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Auditing Distribution Group Membership Changes

November 17, 2010

Exchange 2010 includes Administrator Audit Logging functionality to log all administrator actions. Because all administrator actions, including those taken using the EMC and the new web-based ECP consoles must fire off a Shell command under the hood, admin audit logging records cmdlets that can make changes (the ones that use the New and Set verbs, [...]

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Virtualizing Exchange? Microsoft addresses misleading VMWare guidance

November 9, 2010

Are you planning on deploying Exchange Server in a virtual environment, using hyervisors (aka hardware virtualization) such as Microsoft’s Hyper-V or VMWare’s ESXi/vSphere Hypervisor? Microsoft has frequently carried statements about supportability of Exchange Server in a hardware virtualization environment (see Microsoft support policies and recommendations for servers that are running Exchange Server in hardware virtualization [...]

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Exchange team posts guidance for the ASP.NET vulnerability

September 23, 2010

Late last week Microsoft released Microsoft Security Advisory (2416728), “Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure. The vulnerability is being investigated by the Microsoft Security Research Center (MSRC). The Exchange team has just posted guidance for Exchange customers. Head over to Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728, the ASP.NET Vulnerability, and Exchange Server for details. Microsoft to [...]

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Renewing Certificates: DigiCert impresses again with customer service

July 22, 2010

Have you had a service that uses SSL/TLS, such as Outlook Web App (OWA), Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), AutoDiscover, or perhaps just a web site, impacted due to an expired certificate? Validity of digital certificates must be monitored, just as we monitor domain name registrations and renewal dates. Overlooking the fact that certificates expire and need [...]

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iOS 4.0.1 Includes Exchange ActiveSync fix

July 15, 2010

Image courtesy Engadget: The iOS 4 issue wit Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) which resulted in iPhone 4 and other iOS devices running the OS not being able to sync with Exchange Server (see Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync), has been fixed in iOS 4.0.1. Earlier Apple released a configuration profile to change [...]

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Exchange Search: Searching Adobe PDF

July 8, 2010

Exchange Search is the little known, and mostly unappreciated feature of modern Exchange Servers— yes, we mean Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007. It’s different. It’s fast. It mostly works under the hood, without any sexy admin interfaces that would expose its features, functionality, and performance. In these days of ever-growing, large mailboxes (think 10 Gigabytes [...]

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Microsoft confirms iOS 4 ActiveSync Issues, helping Apple resolve them

July 1, 2010

Microsoft is working with Apple to help it resolve issues with iOS 4, Apple’s latest update to the iPhone OS, and Exchange ActiveSync. Earlier this week Apple released an update to fix some of these issues. See iOS 4 And Exchange ActiveSync on the Exchange team blog. Google and Exchange ActiveSync Last year, Google licensed [...]

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Apple fixes issue with iOS 4 and Exchange ActiveSync

June 28, 2010

Users of Apple’s new iPhone 4 phones or iPhone 3G, 3GS or iPod Touch users who upgraded to iOS 4 have been reporting issues synchronizing to Exchange Server using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). The issue with Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 4, also results in additional load on Exchange Server, which may cause performance issues [...]

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cc:Betty: A cool web app you may want to block

December 9, 2009

If you haven’t looked at Palo Alto-based cc:Betty yet, perhaps you should. cc:Betty promises to keep everyone on the same page. Still in beta, it’s a useful web app that helps users organize their email communication, collects email content, catalogs attachments and files, and also maintains your contacts. It’s also amazingly simple to use. Besides [...]

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Bulk mailbox creation: Import passwords from a file

November 16, 2009

Automating bulk mailbox creation required fairly advanced scripting skills in Exchange 2003/2000. Thanks to the Exchange Management Shell (aka “the shell”) in Exchange 2010 and 2007, this task is greatly simplified. It doesn’t require any advanced scripting skills and it can be accomplished by relative newcomers to Exchange Server with very little knowledge of the [...]

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