MailTips are a new feature to Exchange 2010 and for the first time in a released version are viewable and testable by you. The Exchange 2010 RC was release yesterday and I have had a chance to see what they can do. MailTips are manageable both at the Exchange Organization layer and at a per […]

If you’ve deployed Exchange Server 2007 for your UM platform to house your company voicemail and enable voice access to said mail and all the other sundry things involved, you may have noticed something. It looks, on initial blush that the CODEC used for the voicemail is a per dial-plan setting and can’t be customized […]

As a colleague recently discovered, losing your cell phone to a thief is a disheartening experience. If you ever find yourself in this situation, and in this case have had your smart phone (including an iPhone) connected to your companies Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 system you can find small amounts of solace in its ability […]

Today the topic is the way that PointBridge supports and encourages other users of Office Communication Server to communicate with us. We have turned on and support Open Federation. We have published the requisite DNS records and have the communication ports open to allow your OCS services to contact ours. The required DNS records are […]

I had occasion to need to allow a set of servers to send email into our environment adding them to allow lists. In Exchange 2007 this is done through the EMS (Exchange Management Shell) with the cmdlets of Get-IPAllowListEntry, Add-IPAllowListEntry and Remove-IPAllowListEntry. Obviously Get shows you the current list. Add obviosly adds and remove removes, […]

The CAS server role in Exchange 2007 takes over some of the services previously done by a Front-End server in Exchange 2003.Microsoft help describes the CAS as "Client Access Server This is the middle-tier server that hosts the client protocols, such as Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), Internet Message Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4), Secure Hypertext […]

Custom Content Types: As described in a previous blog titled “Office 2007 Features” the new way to create and deploy custom types and code in Office 2007 Server is to use Features. This blog describes how to build a custom Content Type and its deployment as a feature. The feature adds an additional item to […]

When you first install Microsoft Exchange Server, users have unlimited storage quotas by default. This presents several risks to the users on the same exchange server. To prevent these risks, consider setting a business policy on mailbox storage limits. Base this on user needs, departments, and position. Here are some of the identified risks: Risks: […]

As everyone knows, Windows Vista is the next generation client operating system for both the business and home computing environments. It has a long checkered history of feature cuts, delays, and both good and bad press. I don’t think people realize what a major re-write of the operating system Vista is. For example, the following […]

Let’s say you’re consolidating your Active Directory domains or merging with another company’s AD environment and you want to know if it’s possible to keep their same login IDs, etc. Sometimes it’s useful to know ahead of time whether or not this is possible. Some migration tools have mechanisms included to test for this, but […]

Let’s say as part of a migration you are changing login IDs for everyone but you want to continue to use the %USERNAME% variable to map their home drives, etc. Here’s an easy way to rename the existing home directories without losing rights assigned to them. The input file is a CSV file with the […]

Summary: AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers is often a necessary assembly attribute if you are developing SharePoint applications. Read about this uncommon but powerful Code Access Security related attribute. A quick look at the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers attribute One can write .NET code for a long time without bumping into the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers (APTC) assembly-level attribute, but once encountered it is rarely […]