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Exchange 2000 Monitoring and Maintenance: Date - Nov 11, 2002; Author - Zoran Radic; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; Monitoring system activity and server performance is a necessary part of preventive maintenance for the server running Exchange 2000 Server. Through monitoring, you obtain data that you can use to diagnose system problems, plan growth, and troubleshoot problems.
“Secure” your Exchange Server on the Internet for $100: Date - Nov 04, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; I know the security folks are going to tear into me for this, partly because I use the word Secure, and partly because it is not truly secure. Let me share with you some ideas on how you can install Exchange 2000 and AD and let your users connect from the Internet with their MAPI client as well as OWA.
Moving the Exchange Databases in Exchange 2000: Date - Oct 25, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; This article explains how you can move the Exchange 2000 Databases and/or the Exchange 2000 Transaction Log files to a different location.
Improving Coexistence between Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft Exchange: Date - Oct 23, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Lotus Notes/Domino (or simply “Notes”) and Microsoft Exchange migrations have traditionally been painful processes. In nearly every migration, there is an amount of time where running both systems is required, especially in large scale deployments. In many cases, both systems remain indefinitely in the environment.
Just the FAX – Are you still faxing manually?: Date - Oct 07, 2002; Author - Dan DiNicolo; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; Most companies still rely on traditional manual faxing using a dedicated fax machine, though a popular, more efficient and cost-effective solution in recent years has been to use network fax servers as a replacement for the traditional fax machine.
Exchange and SharePoint: Two Peas in a Pod?: Date - Oct 07, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; It is rarely wise to do something simply because you can. With Service Pack 2 of Exchange 2000, it is now possible to run Exchange 2000 and Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server on the same box. I may argue against such a configuration in the name of network efficiency, but I am not completely one-sided in my opinions when I touch ever so cautiously—on the few special scenarios for which it may be a good idea after all.
A Logon Screen For MS Exchange 2000 Outlook Web Access: Date - Sep 29, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; In Exchange 2000, Outlook Web Access takes you straight into the Inbox without asking for a mailbox name. Not everyone misses the logon screen, but many people do, and a surprising number of people are asking how they can get it, or something similar, back again.
Enhanced Deleted Item Recovery In MS Exchange 5.5: Date - Sep 17, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; As an Exchange Admin, your users will often ask you if there is any way to recover a message that has been inadvertently deleted from their mailbox. Fortunately, Exchange 5.5 has a feature that allows you to do just this, although the standard configuration can be improved by a small amount of tweaking.
Using Exchange 2000 as a low end contact management solution: Date - Sep 16, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; Many companies, not wanting to invest a lot of money in an expensive contact management solution use Outlook public folders for this purpose.
How to get access to all mailboxes in Exchange 2000 Server: Date - Sep 09, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; With Exchange 5.5, this was simple because we had a service account. We simply logged in with the service account or used the credentials to gain access. This was most helpful when we were restoring a mailbox or otherwise capturing data in a lab or temporary restore server.
Hosting Your Own SMTP Mail Using Exchange 2000: Date - Aug 13, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; In this article I am going to explain how you can configure Exchange 2000 to host your own SMTP Internet mail.
MS Exchange, SMTP, POP3 and Telnet: Date - Aug 11, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; The visual complexity of modern email clients such as Outlook Express hides the simplicity of the underlying protocols that they use. If you know a few simple protocol commands it’s possible to send and receive emails via an Exchange Server with no GUI client whatsoever, if you have access to a telnet client.
Implementing NNTP Newsfeed using Microsoft Exchange 2000: Date - Aug 09, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Migration & Deployment; In this article we shall look at how you can bring public newsgroups into your Exchange organization.
Securing Outlook Web Access using SSL: Date - Aug 06, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; In this article we shall look at how we can secure OWA access using Secure Socket Layers (SSL)
The problem with co-existence is the mail routing: Date - Aug 05, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; Those of you who have rebooted their connector servers or experienced a performance hit with message conversions already know what I’m talking about. Those considering a migration to Exchange from cc:mail or Lotus Notes in particular should pay close attention.
Understanding Relaying and Spam with Exchange 2000: Date - Jul 30, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; This article is designed to help you better understand Relaying and Spam, it also explains some of the options available in Exchange 2000 to protect yourself.
