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Site News: RSS Feed Details

Site News: RSS Feed Details

As part of the migration of this site to the new domain name practical365.com I’m making some changes to also migrate the RSS feed in Feedburner.  I’m hoping that the outcome will be: Subscribers to the old feed will still receive updates New subscribers will go onto the new RSS feed I’ll be testing this […]

August 17, 2009
Site News: New Domain Name

Site News: New Domain Name

I just want to briefly mention that I have migrated this blog to its new domain name of practical365.com. At the same time I’ve changed the permalink structure and upgraded the WordPress version and the version of my theme as well.  Its risky making so many changes at once but I needed to do it […]

August 15, 2009
Spamhaus RBL Changes

Spamhaus RBL Changes

The Microsoft Forefront Server Security Support Blog points out that Spamhaus has recently phased out some of their RBLs. It’s come to our attention recently that Spamhaus has phased out the old SBL-XBL list, which has now been replaced by the ZEN list (named after a guard dog). If you’ve got Spamhaus configured in your […]

July 28, 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server Training Portal

Microsoft Exchange Server Training Portal

Microsoft has launched a dedicated training portal for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010.  You will find links to Technet document libraries, certification information, special offers, and eLearning catalogs for the Exchange Server product lines. Check it out here.

June 15, 2009
Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Announced

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Announced

Microsoft has announced that Service Pack 2 for Exchange Server 2007 will be released in Q3 of this year.  The MS Exchange Team has listed some of the key new features in their blog post here. A welcome addition is the new volume snapshot backup plugin for Windows Server 2008.  Currently Exchange Server 2007 cannot […]

May 22, 2009
No 32-bit Version of Exchange Server 2010?

No 32-bit Version of Exchange Server 2010?

The MS Exchange Team has written a blog post answering the question of whether or not a 32-bit version of Exchange 2010 will be released. Most people familiar with Exchange are aware that Exchange Server 2007 was the first version that required 64-bit hardware and operating system to run.  A 32-bit evaluation version was made […]

May 21, 2009
New Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging Features

New Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging Features

The Three UC Amigos talk about some of the new Unified Messaging features in Exchange Server 2010.  Read the full blog post here.  A few items that caught my attention were: New UM Administrator, UM Recipient Administrator, and UM Prompt Administrator roles so that UM management can be delegated properly. Personal auto-attendant. “Red lamp” or […]

May 12, 2009
Steve Riley Departs Microsoft One comment

Steve Riley Departs Microsoft

In a blog post today Steve Riley of the Trustworthy Computing Group announced his departure from Microsoft. Friends, as a part of Microsoft’s second round of restructuring, my position was eliminated yesterday and my employment with Microsoft has ended. While there were many rewards that came from my job, the most satisfying element was knowing […]

May 7, 2009
Exchange Server 2010 Database Names 2 Comments

Exchange Server 2010 Database Names

As with earlier versions of Exchange Server when you first install Exchange Server 2010 it configures the first mailbox database for you.  In Exchange Server 2007 this database was placed in a Storage Group called “First Storage Group” and was simply named “Mailbox Database”. This was not a problem in earlier versions of Exchange.  Databases […]

May 7, 2009