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Earlier I posted an article relating to the difficult relationship between enterprise and the iPhone. Now as a follow up it is necessary to look into the security related issues regarding Apple’s venture into mobility.Lately there have been a number of articles and sites dedicated to hacking the underlying operating system of the iPhone. Initial attempts were purely for benign reasons of

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You have seen the convenience of managing your spam quarantine by logging into the Ceryx Customer Center and by browsing your daily quarantine digests, but do you know that there is an even faster and more convenient way of managing false positives for people who are always on the go?Say hello to CC Checkspam.Checkspam is a feature of the Ceryx anti-spam solution that allows you to e-mail a

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WebReady Document viewing is a new feature in Exchange 2007 Outlook Web Access. It allows user to view common file types without the need to have the corresponding application installed on their PC. As a result, the user will be able to view the attachments without saving them to disk or opening them in a locally-installed application.When the user requests to view certain attachments from

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Part of moving to a new mail system is the migration of user data. Arguably this is the most important part as this is what your customers (users) see and feel on the ‘new’ system (new to them; if you are at this point you have hopefully been playing with the new system for a while, due diligence and all…). If you don’t believe me in saying this is the most important part to test, plan and

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Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2007 introduces a new method of Offline Address Book (OAB) distribution that does not involve Public Folders (the required method in previous versions of Exchange). The new implementation is an HTTP mechanism that allows the OAB to be downloaded via the web. The following are some key items regarding OAB downloads in Exchange 2007:1) Web-based OAB downloads are only

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I am a BlackBerry addict. There I said it.... My friends, family and colleagues should be proud. I carry it with me everywhere, and check it hundreds of times a day. I use it all the time, and even when I am NOT looking at it, the mere sight of someone checking their wireless device makes my hand reach for the holster. While some people might say that their BlackBerry, Windows Mobile device or

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When new Outlook, or Office for that matter is released, they are generally made to be backward compatible with previous versions. Due to various reasons, some third party add-ins that functioned perfectly in Outlook 2003 might not work or even misbehave and cause problems loading Outlook 2007. Here is how you can disconnect a misbehaving Add-in:1. If an add-in causes Outlook to crash when

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Anyone who has been around Exchange or been a corporate user in an Exchange environment should be somewhat familiar with the concept of Resources. Resources are still alive and well in the newest version of Exchange and are actually improved over previous versions. A Resource in Exchange 2007 is identified as either a room (like a Conference Room) or equipment (like a projector). Each of these

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For the past number of months, tech news sources have been overflowing with articles relating to the launch of Apple’s newest technological revolution: the iPhone.Although the iPhone offers many new and innovative features, it is not exactly enterprise friendly. At the time of release, the iPhone leverages only the IMAP protocol to access Exchange email data. This essentially limits the device

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With Exchange Server 2007 as your messaging platform, secure access to more consistent and up-to-date free/busy information is now possible.Unlike previous versions of Exchange, Exchange Server 2007 does not have to publish free/busy information into public folders if all attendees have Exchange 2007 mailboxes and are using Outlook 2007 or 2007 Outlook Web Access. In this “native” 2007 messaging

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In Exchange 2007 administrators will have a more robust way of managing their remote ActiveSync users with ActiveSync Mailbox Policies. This will allow administrators to enforce settings to control how users use their ActiveSync mobile devices. This means administrators have more control and security when deploying ActiveSync devices.Below is a list of the few of the settings you can set:

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Windows Power Shell, the scripting language introduced by Microsoft last year, is a welcome addition to the admin toolbox. Command line tools experienced a decade of neglect as GUI adminstrative tools took over the landscape. "In the beginning.. " is an entertaining yarn by Neal Stephenson about the history of the much maligned command line.The Exchange 2007 team adopted an approach that lets us

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ActiveSync is a technology that allows your mobile device to synchronize with the Exchange server for emails, calendars, contacts and task items in your mailbox. Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 introduced a new feature called Direct Push which enables Exchange data in your mailbox to be sent in near real time. A long standing HTTPS request is maintained between the device and the Exchange server.

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Exchange 2007 provides several improvements to the Out-of-Office (OOF) feature, which are accessible to users via Outlook 2007 or OWA. (If you are wondering why it is called OOF and not OOO, go here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/07/12/180899.aspx)Some of the improvements include:1) Scheduled OOF MessagesYou can now schedule when your OOF message is sent. One obvious benefit of this is

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Where did those Public Folders go?! The answer is they are still there; just not as visible as they used to be. Exchange 2007 has been designed in such a way that Public Folders, although still available, require command-line like administration – a little bit clunky. But why use dated technology to store your files, emails, contacts and calendar items? The reported reason behind the slow demise

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One of our visitors recently asked whether there are any challenges with implementing Auto Discover effectively, and Owen, our resident expert, had this to say:The simple answer, the setup can be as simple or as complex as your corresponding Exchange environment. In a simple Exchange 2007 scenario, where Exchange routes for only one domain, the setup is fairly straightforward. As part of the

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Exchange administrators and end users alike will praise the new Exchange 2007 feature known as Autodiscover. This new feature, combined with Outlook 2007, makes the setup of new Outlook profiles as simple as logging into your webmail. Simply provide Outlook your email address and password, and your Outlook profile is configured with no other information required. Gone are the days of needing to

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Exchange can be considered to be a special purpose database application. The database is all the email and calendar entries in everybody's mailbox. Rather than writing a database from scratch, Microsoft used the Jet Database engine also used by Microsoft Access. What's that you say, gasping in horror, Microsoft Access is running my corporate email system??? Yup. It also runs your Active Directory

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The UK's ITWeek asks whether or not Outlook should be consigned to the scrap heap and replaced with Google mail.This writer makes some interesting points, but we'll wager he hasn't tried Exchange 2007 yet. His primary issues - the fit between Outlook and Exchange 2007 is on our top eleven list, as are the improved Outlook Web Access, and how 2007 addresses expanding mailboxes with a revised

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In the last post I told you that E2K7 (that’s short for Exchange 2007) uses lots and lots of caching to improve performance, especially on 64-bit architectures where lots and lots of memory is available. One way to improve performance is to keep all data in zippy-fast RAM (random access memory) as opposed to on slug-like hard drives. Trouble with RAM is that when you reboot the machine, all

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Here are the top 11 features of Exchange 2007 according to your rankings so far! Agree? Disagree? Vote at http://www.ceryx.com/exchange2007.asp for your favourites.Top 3 Features:Outlook Web AccessImproved Calendaring and SchedulingImproved Function Management from Mobile DevicesNext 2:Sharepoint and RSS integrationOutlook Voice AccessBottom 5:Better search and message managementOut of Office

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Exchange 2007 is only supported on 64-bit hardware and operating systems. This will cost a lot of people a lot of time and money to replace servers. Why did Microsoft do this? I’ll try to explain the thinking here.Disk i/o operations per second (iops) is the single biggest constraint in Exchange 2003. A heavy user in E2K3 uses about 1 iops to the disk subsystem. A typical disk drive running at

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Here's an extensive piece in Redmond Mag that reviews some of the same features on our list. (You can rate your favourites here as well.) Here is a scorecard that contains some interesting insights. Read any interesting insights on Exchange 2007? Leave a comment or email us at blog@ceryx.com.

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Microsoft announced today that companies moving from Notes to Exchange can now download a free migration tool - the Microsoft Transporter Suite. It's a 32MB download and available from the Microsoft site.

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We at Ceryx talked to our customers and end users and have put together a list of the most significant features and functionality available with Exchange 2007 - from Outlook Voice Access, to autodiscovery for user setup, to compliance and email management features.InfoWorld issued their own thoughts on features last year. We'd like to hear what you think. You can download our list from this page

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We will be making recommendations on blogs that we find useful and informative on a regular basis. Our first blog spotlight is Microsoft's Exchange 2007 team has a blog, You Had Me at EHLO. it's a wealth of information from the Exchange 2007 team on everything from troubleshooting to tips to other links.This post includes some excellent information on Active Directory design for Exchange 2007.

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Thanks for visiting. We at Ceryx have recently launched this blog to facilitate discussion around Exchange 2007 - what's new, what do you need to be aware of, and how will it impact your messaging environment. This blog will cover everything from:Insights from our experts on our experiences working with Exchange 2007 Useful websites, news and information related to Exchange 2007 implementations

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