A lot of businesses want to be able to track who accesses mailboxes in the organization, and who takes certain actions such as deleting mailbox items. This is particularly true where mailboxes are accessed by delegates, for example when a senior manager has several people who access and manage their mailbox, or for shared mailboxes such as those used by sales and support teams.
Support for public folders in Exchange Server 2010 can be unclear for some customers since Microsoft began de-emphasizing them in Exchange 2007.
In the Exchange Management Console when a mailbox is selected the actions pane shows two tasks; Disable and Remove. These two tasks are often misunderstood by new Exchange administrators.
Exchange Server 2007 introduced a new roles-based server architecture that is continued with Exchange Server 2010. An Exchange 2010 server is installed only with the roles you choose which has advantages for configuration, security, management and performance.
One of the first things my customers notice when I demonstrate Exchange Server 2010 management to them is that mailboxes are no longer created or managed in the Active Directory Users & Computers console.
Learn which editions of Exchange Server 2010 are required for the different server roles and high availability features.
What are the server hardware requirements that organizations need to be aware of when planning their Exchange Server 2010 migration project.
In this tutorial two methods of moving public folder replicas from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010 are demonstrated.
This tutorial demonstrates how to use a text file with a list of mailbox names as the input for an Exchange Server 2007 or 2010 mailbox migration using PowerShell.
For an Exchange administrator there are a lot of different situations in which they may need to know how many mailboxes are in the organization. Fortunately this is made easy in Exchange Server 2010 with a few simple PowerShell commands.
Microsoft has released this video from MCM instructor Brian Reid about the header firewall, part of the Exchange Transport architecture that is covered in the Microsoft Certified Master program in depth.
As IT professionals we perhaps hold a slight advantage over the average person when it comes to being prepared for a disaster. A lot of you deal with disaster planning and readiness on a daily basis in your jobs. Those same skills can, and should be put to use for your own personal life as well.
