The Industry Insiders : Messaging & Collaboration

Creating a Mailbox quota report

Eileen_Brown — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:25:00 GMT

Mark is a new contributor to the Industry Insiders forum, and has started his contribution with a really good article on how to use an LDAP query find the values you require, and then to create a mailbox quota report for mailboxes on his Exchange cluster.

You can read his article here, there'll be more articles from Mark on managing his multi forest environment...

Using the Sender Policy framework with Exchange SP2

Eileen_Brown — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:07:00 GMT

Rodney has written a very useful article deatiling how to implement the Sender Policy Framework in Exchange 2003 SP2. There are some good articles on how the Sender ID framework behaves and how the technology works but Rodneys article steps you through the process of implementing this in Exchange itself.

read the article here.

Email archiving - problems and solutions

Eileen_Brown — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:19:00 GMT

Mark has written a good article about email archiving and different options that you can use to achieve your goals. Its a constantly recurring question in our architecture discussions about messaging systems, and so this article sets all of the options out rather well...

Read the article here...

Free Microsoft Support resources

Eileen_Brown — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:24:00 GMT

Blake has compiled an amazing collection of all of the support resources, newsgroups, how to articles, team blogs and tips and published it here... This must have taken an amazing amount of time to review and research and is just about the most comprehensive collection of resources on one page that I've ever seen.

Read, and bookmark this collection of tips here. An absolutely fantastic job. Thank you Blake...

Connecting Smartphones to Exchange servers protected with Private CA certificates

Eileen_Brown — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:40:00 GMT

This week, Brian has written about how to connect Smartphones to the Exchange server when the server has a digital certificate provided by a private authority. If you have a phone that has been locked by the provider, then you can't install any software onto the phone, or use a digital certificate to connect to Exchange.

He also provides several links to additional resources and downloads for disabling and adding certificates. you can read his article here...

Planning for Exchange migration success

Eileen_Brown — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:18:00 GMT

Matthew has written a very comprehensive article about all the things that you need to think about and all of the questions that you need to ask before embarking on your messaging upgrade or migration. He covers all the different parts of the planning phase, and the sort of questions that would likely be asked of different parts of the business prior to the start of the project.

The article can be found here, and it's certainly worth referring to if you have a similar type of project about to happen on your organisation, and creating a checklist of things to consider.

By the way, if you want to submit an article for the Insiders here's how you can contribute.

Sloppy Exchange design - and how to avoid it

Eileen_Brown — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:28:00 GMT

Mark has written an article which talks about some of the challenges that can be encountered by sloppy Exchange design after he carried out an Exchange health check for a customer. He talks about problems with the original implementation which could have been avoided by effective planning and collaborative working, and he higlights issues that could be prevented by ensuring that the implementation team have been trained effectively and have appropriate skills.

you can read his article here..

Enterprise Level Inbound and Outbound Faxing

Eileen_Brown — Thu, 05 May 2005 06:31:00 GMT

In this article Mark attempts to show you how you may use a replacement mass outbound faxing solution to increase efficiency and functionality for the core business and provide the administrative elements of the business with new co-incidental functionality and how you may use your Exchange inboxes and Public Folders to store fax messages as part of your Unified Messaging plans.

It's rather interesting to see the cost savings made simply by decommissioning scanners and fax machines and saving money not only by replacing the hardware, but also savings on paper, toner and maintenance contracts.

You can read Marks article here...

A fresh approach to a technology refresh

Eileen_Brown — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:02:00 GMT

Mark did some work for a local authority in the UK when they were going through their technology refresh recently. His article briefly summarises what would normally be a multi page case study of how a customer brought technology to bear in order to reduce...(read more)

Practical Exchange Service Delivery Reporting

Eileen_Brown — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:44:00 GMT

David has written an article and discusses operational and business unit reporting within the realm of Exchange management reporting, with examples of Key Performance Indicators. He touches on solutions from Microsoft and Quest software which provide the solution.

Implementing BlackBerry in an Exchange Environment

Eileen_Brown — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:33:00 GMT

In this article, Kim talks about the challenges he faced implementing Blackberry in his organisation. I asked him whether he'd done a bakeoff with the Smartphone and he told me:

About the smartphones...no we didn't do a bake off. BB came in as it does in many companies: Executives demanded that we "make it so". No discussion. Just do it. So we did it. Now, of course, they are interested in smartphones. We are currently working on smartphones and Exchange 2003 ActiveSync and OMA. I am sure I will have an article about that as well :).

You can read his article here: