<Allister> Phew! Today marks the end of our 2005 Exchange Tour Unplugged! We (the speakers) have all been on an epic journey around the UK, met hundreds of great people and been overwhelmed by your kind comments and feedback. Thanks to everyone...

[Allister] This looks interesting... Mike Nash, Microsoft's Corporate VP for the Security Business and Technology Unit (SBTU) is giving some live webcasts as part of a new programme called Security 360. The next webcast is all about email security...

...Brett During the tour I had numerous questions around updating OL profiles, if the move mailbox method does not update the attributes in AD. Mailbox servers can refer Outlook to the correct server after mailboxes have been moved within an administrative...

[Allister] Ah! We've had a fun three weeks! We've finally arrived at the last gig of our roadshow in the beautiful city of Edinburgh. We've been to nine great venues, spoken to hundreds of IT Professionals, stayed in a very diverse range of hotels...

Eileen.... Tarpitting seems to stump most of us when searching through the knowledge base for how to reduce the prevalence of Directory Harvesting attacks. Tarpitting is the practice of deliberately inserting a delay into certain SMTP communications...

Eileen... So I had a question. How do you move mailboxes and data from and Exchange 2000 org to a different Exchange 2003 organsiation? Well there's a problem as there are 2 organisations so, you can't use the Move Mailbox tool to move mailboxes...

...Brettjo The latest version of ADMT V2 (Migration Tool) is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=788975B1-5849-4707-9817-8C9773C25C6C&displaylang=en Also take a look at the following articles: http://support.microsoft...

[Allister] Doh! I lost my wallet in Leeds. I guess it fell out of my pocket somewhere in the hotel. We searched everywhere for it but it was nowhere to be found. So I spent about an hour on the phone cancelling my cash/credit cards and started wondering...

....Brettjo In Newcasle today, a few people asked for details about ExMerge. If you go to the following URL you will be able to download the Util and relevant documentation, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid...

[Allister] Back by popular demand! We've added an extra gig date to the end of our tour and will be doing it all again next week on Wednesday 14th December at Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading. This gig is intended primarily for customers...

[Allister] The Unplugged gang is starting to arrive in Leeds after our weekend break and a quick dive into the office to catch up with colleagues. We'll be filming tomorrow's Unplugged event and hope to be able to post some of the footage on TechNet...

[John] I know a lot of you are currently designing your Exchange implementations, so I thought this tool might be of use to you. It’s called the System Center Capacity Planner and is currently in Beta – I’ve taken this chunk of...

[John] I just thought I’d do a quick post with some useful links with regards to keeping your Exchange Servers safe from spammers and the like. The first of these is with regards to tarpitting , so called because it makes the connection “sticky...

Eileen here..... I seem to get more questions about using RPC over HTTP than anything else, and here at Chesterfield has been no exception. We use RPC over HTTP at Microsoft, and I hardly ever use VPN just to get my mails. This is simple to implement...

[Allister posting...] Ah! I love the smell of Chesterfield in the morning! I've had a lot of questions asking for some good pointers to online resources where Exchange 5.5 customers can read up further on the process for upgrading to Exchange Server...