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A brief history of time

jkruse — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:53:51 GMT

From You Had Me At EHLO...

Ever wondered how Exchange Server evolved over the years? And how come Exchange Server 2007 shows "8.0" as its version number?

Here is a brief history of time... it might add a bit to the known history!

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/01/02/447806.aspx

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Exchange 2007 SP1 - now available!

jkruse — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:37:00 GMT

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is a mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to be more productive and access their information anywhere and anytime while providing a messaging system that enables rich, efficient access to e-mail, calendar items, voice mail, and contacts. For the administrator, Exchange Server 2007 SP1 provides advanced protection options against e-mail security threats, such as spam and viruses, as well as the tools to help manage internal compliance and high availability needs.

In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, several new features and improvements will extend the Anywhere Access capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 to help make employees more productive on whatever device they’re using, provide additional Operational Efficiency tools for administrators seeking a streamlined management and deployment experience, and enable advanced Built-in Protection for more robust high availability and compliance scenarios.

Improvements in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 include:

Anywhere Access

Integrated Exchange Unified Messaging functionality with Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
Outlook Web Access additions, including public folder access, S/MIME support, personal distribution lists, and mailbox rules editor.
Webready document viewer supports Microsoft Office 2007 documents in addition to Microsoft Office 2003 documents.
Extended language support in Outlook Web Access with Arabic and Korean spell checking.

Operational Efficiency

Support for Windows Server 2008 deployments, including benefits in flexible clustering, native virtualization, advanced networking, and simplified management.
Additional tools in the Exchange Management Console, including public folder management and configuration options for clustering and POP/IMAP access.
Improvements to the Exchange Management Shell syntax and import-export PST in the move-mailbox command.
Wider variety of web services for application development, including public folder access, delegate management, and folder level permissions.

Built-in Protection

Addition of Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) for site resilient high availability deployments.
Extended Exchange ActiveSync policies for mobile policy enforcement.
Inormation rights management pre-licensing by the Hub Transport role.
Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP) support in the Unified Messaging role.
Support for IPv6 when using Windows Server 2008.

Download it now at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=44C66AD6-F185-4A1D-A9AB-473C1188954C&displaylang=en

Also download the release notes at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5770bd59-376e-42ec-b940-be6225cd97ff&DisplayLang=en

And download a slipstreamed trial edition at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=44C66AD6-F185-4A1D-A9AB-473C1188954C&displaylang=en

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Exchange 2007 SP1

jkruse — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:47:00 GMT

Do you want to create rules in OWA? Have you heard of SCR?

You know where I'm going with this......

Exchange 2007 SP1 is coming!

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/02/23/435699.aspx

Give us input for the next release of Exchange

jkruse — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:36:00 GMT

If you would like to provide feedback to the Exchange product group on what should be in the next version of Exchange, check out this article at You Had Me At EHLO...

We realize we just shipped Exchange Server 2007, but we're already hard at work in defining where we should go in the release after that. To that end, we'd like to gather some information from both end users and Exchange administrators. We realize our readers are mostly IT pros, so for the end user survey please forward the link to end users in your organizations so that we can get a broad range of responses.

End Users: We're considering investing in better Microsoft Office Live Meeting integration with Outlook or OWA (Outlook Web Access). If you have ever used conferencing tools like Live Meeting or WebEx, please take a few minutes to fill out our brief Online Collaboration survey.
IT Pros: We want to understand more about how you troubleshoot problems & learn about Exchange to see how we can improve that experience. Please fill out the Community and Help Experience survey.

Responses to both of these surveys will help us prioritize the scenarios we invest in for the next release of Exchange. Respondents to the survey will be automatically entered in a drawing to win our eternal gratitude – your chance to win is 100% :)

My new blog

jkruse — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:19:00 GMT

Welcome to another Microsoft-ee blog.

In case you haven't guessed yet, my name is Johann Kruse. I'm a Technology Specialist in Unified Communications for Microsoft in Sydney Australia - which means I am the local technical guy for anything and everything related to Exchange, LCS, Unified Messaging, VOIP, and comms/collaboration in general.

I've been in this role for about 18 months. Prior to this I was the Network Manager at ninemsn, where I was responsible for pretty much everything IT related - Exchange, AD, routing, comms, security, architecture, telephony.. even the air-conditioning. I've now narrowed my focus somewhat, and am lucky enough to spend my time to working with two of the most interesting, exciting and innovative communications technologies in the world - Exchange Server and Live Communications Server.

So why this blog? Well first of all I wanted to connect more with the broader technical community and get your thoughts/feedback/etc about the goings-on in the UC world. But mostly I am doing this because I think it will be a fun and enlightening experience. I feel that we are about to embark on a journey, that this will be something special.

In some ways this blog post is kind of like our first date - I'm nervous and awkward, probably trying just a little too hard to be funny and impress you. Of course you've been doing this for a while, you've seen it before - and you certainly won't be fooled so easily by a pretender like me.

Yet you are curious. You're willing to give me a chance, spend some time to get to know me.

Maybe we can make this work.

It could become something great. Let's give it a shot. Let's not spend the rest of our lives thinking "What if? ...".

So anyway, time for some Exchange trivia.

When you install Exchange 2007 into an existing 2003 organisation it automatically creates some admin and routing groups for interoperability ...

Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)

and

Exchange Routing Group (DWBGZMFD01QNBJR)

I know what you're thinking. What do those letters mean? Are they random? What is the point of this???

Well - try shifting each letter one space backwards or forwards. What do you get?

EXCHANGE12ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!