange Server TechCenter Updates - March 2007
• We updated the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Storage Requirements Calculator (again)...
• We have updated our guidance on Configuring, validating and monitoring your Exchange 2007 storage
• How public folder referrals have changed in Exchange 2007
• Dogfood at home - living the life...
• A tool to migrate anti-spam settings from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
• Overview of Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access WebReady Document Viewing

TechDays 2007: a minha sessão

Ufff! Têm sido umas semanas complicadas, estas últimas. Na semana passada estive no MVP Summit, esta semana tenho estado no TechDays 2007. Hoje foi o dia em que apresentei a minha sessão: UCM007-Conformidade e Retenção de Informação no Exchange Server 2007 (espero dentro em breve disponibilizar os slides).
Durante a sessão, colocaram-me uma pergunta que não soube responder. O tema eram as Transport Rules e a adição automática de um disclaimer. Qual o comportamento com mensagens assinadas digitalmente?
Pois bem, após alguma pesquisa descobri que o Exchange Server suporta esta cenário particular. A forma como é ultrapassada a questão da não modificação da mensagem original é procedendo à sua re-envelopagem, enviando-a como um anexo. Mas esta é apenas uma opção de 3. As outras 2 passam por rejeitar ou ignorar a mensagem. Aqui fica um excerto do help file do exchange Server 2007:

Some messages, such as encrypted messages, prevent Exchange from modifying the content of the original message. Exchange enables you to control how your organization handles these messages. When you create a new disclaimer, you can decide whether to wrap a message that can't be modified in a message envelope that contains the disclaimer, reject the message if a disclaimer can't be added, or let the message continue without a disclaimer.
The following list shows each fallback action and its description:

• Wrap If the disclaimer can't be inserted into the original message, Exchange encloses, or "wraps," the original message in a new message envelope. Then the disclaimer is inserted into the new message.
  Important:
  If an original message is wrapped in a new message envelope, subsequent transport rules are applied to the new message envelope, not to the original message. Therefore, you must configure transport rules with disclaimer actions that wrap original messages in a new message body after you configure other transport rules.
  Note:
  If the original message can't be wrapped in a new message envelope, the original message is not delivered. The sender of the message receives a non-delivery report (NDR) that explains why the message was not delivered.
• Ignore If the disclaimer can't be inserted into the original message, Exchange lets the original message continue unmodified. No disclaimer is added.
• Reject If the disclaimer can't be inserted into the original message, Exchange doesn't deliver the message. The sender of the message receives an NDR that explains why the message wasn't delivered.

Esta informação pode ser consultada online em Overview of Disclaimers.

Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport and Messaging Protection

O MS IT Showcase tem novos conteúdos sobre o Exchange Server 2007. Este novo technical white paper - Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport and Messaging Protection - descreve como a equipa de IT da Microsoft utilizou as novas funcionalidades do Edge Transport Server, em conjunto com o Forefront Security for Exchange Server, para prevenir a entrada de mensagens de malware.

In deploying the Exchange 2007 based messaging protection solution, Microsoft IT used all messaging protection features of the Edge Transport server role and Forefront Security for Exchange Server to block, delete, reject, or quarantine unwanted messages. To further increase security, servers were hardened and audited for vulnerabilities to ensure readiness for Internet visibility. The many steps that Microsoft IT took to design a network environment, combined with the messaging protection features of Exchange Server 2007, resulted in greater flexibility, fewer false positives, and reduced TCO.

Download:

• Technical Case Study (Word document)
• PowerPoint Presentation

Actualização de ferramentas para Exchange

Escrevi num post anterior sobre uma nova actualização da ferramenta Jetstress. Mas esta não foi a única ferramenta a receber uma actualização. Aqui fica uma lista das novas versões disponíveis no site da Microsoft:

• Exchange Server Stress and Performance Tool 32 bit (v08.01.0075)
• Exchange Server Stress and Performance Tool 64 bit (v08.01.0075)
• Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool (v.08.01.0075) *NEW
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes (v.06.05.7903)
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes (v.06.05.7903)
• Microsoft Exchange Server Management Pack Configuration Wizard (v.06.05.7903)
• Microsoft Exchange Server Management Pack for MOM 2005 (v.6.5.7903)

Nova versão do Jetstress (v.08.01.0075)

Algum tempo depois de ter sido disponibilizada a nova versão do Jetstress (2007 ou 08.01.0038), a Microsoft disponibiliza uma actualização desta ferramenta de teste ao desempenho do sistema de storage.
A nova versão, v.08.01.0075, corrige alguns problemas, que estão descritos no blog do Hyungmin Lee: Jetstress 08.01.0075 has fixed a list of issues.
Aqui ficam os links para download das versões de 32-bit e 64-bit:

• Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (32 bit)
• Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (64 bit)

Overview
Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

Note Jetstress is only supported when running with Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or newer versions of ESE.DLL. Also, due to this support limitation, Jetstress is only supported on Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, Advanced Server, Datacenter and newer Windows OS platforms (Windows NT 4.0 and older builds are not supported).

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Microsoft Exchange PHP WebDAV Examples
• How to analyze Exchange Server SMTP log files in Microsoft Excel
• Exchange Virtualisation - Get a grip Microsoft
• Exchange and the DST Changes 2007
• Capacity and transactional IO requirements for Exchange 2007 Edge Transport and Hub Transport servers
• OUTBOX: How to tell if the DST Rebasing Tool has been run on a mailbox?
• Managing mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007 (Part 2)
• Exchange 2007 Message Tracking (Part 2)
• Updates required for Exchange Server 2007
• Enabling SMTP protocol logging for Exchange 2003
• Combined Summary and Audit VBS Script for all appointments in all calendars on a Server via WebDAV
• Powershell form for Reporting on all Appointments in all mailboxes on a Server using WebDAV
• Filterable Properties in Exchange 2007 RTM
• ApplyMandatoryProperties
• Using managed folders in Exchange 2007
• Installing Outlook 2007 on an Exchange 2007 server
• Jetstress 08.01.0038 has known issues in Janurary release.
• Exchange 2007 Service Pack Beta in April
• A Guide to Daylight Saving Time Updates
• Shameless Plug for an Interview of mine about Exchange Server 2007
• A month in Exchange: Feburary 2007