Leitura de fim-de-semana

Após algum tempo de ausência devido a compromissos profissionais, a rúbrica "Leitura defim-de-semana" está de volta (mesmo que com um ligeiro atraso).

• Exchange Server 2007: Been There, Done That?
• Will the iPhone support Exchange Direct Push?
• The iPhone will NOT sync with Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, might be upgradeable to 3G
• Exchange 2007 facing integration issues with other Microsoft software
• Configuring your PBX for Exchange 2007
• Top 10 Exchange Server administration tips of 2006
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - what's hot and what's not
• Creating an ethical firewall in Exchange Server 2007
• 70-285: Design Exchange with Confidence!
• Address List and EAP filter upgrades with Exchange Server 2007
• OPATH recipient filtering for Exchange Server 2007
• A quick tour of Queue Viewer in Exchange Server 2007
• OOF integration with Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging (UM)
• Yes, Exchange 2007 really enforces Email Address Policies
• Maintaining ActiveSync access to Exchange 2003 mailboxes after deployment of Exchange Server 2007 CAS role
• Exchange Server 2007 routing load balancing and fault tolerance
• Enabling Forefront Security Anti-spam Updates
• Exchange Server 2007 alternative to Standby Cluster
• ISV's and Exchange Server 2007
• Exchange 2007 Store Related Changes and Improvements
• Implementing Custom Recipient Policies
• Exchange 2007 Message Classifications (Part 2)
• Explaining Exchange Message formats
• Transitioning to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks
• Exchange 2007: Platforms, Editions, Product Keys and Versions
• Audit and Export all emails in an Exchange Store Sent and Received to and from a certain domain
• Exchange 2007 diagnostic logging Powershell quick set winform script
• Quick Create Mailbox Powershell Form for Exchange 2007
• Query-based Distribution Groups and Disabled Users
• HOW TO: Install anti-spam agents on Hub Transport server
• Enabled by default: SMTP Tarpit in Exchange Server 2007
• SMTP Virtual Servers: Some irksome defaults you should change
• Exchange Server 2007: More questions answered
• Exchange Server 2007: How To Allow Relaying
• HOW TO: Add a License Key to Exchange Server 2007
• Wrangling Byte Quantified Size details from Exchange 2007 with Powershell
• Do I really need to upgrade my filters?
• ISA Server rules for segregating Exchange 2007 Edge and Hub Transport
• A neat trick to increase Outlook performance
• One interface or two: an Edge case
• Don't overlook this feature of Exchange 2007
• OAB Generation fails with 9108, 9126, 9175 and MAPI Error code 0x80040402
• Announcing the Exchange 2007 PowerShell Scriptacular demo pack!
• Windows PowerShell SendMail / MailStorm script
• Exchange 2003 and configuring the Page File

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Janeiro 2007)

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 Junk E-mail Filter 2003 (KB925534)

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspatial express route, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Bem, porque é que estou para aqui a falar de livros de ficção cientifíca e de golfinhos que fogem do Planeta Terra?
É que apesar de eu não estar a pensar deixar o Planeta Terra nos tempos mais próximos, para todos os efeitos não vou andar muito longe disso nas próximas 3 semanas (!).
Vou de férias para a Tailândia, onde espero passar um tempo maravilhoso a descobrir uma nova cultura e a desfrutar de algumas das melhores praias do Mundo.
Isto quer dizer que não esperem que escreva alguma coisa aqui no blog durante este período, pois faço tenções de me manter afastado de tudo o que tenha um microprocessador e um teclado.

Por isso, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!

Segurança e produtividade

Segurança e produtividade são com certeza 2 preocupações correntes de todos os IT Managers. Enquanto lia o blog do Paul Robichaux, deparei-me com um link interessante sobre o assunto.

Entretanto recebi um email da Realtime Nexus acerca da sua última publicação sobre segurança. Aqui ficam os links:

• Hacking Email: 99 Email Security and Productivity Tips - Everyday, and some not everyday tips, on how you can keep your email safe and secure.
• 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.

Ferramentas úteis

Aqui fica um apanhado de algumas ferramentas de messaging que poderão ser úteis:

• Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007: The Calendar Printing Assistant for Outlook 2007 is a program that provides an easy way to print and customize Outlook 2007 calendar information. It puts you in control of the tools you need and helps you plan and create designer-quality output.
• Microsoft Office Outlook Connector: With Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2002(XP), Outlook® 2003 or Outlook® 2007 to access and manage your Windows Live Mail or Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts.
• Pando: Pando is free software that lets you send and receive large files and folders, up to 1GB, via email, IM and the Web.

