Exchange Server Info

Transition from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010 - Part2

Ismail Mohammed — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:14:00 GMT

Installation of Exchange Server 2010

Before I could go ahead with the installation of Exchange Server 2010, I would like to let you know that scope of this article –
After going through this article you will have the basic knowledge about the installation of exchange server 2010 with co-existence of Exchange 2003, how to move mailboxes, public folder, OAB, creation of connector in Exchange server 2010 and finally we will decommission the exchange 2003 server from one organization.

Transition from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010-Part-1

Ismail Mohammed — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:10:00 GMT

Transition from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2010-Part-1

A Brief Overview on Exchange Server 2010 Product

Before the release of Exchange Server 2010, we had deep dive on Exchange Server 2003 Transition to Exchange Server 2007.

BITPro User Group meet on 13th March, 2010

Ismail Mohammed — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:40:27 GMT

Remote Shell Connection in Exchange 2010

Ismail Mohammed — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:28:00 GMT

Remote Shell Connection in Exchange 2010

Remote Shell connection is a new feature which enables the administrator to connect to the exchange server remotely over the network which can be Lan\Wan.

New Features in Exchange 2010

Ismail Mohammed — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:25:00 GMT

New Features in Exchange Server 2010

Exchange Server 2010 beta has been released and I am sure many of our administrators started to make their hand dirty with Exchange Server 2010 lab.

Windows 7 Community Launch Party

Ismail Mohammed — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:49:00 GMT

Uninstalling Exchange from Clustered Environment - CCR

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:04:00 GMT

Uninstallation of Clustered Mailbox Server from a CCR environment Cluster is a one of virtual mode creation where we create one sort of link between two or more computers so that if one server goes down other server should take ownership. It is not so easy to achieve this sort of solution which is so called as High Availability....

Automate Out of Office

Sanjay Pasupuleti — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:15:00 GMT

'Is it possible to automate out of office upon outlook exit'? The answer is YES, it can be easily accomplished with few easy steps

Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) and Exchange Co- Existence - Part 2

Milind Naphade — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:45:00 GMT

Continuing the previous part Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) and Exchange Co- Existence - Part 1, in this part of MSCS and Exchange Co-Existence with them we will look at some more concepts of failover clustering. Unlike the cluster components explained in part1 there are cluster objects which are visible, configurable and give administrative access to the actual cluster components. They work as an interface between cluster components and the physical objects that constitute a cluster.

Good-to-know Powershell CMDLETS & Procedures

Dominic Savio — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:09:00 GMT

Some Useful Powershell CMDLETS...

Steps to Upgrade from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 on Client Access Server (CAS)

Shailesh Nariani — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:48:00 GMT

I’ve successfully upgraded my Exchange 2007 Server to Exchange 2007 Server Service Pack 2 in my environment and have put down the steps/screens for your reference. Hope it’s helpful.

TROUBLESHOOTING FREE/BUSY ISSUES IN EXCHANGE 2003 SERVER

Dominic Savio — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:10:00 GMT

Troubleshoting Calendar and Freebusy is a pain task for many Exchange Admins.

Restoring an Exchange Server on a single server versus cluster

Dominic Savio — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:39:00 GMT

Recovery on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 cluster is bit different from a non clustred Exchange Server.

HOW TO RESOLVE 9667 Events in Exchange 2003 & Exchange 2007 Servers.

Dominic Savio — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:33:00 GMT

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service maintains a table of named properties for each database.

Different Ways to Increase Diagnostics Logging on Exchange 2007 Server

Dominic Savio — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:28:00 GMT

Diagnostic logging is a troubleshooting mode. When diagnostic logging is enabled, you get more than normal data in your application logs. This additional or excess information is very useful when troubleshooting. Have a look at this article and comment for feedback. :)

How to use Outlook Flags

Sanjay Pasupuleti — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:18:00 GMT

Basically outlook flags are used to Follow up & to Keep track of Records. Generally we either mark messages as 'Unread' or move to a specific folder which requires Attention later or High Importance so that we can easily find the message. Outlook Flags are an alternate for this type of Tasks.

Exchange 2007 Service Pack2 Features

Ismail Mohammed — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:58:00 GMT

No doubt about the Exchange 2007 success in the market. It is being one of the Rocking product in the Microsoft Exchange yard. We have seen Exchange 2007 product, then Exchange 2007 with sp1 and then latest Rollout 9. Now it is a time to go with Exchange 2007 Sp2

Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) and Exchange Co- Existence - Part 1

Milind Naphade — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Let’s take a look at the server cluster now. How it looks and how it is designed to share its resources with other nodes. Got interested ? Read on .. click on More....

Installation and configuration of Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) on Windows Server 2008 (Part 1)

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:28:00 GMT

After the release of Exchange 2007 we are benefitted with lots of several advanced features, flexibility and stability in the Exchange era. As compare to Exchange 2003, this exchange 2007 cluster configuration has become much easier and wide open option for bringing the second server online with the upmost data available reducing the downtime into several seconds over the LAN\WAN by mode of continuous replication (Log Shipping Technology).

Extracting Distribution List information in Exchange

Sandeep Narkhede — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:34:00 GMT

Here is a Script that extracts all DL's ( including Query based), their DL managers, number of members & the restriction if any on the DL's .needless to say this was one of the task I loved

What to backup on Exchange Server 2007 Roles

Abhijeet Nigam — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:02:00 GMT

Exchange Server 2007 still uses ESE Engine so backing up the mailbox server role is same as Exchange Server 2003 i.e. backup the database using ESE API or VSS

Modify : Outlook Default Folder

Dominic Savio — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:16:00 GMT

When you open Outlook in XP and Vista, the default folder that you get to view is the Inbox.

Converting LDAP filters to OPATH filters

Dominic Savio — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:18:00 GMT

OPATH is basis for the filtering syntax used by PowerShell, and is therefore the filtering syntax used by Exchange 2007.

How to cmdlets

Dominic Savio — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:05:00 GMT

Automatic Drive Mapping using Logon Script

Sandeep Narkhede — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:07:00 GMT

Drive Mapping,Logon Script | Problem and Solution.

PST file size differences

Dominic Savio — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:52:00 GMT

Installation, Configuration and Deployment of Software Updates – SCCM 2007 -Part3

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:02:00 GMT

Installation, Configuration and Deployment of Software Updates – SCCM 2007
Configuring Software Update & Deployment Procedure - Part 3

Installed SQL with sp2
Installed WSUS 3.1
Installed SCCM
Installed SUP
Configured SUP
Synched WSUS with Ms Updates
Downloaded all the critical & security updates for Windows XP

Now it’s a time to push the updates to the client. The major requirement for client machine – it should have internet connectivity to download the updates or atleast source path from where it should download those updates and other thing Configuration Manager Software needs to be installed. One of the major reason why we need configuration manager interms of Software updates is Windows Update Agent (WUA) 3.0 is required on ...

