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É impressão minha, ou estas listas andam cada vez maiores?

• Setting Up Exchange 2007
• Exchange Server 2007 Recipient Management One-Liners Part 2
• Records Management in Exchange Server 2007 and Outlook 2007 in 5 Easy Steps
• Interpreting Status of Storage Quotas via Exchange Management Shell
• Experiences with Grey Listing
• 5 tips in 5 minutes: Securing Exchange Server 2003
• Installing a Two Node Exchange Server 2007 Single Copy Cluster (SCC) in a Virtual Server Test Environment Part 3: Installing Exchange Server 2007 and verifying Cluster Functionality
• Exchange Server 2003 Mailflow (Part 2) - Troubleshooting
• What about Public Folders vs. email enabled Lists in WSS v3?
• Using Entourage with Exchange 2007
• Exchange unified messaging scalability
• Preventing administrators from opening user's mailboxes
• So what is in each WINDOWS MObile 5 AKU?
• RIM's enterprise dominance comes to an end
• Doing a SMTP telnet test with a Powershell script
• Doing a RBL or MultiRBL check in a Powershell script
• Did you know that you ALREADY have an e-mail policy?
• Address Literals and Microsoft Exchange
• I want to find all users on a particular storage group...
• I want to find all users on a particular storage group... part 2
• Is your Outlook client downloading an ANSI or Unicode OAB?

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - Learning Portal

Tinha este tema na minha lista de espera para blogar sobre ele. Por uma razão ou por outra foi ficando para trás, mas agora chegou finalmente a sua vez.
A Microsoft inaugurou há algum tempo o site Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - Learning Portal, que, tal como o nome indica, disponibiliza diversos conteúdos sobre a futura versão do Microsoft Exchange.
Tal como o resto do site Microsoft Learning, os conteúdos são pagos, mas, por um período limitado, este site está a oferecer 2 cursos sobre Exchange Server 2007:

• Clinic 3053: What's New in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 AdministrationThis clinic introduces the new role based installation procedure for Exchange Server 2007 and describes the various server roles. It also provides guidance on how to administer Exchange Server 2007 by using Exchange System Manager and Exchange Management Shell, in addition to introducing key concepts that are related to Unified Messaging.
• Clinic 3054: Overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ArchitectureThis clinic describes the most significant changes that are in the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 architecture. These include the communication between the five server roles and changes to the message store. It also describes different deployment scenarios.

Tópicos precisam-se

Como alguns de vós saberão, sou um colaborador regular do site MSExchange.org onde publico a maior parte dos artigos que escrevo e onde também mantenho um blog. Aqui ficam os links com os conteudos que são da minha responsabilidade:

• Rui J.M. Silva's Section
• Rui J.M. Silva Blog

Bem, mas o objectivo deste post não é o de auto-publicitar-me, mas sim de pedir o vosso contributo no sentido de me sugerirem tópicos em torno do tema Exchange Server que gostariam que eu desenvolvesse um pouco.

Deixem comentário ou enviem-me por email. Obrigado!

Migrating from Microsoft Exchange2000/2003 to Lotus Notes and Domino 7

A Microsoft disponiliza documentação técnica valiosíssima quando se trata dos processos de migração de tecnologia concorrente. É o caso do guia técnico Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Coexistence and Migration for Lotus Domino Mail.
Bem, mas pelos vistos a concorrência responde na mesma moeda, por isso a IBM acaba de publicar documentação homóloga: Migrating from Microsoft Exchange2000/2003 to Lotus Notes and Domino 7.
Acho que, no mínimo, merece uma leitura atenta.

