Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Managing Folders in Outlook 2007
• Cross Forest Exchange Impersonation in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1
• Update that will allow you to install Exchange 2007 SP1 into a Single-label named domains is now available
• Advisory: Potential changes to Daylight Saving Time in Iraq
• Troubleshooting Out of Office
• Managing Resource Mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007 (Part 3)
• Novell's lagging position in the messaging and collaboration market
• Errata: Edge Subscription and Synchronization white paper
• Incremental Change Synchronization API Definitions
• Public Folders and E14 - The Next Version of Exchange
• Slides 9 - 16 of 24 Hours Exchange 2007 Webcast Series uploaded to Slide Share
• Exchange 2007 / Outlook 2003 / Blackberry & OoO
• Outlook Communicator Phone Edition interactions with Exchange Web Services
• Lotus Notes Transition White Paper released

Precisa-se feedback: Exchange Shell Help

A minha lista de feeds não pára de aumentar! Recentemente, enquanto lia um dos meus sites preferidos de Exchange, Pro-Exchange, descobri mais um blog bastante interessante: David Strome's Blog.

O David é um Technical Writer na equipa de Exchange Server da Microsoft e está a pedir feedback sobre o Exchange Management Shell Help:

"As you know we're working on Exchange 14, the next version of Exchange Server. As part of that work we're taking a look at how we write content for all of the features of Exchange. I'm working on defining the guidelines for how we write the content for the Exchange Management Shell - what overview and procedural topics need to be written to what content we put into the individual cmdlet topics and how its displayed to you.

I'm really interested in what you think of the Exchange Management Shell help in Exchange Server 2007. What do you like about it? What do you, well, hate? Is it how it's displayed? Or are we missing something important that would make your life easier if we'd included it? Or did you discover something that just made things 'click' for you?

I want to know about it. Put together a wish list or list of things you love (or both!) and send them to me. I'll be taking your feedback and seeing how it can help us to improve the E14 product documentation."

Continua na fonte.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Planning an Exchange Server 2007 migration
• Using ColdFusion 8 with Microsoft Exchange Server
• Full circle: How Microsoft is trying to eradicate email
• Hosted email will boom in the short term, study says
• Microsoft experiments with managed e-mail
• Understanding Exchange 2007 SP1 mobile policies, ECAL and MDM
• Protecting Exchange data with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)
• Quick (ish) Tip - Exchange 2007 - Setting OOF for Users via Powershell…
• Quick Tip: Configuring Network Load Balancing (NLB) on Windows 2008 for Exchange CAS Servers…
• Meeting Forward Notifications
• Techdays Follow-Up: My top 5 EMS cmdlets
• GroupWise to Exchange 2007 - Interoperability and Migration (Part 3)
• Load Balancing Exchange 2007 SP1 Hub Transport Servers using Windows Network Load Balancing Technology (Part 1)
• Exchange 2007 Mail enable User Powershell Quick Form
• Standby Continuous Replication (SCR): Replay and Truncation Lag
• Generating LDP Dumps from PowerShell
• How to delegate an Exchange Server 2007 installation

Techdays 2008 - balanço final

Os Techdays 2008 já lá vão, a maior conferência técnica organizada pela Microsoft Portugal terminou na passada Sexta-Feira, dia 14.

Eu tive a oportunidade de participar como delegado (assisti a algumas sessões), como patrocinador (a Unisys foi Platinum sponsor) e como orador (sessão MGT01).

Pessoalmente, o balanço que faço do evento é o seguinte:

 

PONTOS POSITIVOS

• Networking pessoal e profissional
• Espaço alargado do evento
• Algumas sessões técnicas
• Site do evento
• A oferta do Vista Ultimate, do Windows Server 2008 e do Visual Studio 2008
• Preço do registo no evento
• O stand de uma conhecida marca de telemóveis :-)

 

PONTOS A MELHORAR

• Qualidade (e quantidade!!!) das refeições
• As longas filas para almoço
• O processo de credenciação
• Algumas sessões técnicas
• Desempenho dos PCs para apresentações (como é que se correm VMs com 2GB de RAM???)
• Mapa das instalações (alguém conseguiu descobrir as salas???)
• O desaparecimento da àrea das comunidades
• Os formulários de avaliação das sessões

 

FLOPS

• A recolha de material electrónico para reciclar
• A partilha de agendas entre participantes

 

Para os mais saudosistas, alguns vídeos do evento estão disponíveis em http://videos.techdays.pt/.

Para o ano há mais!

