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• When to use Move Mailbox Wizard or ExMerge to move Exchange mailboxes
• Exchange 2007 SP1 Features with Communications Server 2007 and without Communications server 2007
• Exchange 2007 and Domino Free/Busy Coexistence
• Announcing the February Cumulative Update for Outlook 2007
• Fun (& usefulness!) with color
• A new build of OABInteg has been posted to the web
• 3 Data Centres and a File Share Witness
• Content Filtering System Whitelist GUI for Exchange 2007
• Recipients List
• Mailbox Management
• Exchange Recipients
• Shared Mailboxes
• Monitoring Exchange 2007 With System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Part 4)
• A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 3)
• Quick Tip - Mixed Physical and Virtual Domain Controllers - Access Denied
• Quick Tip - Be careful with recipient SMTP addressing
• Errors with Test-ReplicationHealth when using a multi-subnet Windows 2008 Cluster.
• Permissions recommended for the CNO (Cluster Name Object) in Windows 2008 for Exchange 2007 SP1 setup operations.
• Restore-StorageGroupCopy –standbymachine requires use of –force in order to complete successfully when activating a Standby Continuous Replication target in Exchange 2007 SP1.
• RMS vs. S/MIME: When to Use Each One
• How to Create and configure a meeting room mailbox with Exchange Server 2007
• Why so much fluff?
• You’ve just installed your 901st Exchange Server..

A solução para a lentidão do Outlook

Apesar de o Microsoft Outlook ser provavelmente a aplicação de produtividade mais utilizada em todo o Mundo, a verdade é que o seu desempenho sempre deixou algo a desejar.

Os problemas de lentidão, quando se abre a primeira vez principalmente, têm, na grande maioria das vezes, a ver com ficheiros .PST e .OST de grandes dimensões (maiores que algumas centenas de megas).

Também eu senti na pele o desespero da espera, por vezes mais de 5 minutos, enquanto aguardava que a janela do Outlook ficasse disponível para trabalhar.

ATÉ AGORA!!!

A Microsoft acaba de disponibilizar 2 actualizações para o Outlook (961752 e 967688), que podem ser obtidas através do artigo da Knowledge Base Outlook 2007 improvements in the February 2009 cumulative update.

A principal alteração é, sem dúvida, a alteração da estrutura dos ficheiros .PST e .OST que vai permitir reduzir a utilização do disco (o principal responsável da lentidão) e melhorar o tempo de resposta.

Não estranhem por isso que a primeira utilização do Outlook após a aplicação dos patches seja um pouco mais demorada.

É a ordem dos bindings, estúpido!

Recentemente, andava eu a tentar configurar as actualizações automáticas das assinaturas anti-spam num servidor Exchange Edge, quando me deparei com o seguinte erro:

Enable-AntispamUpdates : An error occurred while accessing the registry of the specified server: "E2K7EDGE". The error message: "The network path was not found."

Após uma rápida pesquisa na Internet, não achei nada de relevante que me pudesse ajudar a ultrapassar esta situação.

Foi então que se fez luz. Lembrei-me que o meu servidor dispunha de 2 placas de rede e que uma delas, a externa, não estava configurada com os clientes “File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks” e “Client for Microsoft Networks”.

Bingo, era esse o problema. A solução foi tão simples como aceder às propriedades avançadas das configurações de rede e trocar a ordem dos bindings das placas (a placa interna deve *sempre* estar em primeiro lugar).

E com isto, fiquei com o problema resolvido!

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• Outlook Live screenshots: upon first glances
• Microsoft's Exchange 14 adds cross-browser support and more
• Exchange UM questions
• Outlook Connector and migration to Windows Live Calendar
• Win2008 – Exchange 2007 move to new hardware – Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5
• Exchange 2007 Sp1 Cluster Install/Recovery Issues
• An inside look at the spammer’s business expenses
• Blackberry without BES?
• 24 hour operation, several thousand mailboxes, high concurrency, heavy profiles – how do you tune Online Maintenance?
• Item Counts, Search Folders and Restrictions
• Applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6
• Are Distribution Groups really being used?
• Replacing Exchange 2003 Frontend OWA Server with Exchange Server 2007 Client Access Server
• Introduction to Exchange Online- Uncovering BPOS (Part 3)
• MMC Conflict with Exchange 2007 Management Tools on Windows XP
• Having issues with your Exchange servers after/during deploying updates?
• Recommendations for enabling a two node Standby Continuous Replication target based on a Single Copy Cluster (Exchange 2007 SP1)
• Maximum number of members in a Distribution Group?

Templates for Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007

Se estiverem a utilizar o Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007, este download é bem capaz de vos interessar: Templates for Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007.

Brief Description
The Calendar Printing Assistant for Microsoft Outlook 2007 is a program that provides an easy way to print and customize Outlook 2007 calendar information. The files available on this page provide additional templates for use with the Calendar Printing Assistant.