Webcasts para Dezembro

Aqui fica a lista de webcasts interessantes para Dezembro, mais uma vez a fonte foi o blog da Eileen Brown:

• Real Time Collaboration Webcasts for December

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• How to generate SQM data with Exchange Server 2007 ExBPA
• Exchange 2007 policies
• Basement UM setup, part 3
• Hate voice mail? Don't use it!
• Installing, Configuring and Testing an Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) Based Mailbox Server (Part 3)
• Hardening an Exchange Server 2003 Environment (Part 3)
• Exchange Connections reflections
• Removing IMVv1 prior to installing E2K3 SP2
• Reporting on the age of content in mailbox folders and across an Exchange Server via a script
• script: Show OWA Users
• Exchange Server 2007: Questions before business launch
• Exchange 2007 Edge and ISA 2006 on the same box???
• Powershell: all you ever wanted to know
• Updates on the new build of OABInteg
• Outlook Junk Email Folder is actually cool
• MailArchiva: Open source email archiving for Exchange Server
• Creating an ethical firewall in Exchange Server 2007
• Step-by-Step Guide: Test driving Exchange Server 2007
• Outlook 2007 is slow, RSS broken
• Shooting arrows at MS Exchange Server

Preparado para um novo dia

O lançamento do Windows Vista, Office System 2007 e Exchange Server 2007 está para muito breve. A Microsoft pretende realizar uma série de eventos para assinalar a efeméride.
Cá em Portugal o evento "Preparado para um novo dia" será realizado no dia 11 de Dezembro no Centro de Congressos de Lisboa (antiga-FIL).

Lançamento Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Office system de 2007 e Exchange Server 2007
Data: 11 de Dezembro de 2006
Local: Centro de Congressos de Lisboa - Junqueira
Telefone de Apoio ao Cliente: 808 22 32 42

Venha ouvir o Testemunho de Empresas Nacionais e da forma como têm obtido sucesso com a implementação conjunta destas novas tecnologias. O êxito dos nossos Clientes ilustra como utilizando o Microsoft Windows Vista, o Microsoft Office system de 2007 e o Exchange Server 2007 de forma conjunta se pode simplificar o trabalho em equipa, ajudar a encontrar informação de forma mais rápida, melhorar o desempenho empresarial, reduzir as ameaças que afectam a segurança assim como os investimentos de implementação e de operação.

Update for Exchange 2003 (KB 912939)

Download
Update for Exchange 2003 (KB 912939)

Brief Description
This update modifies the "Safe HTML" filtering in Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2003 to allow workflow application code to use the HTML POST method within e-mail forms or attachments.

Overview
Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2003 introduces content filtering known as "Safe HTML" filtering to help protect users from malicious script and from certain HTML elements. For more information on “Safe HTML” filtering, see KB 899394 - How to share files that are removed by the "Safe HTML" filtering feature in Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2003.
The "Safe HTML" features in Outlook Web Access for Exchange Server 2003 affect content in e-mail messages or attachments which use the POST method. This update allows workflow application code to use the HTML POST method within e-mail forms or attachments if the action URI meets the requirements specified in KB 912939.

Tech·Ed IT Forum 2006 - Estatísticas pessoais

Foi mais um Tech·Ed que se passou e este ano o balanço é francamente positivo (esquecendo a qualidade da comida, obviamente). A qualidade das sessões técnicas foi uma agradável surpresa, talvez fruto do lançamento de tantos produtos novos.
Quanto à parte da comunidade técnica, mais particularmente o Ask The Experts onde tive oportunidade de participar, o que posso dizer é que correspondeu às minhas (elevadas) expectativas. Deu para rever velhos conhecidos e amigos, tais como Benjamin Mateos, Ilse Van Criekinge, Neil Hobson, Mark Arnold, Scott Shnoll e também para fazer novos contactos, tais como Toomas Ruus, Steven van Houttum, Ted Shultz e Eileen Brown (provavelmente estou-me a esquecer de alguém).



Para quem não teve oportunidade de assitir a este evento, recomendo vivamente a consulta do site The Virtual Side.

Bem, mas vamos lá a uma pequena dose de estatísticas:

# de sessões assistidas: 13
# de horas no Ask The Experts: 9
# de BSOD na CommNet: 3
# de tentativas de realizar o lab sobre Exchange CCR: 8
# de sestas do Alex (assistidas por mim): 3
# de vezes que o Alex foi atropelado por 1 bicicleta: 2
# de vezes que a chave do hotel não funcionou: 7
# de cervejas bebidas: CENSURADO!

E para o ano há mais!

TechEd-ITForum
TechEd-ITForum

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Novembro 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 Junk E-mail Filter 2003 (KB921587)

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Leitura de fim-de-semana

Bem, o Tech.Ed já lá vai, é tempo de mais uma lista de leituras interessantes:

• Exchange and Daylight Saving Time 2007
• Controlling attachment size in Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access (OWA)
• Exchange 2007 Offline Address Book Web Distribution
• Recent change of Internet Explorer 6 behavior in handling ActiveX controls and its effects on OWA
• Exchange Server 2007 Recipient Policies and Accepted Domains
• Configuring Exchange 2007 Hub Transport role to receive Internet mail
• Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant
• Removing the First Exchange 2003 Server (Part 1)
• HOW TO: Find an email address in Active Directory
• HOW TO: Modify Display Template to make default email address appear in Address Book/GAL
• How to create a Global Address List programmatically using Visual Basic
• Validation of user inputs in Exchange 2007
• HTML email; can be good and bad, but I may have a solution to this dilemma

Noticias do Tech·Ed IT Forum 2006

Confesso que ate agora ainda nao assisti a uma unica sessao sobre Exchange ou Unified Communications. A principal razao e porque quero ter contacto com outras tecnologias bastante uteis para o meu trabalho do dia-a-dia, tais como o MOM 2007 ou o System Center Configuration Manager (ex-SMS).