Exchange Server 2010 Beta EMC - Overview

Milind Naphade — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:14:00 GMT

Microsoft released Exchange Server 2007 with a whole new architecture and several changes in server roles, transport, security models, cryptographic stuff, and much more. Now, everything that has been changed or has left unchanged needs a very good interface to manage everything that you get. A full featured product but a poor management tools is as good as having crores of dollers in your bank account but you dont know where to use them. Microsoft Exchange offered two different management consoles to manage the server(s) first time in Exchange Server 2007. Compared to the management ease offered by legacy consoles like Microsoft Exchange System Manger, Exchange Management Console of exchange server 2007 could not prove its efficiency as a powerful GUI based management ...

Installation of Exchange Server 2010 Beta - Awaiting Technology

Ismail Mohammed — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:07:00 GMT

Exchange 2010 – Awaiting Technology

Schema Master : Windows Server 2003 either standard or enterprise edition, recommendation have “window server 2003 with sp2”, this can be either 32-bit or 64-bit.
Global Catalog Master : Windows Server 2003 either standard or enterprise edition, recommendation have “window server 2003 with sp2” this can be either 32-bit or 64-bit.
The Active Directory domain & forest functional level must be Windows Server 2003-native or higher for all domains in the Active Directory forest where you will install Exchange 2010.
Upgrade Schema - /prepareschema
Exchange Security Groups & Permission : /PrepareAD
LegacyExchange Support : /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions

Existing Exchange 2003 in the Domain:

If you have exchange 2003 in the organization then ensure that:

...

Installation, Configuration and Deployment of Software Updates – SCCM 2007-Part2

Ismail Mohammed — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:40:00 GMT

                                    Installation, Configuration and Deployment of Software Updates – SCCM 2007-Part2
                                            Installation of Software Update Point and Software Update Synchronization

In my last article I explained about the basic overview of software updates and installation of WSUS. In this article I will show you how to install software Update Point (SUP) and Synchronization Process.

Installation of Software updates point:
The SUP role needs to install on the sccm server before the software updates can be synchronized and deployed on the client computers.

Software Update Point Requirements:
 Install WSUS 3.0 for RTM or WSUS3.0 sp1 for SCCM Sp1
 If you have WSUS on different server and SCCM going to be installed on different server then you need to have atleast WSUS console to be installed
 Important thing internet connection, allow atleast vendor ...

Installation, Configuration and Deployment of Software Updates – SCCM 2007 - Part1

Ismail Mohammed — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:27:00 GMT
P>Installation, Configuration and Deployment of Software Updates – SCCM 2007

Overview of software updates
Certain Prerequisite for Software Update
Installation of WSUS

Installation of Software Update Point and Software Update Synchronization - Part 2

Installation of Software Update Point
Configuration of WSUS
Software Update Synchronization

Configuring Software Update & Deployment Procedure - Part 3

Configuration for Software updates
Creating Search Folder
Creating Software Update list
Deployment of Software Updates
Client End Configuration Verification (Just for Test computer)
Troubleshooting yard for software updates
Software Update Report

Support hand for this article: Gireesh Mani, he is a colleague working with me for SCCM, his valuable time and knowledge is very much appreciated for helping me to prepare this article.

                                        Overview of Software Updates & Installation of WSUS 3.0 - Part 1

What is Software Update?
Software Update is nothing but to install certain updates like critical, security, service pack for any installed product like OS or application which is provided by respective vendor for increase the reliability and performance of the products.

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 software updates feature help the IT Administrator with the set of tools and resources which will push those updates over the network during the specific time, apply those software updates on the target computers.

Overview of Software Update
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2003:

Update Binaries :

Deployment : .

How to and FAQ on MRM for Exchange 2007

Dominic Savio — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:40:00 GMT
Some quick stuff...

How to and FAQ on MRM for Exchange 2007

Q: How do I migrate or import/export mailbox manager policies in Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007.

Ans: You cannot move, migrate or do an import/export using any third-party utilities.

Troubleshooting Delayed Mailflow from relay server to E2K7 Hub Transport

Sandeep Narkhede — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:26:23 GMT
Recently I've had a problem with my E2K7 environment which is still in the migration phase.

Exchange 2007 Services and it's Functions

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:23:00 GMT

                                                                Exchange Services in Exchange 2007 and it’s functions

In this article you will see the description on Exchange 2007 Services which are responsible for Client Access Server, Hub Transport Server, Mailbox Server, Edge Server and Unified Messaging.

This article is purely published on the basis of event triggered from my virtual lab. Event id whatever you see in your production environment may vary compare to this however the function of each service will remain the same.

1) Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology :
This service is responsible to provide the information of Active Directory Information to Exchange Server Components. This service need to be started on the client Access Server, Hub Transport Server, Mailbox Server and Unified Messaging Server. It doesn’t depend on dependency inorder to start. However there ...

Exchange 2007 Services and it's Functions

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:23:00 GMT

                                                                Exchange Services in Exchange 2007 and it’s functions

In this article you will see the description on Exchange 2007 Services which are responsible for Client Access Server, Hub Transport Server, Mailbox Server, Edge Server and Unified Messaging.

This article is purely published on the basis of event triggered from my virtual lab. Event id whatever you see in your production environment may vary compare to this however the function of each service will remain the same.

1) Microsoft Exchange Active Directory Topology :
This service is responsible to provide the information of Active Directory Information to Exchange Server Components. This service need to be started on the client Access Server, Hub Transport Server, Mailbox Server and Unified Messaging Server. It doesn’t depend on dependency inorder to start. However there ...

Messaging Record Management

Ismail Mohammed — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:18:00 GMT

                                                                            Messaging Record Management

Messaging Record Management (MRM) helps us to keep the messages that are need to comply with company policy, government regulation or legal needs and to remove those messages which are not required by the organization as per their policies. This is achieved by the mode of one folder which is being created under users mailbox called as "Managed Folder " which work as per the content setting applied on it. Messages under Messaging Record Management are processed as per the policy applied on it when it reaches to retention period either it can be moved to the deleted items folders, or to a managed custom folder, permanently deleted, marked as past retention limit or delete and allow recovery.

Activities which can be achieved by ...