 

Technorati : TechdaysPT08

ActiveSync IIS Log Tool (GUI)

O Glen Scales desenvolveu uma ferramenta gráfica para extrair informação dos logs de IIS referente ao tráfego ActiveSync.

O aspecto desta ferramenta desenvolvida em PowerShell é o seguinte:

Para fazer download do código e para saber mais informações, leiam por favor ActiveSync IIS Log Tool / Powershell GUI Version 1.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Gaps found in Microsoft Exchange API documentation
• Windows Server 2008 & Exchange Backup
• I do not like green eggs and spam
• Microsoft, Sun expand their collaboration
• Fix OWA message size limit issue after Exchange 2007 SP1 upgrade
• Active Directory & Exchange Schema Versions
• Sending SMTP mail with Java
• Many Exchange Servers, Little Time
• Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1: Installations Times
• Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1: Installation Issues
• Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1: Installation Steps
• Exchange 2007 and Replication Manager
• Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 RU1
• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 and the Scalable Networking Pack
• Windows 2003 Scalable Networking pack and its possible effects on Exchange - Part 2
• Speeding up installation of Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Prerequisites on Windows Server 2008
• Apple licenses Exchange ActiveSync for the iPhone
• OOM.NET: Part 4 - Don't Thread On Me
• One morning you find that there is spam in the queues, your server has been blacklisted etc...
• Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 2)
• Managing Resource Mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007 (Part 2)
• Routing outbound mail using a particular IP address
• India wants access to BlackBerry encryption algorithms to fight terrorism
• Outlook Voice Access and the English language
• Xobni for Outlook
• Quickly creating a rule
• Sync filters and performance
• Suppressing Non-Delivery Reports (NDRs)
• Exchange 2007 SP1 SCC using Server 2008 StarWind iSCSI - Part 1

Techdays 2008 - a minha agenda

Sabia que o site do Techdays 2008 lhe dá a possibilidade de construir a sua agenda e partilhá-la com o Mundo? E se o fizer fica habilitado a ganhar um livro técnico à escolha?

Pois bem, aqui fica a minha agenda para o evento e o respectivo feed.

 

O lançamento é já amanhã! Vemo-nos por lá ;-)

Technorati : TechdaysPT08

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Microsoft Helps Connect Apple iPhone Users to Microsoft’s Exchange Server
• Optimize Entourage to better work with Exchange
• Transitioning your Active Directory to Windows Server 2008
• The six-layered secret of effective Exchange Server email filtering
• How to set up email disclaimers on a single, back-end Exchange server
• Online Exchange & Sharepoint - Finally
• Oh lord, now the Exchange team is doing it
• 16,000 Exchange mailboxes on one server with VMware
• Exchange Server 2007 and Universal Groups
• Q&A 3: Entering and grouping contacts
• What’s your “favorite” flag?
• Microsoft Takes SharePoint and Exchange Servers Online
• New form of spam
• Configuring Outlook Anywhere for Exchange 2007 SP1
• HOW TO: Delegate recipient administration for an OU
• ActiveSync IIS Log Tool / Powershell GUI Version 1
• Recovering an Exchange 2007 Clustered Mailbox Server (CMS) using the RecoverCMS Switch Part 2
• Storage Group Copy Checksums in Exchange 2007
• Why You Shouldn't Enable the POP3 Server
• VMWARE Server - Installing Exchange 2007 SP 1 Using CCR on Windows 2008 - Part 2….
• Quick Tip - Determining Group AD Membership Using Powershell…
• Exchange 2007 and MS08-003 on DCs: LDAP error 5005 UNABLE_TO_PROCEED
• Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008, Part II
• Exchange 2007 Disk Performance/Partition Alignment - A Little Quickie

TechDays 2008 | Aproxima-se a data de fecho de registo!

A dois dias da data de fecho dos registos, 7 de Março, deixamos-lhe alguns factos de interesse:

• Cerca de 2.000 registos
• Mais de 100 sessões técnicas
• Cerca de 45 Laboratórios
• Pavilhão de Exposição com 3.800m2 e 40 Expositores
• Iniciativas complementares: Recycle WEEE, Best Innovation Technology e Concurso de Fotografia sobre Ambiente

 

Se ainda não procedeu ao seu registo, faça-o agora, e participe no evento técnico mais relevante da Microsoft Portugal!

Technorati : TechdaysPT08

Bug do ano bissexto no Exchange 2007

Existe um problema no Exchange Server 2007 que pode gerar o seguinte erro, quando se realizam algumas operações de configuração, tais como new-mailbox ou enable-mailbox:

"The Exchange server address list service failed to respond. This could be because of an address list or email address policy configuration error."

