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Intelligent Message Filter Overview
To provide Microsoft Exchange Server with some basic content filtering, Microsoft pulled from their wealth of experience with their spam-magnet known as Hotmail. Smartscreen technology is what they termed their set of algorithms developed to assess the probability that an email message was spam. With the goal of applying this heuristic filter technology across all
Continue reading: Intelligent Message Filter OverviewFiltering Email by Region in Exchange Server
A popular question on Exchange and Outlook forums is how to block email originating from specific countries. It is possible in both Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange, with varying degrees of success. Blocking email by country or region in Exchange Server IP addresses are allocated by geographical regions. It is possible to use Connection Filtering
Continue reading: Filtering Email by Region in Exchange ServerExchange High Availability – On the cheap
For many years, at least since Exchange Server 5.5, if you needed high availability for an Exchange Server – you built a cluster. Call it a Wolfpack cluster, a NLB cluster, a Windows server cluster – whatever. They are all the same, just by any other name. Any Windows-based cluster requires, at some level, at
Continue reading: Exchange High Availability – On the cheapExTRA! ExTRA! Read all about it!
Earlier this year, Microsoft released an update to yet another tool designed to help the Exchange administrator maintain a fully functioning and reliable Exchange organization. The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant (ExTRA) v1.1 complements the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) to provide extensive information on an Exchange installation. ExTRA installs on Windows with the Microsoft.Net Framework 1.1
Continue reading: ExTRA! ExTRA! Read all about it!Mixed History of Remotely Managing Exchange Servers
Remotely managing Exchange Servers over the years seems to fall into one of two options, with some variations. First, either install the management tools components on your local workstation or second, use terminal services (RDP remote desktop) to access the console. In this overview, I will look at those options and other adaptations. Installing Management
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Exchange 2007 Message Transport Rules
In Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003 it was challenging to manipulate e-mail messages as they were routed through the organization or as they passed through the gateway to and from the internet. In those versions, SMTP was managed by an extended implementation of IIS SMTP. Controlling SMTP messages in simple ways, such as
Continue reading: Exchange 2007 Message Transport RulesExchange 2007 Unattended Installation
For the average company that may deploy one or two Exchange Servers, perhaps there is sufficient paranoia that installing such a mission critical application requires personal attention throughout. For a larger company that is deploying several servers, especially where multiple servers host similar roles, there is the option of deploying Exchange 2007 using the unattended
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Configuring Outlook Anywhere Overview
Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 introduced a unique method for accessing Exchange server from both sides of the firewall securely without a VPN. RPC over HTTPS in Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007 is now called simply Outlook Anywhere. Rather than opening up several RPC ports, RPC is tunneled through HTTP. With SSL, only port 443
Continue reading: Configuring Outlook Anywhere OverviewBasic Preparedness and Setup for Exchange Server 2007
In Exchange 2003, an installation checklist guided the administrator through the prerequisites and installation of the various components of Exchange. In Exchange 2007, this checklist is more intrinsic to the setup process. Whether installing anew, migrating, upgrading or transitioning, there are basic steps performed through the Exchange Setup Wizard implemented as setup.exe. Prerequisites Hardware –
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Assigning Exchange Administrator Roles
Just as Microsoft introduced roles for Exchange 2007 installations, they also introduced specific roles for Exchange 2007 Administration. Assigning one of these roles replaces the Exchange Delegation Wizard from Exchange 2000/2003 and their three predefined levels of Exchange Full Administrator, Exchange Administrator and Exchange View-Only Administrator: Exchange Organization Administrators Exchange Recipient Administrators Exchange View-Only Administrators
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