Entretanto saiu ontem a versao RTM do Windows PowerShell. Para terem todos os pormenores leiam este post da equipa de PowerShell da Microsoft: It's a Wrap! Windows PowerShell 1.0 Released!. Esta noticia foi dada pelo Vice-Presidente da Microsoft Bob Muglia durante a keynote de abertura. Eu nao assiti porque estava muito ocupado a fazer uns hands-on labs para me tornar um perito em Exchange Server 2007 ;-).

Para fazer download do Windows PowerShell, visitem este link: http://www.microsoft.com/powershell/download.

TechEd-ITForum
TechEd-ITForum

Exchange 2007 Virtual Labs

Há algumas semanas, a Eillen escreveu um post no seu blog onde ela enumera os vários laboratórios virtuais de Exchange 2007 que estão disponíveis. Cool!

Virtual Labs

• Exchange Server 2007: Installing Exchange Server 2007
• Exchange Server 2007: Using Management Console and Shell
• Exchange Server 2007: Administering Exchange Server 2007 Server Roles and Mailboxes
• Exchange Server 2007: Remote Client Access with Exchange Server 2007
• Exchange Server 2007: Compliance and Retention
• Exchange Server 2007: Using Local Continuous Replication
• Exchange Server 2007: Using Cluster Continuous Replication

Gartner Report: Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2007 Could Set the Future of E-mail

A Gartner publicou um relatório em que fala das novas funcionalidades do Exchange Server 2007 e de como este produto pode contribuir para mudar o correio electrónico tal como o conhecemos hoje.

"Microsoft Exchange has about half of the market for corporate e-mail seats, with share expected to grow steadily through the end of the decade. For that reason alone, a new version of Exchange has the potential to set the direction for the e-mail market. While, as expected, this new release (due 1Q07 and called Exchange 2007) improves management, bumps scalability and adds security elements, the real news is that Microsoft is changing the core notion of what services an e-mail system provides."

Aqui está o link para o relatório completo: Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2007 Could Set the Future of E-mail.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• WiFi Did You Do That?
• Outlook 2007: still famously obscure
• Backup^H^H^H^H^H^HRestore best practices
• Gone but not forgotten
• Exchange Analyzer Tools Success Stories
• Exchange Server 2007: Comparing editions and CALs
• Motivations for the Exchange Server 2007 transport redesign
• Hardware Configuration for Exchange 2003
• Exchange 2003 Hacks
• Hardening an Exchange Server 2003 Environment (Part 2)
• Maximum E2K7 Transport Rules
• Creating a Server Side rule to move suspect messages with inline gifs to another folder using Rule.dll
• RFC 2821 and the "implicit MX" rule: Can you really get mail without an MX record?
• Exchange Server 2007 "Business Launch", Edition Comparison: Microsoft removes Store size limits from Standard Edition
• Bulk creating Exchange mailboxes from a CSV file
• Forefront's Worm List
• All About Sender ID: the session
• Testing Your Mail Hygiene Solution: the session
• Getting Rid of PSTs: the session
• Share your calendar with Office Online
• Exchange Hosted Services: an update
• Planning (or at least thinking) for Exchange 2007 Hardware..?

Tech·Ed IT Forum 2006 - Eu vou lá estar

É já na próxima semana que começa aquele que é o maior evento técnico organizado pela Microsoft na Europa: Tech·Ed IT Forum 2006. Pela primeira vez, desde que eu me lembro, o evento está esgotado, provavelmente devido ao facto da Microsoft ter decidido juntar 2 eventos: Tech·Ed e IT Forum.

De qualquer forma, a minha presença está garantida, uma vez que fui escolhido como MVP para trabalhar no stand Ask The Experts (ATE). É a minha segunda participação no ATE e as minhas expectativas são elevadas, uma vez que a experiência do ano passado foi bastante enriquecedora. Para os sortudos que se conseguiram inscrever, se passaram perto da cabana do Exchange Server, sintam-se à vontade para dizer um "Olá", vai ser bom falar em Português para variar.

TechEd-ITForum
TechEd-ITForum

É oficial: o Exchange 2007 é lançado a 30-Nov

Depois de muita especulação sobre o assunto, a Microsoft emitiu finalmente uma Press Release onde informa que a data de lançamento do Office System 2007 e do Exchange Server 2007 será a 30 de Novembro de 2006.