Ontrack PowerControls v1.0 Restoration and Administration: Date - Jul 27, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; Ontrack Data International has been specializing in data recovery since 1987. By releasing PowerControls, Ontrack have decided to extend their expertise to the Exchange community and the result is a product that could well be a lifesaver for many Exchange Administrators.
Allowing Users to Access Multiple Mailboxes or Creating a Group Mailbox: Date - Jul 24, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; Many organizations require their users to have access to multiple mailboxes or have access to a common mailbox, this article will explain how to configure Exchange 2000 to achieve this.
Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 3 Has Arrived!: Date - Jul 22, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; It's been over seven months since the release of Exchange 2000 SP2 and in that time Exchange Admins have clamored for fixes to fix the fixes in SP2. It's no secret that SP2 was not a favorite install of many Exchange Admins, while many others installed it and have had no problems. Fortunately, I am among the group that has had no problems with SP2, but then again each situation is different depending on which of the many ways you have deployed and configured Exchange 2000 Server. Let's take a quick look at what's going in SP3.
Get Some Training, It's Worth It: Date - Jul 19, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; So you have decided to get Exchange, but have you planned for training? Exchange can be a complicated subject and spending a little time and money on training can save a you lot of time and money later, but getting the right training is not always easy. This article should help you make the right choices.
Configuring Exchange 2000 before Installing: The path less traveled: Date - Jul 16, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Have you ever wished that you could install Exchange 2000 Server your way? Do you wish that you could have all of your Administrative Groups and Routing Groups not only planned out on paper but configured and laid out in your domain or forest before actually installing the first Exchange 2000 Server? Well…you can!
Restricting Users from Sending and/or Receiving Mail via the Internet: Date - Jul 11, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; This article explains to steps you can take to restrict users from sending and/or receiving mail via the Internet
Email Exploit Detection - A revolutionary way of protecting networks against current and future email attacks: Date - Jul 11, 2002; Author - The Editor; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Tools; An exploit uses known vulnerabilities in applications or operating systems to execute a program or code; it "exploits" a feature of a program or the operating system for its own use, such as to execute arbitrary machine code, read/write files on the hard disk, or gain illicit access...
Hosting Multiple SMTP Domains on Exchange 2000: Date - Jul 10, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; This article explains the steps required to host more than one SMTP domain within your Exchange organization.
Connecting POP And IMAP Clients To MS Exchange Server: Date - Jul 07, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; The traditional method of connecting an email user to their MS Exchange Server mailbox is to use MS Outlook. However, as more and more mobile users wish to access their mailboxes remotely, Exchange Administrators are often required to configure the connections of a wider variety of email clients, on a mixture of platforms.
Customizing The Outlook Web Access 5.5 Logon Page: Date - Jul 01, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; As more and more people are discovering the usefulness of Outlook Web Access, or OWA for short, it is rapidly becoming one of the most popular add-ons for MS Exchange. It has to be said, however, that aesthetically, many people find it less than completely satisfactory. The yellow logon page in particular is a prime target for a visual overhaul.
Message Archiving with Exchange 2000: Date - Jun 30, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; It has now become very common for business owners to request the ability to see what messages their employees are sending and receiving, with Message Archiving this is possible.
Overview of Developing Workflow Applications for Exchange Server 2000: Date - Jun 29, 2002; Author - Zoran Radic; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; The term workflow is used to describe applications that are developed as business processes. Workflow applications include forms routing and approval, document review and publishing, and issue tracking.
Instant Messaging in the Enterprise: Where are you going tomorrow?: Date - Jun 27, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; Recently I had the opportunity to see the future of Enterprise IM systems. I'm not the only one who thinks that by the way—but we'll look at that more later. In the past few years, a major shift in the way business is done has been slowly occurring. The shift from paper communications to electronic communications was one that was slow in coming...
Blueprint for an Exchange Service Level Agreement: Date - Jun 24, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; This document was prepared in order to detail the mechanics behind a Service Level Agreement between a fictitious Company ABC and an outsourcing vendor. Several specific requirements have been assumed and documented in this article. My goal was to product a template that other companies could use to begin work on their own SLA.
