Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer

O Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer foi recentemente disponibilizado!

Brief Description
The FPE 2010 Best Practices Analyzer examines a local server running FPE 2010 and presents a list of warnings and errors for configurations that do not conform to recommended best practices.

Overview
The FPE 2010 Best Practices Analyzer examines a server running FPE 2010 and checks the server’s system configuration as well as the FPE 2010 product configuration. Any settings or combination of settings that do not conform to FPE 2010 best practices are summarized and displayed in a consolidated report, so that administrators can easily identify and address these issues.
The FPE 2010 Best Practices Analyzer also includes documentation that explains each best practice, as well as the reasons why a setting might violate that best practice, so that administrators can judge whether that best practice applies to their server.

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Dezembro 2009)

Está disponível uma nova actualização para o filtro Junk E-mail do Outlook 2003/2007.

"This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail."

O download está disponível para as versões Outlook 2003 e Outlook 2007, ou através do Microsoft Update. Como é habitual, está acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

• Description of the Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB976882)
• Description of the Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB976884)

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Delegating Setup for Exchange Server 2010 Installation
• How to Enter the Exchange Server 2010 Product Key for Multiple Servers
• OWA vs. Outlook in 2010
• Configuring Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups
• What if I need to install earlier versions of Exchange with Exchange Server 2010?
• Exchange 2010 Network Port Reference
• How to setup an Exchange 2010 CAS Array to load balance MAPI
• COOL: Outlook 2010 can connect up to 15 Exchange Organizations
• Migrating from Forefront Security for Exchange Server Version 10
• Granting Granular Administrative Permissions in Exchange 2010
• Automated prerequisite installation via PowerShell for Exchange Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2
• Exchange 2010 E-Discovery (Multi-Mailbox Search)
• Exchange 2010 Update Rollup: What should you know about it?
• Microsoft and Research in Motion announce full BES support for Exchange 2010
• Changing OWA configuration setting with EWS in Exchange 2010
• Exchange 2010 DAG Needs The Same Operating System For Membership…
• Configure Custom MailTips In Exchange 2010…
• Possible Number Of Databases In Exchange 2010…
• Curious about Exchange 2010 Retention Policies?
• Installing Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 on DAG Members
• Exchange Server Forums
• Uncovering Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups (DAGs) (Part 1)
• Configuring the Native Exchange 2007 MP for OpsMgr 2007 R2 (Part 1)
• Exchange 2010 on Windows 2008 Server R2 Server Core ?
• Quick Post – Script to Create Lab Users – Powershell version…
• Protecting Exchange Server Data at Rest
• Finding High Item Count Folders Using the Exchange Management Shell
• Upgrading Exchange ActiveSync to Exchange 2010
• Exchange 2010 Update Rollup 1 is now released
• BlackBerry Enterprise Server fully supported on Exchange 2010

TechNet Magazine – Dezembro 2009

 

 

 

 

A edição de Dezembro da TechNet Magazine já está disponível para leitura online ou, se preferirem, podem fazer download em formato  HTML Help (ficheiro .chm) para consulta posterior.

Apesar de existirem bastantes artigos sobre Windows 7 e Windows Server 2008 R2, o meu destaque vai todo para estas 2 colunas bastante interessantes sobre Exchange Server 2010:

• Exchange 2010: A Closer Look - Microsoft’s latest Exchange features enable new levels of reliability, better performance, simplified administration, improved protection of communications, and greater business mobility for users. Read this article for the lowdown on what’s so great in Exchange 2010.
  by Henrik Walther
• Exchange 2010: Ensuring High Availability In Microsoft Exchange 2010 - Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 incorporates a number of new high availability features that system administrators will find useful, including a new database availability groups (DAG) feature.
  by William R. Stanek

eBook GRÁTIS: Exchange 2010 - A Practical Approach

Para todos aqueles que se sentem entusiasmados pela nova versão de Exchange Server, está disponível para download um eBook grátis: "Exchange 2010 - A Practical Approach" da autoria do MVP de Exchange  Jaap Wesselius.

The 180-page book from Red Gate Publishing provides practical information and pitfalls for system administrators who don’t have time to read a long textbook. Wesselius installs Exchange 2010 in various set ups and guides readers through the steps required for successful implementation.

