Documentos de Exchange Server: novos & actualizados

Nas últimas semanas foram disponibilizados alguns novos documentos de Exchange Server que eu gostaria de mencionar:

• Going 64-Bit with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 - This topic illustrates how Microsoft met evolving business needs with the deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, such as reducing risks associated with spam, improving business agility, and lowering TCO. The 64-bit platform enables Microsoft IT to keep pace with ever-increasing performance expectations, raise mailbox quotas, lower storage costs, and eliminate tape backups to save additional costs.
• Business Continuity with Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Data Protection Manager - E-mail is the lifeblood of business, and enterprises rely on IT teams to keep their communication arteries secure, protected, and compliant. Learn how to ensure business continuity through the new developments in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 as well as complementing with Data Protection Manager.

Directamente do Microsoft Exchange Team Blog, ficamos a conhecer mais alguns novos conteúdos técnicos:

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following new Exchange Server 2007 content.

• Service Pack 1 Highlights
• History Is Made by Those Who Show Up
• Poster: Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture
• Planning, Deploying, and Managing Unified Messaging with Exchange Server 2007
• What's New in Exchange Server 2007 SP1
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Help
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Shell Help

BTW, if you haven't noticed, all our topics in the Exchange Library now have a "Topic Last Modified" date at the top of the topic. And, if you wonder which topics apply to Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, we now have an "Applies to" tag for Exchange 2007 content.

E finalmente, como já vem sendo habitual, o Paul Flaherty (aka Flaphead) condensa todos os downloads, documentos e webcasts que foram disponibilizados no último mês: A Month in Exchange: November 2007.

ILM 2007 Feature Pack 1 suporta Exchange 2007

Sabiam que até há pouco tempo o ILM 2007 (ex-MIIS 2003) não suportava cenários de sincronização entre ambientes puramente Exchange 2007?

Felizmente, com o lançamento do Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Feature Pack 1, a Microsoft adicionou um Management Agent para sincronização da GAL entre infra-estruturas de Exchange 2007.

New features in this release:

• Active Directory and GAL synchronization Management Agent support for pure Exchange 2007 environments
• Certificate and smart card management client support for Vista
• Offline Vista-integrated smart card PIN unblock
• Smart card PIN unblock for Windows XP
• Certificate and smart card management in 8 additional languages:
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• One step better than get-command
• MAPI Messaging Benchmark Being Retired
• Outlook Anywhere changes in Exchange Server 2007 SP1
• Can you convert an Exchange 2003 Cluster into a Basic (non-Clustered) Installation Part 1…
• Things you get asked at presentations - the custom MMC
• Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 5)
• Securing an Exchange 2007 Client Access Server using a 3rd party SAN Certificate
• How to Clear out Outlook Web Access Passwords on Windows Mobile
• S/MIME Implementation Guide
• Service Pack 1 Highlights
• HOW TO: Hide Distribution Group membership
• Restricting Messaging Records Management to a particular message type
• Adding attributes to the Exchange details templates
• #550 5.1.4 RESOLVER.ADR.Ambiguous; ambiguous address ##
• get-allqueues.ps1 v1.0
• Technical White Papers for Exchange Server

Exchange Component Architecture Poster

Ora aqui está um grande, grande documento (e não é só devido à sua dimensão). Se uma imagem vale mais que mil palavras, o Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture Poster é a prova viva disso mesmo.

Este poster ilustra a arquitectura e as funcionalidades do Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, é óptimo para consolidar ideias.

Overview
Aside from showing the high-level architecture, this poster highlights the feature set of Exchange Server 2007. Sections include:

• Management and Monitoring
• High Availability
• Client Access, Edge Transport, Hub Transport, Mailbox, and Unified Messaging server roles
• When printed, this poster measures 30.5 inches by 20.5 inches (77,5 cm x 52 cm).

