Welcome to Neil Hobson's Section

Neil is a UK-based consultant responsible for the design, implementation and support of Microsoft infrastructure systems, most notably Microsoft Exchange systems. He has been in the IT industry since 1987 and has worked with Exchange since 1996. He was an Exchange MVP from 2003 to 2010 and still spends some of his spare time helping others in various Exchange online forums.

He has also been a technical reviewer for the following Exchange books:

Exchange 2003 Server Distilled, by Scott Schnoll (Addison-Wesley Professional, March 2004)
Learning Exchange Server 2003, by William Boswell (Addison-Wesley Professional, September 2004)
Configuring Exchange 2000 Server, by Liz Mason (Syngress, January 2001)

Neil Hobson's Latest Contributions

Header Firewall in Exchange 2010 (Part 2): Date - Jan 26, 2012; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; A look at the feature known as the Header Firewall in Exchange 2010; what it is and how to use it to strip received headers.
Header Firewall in Exchange 2010 (Part 1): Date - Jan 10, 2012; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; A look at the feature known as the Header Firewall in Exchange 2010; what it is and how to use it to strip received headers.
Back Pressure in Exchange 2010 (Part 2): Date - Dec 15, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Completing a look at the feature known as Back Pressure in Exchange 2010.
Back Pressure in Exchange 2010 (Part 1): Date - Dec 01, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; In this two-part article we’ll be looking at the feature Back Pressure and what to expect when it is activated.
Active Directory Routing and Routing Logs (Part 2): Date - Nov 17, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at Active Directory routing logs in Exchange 2010 and the Routing Log Viewer.
Active Directory Routing and Routing Logs (Part 1): Date - Nov 03, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at Active Directory routing logs in Exchange 2010 and the Routing Log Viewer.
Accepted Domains (Part 2): Date - Oct 20, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Finishing the look at Accepted Domains in Exchange 2010, this time covering internal and external relay domains.
Accepted Domains (Part 1): Date - Oct 06, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at accepted domains in Exchange 2010; what they are and how they are used.
Single Item Recovery (Part 3): Date - Sep 22, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Finishing a look at Single Item Recovery in Exchange 2010, covering discovery searches and the MFCMAPI tool.
Single Item Recovery (Part 2): Date - Sep 08, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Continuing the look at the feature known as Single Item Recovery in Exchange 2010.
Single Item Recovery (Part 1): Date - Aug 23, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; A look at the feature known as Single Item Recovery in Exchange.
Exchange 2010 Domain Security (Part 4): Date - Aug 04, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Completing the look at domain security: configuring certificates, testing the process and finally looking at message headers and transport rules.
Exchange 2010 Domain Security (Part 3): Date - Jul 21, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Continuing the configuration of Fabrikam’s Exchange 2010 infrastructure for domain security.
Exchange 2010 Domain Security (Part 2): Date - Jul 07, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Continuing the configuration of the lab environment to demonstrate domain security in Exchange 2010.
Exchange 2010 Domain Security (Part 1): Date - Jun 23, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; A look at the feature known as domain security in Exchange 2010.
Priority Queuing in Exchange 2010 (Part 3): Date - Jun 07, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at large messages and their effect on the priority queuing feature of Exchange 2010.
Priority Queuing in Exchange 2010 (Part 2): Date - May 19, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Continuing the look at the feature known as priority queuing in Exchange 2010, this time covering protocol logging and then enabling priority queuing.
Priority Queuing in Exchange 2010 (Part 1): Date - May 05, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at the feature known as priority queuing in Exchange 2010.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 8): Date - Apr 21, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; A look at troubleshooting the RMS integration with Exchange 2010, covering the various logging options available.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 7): Date - Apr 05, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; A look at creating a custom RMS template and demonstrating its use within an Exchange 2010 transport protection rule.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 6): Date - Mar 15, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; Continuing the look at Rights Management Server integration with Exchange 2010, this time focusing on transport protection rules.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 5): Date - Mar 01, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; Looking at enabling/disabling RMS integration and the Outlook protection rule functionality of Rights Management Server integration with Exchange 2010.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 4): Date - Feb 15, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; Testing the RMS installation and looking at how users can make use of the RMS features from within Outlook Web App.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 3): Date - Feb 01, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; Completing the installation of the Rights Management Server, covering permissions configuration and RMS super group creation and configuration.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 2): Date - Jan 13, 2011; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; Installing the Rights Management Server role and the other required role services and features required to support it.
Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010 (Part 1): Date - Dec 23, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; A look at the features available when using Rights Management Server and Exchange 2010.
Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 4): Date - Dec 09, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; This article completes the resource mailboxes in Exchange 2010 series, points out how policies affect users and describes room list distribution groups.
Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 3): Date - Nov 30, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Looking at the resource booking attendant feature for resource mailboxes in Exchange 2010.
Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 2): Date - Nov 18, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Looking at resource custom properties and manual request responses for resource mailboxes in Exchange 2010.
Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 1): Date - Nov 02, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A deep dive into the creation, configuration and use of resource mailboxes in Exchange 2010.
The Offline Address Book (Part 4): Date - Oct 21, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; The final part of a deep dive into understanding how the Offline Address Book is created and distributed via web-based distribution in Exchange 2010.
The Offline Address Book (Part 3): Date - Oct 05, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Continuing our look at the OAB creation and distribution process, focusing on web-based distribution in Exchange 2010.
The Offline Address Book (Part 2): Date - Sep 23, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Continuing the look at how the Offline Address Book is created and distributed via web-based distribution in Exchange 2010.
The Offline Address Book (Part 1): Date - Sep 07, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A detailed look at understanding how the Offline Address Book is created and distributed via web-based distribution in Exchange 2010.
Exchange 2010 Calendar Repair (Part 2): Date - Aug 26, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Completing the look at the calendar repair feature found in Exchange 2010.
Exchange 2010 Calendar Repair (Part 1): Date - Aug 10, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at the calendar repair feature found in Exchange 2010.
Exchange 2010 Role Based Access Control (Part 4): Date - Jul 27, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at the new Role Based Access Control model in Exchange 2010.
Exchange 2010 Role Based Access Control (Part 3): Date - Jul 15, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Continuing the look at RBAC, this time covering management role entries and how a mailbox search is performed.
Exchange 2010 Role Based Access Control (Part 2): Date - Jun 22, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Continuing the look at RBAC in Exchange 2010; covering group membership, roles and role assignments.
Exchange 2010 Role Based Access Control (Part 1): Date - Jun 10, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at the new Role Based Access Control model in Exchange 2010.
Administrator Audit Logging (Part 2): Date - May 27, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; Concluding the look at the new Administrator Audit Logging feature in Exchange 2010.
Administrator Audit Logging (Part 1): Date - May 13, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; A look at the new Administrator Audit Logging feature in Exchange 2010.
Moving Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 4): Date - Apr 13, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; The fourth and final part of an article series looking at local move requests in Exchange 2010.
Moving Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 3): Date - Mar 25, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Continuing the look at moving mailboxes in Exchange 2010, including managing and suspending move requests as well as moving multiple mailboxes.
Moving Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 2): Date - Mar 11, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; Continuing the look at the new Move Request feature in Exchange 2010, this time focusing on the Exchange Management Shell.
Moving Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 (Part 1): Date - Feb 25, 2010; Section - Exchange 2010 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at the new Move Request feature in Exchange 2010 and how it is used to move mailboxes.
Exchange 2007 Mailbox Access Auditing (Part 2): Date - Feb 11, 2010; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; The conclusion of a look at the mailbox access auditing feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2.
Exchange 2007 Mailbox Access Auditing (Part 1): Date - Feb 02, 2010; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; A look at the mailbox access auditing feature introduced in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2
Outlook Web Access Security Features (Part 5): Date - Jan 12, 2010; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Completing the look at the security features found in Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007, this time completing our look at WebReady Document Viewing and finishing off with web beacons.
Outlook Web Access Security Features (Part 4): Date - Dec 17, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Continuing a look at the security features found in Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007, this time covering OWA files, data access, and WebReady document viewing.
Outlook Web Access Security Features (Part 3): Date - Dec 03, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Continuing a look at the security features found in Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007, this time concluding OWA authentication and then covering OWA segmentation.
Outlook Web Access Security Features (Part 2): Date - Oct 22, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Continuing a look at the security features found in Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007, this time covering OWA authentication methods.
Exchange 2007 Clustering Questions (Part 2): Date - Oct 13, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; The second part of a look at some common design and administration questions related to Exchange 2007 clustering technology that occur in newsgroups and forums.
Outlook Web Access Security Features (Part 1): Date - Oct 01, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; A roundup of the security features found in Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007; how they work and considerations you need to keep in mind before deploying them in your organization.
Exchange 2007 Clustering Questions (Part 1): Date - Sep 24, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; A look at some common design and administration questions relating to Exchange 2007 clustering technology that occur in newsgroups and forums.
The Exchange 2007 Transport Dumpster (Part 2): Date - Sep 15, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; The concluding part in the series of articles on the Exchange 2007 Transport Dumpster, this time covering sizing and monitoring topics.
