24 de maio de 2013

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21 de maio de 2013

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.1

A tão aguardada ferramenta Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v5.1 foi finalmente disponibilizada para download. Tal como era hábito com a sua predecessora, a Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator, foi anunciada por Ross Smith IV no Microsoft Exchange Team Blog.

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Há várias novidades nesta nova versão. Tal como devem ter reparado pelo nome, a ferramenta deixou de ser exclusiva para o role de mailbox e inclui agora também client access servers e dimensionamento da componente de transporte (uma vez que esta é agora parte integrante do mailbox role).

Para mais detalhes e instruções de utilização da ferramenta, não deixem de ler Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator Readme.

19 de maio de 2013

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook – Maio 2013

Está disponível uma nova actualização para o filtro Junk E-mail do Outlook 2003/2007/2010/2013.

"Esta atualização fornece ao Filtro de Correio Eletrónico Publicitário Não Solicitado do Microsoft Office Outlook uma definição mais atual das mensagens de correio eletrónico que deverão ser consideradas correio eletrónico publicitário não solicitado."

O download está disponível para as versões Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010 (32-bit, 64-bit) e Outlook 2013 (32-bit, 64-bit) ou através do Microsoft Update. Como é habitual, está acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

17 de maio de 2013

TechNet Magazine – Maio 2013

A edição de Maio 2013 da TechNet Magazine já está disponível para leitura online.

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16 de maio de 2013

Como reforçar a segurança da Active Directory ao estilo da Microsoft IT

A equipa Microsoft IT disponibilizou 2 novos documentos com algumas das melhores práticas para melhorar a segurança da Active Directory.

  • Securing Active Directory: An Overview of Best Practices - The threat of compromise to IT infrastructures from external attack is rapidly growing and evolving. The Active Directory environment is often the target for these attacks. This article details steps that your organization can take to protect its Active Directory environment
  • Best Practices for Securing Active Directory - This document contains recommendations to assist organizations in enhancing the security of their Active Directory installations. By implementing these recommendations, organizations will be able to identify and prioritize security activities, protect key segments of their organization’s computing infrastructure, and create controls that significantly decrease the likelihood of successful attacks against critical components of the IT environment. This document discusses the most common attacks against Active Directory and countermeasures to reduce the attack surface, and recommendations for recovery in the event of complete compromise.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack v15.00.0620.030

O Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack v15.00.0620.030 está disponível para download. Para informação detalhada de utilização deste management pack, queiram por favor consultar Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack Documentation.

Overview
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack provides comprehensive service health information for your Exchange organization.
The Exchange 2013 Management Pack is engineered for organizations that include servers running Exchange 2013.
The key feature of this management pack is user focused monitoring. The simplified dashboard focuses on the user experience and makes it easier for you quickly determine exactly what your users are experiencing.

        Feature Summary
        The Exchange Server 2013 Management Pack works with the Managed Availability feature in Exchange 2013. The alerts within the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) portal indicate unhealthy states as reported by the Managed Availability components in Exchange 2013.
        The following are some of the new features in the Exchange 2013 Management Pack:
        • Simplified dashboard The dashboard of the Exchange 2013 Management Pack has been simplified and refined into the following three categorie
          • Active Alerts Provides a list of all outstanding alerts in your organization.
          • Organization Health Provides an overview of the overall service health in your organization.
          • Server Health Provides an overview of the health of individual servers in your organization.
        • User focused monitoring Exchange 2013 introduces a monitoring and recovery infrastructure called Managed Availability. Managed Availability focuses on the user experience. All Exchange 2013 components have built-in monitors that detect problems and attempt to recover the service availability. Any issues that can't be recovered automatically are escalated to the Exchange 2013 Management Pack as an alert.

        System Requirements
        Supported Operating System:
        Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Windows Server 2012

        You have one of the following versions of System Center Operations Manager deployed:

        • System Center Operations Manager 2012 RTM or later
        • System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 or later

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