Como obter um endereço @live.com

Com o lançamento oficial do Windows Live, já é possível obter endereços @live.com. Para quem está em Portugal, pode ser um bocadinho difícil e frustrante (eu já passei por isso), por isso aqui ficam as instruções:

1. Abrir o browser e fazer sign-out de todos os serviços Live
2. Alterar as Regional Settings no Control Panel para English (United States)
3. Mudar a lingua do browser para Inglês (no Internet Explorer ir ao menu Tools | Internet Options | Languages | Add e seleccionar English (United States) [en-us] e colocá-la em primeiro lugar)
4. Ir a http://www.windowslive.com/ e carregar no botão "Get Windows Live - Free"
    
5. Na janela que se abre, não seleccionar nenhum dos proidutos/serviços e carregar no botão "Install"
6. Vai ser lançado o Installer. Nas janelas seguintes carregar em Run
7. Clicar em Close depois de terminada a instalação. Abre-se então uma nova janela onde deverão carregar em "Sign in" (canto superior direito)
8. Na nova janela, carregar em "Sign up" para subscrever um Live ID @live.com.

Comigo funcionou. Espero que consigam também. Boa sorte!

 

[UPDATE]

Se não funcionar, experimentem utilizar este link.

Windows Live Mail 2008

O Windows Live Mail acaba se sair de Beta, a versão final foi disponibilizada ontem e pode ser obtida aqui.

Além do Live Mail, a Microsoft fez também o lançamento oficial de outros produtos Live, tal como o Writer e o Messenger.

Links relacionados:

• Windows Live Mail v1 is released!
• Windows Live Emerges From Beta
• Microsoft’s Windows Live Free Online Services Available Now

DPM 2007 Storage Requirements Calculator

Mais uma grande ferramenta disponibilizada: Data Protection Manager 2007 Storage Calculator.

In order to assist customers in designing their storage layout for Data Protection Manager 2007, we have put together a calculator that focuses on outlining the storage capacity requirements based on a set of input factors.

For the first release, the calculator focuses on Exchange 2007 backup scenarios only. Future releases may include other technologies.

The calculator uses all the recommendations outlined in

• Protecting Exchange Server with DPM 2007 White Paper - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=92497
• Exchange 2007 Planning Storage Configurations - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124518.aspx
• Exchange 2007 Mailbox Storage Calculator - http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/01/15/432207.aspx
• DPM Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/dpm/

Leiam mais no DPM Blog.

Documentos técnicos da IT Showcase

Exchange Server 2007 Deployment Checklist é um grande, grande documento que contém checklists de instalação de todos os server roles do Exchange Server 2007.

Overview 
To drive excellence in server deployments, the Exchange Messaging team within the Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) group relies on checklists to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out deployment tasks, minimize deployment risks, and save time.

 

Managing the Calendaring and Collaboration Process By Using Exchange Server 2007 Web Services descreve como a Microsoft utilizou os Exchange Server 2007 Web Services para criar uma solução integrada e automatizada de colaboração e comunicação.

Overview
Two distinct groups at Microsoft have the challenging task of scheduling thousands of people for speaking engagements or for job interviews each year. Understand how Microsoft used Exchange Server 2007 Web Services to automate a near real-time solution to create integrated communication and collaboration; one that can display multiple meetings and multiple presenters per meeting; within its own enterprise using an improved development toolset that offers better functionality than previously available from Microsoft.

Ferramentas para manusear os logs de Exchange

Aqui fica uma lista de ferramentas bastante úteis (e grátis) para manusear os logs criados pelo Exchange Server:

• Exchange Log Search Tool - If you have ever administered Microsoft Exchange server then you have had to look through the message tracking logs...arg!!!!! They can be ridiculously large and it's painfully monotonous to scan through them (if not down right impossible).
• Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool - Ever have a performance problem, but don't know what performance counters to collect or how to analyze them? The PAL (Performance Analysis of Logs) tool is a new and powerful tool that reads in a performance monitor counter log (any known format) and analyzes it using complex, but known thresholds (provided). The tool generates an HTML based report which graphically charts important performance counters and throws alerts when thresholds are exceeded. The thresholds are originally based on thresholds defined by the Microsoft product teams and members of Microsoft support, but continue to be expanded by this ongoing project. This tool is not a replacement of traditional performance analysis, but it automates the analysis of performance counter logs enough to save you time. This is a VBScript and requires Microsoft LogParser (free download).