Advantages of Windows Server 2008 Core Server

Abhijeet Nigam — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:25:00 GMT

In my previous Blog http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2008/05/21/windows-server-2008-core-server.aspx
I mentioned about not so attractive features of Windows Server 2008 Core Server . Definitely over thick line those comments are realistic however I always had this in mind that there must be something behind this concept of core server. Microsoft will not brand something without any real cause.

The biggest advantage I see about Core Server is the scenarios in which we can install core server.

Here is one I have in my mind.

Scenario :

I am Admin in XYZ company and they have a branch office at a distant location. As company doesn't want to invest a lot on IT infrastructure for remote office and expects to me to manage the servers for that location. They want me ...

Real Life Deployment of Outlook using PRF files

Sandeep Narkhede — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:50:00 GMT

The Outlook profile file (PRF file) allows you to create MAPI profiles for Outlook users. The PRF file is a text file with syntax that Outlook uses to generate a profile. Using a PRF file, you can create new profiles for users or modify existing profiles.

I had an assignment which required me to write a script that calls a PRF file. The PRF file creates a new Outlook profile for each of the users. The script will run in the logon services so it needs some basic logic to ensure that it is executed only once.

Here are a couple of samples that we have got ( they may need modification to suit your enviornment)

SCRIPT SAMPLE 1

Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = ...

Recovering Deleted Emails

Sandeep Narkhede — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:09:00 GMT

Most of the times if we have deleted any email from outlook ( Specifically hard deleted), we are forced to believe that it cannot be recovered without restoring from backup, which is not completely true.

We can recover any email deleted/ Archived from the Mailbox if it has not passed the deleted item retention period ( which is by default 7 days)

A few tips that I follow

1.       Any Item deleted from the Mailbox either a soft delete or hard delete goes in the dumpster which can be recovered unless the online maintenance has not cleared those emails ( in default case if the mails were deleted on 31st Oct. they will not be actually gone from the database till 7th Nov)

2.       ...

Moving SharePoint Databases to a New Drive

Sandeep Narkhede — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:45:00 GMT

This has been fairly common scenario & simple too, however i just thought to put up all the options that we have for this & some considerations about them. Here it goes

Option 1: New Storage Drive in Addition to Existing Drive

1.      Stop all SharePoint related IIS web sites

2.      The following Services had set to Stopped

      Windows SharePoint Services Administration

      Windows SharePoint Services Timer

      Windows SharePoint Services ...

GFI Mail Archiver - 1

Dominic Savio — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:23:00 GMT
How many times we have used the restore option to get that one mail or those precious emails that got deleted and now only resides in one those many back tapes back in the store rooms. Yes we are talking about Exchange Server and the problems of its Administrators. Recovery Storage Group is good, but there are better options available.

Microsoft launches DreamSpark

Dominic Savio — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:21:00 GMT

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Build and Capture Operating System Image - SCCM 2007

Ismail Mohammed — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:34:00 GMT

                                                            Build and Capture Operating System Image
In my last few articles, you have seen how to install system center configuration manager (SCCM), configuring a boundary, doing inventory, deploying software packages and finally deploying operating system from a reference computer.
In this article you will see how to build new windows xp computer and at the same time how to capture the image. To be frank with you this is the article which I suppose to release it little bit earlier because for understanding\learning purpose I started to build an OS image and faced lots of challenges, but later I realized that this would be bit advance for new guys to understand it at one instance so I started to release article just on deploying the operating system ...

Deployment of Software Package - MsOffice 2007, Adobe and winzip from SCCM - Part2

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:48:00 GMT

                        Deployment of Software Package - MsOffice 2007, Adobe and winzip - Part2

This article is continuation of my previous article, so my lab setup remain the same. In my previous article you have seen how to deploy Ms-Office 2003 and how to monitor the current status for troubleshooting analysis. In this article I will show you how to deploy Ms-Office 2007 and non-Microsoft product. Troubleshooting will remain same what I specified in my previous article.

Before reading this article I would appreciate if you go through with my previous article.

Note: The only change I made is I have uninstalled my ms-office 2003 software from my client machine (newlabtest) and removed the advertisement package from the SCCM.

How to deploy ...

Deployment of Software Package-MsOffice 2003 from SCCM - Part1

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:25:00 GMT

                                    Deployment of MsOffice 2003 from SCCM - Part1

Disclaimer : This article is being published on the basis of my lab output which is being created on my virtual pc, in the production environment it may or may not be applicable for all circumstances. Recommending you to do your lab test first and then do the activities on the production environment.

In my previous articles you have seen how to build new operating system and bringing it to a domain by capturing the image from reference computer. In this article you will see how to deploy a software packages for end users.

Before you are reading this article I would appreciate if you read my previous articles which has been published on SCCM so that you can ...

Blackberry Vs ActiveSync - The WAR is ON !!!!

Abhijeet Nigam — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:12:00 GMT

                                                                THE WAR IS ON!!!!

It’s been quite many years since Blackberry Technology has rule the world with its impeccable, secure and fast messaging technology on mobile devices. Now the industry has changed, with the introduction Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 it seems to me that monopoly of blackberry is over. I have seen several projects where Clients are moving from Blackberry to Windows Mobile services. The BIG question WHY? Simple cost and TCO. Below I am going to discuss the same where I will point out the comparison between both of them.

Cost

Blackberry:

To incorporate blackberry in a company where they have Microsoft Exchange Server one has to purchase following items

Blackberry Enterprise Server Software v4.1 ...

Room Mailbox Scripts Exchange Server 2007

Dominic Savio — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:47:00 GMT
                    Room Mailbox Scripts Exchange Server 2007

A quick one for those who are working on Room mailbox. My colleague Sandeep Narkhede has worked extensively on this and helped to get this info here.

It's about how you can make full use of the added features in E2K7 with which you can do anything that you want.... ( did I say too much ) ... ...

Windows XP with SP2 Deployment (OSD) through SCCM - Zero Touch Installation Method

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:05:00 GMT

                            Windows XP Operating System with SP2 Deployment (OSD) through SCCM
                                                                   ZeroTouch Installation Method

In my blog you had seen few articles on system center configuration management like prerequisite for SCCM, Installation guide, how to create boundaries and doing inventory.
I would recommend you to refer those articles before you could see this:
System Center Configuration Manager
http://exchangeserverinfo.com/categories/SCCM%202007.aspx
Still there are many features you can get in SCCM like publishing the package, doing software update, remote access etc etc.
In this article I am fully focusing on operating system deployment of windows xp with sp2. Reason for publishing this article there are very few article which talks about this XP Deployment and very important thing is that I faced lots of issue to get this deployment successful, so I thought to ...

