Microsoft Supportability e-Newsletter : Best Practice

Understanding the New Back Pressure Feature in Exchange 2007

Support News Editor — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:26:00 GMT

A new feature of Exchange Server 2007 that helps prevent the inundation of system resources of an Exchange Server 2007 transport server is back pressure. Back pressure is a system resource monitoring feature of the Exchange Transport service that exists...(read more)

How to Move Exchange Server 2007 to New Hardware and Keep the Same Server Name

Support News Editor — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:15:00 GMT

We have received some requests regarding how to move Microsoft Exchange 2007 to new hardware and keep the same server name. You can find the solution by following detailed steps below. 1. Complete copy of the mailbox database.edb and pubic database.edb...(read more)

How to Configure Internet Mail Flow in Exchange Server 2007

Support News Editor — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:10:00 GMT

Exchange Server 2007 allows customers to flexibly configure and control inbound and outbound Internet mail flow in a way that meets the requirements of their environments. The three typical mail flow scenarios are: You send and receive Internet e-mail...(read more)

Troubleshooting Terminal Licensing Error Messages

Support News Editor — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:19:00 GMT

This topic lists licensing error messages that can appear on client computers. It also describes the causes of and solutions for these errors. Although these error messages appear on clients, they are frequently caused by problems with the Windows Server...(read more)

How to Use BitLocker Recovery Passwords

Support News Editor — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:10:00 GMT

Anyone who has tried enabling BitLocker has been greeted with a friendly dialog box insisting that you create a recovery password. At this point, you probably are thinking to yourself: “what is this recovery password, and what am I supposed to do with...(read more)

How to Configure Antivirus Software on a Cluster

Support News Editor — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:08:00 GMT

Enterprise solutions are becoming more and more complex as companies develop different hardware technologies and businesses require such programs as mandatory antivirus software or quota management software. Microsoft does not provide many of these components....(read more)

How Microsoft IT Conduct Anti-Spam and Antivirus

Support News Editor — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:07:00 GMT

A hot topic and one of the most common tasks for messaging system administrators is how to combat spam and virus on their messaging servers. Now that over 75% of Internet email consists of spam, a complete, realistic, and centralized anti-spam and antivirus...(read more)

Handle your customized SharePoint sites when you upgrade

Support News Editor — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:06:00 GMT

If you have extensively customized your SharePoint sites (by using Microsoft Office FrontPage for example), you must decide how to handle your customized sites when you upgrade. Your approach will vary based on the extent of the customizations, the complexity...(read more)

Self-Signed Certificate issue when connecting to the exchange server

Support News Editor — Tue, 29 May 2007 09:56:00 GMT

- Installing a Self-Signed Certificate as a Trusted Root CA in Windows Vista If your exchange server is using a self-signed certificate, using either Outlook or OWA to send or receive e-mail, you must install the certificate into the Trusted Root Certification...(read more)

Using the Exchange Management Shell for Bulk Recipient Management

gbs — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:53:00 GMT

There has been a big change in recipient management from Exchange 2003 to Exchange Server 2007. Exchange Recipient Management is the second biggest administration component of Exchange 2007, which ranks as top Exchange key component with respectable incident...(read more)

Improving Virtual server performance

gbs — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:48:00 GMT

More and more customers are consolidating their server by virtualization. Some customer may raise some performance issue regarding the virtual server. This article will cover following topics. Improving virtual hard disk performance You can improve throughput...(read more)

Deploy Junk E-mail Lists Throughout Your Organization

gbs — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:29:00 GMT

As we know, we can set Outlook's "Safe Senders list", "Block Senders list" and "Safe Recipients list" to help people protect Spam. However, allowing all users to modify their lists is time-consuming and inconvenient. Now, we can use the following steps...(read more)

Office 2007 Deployment Guide

gbs — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:05:00 GMT

Do you want to deploy Office 2007 in your organization? If so, the Office Deployment Guide below is a must read article before you plan any such deployment. This guide provides instruction for the Computer Imaging System and Application Management feature...(read more)

Security settings in Outlook 2007

gbs — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:56:00 GMT

As you remember, in our previous newsletter, we introduced the “public folder security forms” which is used in Outlook 2003 to control security settings centrally. In Outlook 2007, we can use either public folder security forms or Group Policy to manage...(read more)

Troubleshooting SMS Advanced Client Install Issues

gbs — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:53:00 GMT

SMS Advanced Client push installation consists of three main phases. These are: Pre-installation phase - The SMS Client Configuration Manager connects to the target client and verifies the client's operating system and client information. The client installation...(read more)