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 6, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest Microsoft Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading Beta 2. The unprecedented quantity of feedback from beta testers and customers helped the Office development team effectively validate product quality and optimize performance. Microsoft Office RTM also marks a critical step toward worldwide business availability of the 2007 Office system, Windows Vista™ operating system and Exchange Server 2007 on Nov. 30, 2006.

Aqui fica o linka para a Press Release: 2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden.

Exchange Server 2007 VHD

Por forma a promover a sua tecnologia de virtualização e para providenciar um meio fácil de teste aos novos produtos, a Microsoft começou a disponibilizar imagens de máquinas virtuais pré-configuradas:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 VHD - 32-bit version - This download enables you evaluate how Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 together can help create an optimized messaging system for your organization. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is designed to reduce the growing cost and complexity of managing a corporate messaging system by providing more control for IT administrators, more value and expanded inbox access for end users, and increased security and compliance for the organization as a whole.
• Windows Server 2003 R2 VHD
• ISA Server 2006 VHD
• SQL Server 2005 VHD

"The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd."

Aqui está a Press Release completa: Q&A: Businesses Get an “Easy Button” for Software Evaluation with Microsoft’s New Virtualization Program.

Windows PowerShell Week Magazine

No seguimento da semana do PowerShell, sobre a qual bloguei recentemente, foi disponibilizado para download a Windows PowerShell Week Magazine. Esta revista virtual contém informação complementar à série de webcasts, tais como links para laboratórios virtuais e alguns artigos.

Está também disponível Windows PowerShell Week Script Samples, exemplos de código e comandos em PowerShell referentes aos webcasts da semana do PowerShell. Inclui por exemplo um documento com instruções como converter código VBScript para o seu equivalente em PowerShell.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• The route to a painless migration
• Analyst blasts Windows Mobile security
• Setting AutoArchive properties on a folder hierarchy in Outlook 2007
• Exchange 2007 Install From Command Line
• The State of Outlook Printing
• Speech recognition of names by Exchange 2007 unified messaging
• How Exchange 2003 uses WMI to present the Status and Monitoring node in Exchange System Manager
• How to smoothly survive the transition from Linkstate to Exchange 2007 routing
• Exchange 2007 Cross Org Mailbox Migration
• Recipient Permission Delegation in Exchange Server 2007
• Assigning service account access in Exchange 2007
• Installing, Configuring and Testing an Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) Based Mailbox Server (Part 2)
• Sending 'As'
• E2K3 Public folder management - SSL certificate server name is incorrect error
• More on Continuous Replication
• Geolocationing Exchange Message Tracking with Powershell (Exchange 2000/2003) (Seeing what countries your messages/Spam are coming from)
• Exchange Server 2007: Bulk creation of mailboxes using Exchange Management Shell
• Recovering downloaded POP3 email
• Google Launches Gmail Client for Mobile Devices
• The Devil does Unified Communications!

Trustworthy Messaging Get Started

Trustworthy Messaging Get Started é mais um documento técnico da colecção Microsoft IT Showcase que descreve alguns métodos de segurança que podem ser utilizados para proteger mensagens de correio electrónico.
O documento foca os seguintes tópicos:

• Protect an E-mail Message (IRM)
• Set a Message to Expire (IRM)
• Digitally Sign a Message (S/MIME)
• Encrypt Messages (S/MIME)
• Get a Digital ID (S/MIME)
  

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Going Live with Exchange 2007, Part 1
• Integrate SharePoint into Your Exchange Environment
• Exchange 2007 - Continuous Replication Architecture and Behavior
• Quickly view the internet headers of a message in Outlook
• Basement UM setup, part 2
• Outlook Web Access Administration Guide
• What does Exchange 2007 Availability Service do?
• ExBPA and non-English reports
• Recipient and server filtering in Exchange 2007 console
• Web Part URLs supported by Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access
• First class recipient types in Exchange 2007
• Exchange 2007 migration overview
• Migrating from Small Business Server 2003 to Exchange 2003 Standard Part 1 Preparing your network
• A User Comes and a User Goes
• Read and ring
• Showing which mailboxes have been enabled with Outlook Direct Booking via a script
• Outlook on a stick?
• Exchange 2007, the OWA experience, and AJAX
• Exchange SMTP virtual servers
• Outlook client fails to download the OAB with error 0x8004011B
• How to deploy the .oab and .ost files for use with Outlook 2003 in Cached Mode Exchange
• SPAM King gets 7million dollar bill from Microsoft
  

Junk E-mail Reporting Tool

Microsoft Junk E-mail Reporting Tool version 1.0 for Microsoft Office Outlook é a ferramenta que faltava ao Outlook para poder reportar mensagens como spam. Este mecanismo já existia por exemplo no serviço gratuito de e-mail da Microsoft, o Hotmail.