Exchange 2000 Front-End/Back-End: Date - Jun 20, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Exchange 2000 is a lot smarter than I first thought. Since its folders and mailboxes are published to the Active Directory, it actually knows to look there before checking for local Exchange resources. Let me explain a lab I set up to demonstrate this,
Microsoft Certified Professional Exam 70-224: Get ready for white-knuckle ride: Date - Jun 10, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; You might be fooled by looking at the exam objectives for exam 70-224 into thinking that this exam is one that you can just walk right into without a good background in Exchange 2000. Nothing could be farther from the truth...
Neat Exchange 2000 Server Tricks: Yes, you really can have it your way!: Date - Jun 10, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; Exchange 2000 Server is one of those products that require a lot of love and attention when it comes to getting it up and running, but once it's there it pretty much takes care of itself. There are, however, a few things that you can tweak in Exchange to change the way it operates—on a small scale at least...
Installing Outlook Web Access 5.5 In Windows 2000 Server: Date - Jun 10, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; When MS Exchange 5.5 was first introduced, having a permanent connection to the Internet was much less common than it is now. Consequently, Outlook Web Access (or OWA for short) was less likely to be part of the standard Exchange installation. Now that more and more Exchange Admins are discovering just how useful OWA can be, many are adding its functionality to their installations.
Exchange 2000 Webstore Strategies: Date - Jun 06, 2002; Author - Steve Bryant; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Exchange 2000 applications are much more reliable than those running on Exchange 5.5. Because of this new added stability, a great many companies are now looking to centralize the Exchange 2000 application servers within their company.
Secure Your Mail Server: GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP: Date - May 31, 2002; Author - Dan DiNicolo; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Implementing network security is like trying to chase a moving target at the best of times. Where most companies today would consider it incomprehensible to not have a properly configured firewall, many of these same companies still overlook the single biggest source of their problems – their email systems.
Using the Mailbox Manager in Exchange 2000: Date - May 30, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; One of the new features that was implemented in Exchange 2000 SP1 is the Mailbox Manager. With the Mailbox Manager an Exchange Administrator has the ability to control the content of a user’s mailboxes.
Using EXMERGE To Delete Message From Your Exchange Server: Date - May 29, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Tools; One question that seems to come up a lot is “How can I delete a message from all the users mailboxes”, this question gets asked for many reasons, such as someone sent an email to the wrong group of people, you know that a message is in your system that contains an attachments that you do not want your users opening, you can probably think of a few more reasons.
Blocking Incoming Mail Using Microsoft Exchange 2000: Date - May 27, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; An employee comes to you and reports they are receiving email from an old friend and they don’t want it anymore, or the HR department manager is getting inappropriate emails from an ex-employee, do you know what to do. Now, you could go out and purchase a third-party tool to block the mail, but with Exchange 2000 you have a simple but effective solution available to you, its called “Message Filtering”, and in this document we will walk through how to set it up.
The Exchange Server 2000 Database Structure: It’s always a rainy day when you’re doing restorations: Date - May 17, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Understanding the underlying processes and construction of Exchange can go a long way towards increasing your happiness factor-which is, after all, the only thing that really matters in life!
Moving Users from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Migration & Deployment; So, you've successfully deployed Active Directory and managed to synchronize it with Exchange 5.5 using the ADC. Everything is stable and working okay, so now you decide to install a brand new Exchange 2000 server and move the users to a brave new messaging world. You must be thinking, how do you move the users?
The Exchange Message Tracking Center or How to Save Your A$$ in a Pinch: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; It's bound to happen. Your boss is going to call you at the most inopportune moment ranting and raving about some super important email message that hasn't been delivered. It's times like this when you really want to know how to track messages sent in your organization. Thankfully, Microsoft has provided this ability for us.
Product Review: ReddFish Intergalactic's Ikakura list server: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; There a more than a handful of third-party add-on applications for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2000. The available products sometimes come as single purpose application and other times come as integrated packages that are designed to meet some, if not all, needs you may have above and beyond a base installation of Exchange Server. These products cover a wide range of areas, from administration to content checking to virus scanning and list servicing. Ikakura list server, by ReddFish Intergalactic is a fairly simple list server add on that will enable your Exchange Server to act a list server. I enjoyed working with Ikakura—after I got it installed and working, which was not as easy as I had hoped for.
