Flashy graph proves Microsoft virtualisation more cost effective than VMWare
You can’t argue with this Dan. Source
February 25, 2008
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New Exchange, SharePoint, and Forefront content on Technet
Microsoft have released some great new content on a few of the Technet blog sites. What’s new when Installing Ex2007SP1 CCR on a WS08 Cluster – Brett Johnson walks us through some of the key differences when deploying an Exchange 2007 SP1 CCR cluster on Windows Server 2008. Forefront – The New Keyword Filter Example […]
February 19, 2008
Protect your Exchange database from accidental deletion
Its so simple I don’t know why I’ve never thought of this before.
February 12, 2008
Project Coconut: An Exchange Server 2000 to 2007 Transition – Introduction
Did you say Project Coconut!?! Yes I did. The name came about basically like this: Paul: Hey Steve, I need a good codename for this Exchange project. What do you think? Steve: Project Coconut. Paul: …. okay then. Considering who I asked it could have been much worse. Project Coconut… what is it? Project Coconut […]
February 10, 2008
White Paper: Configuring Virtual Organizations and Address List Segregation in Exchange 2007
Microsoft has released their own white paper containing guidance on configuring Exchange 2007 for Address List separation. This is something that was pretty easy in Exchange 2003, but suddenly made a lot more complicated and less obvious in Exchange 2007. A bunch of home brew solutions came about some time after Exchange 2007 was released […]
February 8, 2008
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 disables Exchange Anti-spam updates
Here is the anti-spam configuration on an Exchange Server 2007 RTM server: [PS] C:\>Get-AntispamUpdates UpdateMode : Automatic LatestContentFilterVersion : 3.3.4604.600 SpamSignatureUpdatesEnabled : True LatestSpamSignatureVersion : 3.3.4604.600 IPReputationUpdatesEnabled : True LatestIPReputationVersion : 3.3.4604.001 MicrosoftUpdate : NotConfigured And here is the same Exchange Server 2007 server immediately after upgrading to Service Pack 1: [PS] C:\>Get-AntispamUpdates UpdateMode : […]
February 6, 2008
Restricting outbound email with Exchange Server 2007 Transport Rules
In prior versions of Exchange an organisation that wished to restrict who could send outbound internet emails could apply the restriction on an SMTP connector. In this example emails sent to the * address space are rejected by default unless sent by a group listed in the “Accept messages from:” list, for example a group […]
February 5, 2008
Blogs I read
This blog is mostly about my Microsoft server technologies and things I encounter in my day job in IT. To keep up with this field I am subscribed to a number of blogs and I try to set aside some time to read the latest posts each day. But since I am blogging I also […]
January 31, 2008
Web sites know your OS, right?
I’m no programmer but I’ve seen demonstrations of web page code that allows a web site to detect your operating system, browser version, and other details that annoy privacy nutters. The sites can then (if they feel like it I suppose) use that information to tailor the web content to suit the client (eg, why […]
January 17, 2008
2007 roundup
2007 was the second year for this web site. I started it in 2006 using Mambo as the CMS and mostly writing longer articles and guides. This proved impractical after a while. My work lends itself to writing more quick fix posts for rare or obscure problems. I fill in the rest of my posting […]
December 30, 2007
Checking currency of Exchange Server 2007 Anti-Spam signatures
Last week I wrote a post on what is missing from Exchange Server 2007 Anti-Spam. A short time afterwards Evan Dodds wrote back to me with an answer to the issue. One could write a simple script to check what updates are available on MU in certain categories, etc. Sample VB script code is available […]
December 10, 2007
What is missing from Exchange Server 2007 Anti-Spam
I’ve been searching all over the Microsoft website for a KB article, Technet article, or any other page that will list the current version of the various Exchange Server 2007 anti-spam signature releases. I realise that in any given day these can update dozens of times, but it is still a bit frustrating not having […]
December 4, 2007