An area of special focus is coexistence with past Exchange versions, which Wesselius describes as “by far the most difficult part of transitioning to Exchange 2010.”

Este eBook contém 5 capítulos:

• Chapter 1 is an overall chapter – what’s new in Exchange Server 2010 and what has deprecated with respect to Exchange Server 2007. Also there’s some information regarding Active Directory, the three containers in Active Directory and some information regarding Active Directory sites.
• Chapter 2 is an installation chapter dealing with a fresh installation of Exchange Server 2010 and the subsequent basic configuration to get it up and running.
• Chapter 3 is the coexistence chapter and it probably deals with most scenarios; installing Exchange Server 2010 in an existing Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange
  Server 2007 environment.
• Chapter 4 is about managing the Exchange environment using the Exchange Management Console, the Exchange Management Shell and the Exchange Control Panel. And, real cool in Exchange Server 2010, are the remote options in PowerShell version 2.
• Chapter 5 is the high availability chapter. It deals with the new continuous replication when using Database Availability Groups, the best Exchange Server high availability solution ever made.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Ensuring High Availability in Exchange Server 2010
• Moving Exchange to the Cloud, Part 1
• Microsoft Exchange/Outlook 2010 UC Mobile and Voicemail Features (Beta) Release!
• Microsoft Planning Exchange Server 2007 SP3 Next Year
• Visualizing Quota Information using Outlook 2010 and Outlook Web App
• PLEASE READ –> Events 9320 and 9359 on new installation of Exchange 2010
• Basic Powershell script to show appointments from a calendar using the EWS Managed API
• Using Contact photo's in EWS in Exchange 2010
• Exchange 2010 and InterOrg (IORepl)
• Message Moderation In Exchange 2010…
• Organization Tab In Outlook 2010 User Contact Card…
• Task - Configure Message Moderation For Dynamic Distribution Group In Exchange 2010…
• Message Moderation Is Not Working In 2007 & 2010 Mixed Organization…
• Deploying Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Part 4)
• Outlook Web Access Security Features (Part 3)
• Updates to the Exchange Supportability Matrix
• Upgrading Outlook Web App to Exchange 2010
• Exchange, meet ExFolders

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Announcing Microsoft Office 2010 Beta
• How to Find Exchange Server 2007 and Build Information
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 review
• How to REALLY make import / export mailboxes on Exchange 2010 work
• Exchange 2010: And then there is the long awaited cmdlet Add-MailboxFolderPermission
• How do I enable Exchange 2010 MWI with Call Manager 7.x?
• Upload picture in Outlook 2010 using the Exchange Management Shell (Exchange 2010)
• Exchange Server 2010: Database Availability Group
• 5 Tips to Protect Yourself From Spam Scams (That Don’t Quite Work)
• Send Emails Easily Using Powershell v2 Cmdlet Send-MailMessage…
• Error While Deleting The Default Mailbox Database In Exchange 2010…
• Behind the Music: Exchange 2010 Demo at TechEd Europe 2009
• Oh little Move-Mailbox -ConfigurationOnly switch, we hardly knew ye
• Exchange Backup and Restore - Streaming and Volume Shadow Service (VSS) Techniques
• Uncovering the new Exchange 2010 Volume Snapshot (VSS) Plug-in (Part 2)
• Exchange Admin's Holiday Gift Guide 2009
• How to Manage Groups that I already own in Exchange 2010?
• Transitioning Client Access to Exchange Server 2010
• Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 has been released

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator

Há algumas semanas atrás, a equipa de Exchange Server da Microsoft anunciou a disponibilização pública da ferramenta Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator. Agora já podemos começar a planear e a desenhar servidores de mailboxes Exchange Server 2010.

“With Exchange 2010 you can deploy a solution that leverages mailbox resiliency and has multiple database copies deployed across datacenters, implements single item recovery for data recovery, and has the flexibility in storage design to allow you to deploy on storage area networks utilizing fibre-channel or SATA class disks or on direct attached storage utilizing SAS or SATA class disks with or without RAID protection. But, in order to design your solution, you need to understand the following criteria:

• User profile - the message profile, the mailbox size, and the number of users
• High availability architecture - the number of database copies you plant to deploy, whether the solution will be site resilient, the desired number of mailbox servers
• Server's CPU platform
• Storage architecture - the disk capacity / type and storage solution
• Backup architecture - whether to use hardware or software VSS and the frequency of the backups, or leverage the Exchange native data protection features
• Network architecture - the utilization, throughput, and latency aspects

Previous versions of Exchange were somewhat rigid in terms of the choices you had in designing your mailbox server role. The flexibility in the architecture with Exchange 2010, allows you the freedom to design the solution to meet your needs.”