Free E-book: Virtualization for Dummies

Dominic Savio — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:56:00 GMT
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DST information | Update from MS

Dominic Savio — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:04:00 GMT

Hi All,
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Abstract:

Sharing details of changes to daylight saving time (DST) and time zones (TZ) at various times across the globe.   The external links and resources below are for your reference.

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Regions Impacted
·         Some countries with DST & TZ Changes Implemented Last Year (2007):
·         Australia
·         U.S.
·         Canada
·         Some countries with New DST & TZ Changes this year (2008) with H2 Impacts:
·         Egypt
·         Mauritius
·         Pakistan
·         Morocco
·         Brazil
·         Chile
·         Iran
·         Argentina
·         All other companies who have organizations with operations, customers or vendors based in these locales may be affected. In addition, companies who interact or integrate with systems that are based in these locales or rely on date/time calculations may be impacted.

In general, computer systems should be updated ...

BITPro’s TechDay2008 Celebration

Ismail Mohammed — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:20:00 GMT

                                                        BITPro’s TechDay2008 Celebration

Hi All, Those who are located in Bangalore we are co-ordinally inviting to attend the BITPro's Tech Event. For more details please see the below content.
                                                                            Invitation

Date: 23rd-Aug-2008 Time: 09.00 AM to 01.30PM
Venue: Venue: R.V Dental College & Hospital, CA37, 24th Main, JP Nagar, Bangalore-78

                                        A special Community event for key business and IT Professionals.

Dear BITPro Members! BangaloreITPro is pleased to invite you to attend a special event on “Breaking Down Com-munication Barriers with Microsoft Unified Communications. And find out how to solve Windows Vista Network Issue, Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V ” Discover how the Microsoft unified communications & Virtualizations solution can help raise your business to the next level of productivity and profitability



Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Tracking and Maintenance

Abhijeet Nigam — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:47:00 GMT

Performing Tracking and Logging Activities in the Organization

This section examines message tracking, protocol logging, and diagnostic logging. You use these features to monitor Exchange Server and to troubleshoot messaging problems.

Using Message Tracking
You use message tracking on Transport servers to monitor the flow of messages into the organization and within it. With message tracking enabled, Exchange Server maintains daily log files, with a running history of all messages transferred within the organization. You use the logs to determine the status of a message, such as whether a message has been sent, received, or is waiting in the queue to be delivered. Because Exchange Server handles postings to public folders in much the same way as e-mail messages, you can also use message tracking to ...

Configuring Schedule+ Free Busy information between the forests – Exchange 2007 & 2003

Ismail Mohammed — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:23:00 GMT

Configuring Schedule+ Free Busy information between the forests – Exchange 2007 & 2003

Configuration of Schedule Free Busy in a cross-forest topology

Let me take you back to Exchange 2003 schedule+ free busy between two different forests. Whenever we are thinking of schedule+ free busy in exchange 2003, the first thing reflect in our mind is public folder. Reason, because schedule free busy & OAB are part of system folder and system folder is stored in public folder.

Basically when we are sending a meeting request in exchange 2003 topology , it will take atleast 45 minutes to update the Free busy information and if it is interorg scenario it will might take more then that. In a inteorg scenario, we need to configure the ...

Configuring the Unified Messaging Exchange 2007 Server–Part-2

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:14:00 GMT

       Configuring the Unified Messaging Exchange 2007 Server – Part-2

In my last article I have briefly explained you all some of the components used in unified messaging server. In this article we will see how to configure the unified messaging exchange 2007 server.

Note: Unified Messaging is a feature in Exchange 2007 Server however inorder to function it properly we need to have IP\PBX or VoIP Gateway. For this we need to have 3rd Party Product.

If you would like to see which are the vendors support unified messaging click on this link Exchange Server 2007 Partners: Unified Messaging

Requirements for Exchange Unified Messaging integration

Before looking into this article please go through the basic overview of unified messaging ...

Active Sync Question

web user — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:08:00 GMT
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PF administration from Outlook and ESM/ADUC:Whats Different.

Dominic Savio — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:16:00 GMT

Public folder administration from Outlook and ESM/ADUC : Whats Different.

There are few things about public folder like how it can be created differently from outlook and from ESM and also how it can be different when it comes to managing it for ADUC/ESM and Outlook.

Have you ever tried creating a Public folder using special character form Exchange System Manager?

I tried but failed and I guess everyone should fail...

But if you ever want a public Folder that looks like "exchange/Server/Rocks@someplace" you can do so by creating it from outlook.

Okay I know many will say, that's old news . But I know many who do not know that

Another case:

You have a mail enabled public folder ...

Configuring Exchange Server 2007 for Windows Mobile Devices Part - 3

Abhijeet Nigam — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:14:00 GMT

Understanding and Configuring Direct File Access

By default, Exchange Server 2007 allows users to access files directly through Outlook Web Access. This means that users will be able to access files attached to e-mail messages. You can configure how users interact with files using one of three options in the Exchange Management Console:

Allow Allows users to access files of the specified types and sends the users’ browser information that allows the files to be displayed or opened in the proper applications.

Block Prevents users from accessing files of the specified types.

Force Save Forces users to save files of the specified types prior to opening ...

Unified Messaging - Exchange 2007-Part1

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:53:00 GMT

                                             Unified Messaging – Exchange 2007-Part1

In this blog you all have seen lots of content talking about exchange 2007 like what is Exchange 2007? Which are the different roles? What are their functions? And even Exchange High Availability.

In this article we will purely focus on Exchange 2007 – Unified Messaging. Well, before we could get into this stuff. I would like to share my scope for this Unified Messaging. From this article you will understand some basic concept and definition about the unified messaging (theoretically) and some illustration which will show you how to configured unified messaging – demo and configuring your unified messaging server
Note: This is purely a lab setup to make you understand about the concept, in real time there might be ...

Configuring Exchange Server 2007 for Windows Mobile Devices Part-2

Abhijeet Nigam — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:19:00 GMT

Exchange Activesync Mailbox policy

Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policy makes it possible to enhance the security of mobile devices used to access your Exchange servers. As an example, you can use policy to require a password of a specific length and to configure devices to automatically prompt for a password after a period of inactivity.

Each mailbox policy you create has a name and a specific set of rules with which it is associated. Because you can apply policies separately to mailboxes when you create or modify them, you can create different policies for different groups of users. For example, you can have one policy for users and another policy for managers. You can also create separate policies for departments within the organization. For example, ...

Virtualization Licensing

Abhijeet Nigam — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:38:00 GMT

One of the most talked about and often most confused areas of Virtualization is licensing. Some of this is primarily caused due to the lack of one industry standard way of dealing with licensing and the other cause is that virtualization is a disruptive technology in how companies operate and hence not clear to customers on what the various policies mean in this new world.