Table of Contents
Part 1. Why Migrate from Exchange to Notes and Domino
Chapter 1. Why migrate from Exchange 2000 / 2003 to Domino 7
Chapter 2. Overview of the Domino clients
Part 2. Planning for Migration
Chapter 3. Migration project overview
Chapter 4. Overview of the Migration Procedures
Part 3. Coexistence - Tools and Strategies
Chapter 5. Using the Microsoft Exchange Connector for coexistence (Exchange 2000)
Chapter 6. Using the Microsoft Exchange Connector for coexistence (Exchange 2003)
Chapter 7. Using Microsoft Exchange Calendar Connector
Chapter 8. Using the CMT for Exchange and Domino Coexistence
Chapter 9. Using SMTP routing for coexistence
Chapter 10. Co-existence test results - what to expect
Part 4. Migration Process - tools and procedures
Chapter 11. Server level migration Using Domino Upgrade Services
Chapter 12. Migrating local Outlook data using Notes Upgrade Services
Chapter 13. Server Level Migration process using CMT from Binary Tree
Chapter 14. Local Data Migration using the Binary Tree tools
Chapter 15. Migration Results
Part 5. Directory Considerations
Chapter 16. Directory Coexistence Using LDAP
Chapter 17. Active Directory Integration
Part 6. Public Folders and Shared Data
Chapter 18. Public folders for Domino administrators
Chapter 19. Public Folder migration & coexistence using ecKnowledge
Chapter 20. Public Folder migration using CMT migration tool
Chapter 21. Manual migration of Shared / Public data
Chapter 22. Migration of Shared Data
Chapter 23. Migration Project wrap up - Removing the Microsoft Exchange environment
Appendix A. Other migration tools
Appendix B. Migration Procedures - abbreviated overview
Appendix C. Integrating Domino with Sharepoint Portal
Appendix D. Tips for performing a successful migration
Appendix E. Exchange Connector installation checklist
Appendix F. Installing Domino

Latin America Support Team Blog

A equipa de suporte da Microsoft responsável pela área da América Latina decidiu criar um blog: Latin America Support Team Blog. O que é que ganhamos com isso? Bem, artigos em português (do Brasil) e em Castelhano.

Este é um espaço dedicado aos clientes Premier e Professional da América Latina, mantido pela equipe de suporte da Microsoft: Enterprise Support Latin America.

Obviamente que a parte mais interessante são os posts relativos à tecnologia Exchange/Outlook.

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• Certificates and Exchange, Part 2
• Property Sets in Exchange Server 2007
• Exchange Server 2007 Active Directory Site and Connector Selection Algorithms
• Microsoft Outlook Web Access Light 2007
• Understanding Exchange Server 2007 server roles
• Performance counters: users, logons, connections...
• How do you find all your UM-enabled users?
• Where's the Exchange 2007 SMTP pickup directory?
• Outlook Web Access 2007 "light" and Firefox
• Exchange Server 2003 Mailflow (Part 1)
• Remotely Administering Exchange 2003
• Have your server delete your email for you... and LIKE it!
• Sunday times article - Blackberry widen the net with pearl
• Reporting on the number of Users, Contacts and Groups in a OU and sub OU’s
• Showing the Path to a public folder based on the Email address
• Get a Quick Status of IMF perf counters with Powershell (Exchange 2003)
• Email Address Policy and OPATH filters
• New Test added to OABInteg and updates on future releases
• How to fix missing or duplicate Addressing Templates that cause OAB Generation errors

Exchange Wiki

Primeiro de tudo, para quem não sabe o que o jargão informático Wiki quer dizer, sugiro que consulte a Wikipedia.
O Exchange 2007 Wiki pretende ser um site para servir a comunidade técnica, onde se podem partilhar experiências, dicas e truques ou discutir questões variadas nos foruns. E reparem no URL verdadeiramente cool que tem: http://www.exchangeninjas.com.

This site was created to enable rapid sharing of tips, tricks and FAQs for the Exchange 2007 Beta. This is a wiki site, which means you should feel free to jump in and contribute by adding new content, editing existing content or simply by leaving comments on various pages. If you don't feel like editing content but have a request for content, just let the community know by asking a question.

Por isso estão todos convidados a visitarem o site e, porque não, contribuirem com o vosso conhecimento. Eu confesso que ainda não o fiz :-(
Aliás, este assunto já foi alvo de vários posts noutros blogs (KC, Eileen, Evan) e eu só agora é que tive oportunidade de escrever sobre ele. Sinais dos tempos...

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Setembro 2006)

Está disponível uma nova actualização para o filtro Junk E-mail 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."

O download está disponível aqui ou através do Microsoft Update. Como é habitual, está acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

• Description of the Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB921580)

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Availability Reporting Management Pack for MOM 2005

Foi recentemente disponibilizado o Microsoft Availability Reporting Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. Este Management Pack permite verificar a disponibilidade de serviços como o SQL, Exchange, AD, IIS, etc. e pode ser bastante útil para controlar acordos de níveis de serviço (SLA).

