Updates para Exchange 2000 & 2003

A Microsoft disponibilizou recentemente um update para o Exchange Server (2000 e 2003) que corrige uma falha na implementação DAV:

• Update for Exchange 2003 (KB 888619)
• Update for Exchange 2000 (KB 892986)

Cada um dos updates é acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

• The value for the PR_ACCESS property that is returned from the DAV PROPFIND method is always read-only in Exchange Server 2003
• The value for the PR_ACCESS property that is returned from a WebDAV PROPFIND method is always MAPI_ACCESS_READ (read-only) in Exchange 2000

Leitura de fim-de-semana

Julgo que a lista desta semana estabelece um novo recorde. São nada mais, nada menos do que 17 (!) artigos.

• Make the MTA Go Away
• A Religious Debate: Upgrade in Place vs. Reinstall
• Messaging and Hurricane Katrina
• Exchange event sink offers selective journaling options
• Customising Exchange 2003 OWA FBA
• Copying your SMTP relay list to another computer
• EXBPA May Incorrectly Report Low Free PTEs
• Read the Release Notes for Exchange 2003 SP2 CTP
• Creating a new folder in a mailbox if one doesn't exist in WebDav
• Add a Picture to Contact in Outlook 2003 via Script
• Error in Active Directory Users and Computers when updating e-mail addresses
• Offline Address Book Integrity (OABInteg) Utility Explained
• Free/Busy Folders in Exchange Server 2003 in Depth
• On Digital Photos, Overseas Travel, and Outlook Web Access
• More details on Standard DB limit size increase in Exchange 2003 SP2
• E12 Developer Roadmap
• Overcoming Recovery Storage Group limitations

KB bug

You cannot add users to a private address book in Outlook when the forest functional level is set to Windows Server 2003, este é um artigo da Knowledge Base da Microsoft que saíu recentemente.
Andava o fellow MVP Alexandre Janeiro a ler este artigo quando se deparou com uma imprecisão (no mínimo!). O artigo diz assim:

SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario:
• You install Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer.

Ora, da última vez que eu verifiquei o Exchange 2000 Server não podia ser instalado no Windows Server 2003! Para quem tem dúvidas:

• You Cannot Install Exchange 2000 on a Computer That Is Running Windows Server 2003

Agora resta esperar pela versão 1.1 do artigo. O Alexandre já enviou feedback.

Application Layer Firewall protection for Exchange Server 2003 with ISA Server 2004

Application Layer Firewall protection for Exchange Server 2003 with ISA Server 2004 é um novo documento recentemente publicado pela Microsoft, que contém instruções para proteger o Exchange recorrendo aos serviços do ISA Server 2004.

"The purpose of this document is to detail how to more effectively use the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) filtering capabilities to secure a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 environment connected to the Internet by using ISA Server 2004."

Leitura de fim-de-semana

Devido a algumas dificuldades técnicas, só agora consegui publicar a habitual lista de leitura para o fim-de-semana. Bem, nalgum ponto do planeta ainda deve ser Sexta-Feira ;-)

• Email Security - What Are The Issues?
• Overcoming Recovery Storage Group limitations
• OMA's missing logout function
• Keeping e-mail organized in Outlook 2003
• Checklist: Top 10 best practices for securing e-mail clients
• Move your Autocomplete entries to another machine
• Supportability Change on Disabling the Exchange 2003 MTA
• Large Exchange 2003 clusters and disabling the MTA
• Clustered Exchange setup tidbit
• Exchange clusters and the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
• Public Folder Replication Troubleshooting Basics
• Migrating from Notes Domino to Exchange 2003 using the Exchange Notes Connector
• Exchange 12 will ship on DVD

Exchange Server 2003 Folder Listing DoS

A Secunia publicou recentemente um alerta relativamente a uma vulnerabilidade do Exchange Server 2003, que possibilita um ataque do tipo Denial of Service (DoS):

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the handling of requests to list public folders, and can be exploited to crash the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service (Store.exe) via an IMAP4 request.Successful exploitation requires that the following conditions are met:
* User tries to list public folders using IMAP4 version 4rev1
* Exchange server does not allow IMAP4 users to list public folders.
* User does not have a private mailbox on the server.

