Exchange Load Generator v.08.02.0045

A Microsoft disponibilizou uma versão actualizada do Exchange Load Generator (v.08.02.0045).

• Exchange Load Generator (32 bit)
• Exchange Load Generator (64 bit)

Brief Description
Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, IMAP, POP and SMTP clients on Exchange servers.

Overview
Use Microsoft Exchange Load Generator (LoadGen) as a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, IMAP, POP and SMTP clients on Exchange servers. LoadGen allows you to test how a server running Exchange responds to e-mail loads. To simulate the delivery of these messaging requests, you run LoadGen tests on client computers. These tests send multiple messaging requests to the Exchange server, thereby causing a mail load. LoadGen is a useful tool for administrators who are sizing servers and validating a deployment plan. Specifically, LoadGen helps you determine if each of your servers can handle the load to which they are intended to carry. Another use for LoadGen is to help validate the overall solution.

Important! LoadGen should be used only in laboratories that have no connection to the production environment. This tool should not be used in any way in a production environment or an environment that is mission critical or contains important information of any kind anywhere in the network.

Note: The XML configuration file schema in this release has changed from previous versions. You will need to create a new XML configuration file with the Load Generator UI. The existing topology will be marked as un-editable if there are users created by previous versions of Microsoft Exchange Load Generator. Add your remote client machines again, and then save the updated configuration XML.

Note: If you use the recipient management features of this release to create users or other recipient objects and you have one or more Exchange Server 2007 servers in your test topology, you must run the Load Generator application with user credentials that have permission to manage Exchange recipients. The directory access account specified in the application configuration will not be used for this purpose.
Note: This version includes scripted module functionality which enables load generation for OWA, IMAP, POP, SMTP

Exchange Server 2007 Protocol Documentation

No seguimento do compromisso que a Microsoft fez em que disponibilizou alguns dos seus protocolos, por forma a melhorar a interoperabilidade dos seus produtos, chegou agora a vez dos protocolos utilizados pelo Exchange Server 2007 serem disponibilizados ao público: Exchange Server 2007 Protocol Documentation.

Overview
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol technical documentation set provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft protocols and extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to interoperate or communicate natively with Microsoft Office client and other server products.
The documentation set includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

Para quem não puder dispensar os 45MB de espaço em disco, toda esta informação pode ser consultada online no site da MSDN.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Outlook 2007: Sync error 0x80190194 (OAB synchronization)
• Single Instance Storage Exchange when moving mailboxes?
• Get-Mailbox | ?{$_.UmEnabled} | Get-UMMailboxPIN | ?{$_.FirstTimeUser}
• Remove DOMAIN- from Exchange 2007 OWA Form based authentication
• Exchange Server Virtualization: Hyper-V Possibilities
• Exchange 2007: Exception message: Property Languages cannot be set on this object because it requires the object to have version 0.1 (8.0.535.0) later
• Exchange and SharePoint to be revamped for multitenant versions
• Email archiving and e-discovery best practices for Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft should do this: Exchange plus Hotmail
• The Mystery of the Missing Exchange 2007 SP1 OWA Nav Button Text
• Publish S/MIME certificates for external contacts to Active Directory for use with Exchange Server 2007
• The MTA Service - about it and is it needed?…
• Clustered Continuous Replication Failover with Standby Continuous Replication (Part 1)
• Deploying an Exchange 2007 SP1 CCR Cluster on a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Part 2: Forming and Validating the Failover Cluster
• Create custom addresslist in Exchange 2007
• Why Do It? Exchange 2007 That Is……
• Setting Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging codecs on a per-user basis? Genius!
• Exchange Server 2007 Cmdlet Examples
• How to get SCR sources in Exchange Server 2007
• Anonymous submission and relay of SMTP messages in Exchange 2007
• Outlook Safelist aggregation
• Tip for finding when an appointment was created
• Changing your theme
• Hey Outlook, where's that folder?

TechNet Magazine - Maio 2008

A edição de Maio da TechNet Magazine já está disponível online ou, se preferirem, podem fazer o download do ficheiro HTML Help (.chm) para leitura em offline.

Olhando para a capa, parece claro que o tema principal deste número é sobre a Active Directory e como proteger este bem tão valioso.

