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Windows IT Pro Magazine 
[Feature]  "OEM Software": Good Deal or Theft? How do those "OEM software" guys sell software so cheaply? — Mark Minasi “Shipping Is a Feature…” Argh. Mark laments the fact that Microsoft considers shipdate to be an important feature of its Windows Hypervisor product. — Mark Minasi 5 Ways to Trim Your IT Budget Standardizing IT equipment is the first step toward making reduced IT budgets stretch further. — Mark Smith A Healthy Dose of Windows Server 2008 Wariness Microsoft will probably release Windows 2008 to manufacturing by October or November of this year, at the latest. And, you see, that's why I'm worried. — Mark Minasi Am I Who I Say I Am? David Chernicoff explains the advantages of authenticating email as a way to combat spam. — David Chernicoff Attention Windows 7.0: Please Don’t Interrupt Me! Mark yearns for a more polite Windows. — Mark Minasi BitLocker and AD, Together at Last Here's what you need to know about BitLocker/AD integration. — Mark Minasi Can Slow-and-Steady Win the Wireless Race? Mark proposes a new, more user-friendly wireless standard. — Mark Minasi Cell Phone–and-PDA Combo Devices Mark Smith checks out some of the current cell phone–and-PDA combinations. Find out what product he finally chose and why. — Mark Smith Certifications: Pass or Fail? A discussion of the pros and cons of vendor-sponsored certifications. — Mark Minasi Countdown to XP SP2: Dealing with ICF Mark continues his evaluation of one of XP SP2's biggest features: enabling ICF by default. — Mark Minasi Countdown to XP SP2: Forced Protection Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) is nearly here. In the next four installments of his VIP column, Mark considers the pros and cons of some of the changes that SP2 will bring. — Mark Minasi Countdown to XP SP2: More than a Firewall After an in-depth discussion of Windows XP Service Pack 2's (SP2's) Windows Firewall, Mark examines some of the service pack's other interesting features. — Mark Minasi Countdown to XP SP2: Planning Ahead Mark continues his look at the forthcoming Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Windows Firewall feature. — Mark Minasi Disaster Recovery in the Wake of Katrina Mark's thoughts turn to disaster recovery in the wake of a devastating tragedy. — Mark Minasi Disks, Spin No More What's interesting about PQI's announcement of its new hard disk? It's a solid state disk. — Mark Minasi Do Betas Make Sense Anymore? Mark suggests that betas don't make sense as testing tools anymore. — Mark Minasi Dual-Core Turions: A Nice, Cool Surprise Here's a quick look at how AMD and Intel are taking advantage of something called "nonlinear heating rates." — Mark Minasi Exchange 2007 SP1's Standby Continuous Replication You can add site resilience to your Exchange organization by implementing SCR with Exchange 2007 SP1. Find out the steps for setting up SCR and what you need to do to recover in the event of a failure. — Tony Redmond Exploring CAS Technology Learn the core concepts of the .NET Framework's Code Access Security (CAS) feature and how to administer it. — Jan De Clercq Feeling Sorta Blue, Ray It’s the great next-generation DVD format war: Blu-ray or HD DVD, which will win? After the past couple of weeks, I think we all know which will be victorious, and it worries me a trifle. — Mark Minasi Future Computing in the Past Mark makes a few suggestions for fun holiday reading, IT style. — Mark Minasi Getting Started: Remote Administration Learn how to install and run Microsoft terminal services tools. — Kathy Ivens Group Policy Made Great The Group Policy Management Console will greatly improve Group Policy but doesn't go far enough. Mark Minasi offers suggestions for improvements. — Mark Minasi Has Outlook Become Inlook? Mark turns cynical when answering the question, Why is Outlook regressing? — Mark Minasi Hawking Certification Like Light Beer Mark disusses his appalled reaction to a prurient advertisement for an MCSE boot camp. — Mark Minasi How About a Rational Vista License? How does Microsoft get away with its software licensing, given US copyright law? — Mark Minasi IIS 6.0 Improvements Learn how Windows .NET Server 2003 improves the quality of IIS 6.0. — Michael Otey In Praise of Canon Printers Recently, I’ve experienced what you might call a paradigm shift. I’ve abandoned Epson and HP printers in favor of Canon printers. I didn’t make this decision lightly. In fact, you might say I didn’t make the decision at all: Epson and HP made it for me. — Mark Minasi Microsoft CRM for the .NET Environment Microsoft enters the customer relationship management (CRM) market with a product that leverages the Microsoft .NET platform. — John