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January 2009 - Posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009 9:59 PM

Changing Message Size limits in Exchange

Hi, I have recently been asked about this several times. There are great articles out there so I will not repeat only link! The size limit by default is 10MB. It is possible to override in many flexible ways! http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/exchange-2007-message-size-limits.htmlhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124345.aspxhttp://exchange-genie.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-set-message-size-limits-in.html
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:24 PM

MMMUG Meeting February 2009

Hi, Here are the details of our February 2009 MMMUG meeting. This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. This month we have a evening about managing and automating Exchange led by Jonathan Medd from Hampshire
posted by nathanwinters | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:32 PM

Relaying from internal servers through Exchange 2007

This is a very common request. People have internal servers which need to send email. The MSExchangeTeam blog has a great article about it here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/12/28/432013.aspx What I tend to use is the following script: New-ReceiveConnector
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:26 AM

Exchange versus Notes

This is just a short post, but I thought it was worth drawing attention to the story below: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126118&intsrc=news_ts_head It is touches on the competition between
posted by nathanwinters | 1 Comments
Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:17 AM

My take on Social Networks

Recently a friend posted on the Mark Minasi forum about social networks: http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29834 Here is my take on it: I am on Facebook, Linked in and Twitter. Personally, I think you get out what you put in. So for example,
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:41 PM

Exchange 14 breaks cover!

Hi, Well finally we can start talking about Exchange 14! Microsoft have released the first video here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/01/13/450397.aspx Definitely worth a look. Now I’d better start working on the book…….. Cheers Nathan
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Monday, January 12, 2009 9:42 PM

Blackberry and Exchange 2007 lost replies

A while ago I worked at a site where I was installing Exchange 2007. Everything was great, except occasionally, Blackberry devices would reply to a mail but the recipients the reply went to would not see any reply! Well this is some text from a Blackberry
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:06 PM

Licensing for Exchange and OCS

As we all know, licensing can be a black art! Michael has written a great post which really helped me out a few times and I thought I would share it: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/11/ocs-2007-licensing-more-on-the-uc-wave.aspx
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:11 PM

The latest UC info from Microsoft

The latest UC info from Microsoft: Unified Communications News http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx http://communicationsserverteam.com Downloads Antigen & Forefront UDP Update for Forefront
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Friday, January 09, 2009 10:16 AM

Live Messenger sign in from multiple places

Hi, This is pretty cool! Maybe it has been out there for ages, i’m not sure, but i’ve just realised that you can sign into Live Messenger from multiple locations. The site below has more info: http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=WL_Messengerv9&querytype=keyword&query=ffo_no_popm
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:54 PM

Minasi Conference 2009

Hi, I thought it was worth mentioning this here in case anyone want to attend a most inspirational conference (which I happen to be organizing this year!) It’s time for the 4th Annual Minasi Conference 2009 (http://web2.minasi.com/forummeet2009/forummeet2009.htm)!
posted by nathanwinters | 2 Comments
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:52 PM

Using PowerShell to get Exchange 2007 Rollup Version

On site recently, I needed to understand which Exchange servers had which Rollup version installed. Now obviously I could have used the Add/Remove programs control panel and set it to show Windows Updates. However, doing this on 20 servers round the world
posted by nathanwinters | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:47 PM

OCS Edge Servers and their Subnet Requirements

I recently spent a day trying to figure out from the available documentation exactly what the requirements for OCS Edge servers were regarding specifically the requirement for separate subnets. Thankfully part way through the day, Jeff Schertz got in
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:46 PM

Applying Exchange Rollup Update to a cluster

I’ve been installing a CCR cluster this week and thought it might be worth posting up here how to patch it! Older version of Exchange clusters were a little annoying to patch, but this is really simple! Basically make sure a node is completely passive
posted by nathanwinters | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:39 PM

CCR Cluster CMS Setup error

I’ve been installed a CCR cluster this week and everything seemed to have gone well except…. During install the active node failed when creating the CMS. Not really sure why, but the mailbox role was installed and it appeared that maybe a service didn’t
posted by nathanwinters | 1 Comments
Monday, January 05, 2009 1:55 PM

Disable Teredo for Cluster Validation

When you setup a cluster for Exchange 2007 CCR on Server 2008, you may find that it doesn’t validate because of IP Address duplication. Often this turns out to be due to IPv6 NAT type technology called Teredo. The blog post below tells you what to do!
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 03, 2009 1:57 PM

Browsers for Windows Mobile Devices

Hi, In the last year the iPhone has take the plaudits for being the best phone for the Internet mainly down to the quality of its browser. However, there are certainly browsers out there which will help Windows Mobile users get better access to the Internet.
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments
Saturday, January 03, 2009 1:17 PM

Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS)

Hi, I recently went to a days training on BPOS thanks to the MSFT partner program. BPOS is basically MSFTs entry into the hosting market ad actually looks pretty good! I was expecting something that was very rigid but actually it seems like a fair amount
posted by nathanwinters | 0 Comments