Friday, January 28, 2005

Tarpitting harvesters with Exchange 2003 on Windows 2003

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New KB article ( KB.842851 ) covers a Windows 2003 hotfix to tarpit anyone harvesting addresses from Exchange. You want this one if you’re d...
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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Monad and E12 details

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At this website , there is a good deal of information on the forthcoming Monad Shell (MSH) that is slated to ship with E12.  This will be a ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2005

MS IT: Leveraging dual SMTP Virtual server approach for Exchange 2003 gateway perimeter system

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Here is a good basics article posted by Konstantin Ryvkin  on how to configure the Exchange Server 2003 Front End servers for better contro...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Microsoft Preps for Exchange 'E12'

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According to Microsoft Watch ... Next major Exchange update is still a year or two away. Before then, expect more Web tools and Servic...
Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Some more thoughts on disk IO and calculations….

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Nicole Allen  posted this on her blog back in November and I had read it back then but forgot to post it here.  Nicole has many great posts ...
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Confused by different public folder tools?

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Here is a great conparison between the most likely Public Folder tools available today posted by Bill Long . With all the various public ...
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BlogCast on using the Recovery Storage Group (RSG)

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This is a new term for an old way of demonstrating something - BlogCasting.  Posting a video screen capture with audio on a topic.  In this ...

Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool update 1.6.7.1

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In this ExBPA  update , these changes are available:  1.6.7.1 - Approximately 50 new rules added to detect the following conditions: Missin...
Monday, January 17, 2005

Is offline defragmentation considered regular Exchange maintenance?

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Every so often clients ask me - "How often do you recommend we run the offline defrag?" Meaning - how often do we run it to have t...

SMTP Session Tarpitting for Windows 2003 and Exchange

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A common strategy for increasing the cost of would-be mail abuse uses a technique called tarpitting. Mail servers that tarpit wait a specifi...

Need ExBPA? Go to www.exbpa.com !

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Courtesy of Paul Bowden , if you want to get information, updates or the ExBPA (Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer) tool itself, you c...

Upcoming February Webcasts

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Here are the Microsoft Webcasts for Exchange Server 2003 in February 2005: TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does Storage Design In Excha...

Upcoming January Webcasts Reminder

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Here are the Microsoft Webcasts for Exchange Server 2003 in January 2005: TechNet Webcast: Performance Tuning for Exchange 2003 (Level 300) ...
Thursday, January 13, 2005

Microsoft rules out new Exchange data store?

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SearchExchange.com released a story on Tuesday that says that rumors have been heard that MS has decided to not change the database engine ...
Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Exchange Special Mailboxes Part 3 - SMTP mailbox

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This post is the third post in a series. Special thanks to Scott Landry for his additions to this post. You may also be interested in the ...

Update for Outlook 2003 Junk Email Filter (KB890854)!!!

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Microsoft has released another Junk Email Filter update for Outlook 2003 .  Sure wish they would do so for Exchange 2003 IMF...  

Distribution Group Replication Issue and the ADC

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I have been looking into an issue at a client that has had me baffled.  I was seeing this event: Event Type: Error Event Source: MSADC E...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Report: New Compliance Regulations Cause Boom In E-mail Archiving

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InformationWeek posted an article yesterday saying that e-mail archiving applications sales increased from $33 Million in 2003, to $180 Mil...
Monday, December 27, 2004

How to check the progress of the Exchange Recipient Update Service

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In this KB http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246127 , we get a good description of how to check if the RUS is working...
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Configure IMF gateway settings per server?

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From http://blogs.msdn.com/evand/archive/2004/09/05/225916.aspx : Someone sent me email the other day asking about the global configuration...