Product Review: GFI Software’s Mail essentials: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; There a more than a handful of third-party add-on applications for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2000. The available products sometimes come as single purpose application and other times come as integrated packages that are designed to meet some, if not all, needs you may have above and beyond a base installation of Exchange Server. These products cover a wide range of areas, from administration to content checking to virus scanning and POP3 retrieval.
Recovering Lost Mailboxes: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Accidentally deleting a user account from the Active Directory database is never a welcome thing. Performing an authoritative restore for just one account is not really a likely event. At least you can rest easy knowing that you can reconnect the new user account with the orphaned mailbox:see, not everything is all bad. Now, back to that hard earned vacation!
User Access To The Exchange 5.5 GAL With GALMOD32.EXE: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; If you are responsible for maintaining the mailboxes of many users this can become rather a time-consuming task. Perhaps it would be more convenient for you and for them to allow your users to change their own GAL details. That way they don't need to call you to get it done, and you don't have to scribble it down and remember to do it.
Intersite Directory Replication via the Internet in MS Exchange 5.5: Date - May 16, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; MS Exchange provides a method, known as Directory Replication, of combining the email directories from a number of sites so that they can function as one.
Migrating the Address Book from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000: Date - Apr 25, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Migration & Deployment; The old Exchange address book was not very powerful or complex but it did the job in most situations. A handy feature that existed in Exchange 5.5 was automatic creation of address lists. All you had to do was go to File a New Other a Address Book View, choose a mailbox attribute and almost immediately you would get address view for all your departments or whatever attributes you decided to sort users by.
Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient, Part II: Date - Apr 25, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; In Mark Fugatt’s article “Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient,” he covered how to take mail destined for an internal mailbox and forward it to an outside email address such as a Hotmail or AOL account.
Automating MS Exchange Server 5.5 Backup With NTBackup.: Date - Apr 19, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; While most Exchange admins are agreed on the necessity of performing regular backups, not all agree on which is the best way to do it. In fact, many Exchange newcomers are surprised at how strongly some admins feel regarding the superiority of one method compared to another.
The Exchange Monitoring and Status Tool: Date - Apr 19, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; It seems like the topic that never ends: Monitoring your Exchange Server. Maybe the topic does end and you are caught in the Matrix…or maybe it really doesn't end. Either way, monitoring your Exchange Server is akin to making sure that your doors are locked and the alarm is armed when you're away from home. You just do it because you know you have to--well, you don’t have to, but then again you didn't really like that new flat screen HDTV you just bought last month, did you?
Configuring and Using OWA in Exchange 2000 Server: Date - Apr 18, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Business today is said to travel at the speed of light, unlike one particular thrill ride at a local amusement park that travels at the speed of fright (but then again, that’s a completely separate story). If you’ve personnel who travel frequently or large production (i.e. manufacturing) environments or a any of a thousand other things going on, you might want to consider using Outlook Web Access to allow your users to access their Exchange Server mailboxes—literally from anywhere in the world.
Controlling Users Mailboxes in Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 27, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; One of the big problems that Exchange Administrators have is controlling the size of user’s mailboxes. Well never fear help is at hand; with a few simple steps you can have a lot more control.
Forwarding Mail to an External Recipient: Date - Mar 27, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; It is very common for some of your users to express an interest in having their mail delivered to a mailbox that is external to your organization. For example, the user is going to be working away from the office and would like their mail to be delivered to their Hotmail account. Another request might be to have their mail delivered to a different person altogether.
Creating a list of Users and their e-mail addresses in Exchange 2000 (2): Date - Mar 27, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; In my previous article I presented a script that iterated through all the OUs to export mail enabled users' mail addresses to a CSV file. Active Directory allows you, instead of going through each and evey the OUs, to perform directory wide searches by constructing an LDAP query. LDAP is a pretty complex and powerful query language. The more precise you want to get in your query, the more it gets difficult to control a query.
Administering Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 18, 2002; Author - Zoran Radic; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; Part of the planning process for deploying Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server in your organization is determining how to administer it. With the introduction of Active Directory, you can separate the administration of servers from the administration of recipients. Understanding this separation is important in deciding how to administer Exchange. In addition, understanding the new administration models is necessary to administer servers and recipients effectively.