O post mencionado tem tudo o que é preciso saber sobre a utilização desta ferramenta. Para fazer o download da calculadora, basta seguirem este link.

TechNet Magazine – Novembro 2009

 

A edição de Novembro da TechNet Magazine já está disponível para leitura online ou, se preferirem, podem fazer download em formato  HTML Help (ficheiro .chm) para consulta posterior.

Se no número anterior o destaque foi todo para o Windows 7, nesta edição o seu irmão mais velho, Windows Server 2008 R2, é rei.

Mas Novembro é também mês da nossa coluna favorita sobre Exchange Server Q&A: Exchange Queue & A -Transitions and Migrations.

Boa leitura!

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• Unified Messaging (Voicemail) in Exchange 2010
• Understanding Shadow Redundancy in Exchange 2010
• Exchange 2010 RTM DAG using Server 2008 R2 – Part 4
• Introducing the Outlook Social Connector
• Review of Outlook Social Connector Provider Extensibility
• How do I disable these engine end-of-life notifications I am receiving from Antigen and Forefront?
• 11 Languages MUI out of the box
• Announcing the Outlook Social Connector
• Developing a provider for the Outlook Social Connector
• how to publish Exchange 2010 OWA behind ISA 2006 or TMG beta 3
• We Have Not Won The War On Spam
• OCS R2 Presence in Exchange 2010 OWA
• Understanding MailTips Architecture
• Bulk mailbox creation: Import passwords from a file
• Office 2010 Beta: Outlook 2010 Shines
• Finding Users Who Have “Out Of Office” Enabled In Exchange 2010…
• Uncovering the new Exchange 2010 Volume Snapshot (VSS) Plug-in (Part 1)
• Deploying Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Part 3)
• OCS Presence in Exchange 2010 in action
• Installation of OCS 2007 R2 Web Service Provider for Exchange 2010
• Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Service Provider
• How to Manage Groups that I already own in Exchange 2010?
• Installing Exchange 2010 Pre-requisites For Windows 2008 SP2…
• Script to install Exchange 2010 pre-requisites for Windows Server 2008 R2

Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 SP2

Já está disponível para download o Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB971534).

Overview
Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP2 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP2 customers.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB971534.
This update rollup does not apply to Exchange Server 2007 Release To Manufacturing (RTM) or Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). For a list of update rollups applicable to Exchange Server 2007 RTM or Exchange Server 2007 SP1, refer to the Knowledge Base article KB937052.

Para mais informações técnicas sobre os procedimentos de instalação, queiram por favor ler o seguinte tópico da Exchange Server 2007 Technical Documentation Library: How to Install the Latest Service Pack or Update Rollup for Exchange 2007.

Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams

Muito, muito bom! É o que apetece dizer depois de ver estes novos Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Transport Server Role Architecture Diagrams:

• Hub Transport Server Role Architecture
• Hub Transport Extensibility

Brief Description
This download contains architectural diagrams that illustrate the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server role and Hub Transport extensibility.

Overview
Many components are involved in the transport of messages through the Exchange Server 2010 mail flow pipeline. The Hub Transport server role diagram can help you understand the role each component plays in the processing of messages that enter the Exchange 2010 mail flow pipeline. Exchange administrators can use this information to help diagnose mail flow problems. The Hub Transport extensibility diagram can help you understand how the agents process a message that is in the Exchange 2010 mail flow pipeline. Developers can use this information to help create third-party agents and applications to work with Exchange 2010.

Forefront Security for Exchange Server 10.1 MP for OpsMgr 2007

Está disponível para download uma versão actualizada do Forefront Security for Exchange Server 10.1 MP for OpsMgr 2007.

Brief Description
The Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Management Pack monitors Exchange Servers for virus and worm activity.

