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1317 days ago
Several good tools have been released or updated recently! - Exchange Best Practices Analyzer 2.6: www.exbpa.com - ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D22EC2B9-4CD3-4BB6-91EC-0829E5F84063&displaylang=en - MSH Beta 3.1 (and documentation): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=239a1116-c0f5-4320-84fc-2ad625ebb910&DisplayLang=en Windows Vista Build 5365 was released yesterday to Beta Testers. This is said to be the last build available for beta testing before Beta 2 which should be available in May 2006. When I get this build installed, I hope to write something about it. Until then...
1317 days ago
Two questions I am asked over and over again by my consultation customers are: - Can a disabled mailbox (a disabled mailbox enabled user) receive mail and otherwise function normally as a mailbox? - Why is the Application log of my Exchange server filled with events with ID 9548 stating that a disabled user does not have a master account SID? Even though it might sound that these questions have nothing to do with each other, they actually do. They both depend on the way that Exchange 2000/2003 handles disabled user accounts. But to get a better understanding, let me explain in a little more detail. When you disable a user account that is mail enabled (owns a mailbox), Exchange assumes that an Active Directory attribute called msExchMasterAccountSid is set on the user object. Usually msExchMasterAccountSid does not have a value, as a value will only be set on the attribute when you define either another account (from different forest) or the self identity as the ...
1346 days ago
I have been testing with Exchange 12 from December when it first came available to Beta program participants. If I would have to categorize my feelings on the product with just one sentence, I would say that the future of Exchange looks VERY, VERY promising. Many of the basic problems that Exchange 2000 and 2003 had, are now fixed (more or less), and the new functionality makes it possible to deploy Exchange in many scenarios that have previously required the use of shared storage clustering (continuous replication) or have been dominated by other SMTP implementations (Edge Transport Role). What is a bit shocking from my opinion, is that most of the media coverage on Exchange 12 has been about it only being available as 64-bit version. Some talk has been on the new client capabilities (OWA and Unified Messaging (voice mail access, fax and so on.), but nobody has really expressed what a major architectural change Exchange 12 will be. Some examples on this: Management is ...
1346 days ago
Microsoft Finland held their annual Technet PRO -seminar on 02.03.2006. I gave a presentation on how to secure Exchange access when clients are used through public networks. The slides of the presentation can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/finland/events/post/2006.asp#technet2006 . I will also be touring other cities in Finland during March as best pieces of the Technet PRO are also presented in Vaasa, Oulu, Kuopio, Tampere and Turku (my colleague Mika Seitsonen will be presenting in some of the cities).
1400 days ago
As I have been rather busy this January (mostly due to the merge of FCS Partners and Sovelto), some important releases almost slipped my attention. Microsoft Command Shell (Codename Monad) Beta 3 has been published. You can download it here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/msh/download.mspx There is also a new section in Windows Script Center talking about Scripting in Monad http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