Preventing Third Party Relaying In MS Exchange Server 5.5: Date - Mar 18, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; Unsolicited Commercial Email, or spam (as it has become more commonly known) seems to be with us to stay, in much the same way as the junk mail that lands on our doormat each morning. Most of the time we happily delete the daily tide of junk email that arrives in our inbox without giving much thought as to where it might have come from, or how it made its way to us. The fact is that each message must have started its brief life on a server somewhere, and unfortunately spammers rarely go to the trouble of providing their own server hardware, preferring instead to use other people's. Quite possibly yours.
Adding Email Disclaimer Text With The IMS Extension In MS Exchange 5.5: Date - Mar 07, 2002; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Exchange 5.5 Articles; The casual nature of email belies the fact that an electronic message is still, in a business context, a legally binding document, and newspaper stories about the legal issues raised by email are becoming increasingly common. While most people can happily dismiss these stories as 'a sign of the times', to the Exchange Administrator they can be a potential source of dismay.
The Recipient Update Service Uncovered: Date - Mar 07, 2002; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; The Recipient Update Service (RUS) is a very important component in your Exchange installation, it is RUS that is responsible for updating address lists and email addresses in your Active Directory.
Creating a list of Users and their e-mail addresses in Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 01, 2002; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; In Exchange 5.5 you had a GUI interface that let you easily import and export users in the Exchange Administrator utility. Active Directory essentially lets you do the same thing with two utilities: Ldifde and CSVDE. However, both utilities are not that easy to use. Basically you have to unappealing options: either you export the entire directory and start filtering through the many fields available there (and there are a lot!) or you deal with command line switches.
Troubleshooting and repairing mailboxes and databases: Date - Feb 22, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; Most of the time your Exchange 2000 Server implementation probably runs fine with no problems at all. Unfortunately, problems can and do occur with any complicated system, and Exchange is no different. In the case of Exchange, however, you also have to take in account the email client software and it’s particulars. Since it’s safe to assume that most of your internal clients will be using Outlook as their email client, we can broaden our view of the Exchange implementation to include the Outlook client and its processes as well.
Performance Anxiety Monitoring your Exchange 2000 Server: Date - Feb 21, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; You probably already know the important of regular monitoring of your Windows 2000 servers. In fact, you are probably already performing daily and weekly monitoring and baselining on your servers for such critical component areas as hard-disks, memory, processors and network adapters. You are in control of you own domain and you have no performance anxiety my friend. What’s that? You maybe haven’t been as diligent at monitoring your server’s performance as you ought to have been? Oh, well then…sit back and relax a bit…no need to get anxious. If you need an overview or a refresher on monitoring system performance, you’ve come to the right place.
Disaster Recovery: Date - Feb 06, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Try as hard as we may, we will never be able to achieve the Utopian ideal of never having a disaster come our way. Since we are firmly entrenched in the real world, it makes good sense then to understand the disaster recovery process as it applies to Exchange 2000 Server and what needs to be done before the disaster strikes—the most important part of disaster recovery planning. A good plan for Exchange 200 Server disaster recovery revolves around and is intertwined with a good plan for disaster recovery for your Windows 2000 servers. We will explore the process and the relative levels of disaster recovery in the following sections.
The Exchange 2000 Server Instant Messaging Service: Date - Jan 21, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, you’ve no doubt heard of Instant Messaging. AOL, Yahoo!, and Microsoft have all done their part to bring Instant Messaging capability to all users with an Internet connection. Lately, there have even been some open source projects that produced IM clients capable of signing into more than one service on behalf of a client and populating their “buddy” list with users from multiple services.
The Exchange 2000 Server Chat Service: Date - Jan 16, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; Have you ever used the once popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) services that used to be the rage in the early 90’s? If so, then you may have fond memories of them and the time spent in those chat channels. At the time, America Online was making its big push to sign up new members and there was basically two ways for the majority of Internet users to get together in large groups: either as AOL members in AOL chat rooms or using other dial-up ISPs and meeting in IRC chat rooms.
Key Management Service In Exchange 2000 Server: Date - Jan 10, 2002; Author - Will Schmied; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Planning & Architecture; The Key Management Service (KMS) in Exchange 2000 Server is one of the best and most often overlooked features. Due to Exchange 2000 Server’s native integration with Windows 2000 Server, the KMS can take advantage of many of the benefits that Windows 2000 brings to the table as well, making it a winner that is worthy of taking a look at.