Overview
The Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 supports the 10.1 version of Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1. The MP supplies critical events and alerts on virus and worm activity to Operations Manager 2007, and also monitors the health and availability of these products.
The Management Pack for Forefront Security for Exchange Server 10.0 can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=147D908C-9DC4-4F90-81B2-EE0764300BE2&displaylang=en
Management Pack Release History:
11/29/2007 Original release of English version of Management Pack. Localized versions of this MP scheduled for release in December 2007.

Recursos técnicos de Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

Agora que o Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server entrou em RTM, convém não esquecer de ler a respectiva documentação:

• Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Documentation - Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) provides fast and effective detection of viruses, worms, spyware and spam by integrating multiple scanning engines from industry-leading security partners in a single solution. Its comprehensive messaging protection includes integration with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange for the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering and content filtering to prevent out-of-policy content from entering or leaving your network. The documents available in this download include information about FPE deployment, operations, technical reference, and troubleshooting. This information is also available in the Microsoft TechNet Library at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=111583.

Existe ainda uma série de recursos técnicos adicionais que podem ser bastante úteis:

• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server RTM Capacity Planning Guidance
• Official Microsoft Site
• Trial download
• White Papers
• TechNet Library documentation
• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

Actualização do filtro Junk Email do Outlook (Novembro 2009)

Está disponível uma nova actualização para o filtro Junk E-mail do Outlook 2003/2007.

"This update provides the Junk E-mail Filter in Microsoft Office Outlook with a more current definition of which e-mail messages should be considered junk e-mail."

O download está disponível para as versões Outlook 2003 e Outlook 2007, ou através do Microsoft Update. Como é habitual, está acompanhado pelo respectivo artigo da Knowledge Base:

• Description of the Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Junk Email Filter (KB975960)
• Description of the Update for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB975958)

Exchange Server 2007 Management Tools (32-Bit) v685.25

As ferramentas de administração do Exchange Server 2007- Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Tools (32-Bit) v685.25 – estão disponíveis para download.

Brief Description
Exchange Server 2007 is a native 64-bit application that includes 64-bit management tools. You can use the management tools to administer your Exchange Server environment remotely. If the remote computer is running a 32-bit operating system, you will need to download the 32-bit management tools.

Overview
The Exchange management tools include the Exchange Management Console, the Exchange Management Shell, the Exchange Help file, the Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Tool, and the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant Tool.
The new Exchange Management Console (formerly named Exchange System Manager) provides Exchange administrators with a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage the configuration of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 organizations. For more information about the improvements to the Exchange Management Console, see New Administration Functionality in the Exchange Management Console.
The Exchange Management Shell is a new Exchange-specific command-line interface based on Microsoft Windows PowerShell, formerly codenamed “Monad”. You can use the Exchange Management Shell to run a single command or a series of multiple commands for managing your Exchange Server 2007 servers and objects. For more information about the Exchange Management Shell, see Using the Exchange Management Shell.

Documentação de Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE)

Para os interessados em Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE), também conhecido como Forefront Online Security for Exchange (FOSE), ex-Exchange Hosted Filtering (EHF), os seguintes downloads contêm a mais recente informação técnica:

• Setup Checklists: Microsoft® Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Exchange Hosted Archive 9.2 - Use the following setup checklists to help you set up the individual or combined services that you signed up for. You can choose from a combined setup checklist for both Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange and Microsoft Exchange Hosted Archive, or the checklists for each individual service.
• Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) 9.3 Product Documents – Product documents for FOPE 9.3 include the following: New Features Guide, Administration Center User Guide.
• New Features Guide: This 12-page guide provides up-to-date information about the latest features and changes for Microsoft® Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE), including new features of the Directory Synchronization Tool, new company filtering service settings, domain enhancements, and enhanced reporting features. You can use the information in this document to help prepare your messaging environment for updated services, and to communicate information to customers, partners, and employees.
• Administration Center User Guide: This guide provides in-depth information and instructions for using the Microsoft® Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) Administration Center, a Web-based tool that allows you to create reports and customize your e-mail filtering account services. It includes essential information for finding what you need in the Administration Center and using it to optimize your FOPE antispam, antivirus, filtering, user management, and reporting services, among others.