Solution:
The vendor has issued a hotfix, which can be obtained by contacting Microsoft Product Support Services.

IBM lança Lotus Notes/Domino 7

A IBM lançou recentemente a última versão do seu software de messaging e colaboração, com o qual vai tentar ganhar alguma quota de mercado ao líder actual, o Microsoft Exchange.
Para quem precisar de ser convencido, a IBM até disponibiliza uma página de comparação competitiva.
Links relacionados:

• IBM Delivers Notes And Domino 7
• What's new in Lotus Domino 7
• What's new in Lotus Notes 7

Intermedia.Net oferece serviços

Lembram-se da empresa que eu falei no post Factos curiosos sobre email?
A Intermedia.NET anunciou que vai oferecer os serviços a todas as organizações que tenham sido afectadas pelo furacão Katrina. Além do serviço de hosting, a Intermedia.NET oferece ainda um serviço de Fax, redireccionando os faxes recebidos como attachs de email.
Uma iniciativa verdadeiramente cool!
A notícia completa pode ser lida neste link.

[UPDATE]
Mais uma empresa a seguir este bom exemplo:

• Mi8 Corporation Offers Free Email Service to Companies Affected by Hurricane Katrina

Leitura de fim-de-semana

Vejamos se Setembro vai ser um bom mês para a "Leitura de fim-de-semana". Parece-me que a primeira colheita não está nada mal.

• Testing Exchange 2003 SP2
• Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 BETA (build 7623.0) Exposed
• Freeware tools change Exchange mailbox language settings
• Trend Micro(TM) ScanMail(TM) for Microsoft(TM) Exchange Named 2005 Readers' Choice Award Winner by Windows IT Pro
• What days do spammers take off?
• Troubleshooting RPC/HTTP
• Deploying the Offline Address book (OAB) with SMS
• SSL Enabling OWA 2003 Using a Free 3rd Party Certificate
• Overview of E12 Features
• Exchange 2003 SP2 Database Header changes

[UPDATE]

• Permissions required to install the first Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) in the Org

Factos curiosos sobre email

Andava eu a navegar pela Internet, quando acabei por seguir um link que me levou até uma empresa de hosting de Exchange, a Intermedia.NET (já agora, não tenho qualquer ligação a esta empresa) . Mas o que me chamou a atenção foi uma lista de factos e estatísticas sobre email e sistemas de correio electrónico que passa no rodapé do site desta empresa. Sendo assim, e esperando não estar a violar um qualquer acordo de copyright, aqui vos deixo essa lista de factos curiosos:

• “O Microsoft Exchange é o servidor de email dominante para as empresas de média dimensão”
• "Uma semana sem email é mais traumática e gera mais stress do que um pequeno acidente de automóvel ou um divórcio", CFO.com, John McPartin, CFO IT June 22, 2004
• "Os administradores de sistemas de email gastam em média 2 dias/semana a gerir os backups, 1 dia/semana a recuperar mensagens e anexos arquivados para os utilizadores"
• "31% dos consumidores utilizam software anti-spam", E-Quad News
• "60% da propriedade intelectual das empresas está no sistema de email", StorageInc. Magazine, Greg Arnette September 2003
• "O utilizador típico guarda mais de metade da sua informação crítica de negócio no sistema de messaging", Osterman Research
• "A quantidade de informação a nível mundial que obedece a requisitos de compliance vai aumentar de 376 petabytes em 2003 para mais de 1.600 petabytes em 2006"
• "Um utilizador de email corporativo envia e recebe em média cerca de 10 megabytes de informação por dia", CFO.com, John McPartin, CFO IT June 22, 2004
• "Custo estimado para recuperar email de 823 tapes de backup: $1.1 milhões - $1.7 milhões”, NewGov Solutions, Christopher Mauldin, 2003
• "São gastos 77 minutos por semana para um empregado gerir a sua caixa de correio, em tarefas como limpar mensagens antigas, arquivo de mensagens e anexos, etc"
• "62% das empresas Fortune 1000 utilizam ou estão a migrar para Exchange.”
• "Um utilizador demora 27 minutos a apagar ou arquivar mensagens por forma a podes utilizar o sistema de correio electrónico novamente depois de atingir um limite de quota"
• "8,2 minutos é quanto demora um utilizador a encontrar uma mensagem com mais de 2 semanas"
• "Em 2001, o utilizador corporativo gastou em média 2,6 horas por dia a ler e gerir o email", Ferris Research
• "Em 2003 o spam custou às empresas americanas $10 - $87 biliões de dólares", Ferris Research/Nucleus Research
• "60% da informação crítica de negócio está guardada nos sistemas de email corporativos, em 1999 era apenas 33%", StorageTek Survey
• "O utilizador corporativo recebe em média 25 mensagens por dia, com um crescimento de 10% ao ano", IDC, Worldwide Email Usage Forecast 2002-2006
• "O tráfego de email está a crescer a um ritmo de 10%-25%", IDC, Worldwide Email Usage Forecast 2002-2006
• "Um sistema de correio electrónico típico com 3000 utilizadores movimenta mais de 1 terabyte de tráfego de mensagens anualmente", IDC, Worldwide Email Usage Forecast 2002-2006
• "Gerir um típico sistema de correio electrónico para uma empresa de 100 pessoas ocupa 85% de um técnico sénior"

