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This is a second part of a three-part series on Exchange 2007. The first part was titled: “Exchange 2007 Server Role Details and Comparisons”. This article discussed the five different Exchange 2007 server roles and how they fit into the messaging infrastructure. This second part will continue to discuss Exchange 2007 but from an Installation […]

For those of you that need to test such things as Migrations or Identity Integration using MIIS and find yourself with a need to virtualize Novell on a Virtual Server 2005 Host, you are out of luck right? Microsoft currently does not support Novell on Virtual Server 2005. However you can install Novell onto Virtual […]

Exchange 2007 Availability Service What we formerly new in Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 as the Schedule+ Free Busy is now known as the Availability Service The Availability Service is used to make free/busy information available for Outlook 2007 and Outlook Web Access clients. The Availability service provides free/busy information directly from the […]

The following will help you understand how the Notes and GroupWise connector works using X.400, synchronizes contacts and addresses free/busy. Note that the use of the MTS-IN and MTS-OUT always means you are using X.400 when addressing Exchange 2003 and 2000. In the case of using the Notes or GroupWise connectors, contacts are again created […]

When GAL Synchronization creates contacts from mail recipients in a source forest, it uses SMTP addresses to create a TargetAddress property for each contact. Therefore, when users in a forest send mail to a contact, the mail is delivered to the contact’s TargetAddress property, even if the user manually entered the primary reply address. To […]

So what is the main difference between these two products and when do you use one over the other? The Two flavors of Live Communication Server 2005 The Standard Edition is designed for smaller organizations with up to a maximum of 15,000 users while the Enterprise Edition is for larger organizations supporting upwards of 125, […]

So you need to completely isolate your LAB environment with no connectivity between the Production and Virtual Hosts. The customer states that we need connectivity to the Virtuals on the Virtual Host but the Virtuals themselves must not be able to directly communicate with the Virtual Host server which is also a member of the […]

Highly Available and Redundant Cluster continuous replication (CCR) is one of the high availability features of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 which includes the asynchronous log shipping and replay technology built into Exchange 2007. This technology removes the requirement for shared disk and duplicate hardware while providing for a highly available system to the databases themselves. […]

The five Exchange 2007 Server Roles It should be noted that four of the five Exchange 2007 roles can be homed on the same server. This includes the Client Access Server (CAS), Hub Transport Server (HTS), Mailbox Server (MBS) and the Unified Messaging Server (UMS). The Edge Transport Server cannot be a member of the […]

Introduction Follow the instructions in this article carefully when you upgrade from Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to the release version. The instructions are taken from "Joel Oleson’s SharePoint Land" blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo). I have added notes and made slight revisions where applicable. During upgrade, your farm will be offline for a period […]

I’ve been working lately on customizing the output of the Content Query Web Part that comes with MOSS. There are a couple of good walk-throughs out there that get you pointed in the right direction. (See http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/10/25/configuring-and-customizing-the-content-query-web-part.aspx and http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/stevenvandecraen/contentquerywebpart.mspx for example…) One thing that you run up against almost immediately is that in order to […]

Software Requirements for the Unified Messaging Server Role For computers that have the Unified Messaging server role installed, you must also install the following components: • Microsoft Speech service If you run the Exchange Server Setup wizard or if you perform setup from a command prompt, and you do not already have the Microsoft Speech […]