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What it takes to be an MVP

J. Peter Bruzzese from Exclusively Exchange writes about what he has discovered about Microsoft MVPs. Bharat explained that all of the things I’m doing are for personal gain. The core spirit of the MVP program is that of sharing freely, giving back to the community, and helping others without gain.

December 11, 2008

NASA upgrades to Exchange Server 2007

NASA is kicking off a four month project to migrate their messaging systems to Exchange Server 2007. NASA’s Operational Messaging and Directory (NOMAD), an Agency-wide messaging and collaboration system, provides Email, Calendaring, Webmail (Outlook Web Access – OWA), Instant Messaging (IM), BlackBerry, Treo and Windows Mobile Devices for approximately 50,000 users across the Agency. Starting […]

December 11, 2008

The many faces of SharePoint

Did you know that SharePoint is behind several of Microsoft’s online services?  If you didn’t then check out this post at the Microsoft Office SharePoint Blog. Link: The many faces of SharePoint

November 27, 2008

Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery (Book)

Dan lets us know that the book Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy written by local guru Preston De Guise is available now.  The book is a platform-agnostic guide to comprehensive backup and recovery systems and should be compulsory reading for IT decision makers. In the author’s own words:   Instead of […]

November 25, 2008

Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Update Rollup 5 released

The Microsoft Exchange Team has announced the release of Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2007 SP1.  The update is available now at the Download Center and will make its way to Microsoft Update in the next 2-3 weeks. The support article describing the hot fixes included in the rollup can be found here, and […]

November 24, 2008

Next version of Exchange Server in 2010?

Paul Thurrott has posted a screenshot of the Microsoft Download Center in which the next version of Exchange may have been inadvertently revealed.  The image shows “Microsoft Exchange Server 2010” in the product list. If this is accurate then we might expect to see the next version of Exchange released late next year (Exchange Server […]

November 22, 2008

Unable to enable Offline Address Book for web distribution

You may encounter an issue with Exchange Server 2007 organisations that have been migrated from previous Exchange versions where the Default Offline Address List cannot be enabled for web distribution, even after the OAB has been moved to an Exchange Server 2007 server. In the Exchange Management Console the check box to enable web distribution […]

November 20, 2008

Exchange Server 2007 CCR recommendations

From Tales of a System Administrator come these recommendations for Exchange 2007 CCR deployments:   Having had Cluster Continuous Replication in place now for about a year, I’ve derived some of my own best practice recommendations that might not be found within the official Microsoft documentation. Although these recommendations are based on a very solid […]

November 18, 2008

SharePoint Security Resources

Microsoft provides two useful resources for MOSS security: Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (downloadable book) Office SharePoint Server Security Account Requirements (worksheet) Link: John Westworth’s blog on Technet

November 17, 2008

Web host closure leads to 70% drop in global spam

From the BBC:   The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail. Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug on the firm McColo following an investigation by the Washington Post newspaper. Anti-spam firm Ironport has […]

November 14, 2008

Microsoft releases Small Business Server 2008

I’m going to get laughed at by my colleagues for posting this, but I’m excited that Microsoft has released Small Business Server 2008. SBS 2008 comes in two versions, the Standard version includes: Windows Server 2008 Exchange Server 2007 (Standard Edition) Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Windows Software Update Services 3.0 The Premium edition includes a […]

November 13, 2008

Have you heard?

Microsoft only supports the 64-bit version of Exchange Server 2007 for production environments.  The 32-bit version is only for test, development, or training environments.  Definitely something you would want to know before launching into an Exchange Server 2007 deployment.

October 21, 2008