Leitura de fim-de-semana

• How to Achieve Optimal Availability for Microsoft Exchange
• Tony Redmond's Top 10 Things About Exchange 2010
• 12 Key Features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• Exchange 2010 Availability Announced at TechEd Europe
• What is the Mac experience with Exchange Online?
• Exchange 2010 RTM DAG using Server 2008 R2 – Part 3
• Using different versions of Microsoft Outlook for manager/delegate pairs
• The Total Economic Impact Of Microsoft Exchange 2010
• Email Protection in Forefront TMG 2010 Release Candidate
• Action Required by Dec. 1, 2009: Keep your Protections Current!
• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server now available!
• Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server RTM Capacity Planning Guidance
• Best Practices for Outlook 2007
• Microsoft Announces Exchange Server 2010 Availability and Wave of Innovations at Tech•Ed Europe 2009
• E-Mail 'Biggest' Security Risk, Microsoft Says
• Installing Exchange Server 2010 pre-requisites on Windows Server 2008 R2
• What’s the ROI of Exchange 2010..?
• Importing a file of bad words and phrases into the Content Filter in Exchange Server 2010
• Overview of Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication
• Reporting on Outlook Anywhere users from the IIS logs using Powershell
• Changing what OutlookAnywhere proxy a pc is using remotely via a script
• WebDAV Dropped In Exchange 2010…
• Shadow Redundancy In Exchange 2010…
• Deploying Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (Part 2)
• Exporting and Importing Mailboxes with Exchange Server 2010
• Exchange 2007 - Tracking and Analysing Large Mailbox Move Reports – using the ExchangeMoveMailboxTaskViewer Tool….
• Fix for 'The server name is invalid' error when installing Exchange 2007 Management Tools
• Exchange Server 2010 RTM Upgrade and Installation - Phase 3
• Speed up Outlook 2007 Access
• Exchange 2007 Will Run on Server 2008 R2 . . . Eventually
• Exchange Server 2010 is now available worldwide!
• Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator
• Announcing the Release of the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant
• New Content Available for Exchange 2010: Highlights
• Exchange anti-spam myths revealed

Exchange Server 2010 Language Pack Bundle

O Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Language Pack Bundle v14.00.0680.000 está disponível para download. Tenham em atenção que este não é o Language Pack de Unified Messaging! Para melhor compreensão, deixo-vos aqui um pequeno excerto do TechNet, Exchange 2010 Language Support:

An Exchange 2010 language pack contains the necessary resources for a supported Exchange language. Language packs can be installed during installation of Exchange 2010 or after Exchange 2010 has been deployed. Client and server language packs come grouped into a single bundle containing both client and server resource and support files. You can automatically download the language packs when you're running Exchange Setup.

For organizations that have users in multiple languages, we recommend that you do the following:

• Install the language pack bundle to provide localized messages on all server roles. This will provide localized messages for Microsoft Office Outlook Web App and Exchange Control Panel. There are no performance issues with installing all the languages because they're just stored when not in use.

Brief Description
This download contains the most recently updated language packs for Exchange 2010. The language bundle includes all packs for all supported languages.

Overview
This download is available to customers who would like to install the most recent languages packs for Exchange 2010. This bundle does not include language packs for Unified Messaging.

Exchange Server Inter-Organization Replication v06.05.7408

A ferramenta Microsoft Exchange Server Inter-Organization Replication v06.05.7408 está disponível para download. Sabiam que esta funcionalidade é agora fornecida nativamente pelo Exchange Server 2010? (para mais informações leiam o TechNet ou assistam a esta webcast).

Brief Description
Replicate public folder and free and busy information between Exchange organizations.

Overview
Use the Inter-Organization Replication tool to replicate free and busy information and public folder content between Exchange organizations. The tool allows for the coordination of meeting, appointments, contacts, and public folder information between disjointed Exchange organizations. The tool consists of two programs: the Replication Configuration program (exscfg.exe), and the Replication service (exssrv.exe). The Replication Configuration program creates a configuration file for setting the replication frequency, logging options, folders to be replicated, and accounts to be used. The Replication service continuously updates information from one server (designated as the Publisher) to one or more Exchange servers (designated as Subscribers).
Note The Inter-Organization Replication tool allows for detailed management of intra-organizational content access and security for files transported outside of the Exchange organization's security layer.