The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Availability Reporting Management Pack collects and analyzes data from the event logs of your servers, and generates reports that you can study to improve server availability and reliability. You can identify the causes for planned and unplanned downtime and take preemptive actions to decrease downtime in the future. Availability Reporting uses a number of metrics to provides data that you can view and customize to suit the needs of your IT organization. Each type of report includes tables or graphs with information about the availability and reliability of servers in your environment. You can input parameters, such as specific periods of time, to filter the data presented in the reports. Availability Reports provide detailed and specific availability and reliability information for several Microsoft applications. For applications not currently supported, Availability Reporting provides basic availability and reliability statistics at the operating system level. In such cases, Availability Reporting measures whether the operating system is running but does not measure whether applications are running.

Na verdade este Management Pack é uma reedição, dado que a primeira versão teve vários problemas. Mas sobre esse assunto recomendo vivamente a leitura de um post feito pelo Clive Eastwood, Supportability PM da equipa do MOM: News on the forthcoming re-release of the Microsoft Availability Reporting Management Pack.

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Dez vez, quase a tempo e horas :-)

• Certificates and Exchange, Part 1
• Exchange Server 2007 recipient management one-liners
• Measuring AD performance
• Understanding Exchange Server 2007 I/O improvements from 64 bit
• Installing a Two Node Exchange Server 2007 Single Copy Cluster (SCC) in a Virtual Server Test Environment Part 2: Creating and Configuring the Windows 2003 Cluster
• Blocking attachments to Mobile devices with exchange 2003
• Powershell DNS Utility script for querying MX, PTR and SPF records
• Byte Quantified Size and some Powershell tricks
• Exchange scripting

Forefront Security for Exchange Server Beta refresh

A Microsoft rebaptizou já há algum tempo a família de produtos anti-vírus Sybari Antigen como Forefront Security for Exchange.

To protect Exchange Server 2007 against the latest malware and spam, Forefront Security for Exchange Server provides on-premise, server-level antivirus and anti-spam protection.
The Forefront Security for Exchange Server beta now includes support for multi-node active/passive SCC Exchange clusters. It also includes support for 32-bit installations for evaluation with the Exchange 2007 32-bit beta. While not supported in production, the 32-bit environment provides full product functionality for evaluation purposes.

Recentemente foi disponibilizado ao público um Beta refresh do produto, para testar no também Beta Exchange 2007. Aqui ficam os links:

• Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server
• User Guide for Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server
• Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2

Novo blog de Unified Communications

E de repente, com o lançamento eminente do Exchange 2007, há um grande entusiasmo à volta do conceito de Unified Communications.
Bem, para satisfazer um pouco mais a curiosidade à volta do tema, a equipa de Unified Communications da Microsoft acaba de lançar o seu próprio blog. Bem vindos!
Aqui fica o link e a apresentação do blog feita por Gurdeep Singh Pall, Corporate Vice President for the Unified Communications Group:

• Unified Communications Group Team Blog
• New Unified Communications Blog and UC Vision

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O atraso na publicação da lista foi tanto desta vez que já nem se devia chamar leitura de fim-de-semana, mas a verdade é que o trabalho (aquele que me põe a comida em cima da mesa) tem apertado...

• This Email Will Self-Destruct
• Phishing: Recognizing the Bait
• Outlook 2007: HTML Forms Are "Out;" CSS Is "In"
• Better OWA Attachment Security
• Have You Checked Your SMTP Mailbox Temporary Tables Lately?
• Dedicated Active Directory Sites for Exchange
• Recipient Management cmdlets introduction
• Permissions required for mailbox moves
• Creating themes in Outlook Web Access 2007
• How to write a Mobile Mash-Up
• EMC helps customers get off Lotus Notes/Domino
• Security update numbers, apples to apples
• Scheduling the Managed Folder Assistant
• Implementing RPC over HTTPS in a single Exchange Server 2003 environment
• Public Folder Basics (Part 2)
• How Recovery Storage Groups Work
• Exchange monitoring - The hit list
• Windows Mobile and ActiveSync - ActiveSync Encountered A Problem On The Server
• Misconception moment: Exchange 2007 and Forefront Security for Exchange
• OWA for PDA and OWA for WAP
• Exchange Server 2007 exposes SCL in headers
• Telling Exchange about (non-Exchange) SMTP servers
• How Exchange 2007 OAB Files are replicated to a Client Access Server for download
• How to work with Exchange 2007 OAB Event Logging
• More MONAD stuff: Message Tracking and Tab Completion
• How to remove PSTs from Outlook Profile with a script
• Creating a new mailbox using Powershell and specifying the password

