Saturday 28 February 2009

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 performance tutorial

SearchExchange - Monitoring, troubleshooting and enhancing Exchange Server 2007 performance can help optimize server functionality. Analyzing native and third-party tools, understanding hardware dos and don'ts and implementing configuration best practices are critical ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Friday 27 February 2009

How to Create and configure a meeting room mailbox with Exchange Server 2007

Exchange Team Blog - On a recent project I had to consider how to implement meeting rooms in Exchange 2007 SP1. I read all of the available TechNet articles and posts and then I realized that it was not necessarily easy to set up meeting rooms with correct policies on the first try. So, I made a synthesis on how to quickly create the meeting room of your dreams ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Thursday 26 February 2009

RMS vs. S/MIME: When to Use Each One

WindowsITPro - Before I get into this week's extended discussion on Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and Secure MIME (S/MIME), I wanted to mention the upcoming Spring 2009 edition of ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Wednesday 25 February 2009

It’s the binding order, stupid!

Rui Silva - Recently, when I was trying to enable the automatic anti-spam updates on an Exchange Edge server, I kept getting this error: Enable-AntispamUpdates : An error occurred while accessing the registry of the specified server: "E2K7EDGE". The error message: "The network path was not found."..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Tuesday 24 February 2009

Enterprise Communications Support moving to call-back model

Exchange Team Blog - On March 9th, 2009 the Professional level "Enterprise Communications Support" business at Microsoft will transition to a call-back model for all Professional support incidents in the United States ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Sunday 22 February 2009

Transport Rules - Conditions | Actions | Exceptions

What a Transport Rules - They are a new feature included as a part of Exchange Server 2007. For any e-mails that come in, go out or routed via an Exchange 2007 organization, using Tranport Rules we can apply messaging policies, and varoius AV/AS restrictions ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Saturday 21 February 2009

Maximum number of members in a Distribution Group?

Exchange Team Blog - We frequently get this question in many newsgroups and forums - what's the maximum number of members you can add to a Distribution group? The member attribute of groups - both Distribution and Security groups, is a multi-valued attribute. So the answer is more about how many values can a multi-valued Active Directory ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Friday 20 February 2009

Are Distribution Groups really being used?

ExchangePedia - Over the years, you end up creating a large number of Distribution Groups based on user demands. The regular departmental Distribution Groups such as Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and HR. The geographical ones such as AllUS, All-California, All-BayArea, and so on. The ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Wednesday 18 February 2009

Replacing Exchange 2003 Frontend OWA Server with Exchange Server 2007 Client Access Server

MSExchange.org - A lot of companies are still running on an Exchange Server 2003 environment (which has been deployed some years ago now) and the design aspects and recommendations that have been issued were only suitable at that time. This means that many may be ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Tuesday 17 February 2009

Applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6

ExchangePedia - Perhaps I should have picked another day for applying Exchange 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 6. I ran into the services not starting issue documented in KB 944752 Exchange Server 2007 managed code services do not start after you install an update rollup for Exchange Server ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Sunday 15 February 2009

A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 2)

MSExchange.org - Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, covering the Hub Transport and Client Access Server installation as well as preparation of the CCR environment ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Saturday 14 February 2009

Virtualization Series (MS ASAPPro)

With Virtualization virtually an integral part of today’s infrastructure and almost all solutions utilizing the technology with various objectives like Cost/Go-Green/Consolidation ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Friday 13 February 2009

Exchange Server 2007, OWA and ISA Server 2006 - Part 2

ExchangeExchange - This is my second post outlining the configurations necessary to publish Exchange Server 2007 OWA in a DMZ with ISA Server 2006 in a workgroup configuration, in particular how this differs from the TechNet procedures documented here. In th ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Thursday 12 February 2009

Did pigs fly? Exchange embraces FireFox, Safari

ExchangePedia - It was a common belief Microsoft would never support the premium Outlook Web Access (OWA) experience on web browsers other than Internet Explorer (IE). OWA Premium ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Wednesday 11 February 2009

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 - Update Rollup 6

Yes, it has been released. Download it from this Download-Link Like previous Rollups, I must mentioned again that Update Rollup 5 is a cumulative update and only ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Tuesday 10 February 2009

TechNet Magazine – March 2009

Rui Silva - The March edition of TechNet Magazine is now available online or, if you prefer, you can download as an HTML Help .chm file for offline reading.
This issue ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Monday 9 February 2009

MS Press Book, Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions, available for Free Download

Harold Wong - I just received an email about an MS Press book that is available for free downloading. Understanding ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Saturday 7 February 2009

Exchange Server 2007, OWA and ISA Server 2006 – Part 1

ExchangeExchange - Yes, I'm back after another long absence. I thought I'd start up my blogging again by talking about my experiences with publishing Exchange Server 2007 OWA in a DMZ with ISA Server 2006. This has been documented to some extent on TechNet and a few other places ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Friday 6 February 2009

How To: Customize RBL Rejection Response in Exchange 2007

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank) - When RBL is configured in Exchange Server and any message gets blocked, sender gets the bounce back response. This response can be customize to provide some vital information to sender like which IP blocked, why and where so it makes easier for them to go ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Thursday 5 February 2009

Introduction to Exchange Online - Uncovering BPOS (Part 1)

MSExchange.org - As some of you probably recall, back in September 2007, Microsoft laid out the next phase in its strategy for online services, offering a road map for new offerings that synthesize client, server and services software for people and businesses ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Wednesday 4 February 2009

Continous prompting in Outlook Anywhere

Exchange-Genie - had not brought this up as I thought RU5 was suppose to have the fix in it however I just was on a call and it sounds like this was never added to the current RU.
There is an issue ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Tuesday 3 February 2009

Managed Folders: Why aren't Calendar items expired?

ExchangePedia - You're testing Exchange 2007's Messaging Records Management (MRM) features to implement your organization's messaging retention policies.You ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Monday 2 February 2009

Got Checklists?

Exchange Team Blog - Did you notice the checklists in the blog post "Should You Virtualize Your Exchange 2007 SP1 Environment?" Did you think those were a pretty handy thing to have? Turns out you're on to something. Recently, th ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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http://www.nitingupta.in/blogs

Sunday 1 February 2009

How to Configure Autodiscover Service for Cross Forest Mailbox Move

In one of my previous Articles I had discussed the Auto-discover Service, a new feature that provides Exchange features like Offline Address Book, Availability Service and UM, along with very easy and simple configuration of profiles ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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http://www.nitingupta.in/blogs