The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool submits e-mail to Microsoft when you explicitly choose to do so. If you receive a junk e-mail and want to report it to us for analysis, first select the e-mail in Outlook and then click the junk e-mail button on your tool bar. You will see a pop-up window asking whether you want to report the selected e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates. When you click “Yes” to confirm that you’d like to report the selected e-mail as junk e-mail, the junk e-mail will be deleted from your Inbox and sent to FrontBridge, a Microsoft company, for analysis to help us improve the effectiveness of our junk e-mail filtering technologies.

Este pequeno add-in para o Outlook (só para versões 2003 e 2007) adiciona um botão à toolbar do Outlook que despoleta o mecanismo de envio da mensagem para o endereço abuse@frontbridge.com, onde a mensagem será levada em linha de conta para a classificação de spam.

"subject: exchange" - E vão 2!

Hoje é dia de aniversário deste blog. Foi no dia 27 de Outubro de 2004 que este projecto viu a luz do dia e o balanço até agora, pelo menos a nível pessoal, é bastante positivo.
São 454 posts (ou 455 se incluirmos este) sempre subordinados ao tema de messaging em geral, mas com particular incidência no Microsoft Exchange.
Quanto às efemérides deste último ano, há a assinalar o aparecimento das versões Beta do Exchange Server 2007 e o nascimento de mais um blog da minha autoria no site da MSExchange.org: Rui J.M. Silva Blog. Para outros acontecimentos relativos ao ano anterior consultem o post do ano passado, "subject: exchange" - 1 ano depois.
Obrigado a todos os leitores, mais ou menos assíduos, e continuem a mandar sugestões.

Centro Beta

Há uns meses atrás coloquei aqui um posto sobre um produto que a Microsoft tencionava desenvolver, uma espécie de Midsize Business Server.
Este produto começa agora a ver a luz do dia, chama-se Centro e está disponível publicamente uma versão Beta.
Aqui ficam mais informações, directamente do "The SBS and Centro Community Lead Blog":

So, what is "Centro" you ask...........?
I am glad you asked.... :)

We are looking for a few good testers to help influence the direction of this new Microsoft® Windows Server Solutions Product. Do you have three 64 bit machines that you can spare to test some of the most exciting technology Microsoft is working on? I know the system requirements are a daunting one, but this is the only way we can test "Centro". So, if you are already on the Longhorn Beta or the Exchange Beta, then you are already two thirds of the way there.

The "Centro" Product team is looking to you to help test the Beta of "Centro". “Centro” is the code name for a new Microsoft® infrastructure solution that will help midsize businesses with less than 250 PCs in their environment. Centro will bring together key server products for midsize businesses, including Windows Server “Longhorn,” Exchange Server 2007 and security technologies, plus a new, integrated management experience. Centro is designed for IT professionals in midsize companies, helping them with server technologies that are easier to purchase, install and manage.

Details:
If you are interested in joining the "Centro" Beta please go to http://connect.microsoft.com click on Invitations sign in with your Windows Live ID (Passport ID) and enter the following invite ID; Extr-GHBC-JCJM. You will be asked to take a short Survey. Once you complete the survey look for an email from MsftConn@microsoft.com. If you don't already trust this address, please add it to your trusted email addresses.

Webcasts de messaging em Novembro

A Eileen Brown disponibilizou, mais uma vez, a lista de Webcasts para Novembro de várias tecnologias. Aqui ficam os links para os mais interessantes:

• Exchange Webcasts for November
• Unified Communications webcasts for November
• Office Webcasts for November

Sender ID para as massas

Num esforço para difundir a utilização do Sender ID, a Microsoft resolveu disponibilizar esta tecnologia de segurança para correio electrónico ao abrigo do programa Open Specification Promise (OSP). Basicamente isto quer dizer que qualquer pessoa vai poder utilizar o Sender ID sem ter de se preocupar em assinar qualquer acordo de licenciamento.

"REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 23, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Sender ID Framework specification for e-mail authentication is now available under the company’s Open Specification Promise (OSP), an irrevocable promise to every individual in the world that they can make use of the covered Microsoft® technology easily and for free. This is another step forward in the company’s commitment to delivering interoperability by design."

Links relacionados:

• Microsoft Promotes Interoperability for E-Mail Safety Solutions With Sender ID Framework
• Microsoft's Sender ID Spec Now Freely Available
• Microsoft sets Sender ID free

Update for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 (KB 924334)

O Internet Explorer 7 foi disponibilizado na sua versão final durante a semana passada. Bem a propósito, a Microsoft acaba de disponibilizar um patch para o Exchange Server 2003 SP2 que corrige um problema que ocorre no Outlook Web Access (OWA) quando se utiliza este browser.

"This update resolves an issue where the Outlook Web Access (OWA) form would stop responding when you compose a message using the S/MIME control on a client running Internet Explorer 7.0 and accessing a mail server running Exchange Server 2003."

