Tuesday 21 April 2009

Introducing the Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.0 Beta

Exchange Team Blog - If you haven't heard the buzz yet about what is new with our Exchange 2010 developer story then head over to the Exchange Developer Center and start digging in to the Exchange Web Services Managed API Beta and our other ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Monday 20 April 2009

Exchange 2010: Hub Transport Role Installation Fails

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank - MVP) - It has been reported by many people that Hub Transport Role installation fails while starting MSexchangeTransport service and below error reported in setup window when you try to install ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Sunday 19 April 2009

Exchange 2010: What are your Admins doing?

ExchangeShare (Amit Tank - MVP) - A new feature of Exchange Server 2010 allows you to keep an eye on all the activities of administrators performed through Exchange Management Shell, Exchange Management Console, or by Exchange Web management interface and it is called Administrator Audit Logging...... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Saturday 18 April 2009

Exchange Server 2003 Shifts to Extended Support

Rui Silva - Exchange Server 2003 shifted into Extended Support on April 14, 2009. Details on the lifecycle policy for Exchange 2003 can be found at ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 Capacity Planning Tool

Microsoft has released the Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 Capacity Planning Tool. Overview: The new Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 capacity planning tool helps customers understand what hardware, architecture, and configuration settings will produce recommended ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Friday 17 April 2009

Beta Update & Your Questions

Exchange Team Blog - Wednesday was a big day for us, and I'm pleased to tell you that the response to Exchange 2010 has been awesome! In the last two days, more than 10,000 people have downloaded the beta. Along and with the 2,000+ educational institutions and 5 million people already testing Exchange 2010 as a service, we ..... read more.....

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"Can I install Exchange 2010 Beta in production?"

Exchange Team Blog - This question comes up during every Beta release (see here and here) and we have again seen it pop up in both Exchange 2010 forum as well as on our blog. The short answer is: No! Many people know that we run several ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Thursday 16 April 2009

Exchange 2010: Availability

Paul Down - Scott Schnoll and his posse delivered a great session on availability technology in Exchange 2010 at INTERACT yesterday. We've been using this technology for a while now at 3Sharp, and it really is very, very cool. So, the really big availability news in Exchange 2010 is the introduction of a new construct, the..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Wednesday 15 April 2009

Exchange Server 2010 Beta - Its Out !!!!!!!

Yes, Exchange Server 2010 Beta has been officially released by Microsoft today.
Here are some quick links for you: Exchange Server 2010 Home ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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How to Install Exchange Server 2010 Beta

Is this thing on - Now that Exchange Server 2010 is available to download and try in Beta format, I wanted to provide a quick blog on how to install the Exchange Server 2010 Beta.
Installing Exchange Server 2010 begins with installing and preparing the operating system. Exchange Server 2010 can be installed only on Windows Server 2008 Standard ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Presenting Exchange Server 2010

Exchange Team Blog - Over the past couple of years the Exchange Team has been hard at work building Exchange Server 2010. We are excited to announce an important milestone - we would like to share the Beta release with you today!
We have already discussed ..... read more.....

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Tuesday 14 April 2009

Thread Compressor for Microsoft Outlook

Rui Silva - Thread Compressor is an add-in to Microsoft Outlook, which removed unnecessary emails from a "thread" - reducing the amount of storage required (maybe keeping your mailbox within its size quota) and reducing the number of emails you need to read...... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Sunday 12 April 2009

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC Deployment Document (Part2)

Justin Gao - Microsoft(China) ..... read more.....

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Saturday 11 April 2009

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 RC Deployment Document (Part1)

Justin Gao - Microsoft(China) ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Friday 10 April 2009

VIDEO: How to configure Outlook Anywhere to work with a wildcard certificate

MSExchange.org - How to configure Outlook Anywhere to work with a wildcard certificate ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Thursday 9 April 2009

How to Move Exchange 2007 Log Files on a CCR Cluster

EXPTA {blog} - You cannot move the Exchange 2007 transaction logs to a different location while the CCR cluster is running. You must suspend the cluster, move the transaction log configuration *only* using EMS, and then resume the ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Wednesday 8 April 2009

TechNet Magazine – May 2009

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

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Tuesday 7 April 2009

Named Properties, X-Headers, and You

Exchange Team Blog - Coming soon to a roll up near you is a set of changes to the way that Exchange Server handles x-headers and named properties, specifically named properties that represent x-headers. This represents a change in behavior that has been this way for nearly a decade, so it bears explanation of the old way, the new way, ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Monday 6 April 2009

Exchange 2007 - Message Tracking Logs Corruption

Message Tracking Logs are one of the best friends of any Exchange Administrator, we need them day in day out. But what happens, if the logs start reporting partial issues. The Error: Couple of days ago, I was assisting someone, in resolving an issue in reporting the Message Tracking Logs. The error was something like this: Get-MessageTrackingLog : An internal processing error caused the search to fail At line:1 char:23 ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Sunday 5 April 2009

Exchange Alternatives @ SMB - Are they?

Was reading an Article at Network World, where they tested 6 Messaging Products against to Exchange features. The products tested were: CommuniGate Pro ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Saturday 4 April 2009

Quick Tip: Exchange 2007 – Using Template Databases…

Andy Grogan - Back in Exchange 2003 most of us will have used the concept of policies to apply global settings such as Limits, Maintenance Intervals and deleted item retention – and indeed I liked that feature very much as it was a good way to configure a number of settings across databases with a single click.
Of course with ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Friday 3 April 2009

Exchange Server 14 Ignite Workshops (Dallas and Orlando, April 2009)

Exchange Team Blog - In a time when your organization requires its communication tools to be adaptable and cost effective, Microsoft Exchange Server 14 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. Microsoft Exchange, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s unified communication solution, has long been the choice of organizations like yours to enable rich and productive ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Thursday 2 April 2009

On the bleeding edge of Enterprise email server UI...

Exchange Team Blog - We wanted to let you know of some exciting changes that we have decided to act on in Exchange future...Since the release of Exchange 2007, there was a lot of discussion about user interface options. GUI vs. Command Shell and all that ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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Wednesday 1 April 2009

Exchange Server Remote Connectivity Analyzer: Test Exchange from outside the firewall

ExchangePedia - Exchange 2007 brought with it a number of Exchange shell cmdlets that let you test Exchange functionality (scroll down to the end of this post for a list of the test cmdlets). But how do you test Exchange services are actually available and usable from the Intern ..... read more.....

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Nitin Gupta (gupnit)
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