The Exchange 2007 Transport Dumpster (Part 1): Date - Sep 08, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; A look at the Exchange 2007 Transport Dumpster; what it is, how to plan for it and operational considerations.
Configuring Edge Transport Server Without Edge Synchronization (Part 4): Date - Aug 25, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Completing the configuration of the required connectors on the Edge Transport server.
Configuring Edge Transport Server Without Edge Synchronization (Part 3): Date - Aug 06, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Configuring the Hub Transport server’s Receive Connector as well as the Edge Transport server’s internal Receive Connector.
Configuring Edge Transport Server Without Edge Synchronization (Part 2): Date - Jul 30, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Completing the configuration of the Send Connector required to send outbound Internet email messages from the Exchange 2007 organization.
Configuring Edge Transport Server Without Edge Synchronization (Part 1): Date - Jul 16, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; How to configure Internet email flow through a Hub Transport server and an Edge Transport server without using EdgeSync.
Testing SCR in a Production Environment (Part 4): Date - Jul 07, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; The conclusion of a look at testing SCR without destroying the source copy of the data, this time covering the steps required to bring back the production CCR environment.
Testing SCR in a Production Environment (Part 3): Date - Jun 23, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Testing SCR without destroying the source copy of the data, this time covering the steps required to complete the move to the SCR standby cluster.
Testing SCR in a Production Environment (Part 2): Date - Jun 04, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Testing SCR without destroying the source copy of the data, this time covering the stoppage of CMS and restoring the storage group copies.
Testing SCR in a Production Environment (Part 1): Date - May 26, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; How to test if your Standby Continuous Replication is working without destroying the source copy of the data.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 9): Date - Apr 30, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Concluding the look at a project transition from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, this time covering the Security Configuration Wizard, moving mailboxes and public folders.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 8): Date - Apr 21, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Continuing with the configuration of the Exchange 2007 environment, this time focusing on certificates and enabling Outlook Anywhere.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 7): Date - Apr 07, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Continuing with the configuration of the Exchange 2007 environment, focusing on the issue of certificate creation.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 6): Date - Mar 26, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007; continuing the look at the configuration of the Exchange 2007 environment.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 5): Date - Mar 17, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Transition from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007; looking at the configuration of the Exchange 2007 environment.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 4): Date - Mar 03, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Transition from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, focusing on the installation of the Edge Transport server role.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 3): Date - Feb 24, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Transition from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, covering cluster configuration and installation of the Clustered Mailbox Server.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 2): Date - Feb 10, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Transitioning from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, covering the Hub Transport and Client Access Server installation as well as preparation of the CCR environment.
A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 1): Date - Jan 06, 2009; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Transition from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007, including an outline of the process used and the order of events.
A Closer Look at Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 (Part 5): Date - Dec 04, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; A look at the final step of the Active Directory preparation process, namely the preparation of the Active Directory domains.
A Closer Look at Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 (Part 4): Date - Nov 20, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; A look at the penultimate step of the Active Directory preparation process, namely the preparation of Active Directory itself.
A Closer Look at Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 (Part 3): Date - Nov 04, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; How to prepare the Active Directory schema, check that it has completed and also monitor Active Directory replication.
A Closer Look at Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 (Part 2): Date - Oct 23, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Completing the look at preparing legacy permissions including how to tell that the process has completed successfully.
A Closer Look at Preparing Active Directory for Exchange 2007 (Part 1): Date - Oct 09, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; An in-depth look at the steps required to prepare Active Directory to receive Exchange 2007
Accessing and Using Shared Email Addresses (Part 2): Date - Sep 25, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; Taking a look at two ways to set up and access shared email addresses, this time focusing on shared mailboxes.
Exchange 2007 Online Maintenance Database Scanning (Part 2): Date - Sep 18, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; Concluding our look at the online maintenance database scanning features introduced in Exchange 2007 SP1.
Exchange 2007 Online Maintenance Database Scanning (Part 1): Date - Sep 16, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; A look at the online maintenance database scanning features introduced in Exchange 2007 SP1.
Accessing and Using Shared Email Addresses (Part 1): Date - Sep 04, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at two ways to set up access to shared email addresses in Exchange 2007.
Testing Exchange 2007 With PowerShell (Part 2): Date - Aug 21, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; Continuing to look at some of the ‘test’ cmdlets that are available with Exchange 2007, what they do, and how to use them.
Testing Exchange 2007 With PowerShell (Part 1): Date - Jul 31, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; A look at some of the cmdlets that are used to test Exchange 2007, what they do and how to use them.