Para além de alguns artigos bem interessantes sobre computação sustentável, que se tornarão uma coluna online regular (o tema do ambiente está tão em voga nos dias de hoje), uma vez que a AD e o Exchange são tão próximos, existe uma colecção de artigos que gostaria de destacar:

•  Extending the Active Directory Schema
• Introducing System Center Mobile Device Manager
• Exchange Queue & A: Exchange 2007 SP1 Deployment
• Hey, Scripting Guy!: Raising Eyebrows on Regular Expressions
• Windows PowerShell: Automating Directory Management

Storage Design for Exchange Server 2007

Acaba de ser mais um documento técnico da colecção Microsoft IT Showcase, desta feita o assunto tem a ver com o desenho e dimensionamento de storage: Storage Design for Exchange Server 2007 - How Microsoft IT Exceeds High-Availability Targets with Large Mailboxes at Low Costs Based on New Storage Designs.

 

Executive Summary

More than 18 months after the first Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 deployment in the corporate messaging environment and more than 12 months after completing the full production rollout across the entire company, the Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) group is able to report significant benefits such as:

• Messaging service levels exceeding high-availability targets of 99.99 percent.
• Cost reductions in excess of $10 million per year.
• Increased mailbox quotas by up to a factor of 10.
• Consolidation of the initial Exchange Server 2007 base by nearly a factor of two.

Microsoft IT was able to achieve these results by taking full advantage of new storage features and input/output (I/O) improvements in Exchange Server 2007, the latest advancements in 64-bit processor technology, and direct-attached storage (DAS)–based storage solutions.

[...]

 

Se quiserem saber mais sobre o assunto, está também disponível uma webcast relaccionada: TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Implemented New Storage Designs for Exchange Server 2007 (Level 300).

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Outlook Safelist aggregation
• IMAP And Ajax UI Temporarily Go AWOL On Gmail
• A Safety Net for the Send Button
• Moving and deleting items with AutoArchive: clearing up the confusion
• Exchange 2003 Soft vs. Hard recovery
• Why Would You Want Exchange Server With A SQL Backend?
• Hoax Subpoena E-Mails Shine Light on 'Spearphishing'
• Exchange 2007 Roles – An introduction to Exchange 2007 Server Roles
• Exchange Permission and Reverse Permission Powershell Gui version 1 Exchange 2000/3/7
• Uploading an EML file to a Mailbox with Exchange Web Services
• Managing Standby Continuous Replication (Part 1)
• Designing a Multi-Server Environment based on High Availability and Role Based Setup
• Why you shouldn't use logos in Signatures
• Windows 2008, CCR Clustering, Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007, Exchange 2007 SP1 CAS Servers - Getting it to work…
• Cross Forest Exchange Impersonation - where the rubber meets the road
• INTERACT2008... that was fun!
• Working with rules in Exchange 2007 SP1 Outlook Web Access and Outlook
• E-mail distribution list on Windows Mobile
• Can you replace a space with a dot in the local part of an E-Mail Address?
• Danny Popper talks about the new Forefront beta preview

Communicator Add In para Outlook 2007

Foi recentemente disponibilizado o Communicator Add In para Outlook 2007.

Description
An Add-In for Outlook 2007 which allows you to view and interact with your entire contact list from Office Communicator 2007.
Business users spend a majority of thier day in Outlook, why should they have to toogle back and forth from Outlook & Communicator?
This Add-In allows those business users to keep working in Outlook as well as view presence, call or instant message thier contacts.

A próxima geração do Forefront Server Security

Querem testar a próxima geração dos produtos Forefront Server Security e comprovar a sua integração com a plataforma de gestão de nome de código “Stirling”? Então leiam este porst: Take a First Peek at the Next Generation of Forefront Server Security Products.

"Yesterday, we released beta versions of the next generation of Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint products.  We’ve made significant investments in improving how you can deploy, manage, protect, monitor and troubleshoot your messaging and collaboration environments with Forefront, and these beta releases are meant to give you an idea of what to expect with the next versions of these products."