D. Ruley Microsoft Lowers Its Standard, To Enterprise’s Gain Is Microsoft quietly raising the price of the Windows Server OS? In fact, is the company, in effect, quadrupling the price? — Mark Minasi Microsoft's Antispyware Gambit Mark thinks Windows AntiSpyware might fail if Microsoft doesn't keep in mind three considerations: assurance of no surprise fees in the future, ease of deployment, and Group Policy integration. — Mark Minasi Moving to Windows 2003? Be Prepared to Dig Deep Mark Minasi tells you what you need to know about Windows Server 2003 and licensing. — Mark Minasi Nowhere Left to Grow No more COMDEX; Microsoft giving away cash ... what's going on? — Mark Minasi Palmed Off Mark laments Palm's decline in usability. — Mark Minasi Reflections on the PC's 25th Birthday Sure, the PC has been successful, but has it lived up to its potential? — Mark Minasi Requiem for WinFS Learn about three enticing—but dropped—features that WinFS would have brought to the Longhorn feature list. — Mark Minasi Rest in Peace, ACS What's the hang-up with ACS? As far as Mark can see, it's an indispensable tool. Unfortunately, Microsoft has changed its release plans. — Mark Minasi Running the Small Mobile Office…Almost Keeping in sync with your small office isn't as easy as it sounds. — Mark Minasi Saving the Internet If the Internet really was a highway, maybe traveling it would be safer ... — Mark Minasi Security and the "Booga-Booga" Factor Are security professionals providing a service or just securing their own jobs when they claim that no company can be sure its data is secure? — Mark Minasi Security-Obsessed Vista Makes Your Computer Top Secret Even the most casual observer of Windows Vista walks away with the impression that Microsoft is really attempting to secure this OS. — Mark Minasi Sometimes, Convergence Works — Mark Minasi Stomp Out Dragware? Sick of hidden autostart programs? — Mark Minasi The (Timely) Fall of Static IP — Mark Minasi The Business Process Engine How can IT keep up with all the revolutions in computing? There are two developments in software that will meet the challenge: SOA and BMP. — Barry Briggs The Day the Cell Phones Stood Still Could this year's Cabir worm be a sign of things to come? — Mark Minasi The Great Question of Vista SP1’s Ship Date Let's not pressure Microsoft into releasing Vista SP1 as quickly as possible. Haven't we learned our lesson? — Mark Minasi The Group Policy Management Console Run—don't walk—to the Microsoft site to download the GPMC. Its many neat features include a folder-free view of GPOs and a GPO backup and restore capability. — Mark Minasi The Importance of Expert Systems When Buying Systems Mark laments the impossibility of buying a system that's expertly configured to his needs. — Mark Minasi The Magnificent Six Take a few minutes to get these 6 Microsoft downloads. — Mark Minasi The Microsoft Remedy Mark Smith plays judge for a day and proposes remedies that would have increased competition and fairness while protecting Microsoft’s right to innovate. — Mark Smith The Soul of Windows, Revisited Readers and Microsoft executives alike had plenty to say about Mark Smith's recent article regarding Microsoft's abandonment of Windows administrators. — Mark Smith The Year of the Database Worm? Don't be afraid of running a database server, even if it's MSDE. Just stay on top of the patches and be aware of where your servers are. — Mark Minasi Time for a Fourth Type of Event Log Entry Mark finds it troubling that a small AD environment's DCs are prone to worrisome and time-consuming--and ultimately innocuous--error messages. — Mark Minasi Time for a New Year’s Upgrade! Mark's New Year’s resolution is to fend off an old adversary: disk space. — Mark Minasi Unify UPNs! — Mark Minasi UNIX Migration Trends A recent ChangeWave Research survey reports that more and more IT managers are migrating their systems from UNIX to Windows. — Mark Smith UPHClean Provides Faster Logoffs For All Microsoft has quietly released the User Profile Hive Cleanup service. — Mark Minasi Vista RC1 Pleasantly Surprises Mark has a change of heart regarding Vista, thanks to the latest build. — Mark Minasi Vote with Computers? I’d Sooner Let Them Do My Driving — Mark Minasi We’re Not High-Tech, We’re High-Connect Mark wonders, “Why does everyone still think that computers are ‘high tech,’ particularly given how little really new stuff arrives?” — Mark Minasi What's So Great About Longhorn? In case you haven't been following the Longhorn buzz, here's what three of its most promising features will do. — Mark Minasi What’s So Great About R2? FRS! Kind of ... Mark rethinks his criticism of R2 and the value of FRS. — Mark Minasi What’s So Hard About a Service Pack? Mark laments Microsoft's