Overview
The files available on this page provide additional templates for use with the Calendar Printing Assistant. The files available for download introduce the following templates:

• Week_WeekList03.catx: This is a custom weekly agenda-view template for the Calendar Printing Assistant. This template draws a shaded box around each all-day event to distinguish them from the hourly appointments and make them easier to read. This new template can be found in the Week Templates group, named Week List 03.
• Week_WeekDetails_01.catx: This is a custom weekly agenda-view template for the Calendar Printing Assistant. To maximize the amount of information shown on the page, this template removes extra formatting. This new template can be found in the Week Templates group, named Week List - Details.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP

To install this download, you must have the Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007.

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• Outlook Live: Microsoft’s efforts towards living in the cloud
• How to troubleshoot performance issues in Outlook 2007
• Five must-dos for Exchange Server 2007 (and 5 don'ts)
• 10 Reasons to Use MS Outlook for Company E-mail
• 7 Reasons Not to Use MS Outlook for Company E-mail
• A new way to get Hotmail on your phone
• Google Takes Patent License to Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
• Adoption of Microsoft Live@edu Continues to Grow With Universities Worldwide
• Exchange Labs To Become Outlook Live
• History of Phishing
• Archive v Big Mailboxes
• Get-storagegroupcopystatus = Initializing
• How to Remove an Invisible or Corrupted "Out of Facility" message with MFCMAPI
• Did pigs fly? Exchange embraces FireFox, Safari
• Adding a Public Contact Folder Search to the OWA 2007 Address book
• Client RPC Dialog box questionnaire for Administrators
• MRM (Message Record Management)
• A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 2)
• Customizing Managed Folders in Exchange Server 2007
• Publishing Exchange Services with ISA 2006 LDAPS Authentication
• A known PFDAVAdmin error: cannot begin with the '0' character. hexadec
• KB: XML schema validation errors when Exchange Web Service requests and responses have invalid XML characters
• Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Rollup 6 and a Conundrum
• Introducing Outlook Live for schools - and cool new features for everyone

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Foi disponibilizado para download o Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1.

Overview
Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB959241.
This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 Release To Manufacturing (RTM). For a list of update rollups applicable to Exchange Server 2007 RTM, refer to the section Update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 RTM in the Knowledge Base article KB937052.
This is a cumulative update rollup and replaces the following:

• KB945684 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB945684)
• KB948016 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB948016)
• KB949870 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB949870)
• KB952580 Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB952580)
• KB953467 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (KB953467)

O blog You Had Me At EHLO tem um post interessante acerca deste Update Rollup, que faz uma chamada de atenção para 2 pontos importantes:

1. Fix for a security issue which has been assigned a severity rating of critical. More information about the issue can be found in the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-003.
2. Fix to allow Internet Explorer 8 to be used for Outlook Web Access (OWA) 2007. This does not include the OWA 2007 S/MIME control. We are still working on some changes in the control to make it work better with Internet Explorer 8. We will be releasing an updated version of the S/MIME control in a future rollup. Users using the S/MIME control should continue to use Internet Explorer 7.

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Fevereiro 2009)

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 Microsoft Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB959634)
• Description of the Update for Microsoft Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB959614)

Novos conteúdos do Microsoft IT Showcase

 

Foram recentemente disponibilizados 2 documentos bastante interessantes da colecção Microsoft IT Showcase:

• Unified Communications Improves Business Outcomes, Lowers Costs, and Enhances Environmental Sustainability
  Microsoft IT used a business value framework developed by Forrester Research to more precisely measure the overall business impact and the return on investment of unified communications at Microsoft. The analysis showed that the UC solution was generating an ROI of 250 percent by enabling employees to save more than $218 million annually. The outcome and continued use of the analysis methodology justify further investments in UC technology.
• Addressing messaging threats with Forefront Security for Exchange Server
  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.

Já agora, se tiverem tempo, leiam também estes 2 sobre virtualização:

• How Microsoft Designs the Virtualization Host and Network Infrastructure
  When challenged with optimizing its server infrastructure, Microsoft IT faces the same physical constraints, environmental sustainability challenges, and economic pressures as other enterprise organizations. Virtualization technologies and management products, such as the Hyper-V feature of Windows Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, allow Microsoft IT to deliver on two goals: support the business needs of Microsoft and build a foundation for the Dynamic IT initiative. Virtualization is a key component of this infrastructure optimization strategy and reduces cost and server provisioning time. At the same time, virtualization enhances server resource availability.

• Virtualization Quickly and Effectively Meets the Demands of Rapidly Changing Businesses
  When challenged with optimizing its server infrastructure, Microsoft IT faces the same physical constraints, environmental sustainability challenges, and economic pressures as other enterprise organizations. Virtualization technologies and management products, such as the Hyper-V feature of Windows Server 2008 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, allow Microsoft IT to deliver on two goals: support the business needs of Microsoft and build a foundation for the Dynamic IT initiative. Virtualization is a key component of this infrastructure optimization strategy and reduces cost and server provisioning time. At the same time, virtualization enhances server resource availability.