Microsoft licensing goals are to provide customers and partners cost-effective, flexible and simplified licensing for our products that will be applicable across all server virtualization products, regardless of vendor. To this effect, several changes were put in place in late 2005 to help accelerate virtualization deployments ...

Configuring Exchange Server 2007 for Windows Mobile Devices Part-1

Abhijeet Nigam — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:30:00 GMT
Configuring Exchange Server 2007 for Windows Mobile Devices

Mobile access to Exchange Server is supported on any device running Windows Mobile software including Pocket PC version 2002/2003 and Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0 with Messaging & Security Feature Pack (MSFP). Windows Mobile edition from 6.0 onwards also provide use of additional features like Autodiscovery

Direct Push

Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Policy

Remote Device Wipe

Password Recovery

Direct File Access

Remote File Access

WebReady Document Viewing

These features are enabled by default on Exchange Server.

Autodiscovery & Windows Mobile services

Autodiscovery is one of best features of Exchange Server 2007, it returns all the required settings of Exchange Server 2007 to Windows Mobile Device once we enter Email address and password. Unlike the previous versions of exchange where we need to install the carriers list and configure carriers ...

Windows Server 2008 Core Server

Abhijeet Nigam — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:24:00 GMT

Recently I installed my First Windows Server 2008 to see whats new in that.

Microsoft gives us 2 options

Core Server

Full Version.

Graphics are great and so the features however I just couldn’t digest the Core Server. It’s like after 15 years of working on GUI mode we are asked to work on command prompt. Microsoft says that Core Server provides security from hackers, just wondering since when hackers started bothering about GUI they use ports for GOD sake.

The second ...

Promoting Primary Site Server to Central Site Server

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:20:00 GMT

                                                     Promoting Primary Site Server to Central Site Server

Brief Overview:
Before proceeding with this article I would appreciate if you go through the below link
 Basic Overview of SCCM
 Installation of SCCM
 Installation of Secondary Site Server
 Creating Boundaries and Discovery Clients based on the Active Directory System Discovery
 Performing Hardware & software inventory

Current Topology:
I have two sites: Europe.com (192.168.1.x) and Site2.Europe.com (192.168.0.x)
Under Europe.com:
1) Site1DC : DC\GC\DNS for 192.168.1.x
2) Primary : Primary Site Server
3) Windows XP : Client for SCCM 2007
4) Central Server : Yet to Install
Under Site2.Europe.com
1) Site2DC : DC\GC\DNS for 192.168.0.x
2) Secondary : Secondary Site Server
3) WindowsVista : Client for SCCM 2007

Goal: I need to bring one more SCCM server which will call as Central. This Central Server will have the ability of Central ...

Performing Hardware\Software Inventory - SCCM 2007

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:46:00 GMT

                                                     Performing Hardware\Software Inventory

Doing a hardware or software inventory can be for a server platform, Client platform or mobile platform. In this session we will see how to do a hardware\software inventory for the client platform.

So far what we have covered:
 Introduction to System Central Configuration Manager 2007
 Installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007
 Installation and Configuration of Secondary Site Server - SCCM 2007
 Configuring Boundary and Discovery for the server & Client Platform - SCCM 2007

In this session we will see how to do inventory. Basically in a lay man language what I understand is, inventory means keeping the track or information about the computers which are discovered, why we need this just because to keep a ...

Configuring Boundary and Discovery for the server & Client Platform - SCCM 2007

Ismail Mohammed — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:19:00 GMT

                                 Configuring Boundary and Discovery for the server & Client Platform

So far what we have done is we have installed Primary Site Server in Europe.com and Installed Secondary Site Server in Site2.Europe.com.
For more information on installation of primary site server and secondary site server click on the below link.

Introduction to System Central Configuration Manager 2007
Installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Installation of Secondary Site Server – SCCM 2007

In this section we will create boundaries for each site and then we will do a discovery for the server and client computers.
Note – so far I haven’t installed any client computers. I will install it later once I configure the discovery pool.

By default we will have address for primary ...

Installation and Configuration of Secondary Site Server - SCCM 2007

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:48:00 GMT

Installation and Configuration of Secondary Site Server

In my last article you saw how to install primary site server, if you haven’t read my last article two click here

Introduction to SCCM 2007
http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2008/04/17/introduction-to-system-central-configuration-manager-2007.aspx

Installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007
http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2008/04/17/installation-of-system-center-configuration-manager-2007.aspx
now in this article we will see how to install Secondary Site Server and configure it.

As per my last article, my Current Topology is:

I have 2 sites: Europe.com & site2.Europe.com and both of them are in different subnet mask.
I have one DC\GC\DNS server in each site.
I have one Primary Server (SCCM) in Europe.com

My Requirement:
For my site2.europe.com I need to have one Secondary Site Server. For this I got one computer in the site2.europe.com and computer name is Secondary.Site2.Europe.com

Fine as you ...

Installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:51:00 GMT

                                             Installation of System Center Configuration Manager 2007

In my previous article I was discussing about basic overview of SCCM. If you haven’t read that one please click on this.

From this article onwards we will see how to install System Center Configuration Manager and configurations of it.

My Scope for this SCCM is : How to install primary site server & secondary site server, Creating Boundary & Discovery of Client Machine based on the Active Directory site , Hardware\Software inventory and finally promoting primary site server as central site server.

My current Topology:
I have one domain called as EUROPE.com. This Europe.com is consist of two different sites, one is called as Europe.com which is under Default-First-Site Name and another one is called as Site2.Europe.com under Site2. ...

Introduction to System Central Configuration Manager 2007

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:13:00 GMT

                                                       Basic Overview of System Center Configuration Manager

Disclaimer: SCCM Articles are purely based on the testing. Article from www.exchangeserverinfo.com is sharing our thoughts and knowledge so in real time production environment there might be change in the configuration level what we are doing in test environment hence we are not responsible for any disaster. If anybody feels that we need to add some more recommended points in SCCM articles please feel free to contact us. We are just beginner in the SCCM.

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is the upgradation and next version of SMS 2003. It assists organizations to provide relevant software and updates to users quickly and cost-effectively.
Those who are already having SMS experience they know how important it is. In SCCM 2007 ...

Network Load Balance for HUB & CAS - Exchange 2007

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:31:00 GMT

                                            High Availability for Exchange 2007 Server Roles
                            Network Load Balance for Client Access Server and Hub Server Role

High availability is one of the important aspects which are needed by each and every business. Let me take you back to Exchange 2003 version high availability. When we are considering the factor for high availability in Exchange 2003 the only things running in my mind is clustered environment and if it is a FE server the network load balancing concept comes into the picture.