refusal to release Win2K Service Pack 5 (SP5). — Mark Minasi Where's the Response to "Get a Mac"? Mark is starting to get fed up with those Mac vs. PC commercials. Why has Microsoft been so slow to respond? — Mark Minasi Who Is R2’s Audience? — Mark Minasi Why Don't All Developers Sign Their Apps? Mark Minasi muses on why so many software vendors don't use digital certificates on their applications. — Mark Minasi Widescreen Wishes Widescreen displays are full of potential. Here's an idea that would make them much more attractive to networkers. Are you listening, Microsoft? — Mark Minasi Windows 2003 Gems Should you bother upgrading to Windows Server 2003? Mark points to stub zones and conditional forwarding as two reasons why you should. — Mark Minasi Windows Administrators’ Top Three Wishes Microsoft addresses long-standing requests from Windows administrators with each release of its server product--but Mark Minasi claims the company still has work to do. — Mark Minasi [Editorial] Software Assurance Isn't Reassuring Although SA is marketed as a two-way street, its benefits are heavily weighted in Microsoft's favor. — Michael Otey WinFS’s Intelligent File System Makes Sense Mark looks at the change-the-world part of WinFS: non-file items. — Mark Minasi [TOP 10] SBS 2003 Features The new SBS 2003 Standard Edition and SBS 2003 Premium Edition provide a host of worthwhile features. Here are the best of them. — Michael Otey [Mobile & Wireless] Wi-Fi on the Road Wi-Fi hotspots are convenient when you're on the road, but you should know how to handle the dilemmas that Wi-Fi access can create. — John D. Ruley [Tech Corner] AD Administrative Delegation Find out how to set the permissions that will let your Help desk administrators unlock user accounts and reset user passwords. — Jan De Clercq Add SSLDiag to Your IIS Toolbox The SSL Diagnostics Tool can ease the headaches of troubleshooting your IIS installation. — Jan De Clercq All About Windows Operations Master Roles Learn about the Operations Master roles and the security-related functions they perform. — Jan De Clercq Analyzing the Windows Event Logs Learn what tools are available for analyzing the Windows event logs. — Jan De Clercq Authenticated Users Group vs the Everyone Group Learn about the differences between these two groups and which one to use when setting permissions on Windows resources. — Jan De Clercq Blocking Domain Users from Executing Certain Programs Restrict users from executing certain programs by using Software Restriction Policies to classify content as trusted or untrusted. — Jan De Clercq Comparing Windows Kerberos and NTLM Authentication Protocols Learn why the Kerberos protocol is generally considered a better authentication option than NTLM. — Jan De Clercq Configuring Win2K Machine Passwords Learn how to use GPOs and the registry to configure machine password in Win2K. — Jan De Clercq Controlling Ownership in Windows Learn the exact meaning of ownership in the Windows OS authorization model. — Jan De Clercq Dealing with the Least Privilege Security Principle — Jan De Clercq Deciphering Basic, Digest, and Integrated Windows Authentication Discover the differences among the various methods that IIS uses to authenticate users. — Jan De Clercq Deciphering S/MIME Discover several S/MIME features in the latest Microsoft mail clients that can help you secure messages sent across the Internet. — Jan De Clercq Defining an AD Object's Default Security Descriptor — Jan De Clercq Disabling EFS Encryption in Windows XP Discover several tips for disabling encryption only for individual files and folders or, alternatively, for disabling EFS entirely on your Windows XP systems. — Jan De Clercq Disabling Kerberos During migration scenarios you might need to disable Kerberos authentication. Learn how to disable Kerberos and what the possible side-effects might be? — Jan De Clercq Discover Windows 2003's Universal Group Caching Discover how Windows 2003's universal group caching feature lets you take advantage of universal groups for easier forestwide resource access control and minimize the number of GC servers for your branch office sites. — Jan De Clercq Domain Credential Caching — Jan De Clercq Dump and Query Event Log Files on Remote Systems — Jan De Clercq EFS and Encrypted File Sharing — Jan De Clercq Enhancing Password Quality Jan De Clercq offers guidelines for enhancing users' password quality. — Jan De Clercq Exploiting the SIDHistory AD Attribute The SIDHistory attribute facilitates resource access in inter-domain account migration and intra-forest account-move scenarios, but a malicious user could exploit this attribute. — Jan De Clercq Fight LM Hash Weakness Defend your Windows infrastructure from LM and NT hash