Hotfix Rollup 2 para a Forefront Server Security Management Console

Foi recentemente disponibilizado o Hotfix Rollup 2 para a Forefront Server Security Management Console.

Issues that this hotfix package fixes

This hotfix package fixes the following issues:

• 960875 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960875/ ) Error message when you use Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console to update the scan engines: "ERROR: A standard exception was caught in GetEngineFiles. invalid string position"
• 960876 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960876/ ) How to manually deploy a Forefront Server Security Management Console deployment agent to remote managed server
• 960999 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960999/ ) The Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) Deployment Agent File Structure has changed
• 961000 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961000/ ) You cannot use Forefront Server Security Management Console to collect data from Forefront Security for Exchange Server on an Exchange Single Copy Cluster cluster
• 961001 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961001/ ) Error message when you try to upgrade the Forefront Server Security Management Console Primary role of SQL Server 2005: "FSSMC database files at %DBDataPath%\SybariEnterpriseManagerDist.MDF, please delete them first then retry install"
• 961022 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961022/ ) The Forefront Server Security Management Console diagnostics .zip files are named incorrectly when they are created
• 961026 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961026/ ) When you try to access the Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) Quarantine Manager, you find that only the installation account can manage the quarantine
• 961125 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961125/ ) Error message when you try to install a Korean version of Forefront Security for Exchange Server when you are using a Korean version of Forefront Server Security Management Console: "szErrorDesc"
• 961982 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961982/ ) When you run the Remote Diagnostic file in Forefront Server Security Management Console to create a .zip file, the .zip file is not created if there are more than 100 files to be added to the .zip file

TechNet Magazine – Março 2009

A edição de Março da TechNet Magazine já está disponível para leitura online ou, se preferirem, podem fazer download em formato  HTML Help (ficheiro .chm) para consulta posterior.

O tema da capa deste número é o Office Communications Server 2007 R2, que foi recentemente lançado num evento virtual.

Uma das nossas colunas favoritas está de volta – Exchange Q & A: Site Resiliency with SCR, Recommended Root Volume Size, and More – e, já agora, não percam o artigo sobre Windows PowerShell: Automating User Provisioning, Part 1.

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• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 performance tutorial
• Securing your Exchange Server 2007 journaling archives
• Why you need to keep false-positives to a minimum
• Living in Outlook: Using Quick Parts
• Is your email server an open relay?
• The OAB Generation process fails to generate an OAB with error MAPI_E_FAILONEPROVIDER
• Quick and Dirty UNIX Shell Scripting with EWS
• How To: Customize RBL Rejection Response in Exchange 2007
• Continous prompting in Outlook Anywhere
• Managed Folders: Why aren't Calendar items expired?
• From Address Rewriting in a Transport Agent for a Exchange 2007 Hub Server
• Updated Exchange 2003 Perfwiz
• How to find 10 Top mailbox users in Exchange 2007
• Monitoring Forefront Security for Exchange with OpsMgr 2007 (SCOM 2007)
• Introduction to Exchange Online - Uncovering BPOS (Part 2)
• Configuring Ubuntu Server as a Firewall and Reverse Proxy for OWA 2007…
• FYI: Exchange 2007 OnSyncSave Store Events and Plain Text Message Don’t Play Nice
• Got Checklists?
• Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 to be released on February 10th 2009

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• Tutorial: Secure journaling in Exchange Server 2007
• Crash Course: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging for administrators
• Unified Communications, Step by Step
• Some mailboxes show up as Shared or Linked... after Migrating to Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft Exchange Server and PowerShell: The Debate Continues
• Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Using Diskshadow for Online Exchange Backup (part 5 of 7)
• Exchange 2007 and Windows 2008: Online Exchange Backup (part 6 of 7)
• Spam Up 159% Since November 2008
• Belated 2009 Spam Predictions
• Creating Custom ISA Logon Page
• Part 12 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
• Part 13 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
• Part 14 - I used to do it this way… Now how do I do it? Administering Exchange 2003 vs. Exchange 2007
• Turning the Reading / Preview pane on and off in OWA in Exchange 2007 with EWS and Powershell
• Introduction to Exchange Online - Uncovering BPOS (Part 1)
• Recovering Deleted Items in Exchange Server 2003 (Part 2)
• Exchange 2007 Sp1 RU5: download manually or use WSUS and size difference
• Configure Exchange to show the simple display name in outgoing messages
• Why You Shouldn't Use PST Files
• Automating Exchange 2007 Prerequisites for Windows Server 2008
• Get-storagegroupcopystatus = Initializing
• Cluster stability issues with Exchange 2007 SP1 RU5 Single Copy Clusters (SCC) enabled for Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) on Windows 2008
• Exchange Server 2007 Backup on Windows Server 2008
• Next version of Exchange and Single Label Domain (SLD) policy under review
• Language setup for a mailbox with Exchange Server 2007
• Moving mailboxes? Make sure your Deleted Mailbox Retention is not set to "0".