In Exchange 2007, if we want to maintain high availability we need to consider for all the server roles i.e.
 Database – Mailbox Server
 OWA, Activesync, IMAP POP3 and name resolution : Client Access Server
 Mailflow within a active directory – Hub Server Role
 Mailflow in ...

Inter-org Replication from Exchange 2003 forest to Exchange 2007 sp1 forest.

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:19:00 GMT

Inter-org Replication from Exchange 2003 forest to Exchange 2007 sp1 forest.

Well I guess by going through one of my article regarding inter-org replication configuration I hope that everyone are clear with the concept of interorg terms and configuration. If you haven’t read the article please go through this link:
http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2008/02/28/configuring-interorg-replication-tool-for-replicating-the-public-folder--schedule-free-busy-between-the-forests.aspx

In this session we will see how to configure the interorg between Exchange 2003 Forest which is called as SITE1 Domain and Exchange 2007 sp1 forest called as Happy.com.

In site1:
 I have one windows AD\DC\GC & DNS server called HappyAD.site1.com
 One Exchange 2003 with sp2 – which is having the mailboxes and public folder

In Happy.com
 I have one windows AD\DC\GC & DNS server called as MainDC.happy.com
 One Exchange 2007 with sp1 – which is having the mailboxes and ...

Configuring Interorg Replication Tool for replicating the Public Folder & Schedule Free Busy between the forests

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:35:00 GMT

                    Inter-organization setup for Exchange 2003 between the forest
        Configuring Interorg Replication Tool for replicating the Public Folder & Schedule Free Busy between the forests

After going through this article:
 Will understand how to configure the replication tool for public folders between the forests
 Will understand how to create a galsync between the forest
 Will understand how to configure schedule free busy between the forests.

Recently I came up with a scenario where one my colleague told me that he is planning to go with inter-organization setup. And it is very important to know which are the steps we need to perform before we could implement. I would personally recommend you to do your homework before you could implement the inter-organization setup.

We have lots of good stuff in our technet ...

Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Google Enterprise Search [OneBox]

Parmi Mehta — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:42:00 GMT

Search Server is one of the other major Enterprise servers of Microsoft which is growing Fast with Sharepoint 2007. With the new release of Search Server 2008 in March, it is expected to take Search functionality and Search Experience to the next level for Microsoft's Customer's.

There are better features than Google's Onebox Search Server Appliance, though I would say both have their own pro's and con's.

Search Server 2008
It's RTM version's are getting released in Express and Full Edition. Express Edition will be downloadable for free whereas Full version is a licensed product. There will be support provided for both these versions from Microsoft.

Express Edition's limitation is that it can be installed only on a SingleServer WSS 3.0 environment, whereas, ...

Generating report for Active sync

web user — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:14:00 GMT
Hi everybody,

I require some help for filtering the Active sync report. We are using the below script

SELECT TOP 50

            eas-user-alias,

            eas-user-domain,

            eas-device-type,

            SUM (TotalClientEmailSync) AS TotalClientEmailSyncs,

            SUM (TotalServerEmailSync) AS TotalServerEmailSyncs,

            ADD (TotalClientEmailSyncs, TotalServerEmailSyncs) AS TotalEmailSyncs,

            SUM (TotalClientContactSync) AS TotalClientContactSyncs,

            SUM (TotalServerContactSync) AS TotalServerContactSyncs,

            ADD (TotalClientContactSyncs, TotalServerContactSyncs) AS TotalContactSyncs,

            ...

Exchange 2007 – High Availability Solution – Standby Continuous Replication

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:20:00 GMT

Exchange 2007 – High Availability Solution – Standby Continuous Replication

Standby Continuous Replication is a new feature which is added as one of the high availability method in Exchange 2007 Server. This feature is supported in Exchange 2007 service pack1 only. By the name itself you can understand that standby continuous replication is a standby server which can bought up as soon as possible online so that user can start to access their mailboxes. You implement it as a recovery server in the same datacenter or else you have this server on another datacenter.

It follows the same log shipping technology as like we have for LCR & CCR. The starting point of log shipping process is called as Source Server and the ...

Exchange 2007 – High Availability Solution - Single Copy Cluster

Ismail Mohammed — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Exchange 2007 – High Availability Solution - Single Copy Cluster

Those are new to this exchange 2007 they might feel single copy cluster might be a new cluster version for exchange. Guys, this not a new version at all, it is just a name they have give to our existing cluster environment what we had in Exchange 2003. i.e., Active\Passive Cluster.
Single Copy Cluster will consist of one Active Directory having two member servers which is known as NodeA and NodeB. This two member servers will have one common shared storage which is called as Quorum Disk. Quorum disk is the place where the exchange database will be stored. And on each node exchange application will be installed. And they will get an identity of virtual server ...

Exchange 2007 – High Availability Solution – Cluster Continuous Replication

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:30:00 GMT

                            Exchange 2007 – High Availability Solution – Cluster Continuous Replication

In my last article : Exchange 2007 - Local Continuous Replication (High Availability) you have seen what LCR is, how it is working and how it is useful in terms of more then have one disk in a Exchange Server. LCR is supported in Exchange 2007 standard edition as well in enterprise edition 2007. And best suitable for small organization.

Cluster Continuous Replication is supported only in Exchange 2007 enterprise edition. It is almost same like Local Continuous Replication however instead of shipping the log file from one disk to another disk, it will ship the log from one server to another server. In earlier version i.e exchange 2003 what we had is active\passive ...

Exchange 2007 - Local Continuous Replication (High Availability)

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:53:00 GMT

Exchange Server 2007 – High Availability

Whenever we talk about high availability what does it mean? It is nothing but keeping server alive as much we can. In Exchange 2003 or earlier version we had a concept called as clustering where we will have shared disk (Quorum Disk) were we will have database inside the shared disk and if one node fail other node will take the ownership.

In Exchange 2007 we have some new features in terms Exchange High Availability
 Local Continuous Replication (LCR)
 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)
 Single Copy Cluster (SCC)
 Standby Cluster Replication (SCR)

We will take a walk on each and every features which I described right now so that we can understand the basic concept and steps.

Local Continuous Replication (LCR)

LCR is ...

Error in Application while configuring Email Enabled Document Library

Parmi Mehta — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:01:00 GMT

'Error in Application' is the error we get when configuring Email Enabled Document library.

There is one most common scenario when you will get this error.

WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 installed as a Basic Installation [SINGLESERVER]

By Design when you install sharepoint using Basic intallation, the Central Admin site and any other new Web Apps that you create will use 'Network Service' as the service account for the Application Pools in IIS. For a contact to be created for a Document Library, the Application Pools of both Central Admin and the Web App should be using a domain user account and not Network Service.