Removing The Last Exchange 2003 Server From Exchange 2007 (Part 4): Date - Jul 22, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; The final steps required in order to remove the last Exchange 2003 server from an organization that has been migrated to Exchange 2007.
Removing The Last Exchange 2003 Server From Exchange 2007 (Part 3): Date - Jul 08, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Moving the Offline Address Book using the Exchange Management Shell, removing the databases from Exchange 2003 and removing the Routing Group Connectors.
Removing The Last Exchange 2003 Server From Exchange 2007 (Part 2): Date - Jun 24, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Configuring inbound Internet as well as moving the public folders and Offline Address Book generation to the Exchange 2007 server.
Removing The Last Exchange 2003 Server From Exchange 2007 (Part 1): Date - Jun 05, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; The steps required in order to remove the last Exchange 2003 server from an organization that has been migrated to Exchange 2007.
Clustered Continuous Replication Failover with Standby Continuous Replication (Part 3): Date - May 22, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; The process to move the CMS back to the production datacenter from the backup datacenter after the production datacenter is available again.
Clustered Continuous Replication Failover with Standby Continuous Replication (Part 2): Date - May 06, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; The processes required to seed the SCR target and then recover the CMS onto the standby cluster.
Clustered Continuous Replication Failover with Standby Continuous Replication (Part 1): Date - Apr 22, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; A look at how site failover can be achieved by using Standby Continuous Replication from a Clustered Continuous Replication source.
The Exchange Pickup Folder: Date - Apr 08, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at the purpose of the SMTP pickup folder in Exchange 2007, how you can configure it and how you can use it to test mail flow.
Troubleshooting Out of Office: Date - Mar 25, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Tools; How to troubleshoot a non-functioning Out of Office message using various tools and techniques including MFCMAPI and MDBVUE32.
Storage Group Copy Checksums in Exchange 2007: Date - Mar 04, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at a method to manually perform a consistency check against a database that has been enabled for continuous replication.
Getting Mailbox Statistics in Exchange 2007: Date - Feb 19, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at the Get-MailboxStatistics Exchange Management Shell cmdlet and how to manipulate its output in various ways.
Exchange 2007 Availability Services: Date - Jan 31, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; A look at the new availability service within Exchange 2007.
Moving Mailboxes in Exchange 2007, Part 2: Date - Jan 15, 2008; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; Looking at the log files generated by the move mailbox process as well as moving mailboxes via the Exchange Management Shell.
Moving Mailboxes in Exchange 2007, Part 1: Date - Dec 20, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; A look at using the Exchange Management Console to move mailboxes in Exchange 2007.
Exchange 2007 Issues: Mailbox Management: Date - Dec 06, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; Two common issues related to mailbox management, together with their resolutions, that are seen in Exchange 2007.
Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 6): Date - Nov 22, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; The conclusion of this article with the migration of Domino mailbox contents into Exchange 2007 mailboxes.
Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 5): Date - Nov 06, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Migration of the Domino users to Active Directory.
Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 4): Date - Oct 09, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Preparing the Exchange 2007 environment, then the creation and configuration of the free/busy connector.
Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 3): Date - Sep 20, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Configuring the Domino environment to prepare it for the installation of the Free/Busy Connector.
Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 2): Date - Sep 04, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; The completion of the directory synchronization process between Exchange 2007 and Lotus Domino.
Migrating from Domino to Exchange 2007 (Part 1): Date - Aug 14, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Migration & Deployment; A look at the new Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino and how to use it to migrate to Exchange 2007.
Exchange 2007 Permissions and Roles (Part 2): Date - Jul 31, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; The new Exchange 2007 administrator roles and a few common permissions scenarios.
Exchange 2007 Permissions and Roles (Part 1): Date - Jul 12, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; The new Exchange 2007 administrator roles and a few common permissions scenarios.
Exchange Cluster Checks With ClusPrep and ClusDiag (Part 2): Date - Jun 26, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Using ClusPrep and ClusDiag to check an Exchange cluster configuration.
Exchange Cluster Checks With ClusPrep and ClusDiag (Part 1): Date - Jun 12, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Using ClusPrep and ClusDiag to check an Exchange cluster configuration.
Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management (Part 2): Date - May 22, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; A final look at the new Messaging Records Management feature of Exchange 2007.
Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management (Part 1): Date - May 03, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Compliance, Policies & Archiving; The new Messaging Records Management feature of Exchange 2007.
Troubleshooting Mailbox Manager Policy Application: Date - Apr 12, 2007; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; Troubleshooting which Mailbox Manager policies are being applied.