Aqui fica o link para download e o respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

• Update for Exchange Server 2003 SP2 (KB 924334)
• The Compose Message form stops responding after you install Internet Explorer 7.0 and the S/MIME control on an Outlook Web Access client in Exchange Server 2003

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Outubro 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 Junk E-mail Filter 2003 (KB923095)

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Leitura de fim-de-semana

• How Big Is "Larger"?
• Have you received a powerpoint this week making (false) claims about direct push?
• Scripting solutions for Exchange Server administrators
• What's missing from Exchange Server 2007
• Beware of firewalls that block Exchange Server's SMTP/POP3 communications
• Tricks and Tweaks for Maintaining Exchange Databases
• Offline Address Book web distribution in Exchange Server 2007
• Updated for 2006 and 2007: How daylight saving time date changes affect scheduling in Outlook client
• On email archiving
• Meetings are unexpectedly moved one hour ahead in the last week of October 2006 in Exchange Server 2003
• Exchange 2007 console tips and tricks
• Forefront and scan engines
• Setting up Exchange 2007 UM in my basement
• Basement UM setup, part 1
• Exchange 2007 setup and legacy Outlook
• Publishing Exchange 2007 OWA with ISA Server 2006
• Recovering Deleted Items in Exchange Server 2003 (Part 1)
• MOM OWA Synthetic Logon Error
• The OWACHECK Tool
• Creating a Domain based auto response rule using rule.dll
• Bringing users and mailboxes together
• Database and disk spindle management in Exchange 2007
• Your default Exchange 2007 hub transport receive connectors
• The Exchange System Attendant fails to start with 9175 and MAPI Error 80040111-0286-00000000
• Generating a newly created Offline Address Book fails with Event ID's 9331 and 9335
• Recovering a hard deleted email in Exchange 2003
  

Semana do Windows PowerShell

O site Microsoft TechNet vai dedicar uma semana à divulgação de webcasts sobre PowerShell. Aqui fica a lista:

And Now for Something Completely Different:
Introducing Windows PowerShell
You’ve probably heard by now about this new technology from Microsoft first called “Monad” and now officially named Windows PowerShell. What is this? Do I want to learn this? Do I have to learn this? Where do I get it? How does it work? Not to worry, the Scripting Guys are here to answer your questions. In this first of five Webcasts you’ll be introduced to Windows PowerShell and given an overview of how it works and what it’s all about.Monday November 6, 2006

One Cmdlet, Two Cmdlet, Three Cmdlet, Four:
An Introduction to Windows PowerShell Commands
"Doeth the Eagle mount up at thy commaund?" No, that’s not a typo; apparently, that's how the word command was spelled back in the 1700's. Boy, how things have changed: the word is now spelled Cmdlet, or at least it is if you're a Windows PowerShell user. In this webcast the Script Guys explore these new beasts known as Cmdlets, the heart and sound of Microsoft’s new command shell/scripting technology.Tuesday November 7, 2006

Objects, Objects Everywhere:
Working With Objects in Windows PowerShell
One of the coolest new features introduced by Windows PowerShell is the ability to work with objects directly from the command line. Although WSH scripters are somewhat familiar with the concept of objects, as a Windows PowerShell user you need to live and breath objects. In this webcast, the Scripting Guys explore all things object in Windows PowerShell. If you listen carefully and don't speak out during the presentation, they’ll even help you instantiate an itty-bitty .NET object for you to call your own.Wednesday November 8, 2006

New Kid on the Script Block:
Writing Scripts with Windows PowerShell
Yes, Windows PowerShell is a great tool for working at the command line; however, it’s an equally good tool for writing scripts. In day 4 of Windows PowerShell week, the Scripting Guys introduce you to the fine art of writing scripts with Windows PowerShell.Thursday November 9, 2006

Amazing But True:
Things You Never Dreamt You Could Do With Windows PowerShell
In this, this fifth and final Windows PowerShell Week webcast, you’ll see definitive proof that the Loch Ness monster exists; you’ll meet a man who was abducted by aliens; and you’ll hear from a real, live ghost. But that’s nothing: just wait until you see some of the incredible things that can be done with Windows PowerShell.Friday November 10, 2006

Going 64-Bit with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Going 64-Bit with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 é um novo documento da colecção Microsoft IT Showcase, disponibilizado recentemente.