Para quem estiver a passar por isto, existe informação detalhada no blog You Had Me At EHLO: Exchange Server 2007 and leap year day Feb 29 2008...

A Microsoft está neste momento a trabalhar numa resolução deste possível bug.

Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator - v13.7

A equipa de Exchange da Microsoft acaba de disponibilizar a Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator - v13.7. Esta folha de Excel é absolutamente fundamental para dimensionar o storage de servidores Exchange 2007 com o papel de Mailbox.

De acordo com o post no blog the You Had Me At EHLO, algumas das novas funcionalidades são:

• Projected Number of Mailboxes Growth
• Network Failure Tolerance
• Multiple Mailbox Server Support

Para uma lista completa das actualizações, consultem Updates to the Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator.

Para obter instruções detalhadas sobre a utilização da ferramenta, consultem Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role Storage Requirements Calculator.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Windows 2003 to 2008 with Exchange SP1
• Managing Local Continuous Replication in Exchange 2007
• VMware Sets Capacity Record Running Microsoft Exchange on IBM System x3850 M2 Servers
• Congress Probes Case Of The Missing White House E-mails
• A few favorite Microsoft Exchange Server blogs
• Manage Exchange 2007 public folders from Exchange Management Console
• Exchange 2007 Update Rollup Confusion
• Q&A 1: Searching Offline Archives
• Q&A 2: Showing Tasks from PSTs in the To-Do Bar
• Using Exchange Management Shell to define Resource Delegates
• Changing the way Outlook displays it's address book columns.
• Combining multiple Exchange Management Shell powershell cmdlets and maintaining the Pipeline
• GroupWise to Exchange 2007 - Interoperability and Migration (Part 2)
• Moving from a Linux Mail Server and peer-to-peer network to Exchange Server 2007 (Part 1)
• Suggested Hub Transport Hardware Config for Exchange 2007 Installations of 5000 users….

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Depois da disponibilização do Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 RTM, a Microsoft lançou finalmente o Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1.

 

Overview
Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB945684.
This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 Release To Manufacturing (RTM). For a list of update rollups applicable to Exchange Server 2007 RTM, refer to the section Update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 RTM in the Knowledge Base article KB937052.

 

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 x64 Edition; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2

• Exchange Server 2007 SP1 must be installed prior to installing this update rollup.
• This update rollup cannot be installed if you are using Exchange Server 2007 RTM.
• Any Interim Updates for Exchange Server 2007 must be uninstalled prior to installing this update rollup.
• 32-bit editions of Windows Server 2003 with SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2 with SP2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP with SP2 are only supported for Exchange Server 2007 management tools.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and System Center

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and System Center é uma datasheet técnica que descreve os principais benefícios da utilização da família de produtos System Center para gerir o Exchange Server 2007.

 

Brief Description
Managing, deploying, and protecting Exchange Server 2007 with System Center
Read this datasheet and find out how System Center benefits planning for, deployment of, and management of Exchange Server 2007.

Overview
Using System Center products with Exchange Server 2007 improves the operation of your computing environment and improves your business workflow. Read this datasheet and find out how System Center Operations Manager 2007, Configuration Manager 2007, Data Protection Manager 2007, and Capacity Planner can benefit planning for, deployment of, and management of Exchange Server 2007.

 

A tabela seguinte foi tirada desta datasheet (clique na imagem para uma versão maior):

Script de PowerShell para migrar utilizadores de Lotus Notes

Há algum tempo atrás eu escrevi um post sobre a minha experiência de utilização do Transporter Suite na migração de Lotus Notes para Exchange Server 2007.

Nesse post eu mencionava que tinha tido alguns problemas na fase de migração de utilizadores e que por isso tinha feito um script em VBScript para realizar essa tarefa.

Não sei se está relacionado ou não com o mesmo erro que eu tive, mas o  'The CollabTools' Blog disponibilizou um PowerShell script que faz mais ou menos a mesma coisa:

# The script below provides the same functionality as move-dominoUser but does not enable
# the email address policy generator [RUS]. The default behavior of move-dominoUser is to
# mailbox enable the user object, apply email address policy as primary addresses and
# then add email addresses from contacts as secondary email addresses. If you intend to
# persist contact email addresses as primary email addresses of the mailbox enabled user,
# then this script is for you.