Directory Update

Pediram-me recentemente se eu conhecia uma forma de permitir a certos utilizadores da minha empresa a edição de alguns campos de informação que aparecem na Global Address List (GAL). É claro que pensei imediatamente no GAL Modify Utility (GALMOD) da Microsoft, disponível no Exchange Resource Kit. Existe um artigo da Knowledge Base com informações detalhadas sobre esta ferramenta.
Mas o GALMOD tem algumas limitações, nomeadamente é necessária a sua instalação em todos os desktops de onde se vai realizar a edição da GAL.
Para superar estas limitações, a empresa do fellow MVP Jim McBee desenvolveu um substituto em versão Web do GALMOD: Directory Update.

The Directory Update service is a .NET web application written in C# that provides an authenticated user the ability to update some of their Active Directory attributes. Features of Directory Update include:

• Improved directory accuracy: City, State, Department, Company, Office, and Country attributes must be selected from a customizable validated drop-down list
• Drop-down lists can be converted to text fields and vice versa - New!
• Fields or entire sections can be hidden from the user interface - New!
• Administrator can restrict which attributes can be updated
• Customizable help string and help page
• Customizable page and window titles
• Customizable attribute labels

Guia de utilização do ESEUTIL

Qualquer administrador de Exchange com alguns anos de experiência já utilizou com certeza a ferramenta ESEUTIL. Para quem nunca utilizou este utilitário, isso só pode querer dizer 1 de 2 coisas:

• Elevada competência técnica, cumprimento de todas as boas práticas e recomendações, manutenção do plano regular de backups, teste de patches em ambiente controlado, etc., etc., e tudo isto se paga com a boa saúde das bases de dados de Exchange.
• Muita, muita sorte!

No meu caso, apesar de gostar de me considerar bom no meu trabalho, já tive a infelicidade de ter de utilizar o ESEUTIL.

When a database is corrupt or damaged, data can be restored from backup or repaired using Eseutil. Eseutil is a command line utility that works with Extensible Storage Engine (ESE), database (.edb) files, streaming (.stm) files, and log (.log) files associated with an Information Store, in a given Storage Group.

Para todos os interessados em saber mais sobre esta ferramenta, leiam o Microsoft Exchange Server Database Utility Guide.

Webcasts de messaging em Setembro

Como é habitual, todos os meses a Eileen publica a lista dos próximos webcasts:

TechNet Webcast: Regulatory Compliance, Archiving, and Electronic Discovery with Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
David Sengupta, Exchange MVP, Product Manager, Quest SoftwareMartin Tuip, Exchange MVP, Product Manager, Quest Software

TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Managing Exchange Server 2007 and SharePoint Environments (Level 200)
Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
David Sengupta, Exchange MVP, Product Manager, Quest SoftwareKathleen Lundgren, Product Manager, Quest Software

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks (Level 300)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Omesh S Desai, Microsoft IT Systems Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

TechNet Webcast: Managing and Migrating to Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
David Sengupta, Exchange MVP, Product Manager, Quest SoftwareRon Robbins, Product Manager, Quest Software

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips to Save Time in Office Outlook 2003 (Level 200)Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Andy Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Total Project Management

Microsoft Office System Webcast: A First Look at Office Outlook 2007 (Level 100)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time
Andy Reed, Senior Training Specialist, Total Project Management

Momentum Webcast: Best Practices for Exchange Server 2003 Consolidation (Level 100)
Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Hollis Beall, Solutions Development Manager, HP

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De volta ao trabalho, de volta ao blog ;-)