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• How to troubleshoot the Exchange Recipient Update Service
• The state of push: A look at Microsoft’s push mail
• About Spam Protection for Hosted Exchange Servers
• Lessons Learned About Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 licensing demystified
• More information on the setup prerequisite change in Exchange Server 2007 SP1
• What the Heck - Why is there no information in the Exchange Application Event Log?
• Exchange 2007 Edge - What is the Point?
• Windows Mobile Compatible Certificates
• Why RUS (recipient update service) is giving you hard time?
• Exchange Server 2007 Edge Server Backup and Cloning
• Configuring file-level antivirus software in Exchange Server 2007
• Exchange Unplugged resources
• The Outlook Platform: Make Outlook Dance to your Tune!
• Exchange Server 2007 Client Access and Web Services Questions and Answers (10-26-07)
• get-exchangeserverplus.ps1 v1.3

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Creating a DNS Infrastructure to Support Exchange Server 2003
• Exchange Server 2007 & CluAdmin/Cluster.exe Bad Things can Happen?
• Exchange Tools vs. Cluster Tools: What's the Deal?
• Moving public folder replicas from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007
• Exchange 2003 - I don’t get it, Mailbox is empty - but the ESM still shows items…
• Exchange 2003 Cluster - How to safely install Windows Updates using Windows Update…
• Exchange 2003 - Spam Attack Internal & External - Part 1…
• What Happens When Computer account for Exchange server reset in Active directory
• Shared Hosting with Exchange 2007 (Part 2)
• Exchange 2007 SP1 Mailbox Management Features - Part 1: Importing and Exporting Mailbox data to and from PST files
• Uploading a document into a SharePoint Document library from a Exchange 2007 Transport Agent.
• Resource Mailbox availability web page for Exchange 2007
• Changing the way Outlook "finds" items in the GAL
• More Outlook RSS on Office Hours
• Exchange 2007: Setup /NewProvisionedServer
• Will Google replace Microsoft Exchange?

Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB941421)

Está disponível uma nova actualização para o Exchange: Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB941421).

Overview
Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 customers.
For a list of changes included in this update rollup see KB941421.

This is a cumulative update rollup and replaces the following:

• KB930809 Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB930809)
• KB935490 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB935490)
• KB935999 Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB935999)
• KB940006 Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB940006)

Issues that the update rollup fixes
Update Rollup 5 for Exchange 2007 fixes the issues that are described in the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

• 940051 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ 940051 /) The recipient information in an e-mail message incorrectly contains the character string "%40" in the address instead of the at sign (@) in Exchange Server 2007
• 940058 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/ 940058 /) Non-English characters in the meeting description field are replaced by question marks when an Exchange Server 2007 user opens a meeting invitation that was sent by a Lotus Notes user

TechNet Magazine - Novembro 2007

A edição de Novembro de 2007 da TechNet Magazine já está disponível online ou por download de um ficheiro de HTML Help (.CHM).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E aqui fica a lista dos artigos mais interessantes, no que diz respeito ao Exchange Server:

• Exchange Edge Transport Servers at Microsoft: Part 2
• Exchange Queue & A - Secure E-Mail Protocols, Mysterious Spam, and More
• Windows PowerShell - Writing Regular Expressions

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Exchange Server 2007 SCC/CCR lessons learned
• How Exchange 2007 CAS Proxying works for ActiveSync
• IPv6 Support in Exchange Server 2007 SP1
• Using Powershell Scripting to Bulk Modify Active Directory Objects
• Windows Vista - where the heck is Telnet?…
• Accessing Exchange 2007 from your Apple Macintosh (Part 2)
• Understanding the Back Pressure Feature in Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft Says Email is Not Efficient
• BlackBerry cause additional overhead on exchange server
• Divide, then conquer e-mail
• Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) and Exchange Server 2007
• Why I STILL recommend Domino over Exchange
• DNS block list effectiveness
• Adding an attachment in a Transport Agent on Exchange 2007
• Exchange 2007 Content Agent Log Message Tracker Gui
• Sync your contacts between Outlook and Windows Live mail
• A lot of spam
• How to break the OAB download process for certain users

Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer

Há um novo elemento na família dos Microsoft Analyzers: Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer. Esta ferramenta analisa os principais componentes do Windows Small Business Server 2003, incluindo:

• Exchange Server 2003
• Update Service
• Configuração de rede
• Windows SharePoint Services
• SQL Server (se presente)

Brief Description
The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) and presents a list of information and errors that administrators should review.