Almost two years prior to the Microsoft® Exchange Server product group's decision to support Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on the 64-bit platform only, the Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) group began to migrate from 32-bit to 64-bit server hardware. All server computers purchased for messaging purposes after the year 2004 are 64-bit systems and suitable for Exchange Server 2007. By running the new Exchange Server version on the 64-bit platform, Microsoft IT can keep pace with ever-increasing performance expectations, raise mailbox quotas by up to a factor of 10, lower storage costs, and eliminate tape backups to save an additional $5 million U.S. per year.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundary, 2006
• EU Rejects Spam Maker's Trademark Bid
• Exchange Server 2007 Out of Office (OOF)
• Exchange Server 2007 and 2000/2003 systems management co-existence
• The new Search in Exchange Server 2007
• Remove Exchange Attributes vs. Delete Mailbox
• Outlook Web Access Administration Guide
• Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Spam Filtering
• Windows 2003 Server Emergency Management Services
• Counting the number and type of Members in a Distribution list / Group via a script
• Internet Research Group Publishes New Report on Microsoft Exchange 2007 Migration
• Exchange 2000 Server and full OAB downloads due to invalid legacyExchangeDN's
• Testing with the Ex2007 Default ReceiveConnector

Ciclo de Webcastas de Exchange

E em Português! É verdade, a Microsoft Portugal está a organizar alguns ciclos de webcasts, sendo que o próximo vai ser dedicado ao Exchange Server 2007.
Para efectuar o registo basta seguir este link.

Aqui fica a lista completa:

• 17 Outubro: Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services
  O papel de Client Access no Exchange 2007 assegura o acesso dos utilizadores às suas caixas de correio electrónico em qualquer parte e com qualquer dispositivo. Para além do acesso através do cliente Outlook, OWA e de dispositivos móveis, serão apresentadas nesta sessão algumas das novas funcionalidades disponíveis no Exchange 2007. Ao longo da sessão, serão ainda abordados os melhoramentos introduzidos ao nível do calendário, as novas capacidades de unified messaging e ainda os Exchange web services para acesso à informação nas caixas de correio dos utilizadores através de programação.
  
• 19 Outubro: Maior controlo administrativo no Exchange Server 2007
  Ao longo desta sessão, discutiremos os novos papéis de servidor e a sua forma de implementação, tanto através dos assistentes de configuração, como de procedimentos de linha de comando. Serão igualmente apresentadas as novas Exchange Management Console e Exchange Management Shell e discutidas as alterações e os benefícios ao nível da arquitectura de storage, incluindo o Local Continuous Replication (LCR) e o Clustered Continuous Replication (CCR).
  
• 24 Outubro: Segurança, Conformidade e Protecção do Correio Electrónico no Exchange Server 2007
  Conheça a forma como o Exchange 2007 pode fazer a protecção do correio electrónico empresarial e,como através dos seus mecanismos de segurança, minimizar o impacto do correio não solicitado (spam). No decurso desta sessão discutiremos os mecanismos disponíveis nesta nova versão, mecanismos que permitem aos administradores de sistemas assegurar a conformidade e o cumprimento de regulamentos nos sistemas de correio electrónico baseados no Exchange 2007.
  
• 26 Outubro: Introdução ao PowerShell Scripting no Exchange Server 2007
  Ao longo desta sessão aprenda como executar tarefas administrativas diárias com recurso a scripting. Será apresentada uma visão global dos comandos disponíveis e a sua respectiva sintaxe. Em seguida, será explicado como construir scripts com maior nível de complexidade e as capacidades de reporting disponíveis nesta interface para se compreender melhor o estado de execução dos scripts.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

A primeira recomendação de leitura é dedicada ao pessoal do Asterisco ;-)

• Not quite answered: Can open source messaging servers replace Microsoft Exchange?
• Mixing Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007
• Fail-over friends keep Exchange chugging
• Microsoft to Kill the BlackBerry? IDC Predicts RIM’s Decline
• Good bye RUS
• Implementing TLS between two Exchange Server organizations
• Exchange Server 2007 High Availability Storage Considerations
• Outlook Anywhere 2007 with ISA Server 2006
• Installing, Configuring and Testing an Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) Based Mailbox Server (Part 1)
• Inheritable permissions are being cleared for some users
• BYO Message Tracking Center with PowerShell
• Exchange Server 2007: Message Tracking from the command line
• Yahoo Opening E-Mail Code
• Exchange 2007: Anywhere Access

Podcasts: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks

A Microsoft disponibiliza alguns documentos técnicos bastante interessantes sobre o tema Messaging Hygiene. Para quem é fã de podcasts, está agora disponível How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks.

"Detailed discussion on how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unwanted e-mail (a.k.a. spam) and malware-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic. The paper documents how Microsoft IT uses Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 technologies, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, and third-party solutions to both reduce the quantity of spam routed through the corporate messaging infrastructure by filtering at the gateway layer and then remove the threats in remaining messages posed by viruses, worms, and their common distribution vectors, such as file attachments."

