Another Webcast (level 300) coming up shortly which should be worth watching - I'm keeping half an eye on what's happening with Exchange 2007 and some of the big changes especially around the way in which it is managed. Unfortunately it starts at 9PM for those on UK time so it clashes with whatever drama...

So I've been a little light on blogging over the past couple of weeks while I've been over in Redmond for a house-hunting trip before moving over in a couple of weeks, so there was a fair bit of post waiting for me back in the office. The March TechNet Plus subscription was among the pile, complete with...

Worth a listen is a podcast recording by the Exchange Team who explain more about their decision to go 64-bit only. Link is here .

I have to share this one with you - in around three weeks time, there's a series of webcasts on Exchange 12 running over 4 days. The better news is (I'm guessing for US attendees only though) is that if you attend all four webcasts (can be viewed on demand, not necessarily live) and you submit your evaluations...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The final part to the RPC/HTTPS series shows you how to alter the configuration we have such that Outlook 2003 can move seamlessly between external and internal connectivity through the use of integrated authentication. To do this, we need...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. In the last part, forms based authentication for Outlook Web Access was back running again, bouncing through the localhost listener. In this part, we put RPC/HTTP back into place. We create a publishing rule for the Exchange Virtual Directory...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. We now move Outlook Web Access back to HTTPS, and we correct a naming error on the Network Listener "FBA LocalHost 443" in the last part (it's actually listening and remains listening on port 80). After having ripped things apart over the...

I've just got out from a meeting and after a colleague happened to display their calendar on the projector noticed something which (for me at least) is really dead useful. I never knew you could display more than one timezone on your Outlook calendar simultaneously. I regularly have online meetings with...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. To make the next steps clearer, here's a picture of what we're trying to achieve in combining Forms Based Authentication with RPC/HTTP, and the routes through which traffic will flow. Hopefully a picture speaks a thousand words - the blogcast...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. With our new rule in place on the ISA Server, this sixth part of configuring TPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 first takes a quick look at the effects on Outlook Web Access - we now get a basic authentication challenge instead of Forms Basic...

So after numerous emails about this, and some comments on my previous blog post back in June , I spent a couple of hours this afternoon improving the backup script (which although was written as a generic Exchange backup script, is suitable for file system, system state and more - it just depends entirely...

Iif you don't fit into the subject line category please switch off now - I just know you won't know the answer (no offence, of course). I've been an Exchange dev for years (although a little rusty now) and still don't know. However, read-on if you want to, or have some educated guesses and vaguely understand...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. This fifth part of configuring RPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 changes direction in getting RPC/HTTPS available from the Internet now that it is working internally. We backtrack on our ISA Server configuration as we can't (easily) have forms...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. This fourth part of configuring RPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 moves us on to ensuring that RPC/HTTP works internally from our Outlook 2003 client to our Exchange 2003 Server. First though, we correct a typo in the registry settings from...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The third part of configuring RPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 configures the registry on Exchange 2003 and ensures that IIS is correctly configured on our Exchange server. This is a critical step in ensuring that internal problems are non...

Thanks for everyone who attended todays security event in London. I hope you got a lot out of the demonstration I ran through today, plus of course the other sessions. It was certainly the scariest and possibly "riskiest" session I've ever considered - taking on 90 mins+ of unrehursed demo could have...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. The second part of configuring RPC over HTTP for Outlook 2003 connectivity to Exchange 2003 is covered in this blogcast. Now that we have the proxy component installed on the Exchange Server, we have some further configuration to perform...

Hot off the press, just spotted the release of Exchange Server 2003 SP2 . Time to update my infrastructure blogcast series and think about throwing in some mobile devices to try out the new device-wipe functionality. Guess what I'll be installing at home tonight too!

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. By popular demand (so you can all stop emailing me now please!), we're going to tackle the subject of RPC over HTTP in the next 10 or 11 parts. First, I feel it important to set the scene to paint a clearer picture of what we are trying...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. In this blogcast, we complete email retrieval configuration through SMTP transfer. Having seen the ISA logs and network analysis, we configure and apply an appropriate ISA firewall policy, and send an email from the Internet into our organisation...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. This next blogcast raises the bar in terms of email retrieval. In the previous part, we were using POP3 email retrieval, similar to many home users retrieve email from an ISP hosted mailbox. This solution isn't necessarily ideal for business...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. Unlucky 13 for some - it certainly was for me, I had to record it three times and still had problems along the way! Oh, the joys of real world "live" computing! Anyway, now that we can send email externally from our Active Directory/Exchange...

I was struggling with this error message today - everything I had found on the Internet suggested it related to security. Well, it does, of sorts, and a careful look at the configuration of your SMTP server without mis-interpreting a dialog box. If you open the properties for your SMTP server under...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. Hot off the headphones, so to speak - literally just recorded. This blogcast goes through a typical scenario in a small/medium organisation where an ISP's SMTP server is used to send outbound email. If you've been watching the series so...

Continuing the blogcast series on infrastructure essentials. In this blogcast, we do a simple re-configuration to our ISA Server to start using the certificate already installed on that machine to allow encryption of traffic used by our external site, mail.contoso.com. After the reconfiguration, we...