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• How-to: Connect your Windows Mobile device to an Exchange server (WM5)
• Microsoft Publicly Posts Additional Protocol Documentation
• Exchange protocol documentation now available
• Enable incoming and outgoing email in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007
• Re-Uniting PowerShell Consoles on your Computer
• Monitor mail flow with the Exchange 2007 Queue Viewer tool
• Step by Step adding SSL certificate to Exchange Server and Windows Mobile devices
• Client Network Traffic with Exchange 2007
• Move-DominoGroupToAD: How to migrate SMTP addresses with groups
• The Exchange Pickup Folder
• GroupWise to Exchange 2007 - Interoperability and Migration (Part 4)
• Interactive Command reference guide: Outlook 2003 & Outlook 2007
• How to manage all email accounts with Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007?
• Outlook Mobile Service - How it works? Advantages? Features?
• Has your Mobile operator removed Windows Live Hotmail Access?
• System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 - how can you get access?
• Showing Mailbox Rights and Send-as/Receive As rights in Powershell Exchange 2000/3/7
• Import Outlook 2007 to Live Calendar...
• How to forward to Internet recipients without creating an internal mail-enabled contact
• Validating AutoDiscover, RPC over HTTP and Inbound SMTP
• MOM Exchange Management Pack alerts
• Introducing SMSOfficer
• Exchange 2007 Catchall Mailbox
• Default Gateways and Exchange Server
• Exchange 2007 SP1 SCC using Server 2008 StarWind iSCSI - Part 3
• Long live Outlook 2007: You get 30 minutes to resolve the problem :-)
• An easy way to remove (some) entries from the autocompletion list in OWA 2007?

TechNet Magazine - Março 2008 & Abril 2008

O feed RSS da TechNet Magazine mudou recentemente, razão pela qual eu deixei passar a edição de Março. Entretanto saiu o número de Abril, o que quer dizer que temos agora o dobro da leitura (e não se esqueçam da longa lista de leitura de fim-de-semana que publiquei ontem!).

 

A edição de Março foi, sem surpresa, dedicada ao Windows Server 2008.

Embora não se encontrem artigos dedicados ao Exchange, recomendo uma leitura atenta deste número, uma vez que o Exchange Server 2007 SP1 e o Windows Server 2008 fazem uma combinação perfeita.

Como já é habitual, a revista está disponível para download em formato HTML Help file (.CHM).

 

A edição de Abril tem como tema central o SQL Server 2008. Mais uma vez, sem surpresa, uma vez que a Microsoft foca-se nos produtos que foram recentemente anunciados a nível mundial: Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 e Visual Studio 2008.

Não esperem encontrar artigos relacionados com o Exchange, para além da habitual coluna de PowerShell.

Para quem preferir ler a revista em offline, está disponível para download como um ficheiro HTML Help (.CHM).

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• An easy way to remove (some) entries from the autocompletion list in OWA 2007
• Exchange Server Public Folders: Still Not Dead
• Top 10 Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 registry hacks
• Writing simple scripts and functions in Windows PowerShell
• MS Exchange Spam Filtering
• Exchange 2007 SP1 SCC using Server 2008 StarWind iSCSI - Part 2
• Updated Exchange Public Folder Guidance
• Decoder ring, where are you?
• New File Share Witness and Force Quorum Guidance for Stretched Exchange 2007 Clusters
• Exporting Existing SSL OWA Certificates from Exchange 2003 FES to Exchange 2007 SP1 CAS on Windows 2008…
• Quick Tip - Exchange 2007 Upgrading the Default Email address policy…
• Continuous Backup for Exchange Server with DPM 2007 (Part 3)
• Load Balancing Exchange 2007 SP1 Hub Transport Servers using Windows Network Load Balancing Technology (Part 2)
• Class library helper for setting Calendar Permission via Powershell and Exchange 2007
• Default Calendar permission Powershell Gui for Exchange 2007
• DATABASE CORRUPTION IN EXCHANGE
• DATABASE CORRUPTION IN EXCHANGE…PRT2
• Using C# to get to MultiValuedProperty
• There's no service like Web service
• Question time: with the Vice President of Exchange
• Exchange 2003 logs increase dramatically in size
• How to force Outlook 2007 to use a static autodiscover.xml file
• Paged searches against Address Book in OWA lite not retaining DC session information during PageNext Operations
• How to prepare your organization for Exchange 2007 Address List Segregation
• How to sort by anything
• Exchange Server 2007 and Domain Controllers - A Summary
• Upgrading from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 with Exchange Server 2007
• Exchange 2007 and Domain Rename
• Exchange 2007 Messaging Tracking

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!

 

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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 ;-)

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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!

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