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Hardening an Exchange Server 2003 Environment (Part 1)
• Exchange Server 2007: Using Journaling Rules
• Better OWA Attachment Security
• Outlook 2007 Security and Privacy
• UM For $1,000 Trial Kit
• Processor and memory configurations for Exchange Server 2007 Server Roles
• How to do your top Exchange Server 2003 recipient tasks in Exchange Server 2007
• Why You Shouldn't Use a POP3 Connector
• More on e-mail-enabling SharePoint
• Enabling subject lines in Exchange 2007 message tracking
• Enumerating the devices registered via ActiveSync on all mailboxes on a server via a script
• Tips for a single-server upgrade from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007
• HOW TO: Change IP addresses on a cluster
• Logging SMTP protocol activity
• How to install anti-spam agents on Hub Transport server

TechNet Magazine (ou pré-leitura-de-fim-de-semana)

A edição de Outubro da Technet Magazine foca-se no tema Comunicação & Colaboração. Ora, como não podia deixar de ser, alguns artigos são sobre o Exchange Server. Apesar de recomendar a sua leitura na íntegra, aqui ficam os links para os artigos mais interessantes:

• Reveal Deeper Meaning: Powerful Exchange Server Analysis with LogParser
• Fight Spam on Your Terms with Custom Weight Lists
• Achieve High Availability with Exchange Failover Clusters
• Hey, Scripting Guy!: Setting Up Outlook E-Mail Signatures

Windows PowerShell 1.0 RC2

O Windows PowerShell (ex-Monad) pretende ser a nova shell dos sistemas operativos Microsoft. A menos que surja alguma alteração de última hora, o PowerShell será lançado conjuntamente com o Exchange Server 2007 e será sem dúvida uma poderosa ferramenta de administração do servidor de correio electrónico da Microsoft.
Recentemente foi disponibilizada a versão RC2 desta nova shell, aqui ficam os links para os diferentes SO's:

• Update for Windows XP with Service Pack 2, x86-based versions
• Update for Windows XP with Service Pack 2, x64-based versions
• Update for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, x86-based versions
• Update for Windows Server 2003, x64-based versions
• Update for Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Itanium-based versions

The Exchange MVP Guide to Exchange Availability

Fellow MVP Paul escreveu sobre este assunto há poucos dias. Ele e mais 2 MVPs de Exchange elaboraram um pequeno guia de bolso com o "top 10" das tarefas que podem ajudar a melhorar a disponibilidade do serviço de correio electrónico.

"It's a very bad day when Microsoft Exchange goes down.
Unfortunately, achieving high availability with Exchange can be a daunting task: a wide variety of software, hardware, directory, storage, network, and datacenter problems are always lurking. Each one has the potential to bring email down.
There are many causes of downtime: an idiot with a backhoe cutting the fiber line, an executive emailing his 7 GB ripped video of a Grateful Dead DVD, termites in the data center, a night visitor accidentally shutting down power - not to mention the mundane failures caused by human error, technical problems, and natural disasters.
This pocket guide provides 10 essential rules that will help you ensure that email is always available, no matter what. It was written by three Microsoft Exchange MVP's to help Exchange Administrators avoid many of the pitfalls that can lead to painful downtime."

The Microsoft MVP Guide to Exchange Availability: 10 Essential Rules that Will Save Your Job está disponível para download no site da Windows IT Pro (registo necessário).

Webcasts de messaging em Outubro

Aqui fica a lista de webcasts de messaging que vão ocorrer em Outubro (txs Eileen ;-))

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Client Access Services and Web Services (Level 200)
Monday, October 02, 2006 - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Chris Avis, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation

TechNet Webcast: Message Security, Compliance, and Message Protection with Exchange Server 2007 (Level 200)
Monday, October 09, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time
Kevin Remde, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation

TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 06 of 10): Secure, Manageable Messaging (Level 200)Wednesday, October 11, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Harold Wong, Senior Technology Specialist, Microsoft Corporation

Momentum Webcast: Best Practices for Running Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server Code Name “Longhorn” Server on HP BladeSystems (Level 100)
Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Steve Tramack, Sr. Engineering Manager, HP Solution Alliances, Hewlett Packard

TechNet Webcast: Secure Collaboration with Microsoft Antigen (Level 200)
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Bryan Von Axelson, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation

TechNet Webcast: Protecting Your Exchange Server 2007 Network from Viruses and Spam (Level 300)
Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time
Scott Schnoll, TECHNICAL WRITING LEAD, Microsoft Corporation

TechNet Webcast: Secure Messaging with Microsoft Antigen (Level 200)
Monday, October 30, 2006 - 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific Time
Bryan Von Axelson, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Webcast: Introducing Exchange Server 2007, the Next Generation Messaging Platform from Microsoft (Level 100)
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Sandy Sharma, Vice President of Technology and Strategy, INS
Aaron Duggal, Principal Consultant, INS

Microsoft Webcast: See How Microsoft Unified Communications Solutions Can Improve Services and Increase Productivity in the Insurance Industry (Level 100)
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Kevin Kelly, INDUSTRY MANAGER INSURANCE, Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Webcast: How State and Local Governments can Improve Services and Increase Productivity with Unified Communications Solutions from Microsoft (Level 100)
Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time
Joel Cherkis, DIRECTOR, COLLABORATIVE TECH, Microsoft Corporation

Leitura de fim-de-semana

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.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• 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)

Technorati : outlook, junk email, spam
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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.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

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