vulnerabilities in the NTLM authentication protocol. — Jan De Clercq Getting the Most from Windows System Key Learn how to best coonfigure Windows System Key — Jan De Clercq IIS Client Certificate Mapping Find out how to map information contained within a client certificate to a user account to authenticate that user on your Web server. — Jan De Clercq Implementing the Microsoft Windows Update Service in the Enterprise Discover how the Windows Update service fits in with enterprise-level security patch management and how you can automate this feature on users' desktops. — Jan De Clercq Implementing Windows Server 2003 AD Object Quotas Discover a new feature in Windows 2003 that lets you restrict the number of AD objects that a particular security principal can own. — Jan De Clercq Ins and Outs of Anonymous Access Learn all about controlling Anonymous access in Windows 2003 and XP. — Jan De Clercq Interactive Windows Logon Sessions Learn all about using and controlling interactive logon sessions in an AD environment. — Jan De Clercq Kerberos Authentication Problems Occur When Users Belong to Many Groups You might experience Kerberos authentication problems when a user belongs to many groups. Find the solution here. — Jan De Clercq Learning about Name Suffix Routing Find out how to use and configure Name Suffix Routing. — Jan De Clercq Learning about Well-Known Security Principals — Jan De Clercq Linking Windows and UNIX Authentication and Authorization Services Does Microsoft provide tools to link the authentication and authorization services that are used in a Windows Active Directory (AD) environment with the ones that are used in UNIX Network Information Service (NIS) environments? — Jan De Clercq Logging with the Netlogon service Turning the Netlogon service on and off and analyzing the content of Netlogon log files can help you solve authentication problems. Find out how you can accomplish these useful tasks. — Jan De Clercq NTFS Files Streams — Jan De Clercq Prevent Password-Cracking Attacks on Kerberos Preauthentication Data Jan De Clercq explains what password cracking on Windows Kerberos preauthentication data is and how you can protect your systems from this type of attack. — Jan De Clercq Preventing Unauthorized Modification of AD Permissions Learn how to prevent users from modifying permissions on high-privilege accounts. — Jan De Clercq Restricting Interactive User Logons — Jan De Clercq Secure OWA on an Internet Kiosk Discover a strong two-factor solution for authenticating OWA users on an Internet kiosk. — Jan De Clercq Selective Authentication Learn about this Windows Server 2003 feature and how you can use it to regulate interforest security traffic. — Jan De Clercq SID History Discover an AD attribute that can help you authorize user access when migrating domains in Windows 2000. — Jan De Clercq Staying Secure with a TPM Learn about Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs) and the security services they can provide. — Jan De Clercq Switching Users in the Current Logon Session Discover why using alternative logon credentials to switch users in the current logon session is an important security best practice, and learn how to use this feature in Windows 2003 and Windows 2000. — Jan De Clercq The Basics of ACL Inheritance — Jan De Clercq The Dangers of the Windows Welcome Screen — Jan De Clercq The Default Security Descriptor in AD Discover the tools you need to locate and set or change the default security for AD objects. — Jan De Clercq The Hazards of Running a Service under the Local System Account Running a service in the security context of the LSA gives the service almost unlimited privileges on a Windows system. — Jan De Clercq Tools to Troubleshoot Account Lockouts Discover several helpful tools that make the process of securing your network against password attacks a little bit easier. — Jan De Clercq Tuning EFS Learn how to tune the ciphers and parameters that EFS uses. — Jan De Clercq Understanding IE Security Zones Internet Explorer Security Zones are a powerful browser security feature, but difficult to configure. Use these guidelines to help you get the most from this feature. — Jan De Clercq Understanding Trust Transitivity — Jan De Clercq Understanding Windows' Account Lockout Security Feature Learn all about the Windows security feature known as account lockout. — Jan De Clercq Using AD Property Sets — Jan De Clercq Using Kerberos in NAT and DHCP Environments Find out why Kerberos authentication protocol mighty fail in environments that use Network Address Translation (NAT) or DHCP. — Jan De Clercq Using SPNs in Windows 2000 Discover how Windows 2000 services use SPNs for security and how to discover, add, and delete SPNs in AD. — Jan De Clercq Using