Actualização de documento: "The Role of Groups..."

O documento The Role of Groups and Access Control Lists in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Deployment foi recentemente actualizado.
É uma leitura bastante interessante para quem ainda utiliza Exchange 5.5 e está a pensar numa actualização para a versão 2003. Entre outras coisas, o documento faz uma analogia entre as Distribution Lists e os grupos de distribuição do Windows 200x, e tece algumas considerações sobre migrações e actualizações.

Já agora, lembrem-se que se estão a pensar numa migração de Exchange 5.5 para uma nova floresta/organização , não é possível migrar as Distribution Lists utilizando apenas as ferramentas de migração da Microsoft. Para superar esta situação, criei um pequeno script que disponibilizei publicamente. O script e as instruções de utilização estão disponíveis neste artigo: Inter-Org Distribution List Migration.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

Mais uma semana que passou, mais uma lista de leitura:

• More Bad News For Lotus Notes
• Getting Started with ExMon
• Exchange and SANs: No Magic Bullet, Part 2
• Another Look at SANs
• Exchange SP2 public beta - the CTP
• Sender ID Framework (SIDF) and Exchange Server 2003 SP2
• Is WINS required for Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003?
• Problems sending mail when your domain name or host name has an underscore (_) character
• What's the real RTM date? C'mon, you can tell me...
• A First Look at Exchange 2003 SP2
• Are your clients using desktop search engines that index Exchange mailboxes or public folders?
• Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) anti-spam features - order of execution

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB902953)

Acaba de ser disponibilizada mais uma actualização do filtro de Junk Email do Outlook 2003.

"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. This update was released in August 2005."

A actualização pode ser obtida neste link ou através do Microsoft Update. À data deste post o respectivo artigo da KB ainda não estava disponível.

Guia de segurança para Exchange 2003

O CIS, Center for Internet Security, publicou recentemente (obrigado Paul pela notícia) um guia de segurança para o Exchange 2003. Ao longo das 163 páginas do documento são-nos apresentadas variadas configurações e recomendações para fazer hardening dos vários tipos de servidores com o Exchange 2003.
O CIS Exchange Server 2003 Benchmark Version 1.0 é grátis e de extrema utilidade. Recomendado!

Webcasts de messaging em Setembro

Mais uma vez Eileen Brown dá-nos a lista detalhada dos webcasts de messaging e colaboração que vão decorrer em Setembro. Para os interessados aqui vos deixo a lista:

• Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Messaging and Collaboration Security: Meeting the Challenge
  Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
  Joe Licari, Director, Product Management, Microsoft Corporation
  Business systems are interconnected in order to get maximum value from the information technology (IT) infrastructure and to enable efficient employee collaboration. As a result, messaging and collaboration servers that enable e-mail, document sharing and instant messaging have become mission-critical infrastructure components in business environments around the world. Attend this webcast to understand the threats facing these servers and how you can protect them with Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server and Sybari Antigen. This 100-level session is appropriate for business and IT managers who want to learn what solutions Microsoft offers to help them protect messaging and collaboration servers.
• Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: A Conversation with Avanade: Business Justifications for Modernizing Your Collaboration Platform
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Pacific Time
  Rita Seroski, Director of Infrastructure Solutions, Avenade
  How are companies getting the most out of their IBM Lotus Notes investment? Find out by joining us for this webcast. We discuss the real-world experience of a partner that has helped companies migrate from Notes or coexist with a Notes and Microsoft Windows server environment. Learn how a partial or total migration that is virtually transparent to customers and partners is achieved while the value of information currently on Domino Servers is maintained.
• TechNet Webcast: Exchange Performance Monitoring Analysis and Tuning (Level 300)
  Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Pacific Time
  Paul Bowden, Program Manager, Exchange Server Development Team, Microsoft Corporation
  Are you getting all the performance out of Exchange Server 2003 that you'd like? During this session, which was highly rated when presented at Tech•Ed 2005 in Orlando, Florida (TechEd ID: MSG368), we explore all aspects of performance tuning for Exchange server 2003, covering Windows, Exchange, and system resources. Understand and learn best practices, registry tweaks, and performance monitoring that can help your Exchange environment run more smoothly.
• TechNet Webcast: Defining and Monitoring Desired Configuration Across a Messaging Service (Level 300)
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
  Edhi Sarwono, SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEER, Microsoft CorporationRobbie McAlpine, SR PROGRAM MANAGER, Microsoft Corporation
  Do you consider it a challenge to monitor a configuration across a messaging service? This webcast presents a new solution: the Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) Solution Accelerator, which will be released in September. Learn about the DCM Solution Accelerator, how configuration manifests are generated, how the configuration check is processed and about the resulting reports of non-compliant services. The Solution Accelerator provides tools to alert users of differences or non-compliance between their present configuration and baseline or desired configuration. It also provides environmental configuration data to aid configuration management.
• TechNet Webcast: Securing Your Exchange Server with Antigen and ISA Server (Level 200)
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
  Peter Eicher, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
  Every enterprise needs inter-site communication, but it opens conduits for everything from bandwidth-gobbling spam to malicious attacks that can cripple your organization. This webcast shows how to use Sybari Antigen and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server to protect Microsoft Exchange Server from viruses, worms, spam and external attacks. Product managers from the ISA Server and Antigen teams discuss best practices for common Exchange deployment types, emphasizing configuration and tuning Antigen and ISA Server. This session is appropriate for information technology professionals who have a surface-level understanding of ISA and Antigen, and are ready to take their knowledge to the next level.
• TechNet Webcast: Exchange 2003 Disaster Recovery Solutions (Level 300)
  Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
  Rand Morimoto, Author, President, Convergent Computing
  Are you encountering problems with Microsoft Exchange Server failures, database corruption, site failures or LAN/WAN failures? To deal with these and similar problems, join Rand Morimoto as he presents best practices for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 clustering, dial tone Exchange recovery strategies, non-Microsoft software replication utilities, snapshot Storage Area Network solutions and geo-clusters. Learn how to determine the best recovery solution for your needs. Gain tips, tricks, and best practices for these technical solutions, and see how other technical solutions improve Exchange Clustering for disaster recovery.
• TechNet Webcast: Message Hygiene with Exchange Server 2003 (Level 300)
  Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
  Scott Schnoll, Technical Writer, Exchange User Education Team, Microsoft Corporation
  Viruses, worms, spam and other unwanted email have become a destructive reality that many administrators of Microsoft Exchange routinely face. This session, one of the top-rated breakout sessions (MSG342) from Tech•Ed 2005 in Orlando, Florida, provides recommendations and guidance for slowing and stopping the unwanted messages entering your Exchange 2003 environment. Learn how the Exchange Intelligent Message Filter supplements existing anti-spam features in Exchange 2003, as well as how Virus Scanning API 2.5 provides greater protection and administrative flexibility against malicious and harmful messages.
• TechNet Webcast: Exchange Best Practice Analyzer (Level 300)
  Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
  Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
  The Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool (ExBPA) is an automated health check and troubleshooting tool. ExBPA collects configuration settings and performs network and protocol tests in an Exchange topology. Join this webcast to learn about the new version of the tool that was released in March 2005. We discuss enhancements such as scheduling and baseline support. See how to use ExBPA with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. At the end of the presentation, we talk about future enhancements to the ExBPA tool.
• TechNet Webcast: Managing Exchange Service Levels with the SLA Scorecard Solution Accelerator (Level 300)
  Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
  Sanjiv Sharma, SYSTEMS DESIGN ENGINEER, Microsoft CorporationKarri Alexion-Tiernan, PROGRAM MANAGER, Microsoft Corporation
  Learn about the solution and architecture of the service-level agreement (SLA) Scorecard Solution Accelerator for a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 environment. The solution accelerator can set SLAs, administer outages, and analyze performance and trend reports across the messaging services. During this webcast we introduce a solution accelerator that leverages MOM 2005 data to create management-level availability reports and manage outages. We also look at long term trend analysis that compares predefined SLA levels to actual availability.
• TechNet Support Webcast: Lotus Notes Connector Configuration (Level 200)
  Wednesday, September 21, 2005: 10:00 A.M. Pacific time
  Gayle Heizer, Support Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
  This Support WebCast discusses the directory synchronization (DirSync) process between Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Lotus Notes. This WebCast discusses common issues that occur when Microsoft Exchange Connector is configured for Lotus Notes. This WebCast also discusses how to troubleshoot these issues.
• Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for More Effective Meetings: Anytime, Anywhere (Level 100)
  Thursday, September 08, 2005 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
  Andrew Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Pacific Technical Consulting
  Is your definition of a team meeting “wasted time?” Learn how the Microsoft Office System can help dramatically increase meeting effectiveness and maximize quality time with your colleagues and customers. Take a brief walk-through of key Microsoft Office System products such as Outlook 2003, OneNote 2003, and Live Meeting—Microsoft’s Web conferencing service that helps you run and participate in interactive meetings around the world in real time. Learn new ways to schedule meetings, share related documents, take and repurpose meeting notes, and stay on top of meeting-related tasks and action items.
• Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips to Save Time in Outlook (Level 100)
  Tuesday, September 13, 2005 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
  Evan Archilla, Senior Training Specialist, Projectline Services
  Improve the way you manage information, communicate with others and organize your work using a single resource. The new and improved features of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 work together to help you effectively manage and organize your e-mail and share information. Join us for this informative webcast to learn some of our favorite tips and tricks for getting the most out of Outlook 2003.
• Microsoft Office System Webcast: Scheduling Tips for Increased Productivity and Results with Outlook and Mission Control (Level 100)
  Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
  Brian Stuhlmuller, Executive Vice President, Mission Control
  Do you want to leave work earlier? Learn to use Mission Control's principles and practices for scheduling with Microsoft Office Outlook. Schedule yourself in a whole new way that enables you to be more focused and productive. In this webcast, discover how your familiar and common habits for scheduling can actually become obstacles to productivity. Learn how to build new scheduling habits that enable you to accomplish what is most important to you and deal effectively with the demands of the current work environment.
• Momentum Webcast: Creating Business Value Through Collaboration (Level 100)
  Tuesday, September 6, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
  Bill Malone, Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
  What is collaboration and how can it help your business? In this webcast, we look at collaboration as a means instead of an end. Collaboration tools, and more specifically a collaboration environment, can lead to dramatic increases in business value. Collaboration facilitates more effective business processes and decreases information technology support requirements and costs. Attend this webcast to learn more about the Microsoft approach to collaboration and the innovations Microsoft brings to the market to help organizations work together more effectively.
• TechNet Webcast: Securing Collaboration Beyond E-Mail (Level 200)
  Thursday, September 15, 2005 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
  Neha Sharma, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
  Is your implementation of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services safe? SharePoint benefits your organization because you can share information and documentation, and can reduce messaging overhead. But SharePoint can also allow users to bypass traditional antivirus and content scanning, and could provide an exploitable network security vulnerability. To ensure comprehensive network protection, your organization must adopt a layered defense strategy that encompasses communication policy, user training, and consistent application of security technology. Attend this webcast to understand existing and potential threats to corporate networks, and how to deploy practical protection for Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