Overview
The Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003 (Windows SBS) and presents a list of information and errors that administrators should review.
The Windows SBS Best Practices Analyzer examines the server and collects configuration information from many sources including:
• Active Directory Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Registry
• Metabase
After collecting information about server configuration, the Windows SBS Best Practices Analyzer verifies that the information is correct and then presents administrators with a list of issues sorted by severity. The list describes each issue and provides a recommendation or possible solution.

Knowledge Base Article
Description of the Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices Analyzer tool

Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator - v 11.8

A equipa de Exchange da Microsoft efectuou uma actualização significativa na ferramenta Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator - v 11.8.

Já agora, eu tinha mencionado num post anterior que a folha de cálculo não se conseguia converter para Excel 2003. Aparentemente esse problema foi ultrapassado, mas nem todas as funcionalidades estarão disponíveis, devido a limitações do Office 2003.

Para uma lista das últimas actualizações: Updates to the Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator.

Para uma descrição detalhada da ferramenta: Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Ultimate Inbox: Merging Inbox and Sent Items folders
• Previewing Attachments in Outlook
• How to back up Microsoft Exchange Part One
• Enhanced Presence Model White Paper & Presence Survival Guide
• Removing disconnected mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007
• How to tell what public folder store your Outlook client is going to when you fail to download the OAB with error 0x8004010f
• What is the default refresh rate for Autodiscover
• Sender Authentication: Explained
• Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 4)
• Managing E-Mail Address Policies in Exchange Server 2007
• RPC OVER HTTP
• Creating Mailboxes for User Accounts that already exist (Exchange 2003)…
• Out of Office - and Redirect…
• CCR, Site Resilience and sample decision making processes...

Finalmente!!! Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

O tão aguardado Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 está finalmente disponível!

Brief Description
This management pack includes scripts and rules to effectively monitor Exchange 2007 and report on performance, availability, and reliability of its server roles.

Overview
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 management pack is designed to be used for monitoring Exchange 2007 events, collecting Exchange component-specific performance counters in one central location, and for raising alerts for operator intervention as necessary. By detecting, sending alerts, and automatically responding to critical events, this management pack helps indicate, correct, and prevent possible service outages or configuration problems, allowing you to proactively manage Exchange servers and identify issues before they become critical. The management pack monitors and provides alerts for automatic notification of events indicating service outages, performance degradation, health monitoring, and centralized management.
This MP requires the Backward Compatibility Version 6.0.5000.16 (or above).

 

E não se esqueçam de ler as Release Notes.

Brief Description
This download contains a standalone version of the Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Release Notes. This release notes document includes information about how to install and configure this management pack. It also describes known issues about the product and suggested resolutions.

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Overview

A Microsoft disponibilizou uma nova apresentação em PowerPoint que explica o valor do Service Pack 1 do Exchange Server 2007.

Apesar do lançamento do SP1 estar agendado para o último trimestre deste ano, este será apresentado oficialmente com o lançamento da segunda vaga dos produtos de Unified Communications a 16 de Outubro.

A apresentação está disponível em 2 formatos:

• PowerPoint 2003 - Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Overview
• PowerPoint 2007 - Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1

.NET Framework 2.0 Update para Exchange 2007

A Microsoft disponibilizou uma actualização da .NET Framework 2.0 que deve ser instalada em todos os servidores Exchange 2007.  Embora seja prioritária a sua instalação em servidores Client Access com múltiplos protocolos, a recomendação é que seja igualmente aplicada nos restantes servidores Exchange 2007.

Este fix será integrado num futuro SP1 da .NET Framework, mas que não tem ainda previsto a data de lançamento.

Mais informações estão disponíveis no seguinte artigo da Knowledge Base:

• KB942027 - FIX: You may notice that the memory load is very high when you run an application that is built on the .NET Framework 2.0

Fonte: Scott Schnoll's Blog