the AD Delegation Wizard — Jan De Clercq Using the Local Computer Security Zone Jan explains the use and risks of IE's Local Computer security zone. — Jan De Clercq Using the Windows XP PRD with EFS Encrypted Files Discover how XP's PRD can let users reset their own passwords and how to use it with EFS encrypted files. — Jan De Clercq Windows Guest Account Best Practices Learn all about the Windows Guest Account and how to secure it. — Jan De Clercq Windows Password Reset Disk to the Rescue — Jan De Clercq [Coming Soon] Put Your Business on Web-Based Email Email services such as Google's Gmail, Microsoft's Hotmail, and Yahoo!'s Yahoo! Mail can be a cost-effective messaging choice for your small business. — David Chernicoff [Feature] 10 Tips to Keep Your Microsoft Exchange Server Humming To avoid common problems in your Microsoft Exchange Server environment, follow these tips to establish a regular schedule of maintenance activities, such as running ExBPA, performing integrity checks, and verifying your backups. — Brien Posey 2007 Exchange & Outlook Pro VIP PDF and Article Archive Download the 2007 Exchange & Outlook Pro VIP PDFs here. — Anne Grubb Automating Shared-Mailbox Management in Exchange 2003 This solution combines scripts and Microsoft and freeware utilities to save you time administering Exchange Server 2003 shared mailboxes. — Frank Houbak Kristiansen Backing Up and Restoring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Part 1 NTBackup and simple Windows PowerShell commands can help bring your data back when the unthinkable happens — Nathan Winters Backing Up and Restoring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Part 2 Find out how to create and use a Recovery Storage Group to restore data older than the retention period, and how to get users up and running quickly after a server failure by using a dial-tone database. — Nathan Winters  Book Review: Microsoft Exchange 2007: Tony Redmond’s Comprehensive Guide to Successful Implementation Exchange admins seeking guidance in migrating to Exchange Server 2007 will find help in Tony Redmond's new book. — Brien Posey Deployment Blockers for Upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 Avoid the gotchas and ensure a successful upgrade. You’ll need to be clear on AD topology, and then deal with deployment issues with public folders, client software, archival and retention, fax, mobility, and coexistence with other Exchange versions. — Paul Robichaux Determining Mailbox Delegates Use these techniques to determine who's delegated access their email accounts and who is a delegate. — William Lefkovics Establishing Quotas for Exchange 2007 Mailboxes Learn the important factors to consider when setting Exchange 2007 mailbox quotas, including disk performance, database overhead, and backup-window limitations. You'll also get practical formulas to determine your maximum mailbox and database volumes. — Brien Posey Examining Microsoft's Unified Communications Strategy The products that are part of Microsoft’s UC strategy make it easy to communicate in several different ways through only a few platforms. — Paul Robichaux Exchange 2007 Transport Rules Implementing Exchange Server 2007’s new transport rules feature makes complying with regulatory requirements easier than in Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server. Learn how to use transport rules to add a disclaimer and apply an ethical firewall. — Tony Redmond Exchange 2007: Life Without ExMerge? ExMerge is gone in Exchange Server 2007, but its functionality lives on. Learn how you can use Exchange Management Shell cmdlets and the Exchange Management Console to perform tasks formerly handled by ExMerge. — David Sengupta Exchange CDP Many CDP solutions are available for Exchange, but they function in different ways. Understanding how they work—and what Microsoft supports—will help you choose the best protection for your organization. — Paul Robichaux Exchange Management with EMS: Fundamental Concepts With PowerShell's basic syntax and consistent grammar, managing your Exchange systems through EMS is easier than you might think. — Paul Robichaux Exchange Server 2007 for Exchange 2003 Admins, Part 1 A redesigned architecture has given us a new set of management tools that you need to learn how to use. — Brien Posey Exchange Server 2007 for Exchange 2003 Admins, Part 2 — Brien Posey Exchange Server Database Integrity Learn how Exchange keeps tabs on database integrity, and see how you can use Eseutil and Isinteg to rectify any problems. — Michael B. Smith Exchange Unified Messaging Essentials Learn how Exchange Server 2007’s Unified Messaging (UM) implementation meets the promise of unification and find out what you’ll need to know to implement Exchange