Último dia de férias pour moi. Paciência. Aqui está a lista semanal de leitura:

• Time for a Mail Server Switch?
• Red Hat mulls Exchange competitor
• Monitoring Outlook in cached mode
• The MTA and Exchange 2003 clusters with > 4 nodes
• Exchange clustering lesson learned
• Planning for Your First Exchange Server
• Exchange 12 and Monad
• Retiring Legacy Exchange 2000 Servers
• Developing an E-Mail Usage Policy

Exchange SP2 CTP disponível a 19-Agosto

De acordo com úm post do Harold Wong e de notícia publicada pela Mary Jo Foley, a Microsoft vai disponibilizar uma Community Technology Preview (CTP) do Service Pack 2 para o Exchange Server 2003 a 19 de Agosto.
A versão CTP funciona como uma pré-beta e tem algumas limitações:

"Please be aware that CTP releases of any product will not display the stability of a shipped Microsoft product. Customers may encounter problems with Exchange Server 2003 SP2 that could possibly result in a loss or destruction of data. Some of the mobility features contained in this CTP download are not yet available for testing, pending availability of Windows Mobile 5.0 devices that have the Messaging & Security Feature Pack installed. Those devices will be available later in 2005 and 2006. Also some of the security features in SP2 are only available when used with Outlook 2003 SP2 which will not release until later in 2005. This build is available only in English."

Pode começar a contagem decrescente. Até já existe um link reservado.

Netcabo actualiza Exchange para a versão 2003

Foi com agrado que recebi a notícia que o ISP português Netcabo concluiu a actualização da sua plataforma de correio electrónico para a versão Exchange Server 2003.
Há já algum tempo que os front-ends haviam sido actualizados (notou-se uma pequena melhoria gráfica, mas a versão do OWA era à mesma a 2000), mas só agora com a actualização dos back-ends, os utilizadores podem disfrutar das novas funcionalidades e melhorias a nível gráfico introduzidas com o Exchange 2003.
A propósito das versões de front-ends e back-ends, aqui fica uma pequena tabela com as configurações suportadas (disponível no artigo da Knowledge Base Q829057):

Front-end	Back-end	Versão do OWA
Exchange 5.5	Exchange 5.5	Exchange 5.5
Exchange 5.5	Exchange 2000	Exchange 5.5
Exchange 5.5	Exchange 2003	Não suportado
Exchange 2000	Exchange 5.5	Não suportado
Exchange 2000	Exchange 2000	Exchange 2000
Exchange 2000	Exchange 2003	Não suportado
Exchange 2003	Exchange 5.5	Não suportado
Exchange 2003	Exchange 2000	Exchange 2000
Exchange 2003	Exchange 2003	Exchange 2003

Agora resta-nos esperar que a Netcabo melhore alguns aspectos operacionais que tantas críticas têm gerado nos seus clientes.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

Eu até acho que os artigos publicados no blog You Had Me At EHLO são espectaculares, mas relativamente à última sugestão de leitura que vos deixo (Why should you use Diskpar (Diskpart in W2003 SP1)?) parece-me que o meu (Disk Geometry) está melhor ;-)

• Checklist: Tools that diagnose Exchange performance problems
• Exchange and SANs: No Magic Bullet
• Sender ID's fading message
• Microsoft Clustering and Firewalls
• Using ADSIEdit - A Real World Example
• Sending Read and Delivery Recipients programmatically via Exchange
• Iterating though storage groups with CDOEXM C# sample
• Mailbox Attachment Auditing Script
• Implementing iSCSI for Exchange Server 2003
• Monitoring Exchange and Finding Common Problems
• OMA 2003 Logon Process
• Public Folder Replication Fails with Event IDs 3086 and 3085
• Why should you use Diskpar (Diskpart in W2003 SP1)?

Microsoft recruta 2 ex-IBM

O mercado IT é agressivo por natureza. Depois da saída polémica de Kai-Fu Lee da Microsoft para o seu rival Google, agora é a própria Microsoft que resolveu contratar 2 ex-funcionários da IBM: Julio Estrada e Bob Congdon.
Os dois sujeitos estavam envolvidos no desenvolvimento do Lotus Notes, pelo que é mais ou menos óbvia a sua integração na equipa do Microsoft Exchange.

Links relacionados:

• Microsoft Takes On Two Former Lotus Stars
• Microsoft Escalates Its Attack on Lotus