Auditing Mailbox Access Using Exchange System Manager and Event Viewer: Date - Mar 27, 2007; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; A look at how to audit mailbox access using Exchange System Manager and Event Viewer.
Exchange 2007 Message Tracking (Part 2): Date - Mar 01, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; The contents of a message tracking log file and how to actually search them.
Exchange 2007 Message Tracking (Part 1): Date - Feb 15, 2007; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Management & Administration; How to configure and use message tracking in Exchange 2007.
PFDavAdmin tool (Part 2): Date - Feb 01, 2007; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools; What the PFDavAdmin tool is and what it can do for you.
PFDavAdmin tool (Part 1): Date - Jan 18, 2007; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools; What the PFDAVAdmin tool is and what it can do for you.
Removing The First Exchange 2003 Server (Part 2): Date - Dec 05, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment; The remainder of the tasks you need to perform to ensure the first Exchange server can be decommissioned cleanly and successfully.
Removing the First Exchange 2003 Server (Part 1): Date - Nov 16, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment; What you need to watch out for when decommissioning the first Exchange 2003 server installed into an administrative group.
Sending 'As': Date - Nov 02, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; This article takes a look at methods for sending messages as another user, as well as distribution groups or public folders.
A Closer Look At Directory Service Access (DSAccess) - Part 2: Date - Aug 15, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; Here in part 2 of this article series we’ll take a look at how you can see the results of the tests that DSAccess performs, hard coding servers, cache information and a brief look at some performance counter information.
A Closer Look At Directory Service Access (DSAccess) - Part 1: Date - Jul 20, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; In this two-part article I will take a closer look at what DSAccess is and what it does.
Finding Duplicate SMTP Addresses: Date - Jun 23, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the methods available for finding which object within Active Directory currently owns a duplicate SMTP address.
MOM 2005 SLA Scorecard for Exchange: Date - Jun 01, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; In this article, I will look at what this scorecard is and what it offers you.
System Center Capacity Planner 2006 Overview (Part 2): Date - Apr 04, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture; In part 1 of this 2 part article, we looked at what System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2006 is, its installation requirements and how to start a new design using the Model Wizard. We’ll conclude our look at SCCP here in part 2, where we’ll cover the Model Editor, the Hardware Editor and the running of a simulation.
System Center Capacity Planner 2006 Overview (Part 1): Date - Mar 28, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture; In December 2005, Microsoft shipped System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP) 2006. In this two-part article, I want to give you an introduction to what SCCP 2006 is and how it can help the Exchange professional. Here in part 1, I’ll cover an overview of SCCP, its installation requirements and how to start a new design using the Model Wizard.
Exchange System Manager and Domain Controller Selection: Date - Feb 21, 2006; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; Exchange System Manager itself can be considered a client of many other different services, for it has to obtain different types of information from different sources. For example, Exchange System Manager uses the Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) to display information about mailbox resources as well as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to display information about the queues within the Queue Viewer. As you might expect, it also has to contact Active Directory to retrieve information about the configuration of Exchange. In this article, I want to cover how you can determine which domain controller Exchange System Manager is communicating with to retrieve this information.
Public Folder Replication – Troubleshooting Basics: Date - Sep 06, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; Public folders are important to Exchange because not only do they contain user data, they also contain important system information required for the smooth operation of your Exchange environment. Replicating these folders between Exchange servers can sometimes be troublesome and so in this article I want to look at the initial steps you can take to troubleshoot your public folder replication issues.
The NoMAS Tool: Date - Jul 14, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools; Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS) can provide you with a useful tool called NoMAS. In this article I want to cover what the NoMAS tool is and under what circumstances you might want to use it.
Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 3): Date - Jun 09, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; The Exchange Management Pack Configuration Wizard can make configuring the Exchange management pack really easy and here I show you how. When you’ve done that, you should also check out the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) management pack.
Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 2): Date - May 31, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; In the second part of this three part article, I will take a look at what drives MOM 2005 as far as Exchange management is concerned: the Exchange management pack. Understanding what’s contained within the management pack is key to obtaining a firm grasp of what MOM 2005 can offer the Exchange professional.
Managing Exchange 2003 With MOM 2005 (Part 1): Date - May 19, 2005; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; We would like to welcome Microsoft MVP Neil Hobson to our team of authors as he presents his first article to MSExchange.org readers: In this three part article I will take a look at the highlights of what MOM 2005 can do for you, the Exchange professional. If you’re responsible for one or more Exchange servers and haven’t investigated MOM 2005 yet, then hopefully this series of articles will make you want to check out the product further.