Steps to Perform to resolve this error.

1. Create a Service Account in Active Directory who is also a ...

Installation of Exchange 2007 SP1 Version on Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn)

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:11:00 GMT

Installation of Exchange 2007 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn)

Well, it’s a time to go little bit ahead to welcome the new technology. Yes you are right Windows Server 2008 – Longhorn Server. In my last article you have seen how to bring Windows 2008 Server (Member Server) into a domain [Installation of windows server 2008 - http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2008/02/01/installation-of-windows-server-2008.aspx ]. Now let’s start to install Exchange 2007 sp1 on windows Server 2008. Did anybody asked me that why we need to install to Exchange 2007 SP1 and why not Exchange 2007, it’s simple – Windows Server 2008 support Exchange 2007 SP1.

In one of my article i.e Installation of Exchange 2007 sp1 you have seen the actual installation process of Exchange 2007. However in ...

Installation of windows server 2008

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:58:00 GMT

                                                         Installation of Windows Server 2008

Installing Windows Server is not a big deal at all. Since Windows 95 to windows server 2008 it is completely a self education for us. No one needs any sort of assistance until we make some custom changes.

You might be thinking if it is self educated task then why we need an article on this part. To be frank with you all I would like to keep as much information regarding this upcoming technology right from the scratch to advance level. And another reason is that when we install Windows 2008 in Vmware Machine you will face network connectivity issue like Duplicate Ip address or Limited Network Connectivity. Possible suggestion recommended by expert is have ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" ...

Windows 2008 Certification

Ismail Mohammed — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:24:00 GMT

                                                             Windows 2008 Certification

Hello Friends,

I guess most of them are aware about windows 2008 Server information regarding technology and certifications but still I want to share with all of our windows mate so that they can have a clear picture.

If you see today’s trend each and every business wants to have good security and even lots of application in one servers like virtualization in order to reduce the cost so Microsoft is introducing Windows 2008 with a lots of new feature. Even though we might have good exposure in AD structure but along with the real time experience we need to have certification on the specific area to show up our strength. It is has been noticed that in the first year of ...

Need script\batch file

web user — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:30:00 GMT
Hello Friends,

I need a script to know the following activities - (is it possible)

- Number of Transaction Logs generated per day.
- If my OAB stop working, it should notify to administer.

Exchange version:
Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 ...

Publishing Exchange 2007 Server with ISA Server 2006 - Part 2 (Accessing OWA externally through ISA 2006 Firewall)

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:01:00 GMT

                                             Publishing Exchange 2007 Server with ISA Server 2006
                                             Accessing OWA externally through ISA 2006 Firewall
                                            Preparing your ISA 2006 to allow OWA Access - Part 2

As per the part-1 I believe everyone is clear on how to create a certificate and issue the certificate for having secure connection. Now it’s the time for creating a secure link for exchange server through ISA firewall. As I told you earlier when we install ISA Application it will break all the link from the external world so it is very important to keep in mind to know which are the ports require to enable because at the time of installation itself it will create one default enterprise deny policy due to which it will break the connection.
I have ...

Publishing Exchange 2007 Server with ISA Server 2006 - Part 1(Accessing OWA externally through ISA 2006 Firewall)

Ismail Mohammed — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:16:00 GMT

                                            Publishing Exchange 2007 Server with ISA Server 2006
                                            Accessing OWA externally through ISA 2006 Firewall
                                            Configuring SSL Certificate for Exchange 2007 - Part1

Note: It is purely a lab experiment where I am focusing on ISA Server 2006. All the inputs which I took to configure ISA 2006 are purely from Microsoft TechNet, Msexchange.org, perti.com & virtual lab setup. In real time it might not be the same…

Accessing the OWA is one of the requirements which we need to enable for the client. In Exchange 2007 as like we had in previous version it is enabled by default.

Securing the server is the need which all the business requires in today’s environment. So that’s why we need to take care about certain things before we ...

Top 10 Reasons to Install Windows Server Code Name 'Longhorn'

Dominic Savio — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:35:00 GMT

Top 10 Reasons to Install Windows Server Code Name 'Longhorn'

1.      Windows Server Virtualization

The Windows Server code name "Longhorn" wave will include Windows Server Virtualization (WSv), a powerful, performant, virtualization technology with strong management and security features. The ability to hot-add processors, memory, network interfaces, and perform live migrations of workloads will enable businesses to dynamically change their infrastructure as server workload needs fluctuate.

2.      A World-Class Web and Applications Platform

Windows Server "Longhorn" provides a secure, easy-to-manage platform for developing and reliably hosting applications and services that are delivered from the server or over the Web. New features include simplified management, increased security, and both performance and extensibility improvements which delivers a unified platform for Web publishing that integrates Internet Information Services 7.0 ...

How Message Recall Works

Abdul Khaliq — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:35:00 GMT

I recently had a problem, When CEO of my company send an email to General manager, He Recalled the message promptly but could not as Recall failed.

The reason was the GM had created a Rule in Outlook, All mails from CEO to particular Folder.
The moment Outlook Receives email, Rule is processed.
The Mail is marked as Read.
Once the mail is Marked as read, Recall is not applicable to those message.

Message Recall will not be successful if:

- The recipient is not using Outlook.
- The recipient is not logged on to the mail service provider.
- The message has been moved from the Inbox.
- The message ...

Installing Only WSS 3.0 Basic Mode

Parmi Mehta — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:09:00 GMT

Installing Only WSS 3.0

Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Installation is farely easy but very complicated to resolve if it errors out. There are 2 types of Installations which are described in detail below. WSS 3.0 is freely downloadable from Microsoft site. [ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d51730b5-48fc-4ca2-b454-8dc2caf93951&DisplayLang=en ]

Pre-requisites before Installing Windows Sharepoint Services.

Windows 2003 OS with ASP.net + IIS 6.0. SMTP is required if you are deciding to use Email Enabled Document Libraries, not otherwise.

Service Pack 1 or higher.

ASP.net 3.0 framework.

Service account created in Active Directory, recommended to be a member of Domain Admins groups. This service account should not change the password according to group policies, otherwise ...

Sharepoint Administration Backup

Parmi Mehta — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:22:00 GMT
Types of Backup in Sharepoint V3.

1. GUI mode from Sharepoint Central Administration.
2. STSADM -o backup
3. STSADM -o backup [catostrophic]
4. STSADM -o export
5. SQL Database backup.
6. Sharepoint Designer backup.

Description of these backups will be posted soon. ...

Outlook crashes when changing message format.