UM in your environment. — Paul Robichaux Find Email Accounts in AD Keeping track of multiple email accounts for a single user can be tricky. Here's a script that leverages Perl and Active Directory to locate the Exchange users' addresses you want. — Dave Roth Free/Busy Data Demystified Manage free/busy data and troubleshoot problems more effectively by understanding how Exchange and Outlook store, calculate, and manage users’ calendar data. — Tony Redmond Get Compliant with Exchange Server 2007 Journaling Regulatory compliance and internal audit policies force many organizations to journal email messages, voicemails, and fax messages. Exchange Server 2007 makes journaling easy by establishing managed journal rules enforced through the Hub Transport server. — Siegfried Jagott Getting Ready for Unified Communications Microsoft Exchange Server plays a key role in Microsoft’s unified communications (UC) strategy, so the more you know about UC, the better. Learn how Live Communications Server 2005’s Exchange and Office integration support a UC solution. — Tony Piltzecker Getting Started with Exchange 2007 UM UM with Exchange Server 2007 combines email, fax, and voicemail in your Exchange Inbox. Using Exchange Management Console, you can configure the settings to get your organization unified. — J. Peter Bruzzese High Availability in Exchange 2007 Is Well Within Your Reach High availability is more accessible for all now that Exchange Server 2007 offers cluster continuous replication, single copy cluster, and local continuous replication. Learn what's involved in using each option. — J. Peter Bruzzese High Availability Out of the Box A strong set of new features in Exchange Server 2007 can help you achieve your high-availability goals. You can add redundancy through multiple server roles, and new clustering techniques such as LCR and CCR add automatic replication. — Paul Robichaux Hosted Services and Exchange Are you ready to move to software as a service to administer portions of Exchange? Explore the offerings in the Exchange Hosted Services portfolio: filtering, continuity, archive, and encryption. Review the licensing plan to see if it suits your needs. — Paul Robichaux Implementing Cluster Continuous Replication with Exchange Server 2007 If you have multiple Exchange Server 2007 servers, cluster continuous replication (CCR) provides server high availability and an automated failover process. Learn how to prepare for and configure CCR. — J. Peter Bruzzese Importing and Exporting Contacts with Outlook 2007 Learn how to manage Outlook contact information by learning these caveats about file formats and handling duplicate entries. — William Lefkovics Integrating Exchange Server 2007 and SharePoint Server Learn how to configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) to work with Exchange Server and Outlook Web Access (OWA) so your organization can use an intranet to easily share documents. — Brien Posey Introduction to DNS Configuration for Exchange Admins Every Exchange administrator should know some DNS basics. This includes understanding how DNS should be configured for Exchange and how to verify that DNS has been configured properly for your domains. — Michael B. Smith Lessons from the Field: Moving from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 With no direct supported migration path from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2007, migrating to Exchange 2003 becomes a necessary interim step. See how one company made the move. — Desmond Lee Live Communications Server 2005 and IP Telephony Converge The integration of IP telephony and LCS is key to Microsoft's unified communications push, offering employee-availability information and letting employees forward calls from their office phone to another phone. — Tony Piltzecker Making the Switch to Windows Mobile Windows Mobile 5.0 and Exchange Server 2003 SP2 combined to make the switch from BlackBerry to a Pocket PC an attractive option. See how the features and usability stack up. — Tony Redmond Manage Exchange Server 2003 Using Windows PowerShell and WMI You can use Windows PowerShell even if you’re still on Exchange Server 2003. Walk through straightforward command examples to learn how to use PowerShell and WMI to automate administrative tasks. — Desmond Lee Managing Mailboxes with Exchange Management Shell You can easily accomplish mailbox management tasks with Exchange Management Shell. You can create new mailboxes; view, set, and change mailbox properties; and control permissions, all either in bulk or on individual mailboxes. — Paul Robichaux Managing Mobile Messaging in Exchange 2007 The latest version of Exchange includes several features that make it easy to connect mobile devices to your Exchange