• Microsoft Outlook script: Banish blank email subject lines
• What Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Brings to Users and IT Administrators
• Optimizing Exchange Server disk performance
• A ban on dynamic IP addresses for Exchange Server
• The new Exchange 2007 Management Console overview
• Recipient Management in Exchange 2007 - Overview
• Records Management: Why Do We Care?
• Top Exchange 2003 Recipient Problems and how they're fixed in Exchange 2007
• Creating a portable calendar RSS feed for Exchange with SSE extensions – version 0.5
• Using ADModify.net to Recover an Exchange Hardware Failure
• System Centre Capacity Planner 2006
• More Powershell (MONAD) Stuff
• How do you deal with all that email?
• How to programatically mail-enable an Exchange public folder
• Beta-Testing: Use Your Resources, and Report Bugs
• Creating a Virtual Exchange Server for Exchange 2003 Clustering
• Installing a Two Node Exchange Server 2007 Single Copy Cluster (SCC) in a Virtual Server Test Environment - Part 1: Preparing the virtual environment
• Exchange storage and compaction

Técnicas de combate ao spam em ambientes Exchange

Approaches to Fighting Spam in an Exchange Server Environment é um documento publicado pela Microsoft da colecção Midsize Business Security Guidance. O documento aborda algumas técnicas de combate ao correio comercial não solicitada, aka spam, em ambientes Exchange Server.

The Approaches to Fighting Spam in an Exchange Server Environment technical guide consists of four main sections (Introduction, Definition, Challenges, and Solutions) that discuss options and solutions to provide practical approaches to fighting spam (junk e-mail) within the Exchange Server environment. This guide includes the introduction of a framework (Exchange Server 2003 Antispam Framework) which combines different methods for fighting spam within either a single or multiple Exchange Server environments and is comprised of connection-level, protocol-level, and content-level filtering. Approaches within this framework allow both administrators and end users to precisely filter and categorize spam and decide on their end whether it is spam or legitimate business e-mail. This technical guide describes these approaches in detail, demonstrates how each approach within the framework functions, and how each of these approaches works collectively. Presented in the guide are assessment and development plans and a step-by-step guide in the deployment and management section.

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Tenho quase a certeza que estou de férias, deve ser por isso que não tem havido muita actividade neste blog ultimamente.

• The Inheritance Tax
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams available
• Determining the Number of Users an Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Server Can Support
• Firewall Timeouts and Direct Push
• Connector for Lotus Notes Directory Synchronization- Part 3- Frequently Asked Questions
• Securing Exchange 2007 Edge Transport Servers
• Configuring the Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) v2 to exclude recipients from spam filtering
• Using Microsoft's IIFP (Identity Integration Feature Pack) to sync GALs / Active Directories
• Exchange in resource forest and public folder access problems
• Trivia - Why is OOF - OOF?
• Reporting on Meeting Delegate Forward Rules in Outlook
• Failed to register Service Principal Name for exchangeRFR; error code c10379bc.
• Exchange 2007 and X400
• Powershell 101: IF .. Else
• Exchange 2007 Powershell: Get-Tip

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Está a ser um Agosto peculiarmente rico em artigos e notícias. E não é que o record anterior foi batido?

• Is Microsoft Exchange The Right Answer For Your Firm?
• 'Exchange killers' are successfully stalking Microsoft messaging
• Mail Flow Troubleshooter in Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (ExTRA) - A closer look
• The Secret Decoder Ring - The Hidden Truth in the Exchange 2007 Admin and Routing Group Names
• Additional Exchange Server 2003 Technical Library Documentation Changes - August 2006
• Connector for Lotus Notes Directory Synchronization- Part 1
• Connector for Lotus Notes Directory Synchronization- Part 2
• Special Preview: Microsoft Exchange 2007
• SharePoint and Public Folders, Part 2: Migration Options
• Public Folder Basics (Part 1)
• Drilldown of the new OWA Direct File Access Feature in Exchange Server 2007: Part 2 (Client-side)
• GALMOD - What is it?
• Exchange 2007 ignite training
• Cached mode Outlook users do not see the Assistant field data when downloading the OAB
• How to deal with multiple OAB public system folders of the same type
• How to Work out What a MONAD Command Does..!
• The Changing Landscape of E-mail Security
• Windows PowerShell Help Tool
• BlackBerry hacking peril exposed
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Release Notes
• Messaging and Collaboration: Security Challenges and Solutions
• Improve the Security of Remote Access to Exchange Server with RPC over HTTP
• Spam Management