Ritesh Nair — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:05:00 GMT
Outlook Crashes when you try to change the message format to text/Rch Text/HTML.

When you try to change the message format and click the drop down box you will find outlook sometimes crashes. This is due to an incorrect version of windows common control being referenced. In windows XP and upwards this issue occurs when the 'WindowsShell.Manifest' is missing from the Windows folder. Its an XML file that actually redirects to a common control DLL which is based on .net, unlike the older ones which are made in unmanaged code.

If its missing dont worry.
Copy the code shown below from the <?xml till the </assembly> and save the file as 'WindowsShell.Manifest'

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity processorArchitecture="*" version="5.1.0.0" type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Shell.shell32"/>     <description>Windows Shell</description> <dependency>                              ...

Disaster Recovery - Hub Server & Edge Server

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:08:00 GMT

                                                     Disaster Recovery – Hub Server & Edge Server

                                                         Disaster Recovery : Hub Transport Server

Hub Transport Server is designed to store all configuration data in Active Directory Container so there is not much need to backup as like we did for mailbox server or CAS server. If Hub server fails to send message or it is down you can copy the message from this following location C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\TransportRoles\data\Queue.

Just copying and putting those message into queue is not a cake walk for us because if you put it you need to consider the other mails which are already existing and moreover by default for this mailflow transaction circular logging is enabled. So you need to take proper care.
Here is the one of the best Microsoft ...

Disaster Recovery - CAS & UM Server

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:21:00 GMT

                                 Disaster Recovery – Client Access Server & Unified Messaging

In my previous article Disaster Recovery – Mailbox Server I have explained the term of disaster recovery and came to know the importance of disaster recovery.

In this article we will see the disaster recovery for client access server and unified messaging you might be wondering that why I have added the unified messaging in this article it is simple first is that there is not much data need to recover while considering unified messaging and second thing is that I don’t have much idea to go for it except the theoretical knowledge.

                                                     Disaster Recovery – Client Access Server
Before the release of Exchange 2007 it was quite simple to take the information of exchange server as ...

Disaster Recovery - Mailbox Server

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:33:00 GMT

                                                         Disaster Recovery – Mailbox Server

There will a day where you need to replace the existing server with the new server just because of bad hard drive or some sort of corruption. Actually here you don’t want to reinstall the whole stuff back but what you need is that the new server which will the identical information should have the information back by minimal impact of time. In this sort of situation Microsoft came up with the method of disaster recovery switch after the release of exchange 2000 and it is the switch which is known by each and every administrator.

What is Disaster Recovery?
Disaster Recovery is nothing but a switch which will help the administrator to grab the information from Active Directory and ...

Forgot to mention subject line on an official mail??? We can avoid it.

Rahul Arora — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:13:00 GMT

If you want to avoid sending official
mails with out a subject please perform the following
steps:

1. Open
your outlook

2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual
Basic editor

3. On
the Left Pane, one can see "Microsoft Outlook Objects" or "Project1", expand
this. Now one can see the "ThisOutLookSession".

4. Double click on "ThisOutLookSession".
It will open up a code pane.

5. Copy
and Paste the following code in the right pane. ...

Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: User account and mailbox movement from one forest to another forest : Part-4

Ismail Mohammed — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:15:00 GMT

Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: User account and mailbox movement from one forest to another forest: Part-4

Brief summary:
In the past 3 articles, I have given the information regarding different transition scenario, showed you the prerequisite for single to cross forest transition, installation of exchange 2007 service pack1 & configuring IIFP for gal synch.

For more information for the above 3 articles please click on the below link:
Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: Brief Introduction how to go with transition process : Part-1

Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: Installation of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 : Part-2
...

Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: Configuring Identity Integration Feature Pack : Part-3

Ismail Mohammed — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:02:00 GMT

    Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: Configuring Identity Integration Feature Pack : Part-3

                                                 Configuring Identity Integration Feature Pack

Before I could start with configuring IIFP for galysnch. Let me explain you about my lab environment topology.

I have 2 Forests : (i) Happy.com & (ii) Smile.com
Both of the forest is connected to each other via DMZ server.

Happy.com
                 In Happy.com I have two computers
                 Computer1 Details:
                                               Host name : E2K7.happy.com
                                               Ip address : 40.40.40.1
                                               Server Role : AD, DNS and Exchange Server

                 Computer2 Details:
                                               Host name : IIFP.happy.com
                                               Ip address : 40.40.40.3
                                               Server Role : SQL & IIFP

Smile.com
             In Smile.com I have one computer
             Computer Details:
                                               Host name: E2K3.smile.com
                                               Ip address: ...

Question | ESM Search |

Dominic Savio — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:11:00 GMT
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Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: Installation of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 : Part-2

Ismail Mohammed — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:07:00 GMT

Before I could start with the installation of exchange 2007 sp1 I would like to recall the process of upgrading your exchange 2003 with the service pack. In exchange 2003 or prior version whenever we need to upgrade the exchange application with latest service pack simply we will insert the cd and click on update.exe. This process will completely take care of upgradation. In exchange 2007 the same thing applicable but there is a difference between the prior and this version of exchange 2007. In prior version we should have exchange application installed and then we need to upgrade it ...

Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: Brief Introduction how to go with transition process:Part-1

Ismail Mohammed — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:38:00 GMT

This article will give you the basic idea how to go for transition from single forest to cross-forest topology.

This complete transition is divided in two 4 parts…
1 ) Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest:Brief Introduction how to go with transition process:Part-1

2) Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest:Installation of Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1:Part-2

3) Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest:Configuring Identity Integration Feature Pack:Part-3

4) Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest:User account and mailbox movement from one forest to another forest:Part-4

Transition from Single Forest to Cross-Forest: Brief Introduction how to go with transition process:Part-1

Brief Introduction:
Transition from single ...

Spam Filter Suggestion

web user — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:05:00 GMT

What is the best Spam filter on the market?

Right now I use GFI which does a really good job of sending stuff to a junk mail folder, ready for the but?, but the partners here don't want to spend time going through that folder looking for legitimate emails. Go figure!

Right now they are looking at off sight spam filtering. Any opinions on that? Suggestions?

Any thoughts or ideas would be helpful...
...

Exchange and Active Directory Bookmark

Dominic Savio — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:55:00 GMT
BOOKMARKS
Hello All, Here is the BookMark which we often use.

Active Directory

216498 - HOW TO Remove Data in Active Directory After an Unsuccessful Domain Controller Demotio

230306 - HOW TO Remove Orphaned Domains from Active Directory

250874 - Access Denied Error Message During Active Directory Promotion of Replica Domain Contro

332199 - Using the DCPROMO -FORCEREMOVAL Command to Force the ...