organization, set up password and security policies, and help your users manage their devices. — Brien Posey Managing Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Public folder management in Exchange 2007 must be done with PowerShell—at least until SP1 is released. In the meantime, use these commands for creating public folders and databases, setting properties and permissions, and other management tasks. — Tony Redmond Message Hygiene Features for Exchange Server 2007 Check out the newest content-filtering additions to Exchange Server 2007, why you need them, and how to implement them. — Paul Robichaux Microsoft's Unified Communications What do you think about Microsoft's recent focus on and announcements about Unified Communications? What does this focus imply about Exchange? — Karen Forster More About Using PowerShell to Manage Exchange Server 2003 Use PowerShell commands to query AD to learn more about your Exchange organization. — Desmond Lee Moving Away from PSTs Getting users to stop using PSTs won't be easy, but with planning—and the right tools—you'll be able to manage this difficult transition. — Brien Posey My Exchange Server 2007 Migration Story An Exchange professional migrates his company’s Exchange 2003 server to Exchange Server 2007 and learns about Windows PowerShell cmdlets along the way. — Wes Lazara Outlook 2007 vs. Outlook 2003 Outlook 2007 includes many useful new features, although some of them work only with Exchange Server 2007. — J. Peter Bruzzese Outlook Tips & Techniques Use Outlook 2007’s business card Contacts feature, add religious holidays and other countries’ holidays to Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003, and use Outlook 2007’s Instant Search feature. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips & Techniques Use an alternate address with Exchange Server, to send a message from a secondary proxy STMP address as though the message came directly from that email address; and prevent users from using Outlook’s delegation feature. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips & Techniques It might be possible to install Microsoft Office software at home as well as at the office. Also, learn how to make a few registry edits to configure the To-Do Bar for your users. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips & Techniques Learn how to get the latest Outlook Junk E-Mail Filter update. See how disabling Outlook AutoComplete might protect your users from inadvertently sending messages to unintended recipients. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips & Techniques The following Outlook 2007 tips are covered: sharing RSS feeds, managing junk email whitelists and blacklists, using the Office Customization Tool (OCT), using Group Policy (GP)with Active Directory (AD)to update configurations, and aggregating safelists. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips & Techniques Enable Outlook 2007’s Instant Search feature, and preview attachments in Outlook 2007. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips & Techniques Sue Mosher answers questions about how to disable Cached Exchange Mode in Outlook 2007, prevent Outlook 2003 from copying public calendar items to a user's personal calendar, and enable the Contacts box in Outlook 2007. — Sue Mosher Outlook Tips & Techniques Find out how Outlook supports RSS feeds, and learn how to use OWA or Outlook switches to delete and recreate corrupt rules. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips & Techniques Learn how to configure Microsoft Outlook’s alerts for new email items, and explore options for cleaning up Outlook 2007’s mailbox. — William Lefkovics Outlook Tips and Techniques Sue Mosher answers questions about how to disable Ctrl+Enter, let someone edit another users Outlook items, and recover hidden columns in the Address Book dialog box and clarifies when to grant delegate access instead of folder permissions. — Sue Mosher Print Your Outlook 2007 Schedules and To-Do Lists With Style Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and the new Calendar Printing Assistant offer original and updated calendar and task printing options for both enterprise and individual users so they can personalize and brand their schedules and to-do lists. — William Lefkovics Refining Your Exchange Management in the Shell Exchange administrators can benefit from using server-side filters and running PowerShell scripts in batch mode to manage Exchange Server 2007. — Tony Redmond Setting Up Exchange Management Shell Here are a few tips on getting Exchange Server 2007's Exchange Management Shell to look and perform the way you want it to, including making sure your AD searches have the right scope. — Tony Redmond | |||||||||||