O script de PowerShell está disponível neste link.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Exchange 2007 CALs – Why everyone needs Standard CALs
• Microsoft turns Server 2008 RTM into Server 2008 SP1
• Trio of e-mail vendors upgrade Exchange alternatives
• Windows Server 2008 potholes snag Exchange, in-place upgrades
• Microsoft Exchange 2007- Error There is a Problem with the Proxy Servers Security Certificate. Outlook Client Can Not Connect to an Exchange 2007 Server
• Palm Smacks RIM
• The New Keyword Filter Example Lists
• Exchange 2003 / 2007 Address List Segregation Document - Updates!!
• Exchange 2003 Address List Segregation Document
• How to forward mail to an external email address
• Deploying an Exchange 2007 SP1 CCR Cluster on a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Part 1: Prerequisites & Configuring the failover cluster nodes
• Getting Mailbox Statistics in Exchange 2007
• VMWARE Server - Installing Exchange 2007 SP 1 Using CCR on Windows 2008 RTM - Part 1…
• OOM.NET: Part 3 - Back to the Basics, MSDN Must Reads
• Single-label Domain Names and Exchange Server 2007 SP1 (Part Deux)
• Exchange-related email signatures
• Windows 2008 - NT Backup -Exchange 2007

Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 RTM

Update Rollup 6 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 that are included in this update rollup, see KB942846.

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)
• KB941421 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 (KB941421)

This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack (SP1). For a list of update rollups applicable to Exchange Server 2007 SP1, refer to the section Update rollups for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 in the Knowledge Base article KB937052.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86); Windows Server 2003 R2 x64 editions; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1; Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2003 x64 editions; Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Exchange Server 2007 must be installed prior to installing this update rollup.
• Any Interim Updates for Exchange Server 2007 must be uninstalled prior to installing this update rollup.
• 32-bit editions of Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Server 2003 R2, and Windows XP SP2 are only supported for Exchange Server 2007 management tools.

Sincronização da GAL entre organizações Exchange 2007

Tal como mencionei previamente, a sincronização da GAL em ambientes 100% Exchange 2007 não era suportado até à disponibilização do Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Feature Pack 1.

Para quem está a pensar implementar um mecanismo destes, há boas notícias: a Microsoft acaba de disponibilizar o documento técnico Synchronizing a Global Address List in an Exchange 2007 Environment.

Brief Description
ILM 2007 FP1 provides a solution to synchronize the global address list (GAL) between two Active Directory forests in a Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1(SP1) infrastructure. The goal of a GAL synchronization solution is to synchronize users, groups, and contacts from one forest with contact objects to another forest.

What This Document Covers
This document outlines the necessary steps to implement a simple GAL synchronization solution between two forests in an Exchange 2007 environment. This document guides you to:

• Populate the initial Active Directory and Exchange 2007 SP1 infrastructures for both forests using scripts provided in the Appendix.
• Assign the necessary permissions to the accounts used in the management agents for GAL synchronization,
• Configure ILM 2007 FP1 to perform GAL synchronization between the two forests.
• Verify that the contacts have successfully synchronized between the two forests.

MS Exchange Team Blog: Feliz 4º Aniversário!

O Microsoft Exchange Team Blog, aka You Had Me At EHLO, está a celebrar o seu 4º aniversário. Para comemorar estão a fazer um pequeno concurso..

Todos os detalhes podem ser obtidos neste  link.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Client to Server Secure SMTP Connectivity in Exchange Server 2007
• Which PDAs are Most Compatible with Microsoft Exchange?
• iPhone slays Windows geek -- but which device rules the enterprise?
• Fix for Forefront Update Timeout Errors
• Exchange 2007 UM Language Support: What's included?
• Lost a mailbox, even with Mailbox Deleted Retention Time? Don't worry :-)
• Microsoft and Cbeyond Launch New E-Mail Service for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
• Managing Automatic Meeting Responses
• What's new when Installing Ex2007SP1 CCR on a WS08 Cluster
• Exchange Server 2007 SP1: The most obscure (but relevant) changes
• Version 4 of the Mailbox Size Gui and using Quotas in Mailbox Size Reports
• Microsoft Exchange 2007 Search Basics
• Recovering an Exchange 2007 Clustered Mailbox Server (CMS) using the RecoverCMS Switch (Part 1)
• Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 1)
• Comparing Exchange with Open Source mail systems
• Improve Exchange 2007 MC Performance - Use Windows XP
• Single Instance Storage in Exchange 2007
• Configuration tips and common troubleshooting steps for multiple forest deployment of Autodiscover service
• Exchange Server 2007 now with SP1 Questions and Answers (02-05-08)