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Articles & Tutorials for 2003 year

Configuring ISA Server 2000 to Support Outlook 2003 RPC over HTTP - Part 1: Preparing the Infrastructure and Configuring the Front-End Exchange Server: Date - Dec 29, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Exchange Server 2003 allows Outlook 2003 clients installed on Windows XP Service Pack 1 and above full MAPI client access to Exchange Server 2003 resources using the new RPC over HTTP protocol. RPC over HTTP allows the RPC commands required for full Outlook 2003 MAPI client access to be wrapped or "encapsulated" in an HTTP header and passed through proxies that allow outbound HTTP/HTTPS (SSL). ISA Server 2000 is the ideal firewall to provide the highest level of protection for your Exchange Servers while at the same time allowing the rich functionality the Outlook RPC over HTTP client provides. Check out part 1 of this series on how to configure the ISA firewall to allow secure RPC over HTTP connections to your Exchange 2003 Server.
Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS): Date - Dec 29, 2003; Author - Marc Grote; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture; Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 is a manageable and extensible instant messaging server (IMS) that provides a real-time collaboration solution. It enables corporations to reach, collaborate, and respond to information more quickly as compared to telephones and e-mail. In this article we'll walk you through the steps that are involved while installing and configuring the Live Communications Server.
Implementing Outlook Web Access with Exchange Server 2003: Date - Dec 23, 2003; Author - Markus Klein; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Following the implementation of Exchange Server in a company it is often desirable connect to users mailboxes using Web Access. Especially with the new release of Exchange Server it is quite interesting to use OWA because you have nearly all the functionality as Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. Within this article we provide a detailed step-by-step guide for implementing Outlook Web Access. Priority will be given to security issues at every stage of the implementation.
Dealing with Localization of Outlook Folders: Date - Dec 17, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; This article provides a few tips and tricks for making sure that Outlook folders are using the language you want when Exchange is involved.
Outlook Mobile Access (OMA) in Exchange Server 2003: Date - Dec 10, 2003; Author - Marc Grote; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Marc Grote presents his first article for MSExchange.org and we are pleased to welcome him on board. Exchange 2003 provides a new cool Feature called Outlook Mobile Access (OMA). OMA allows users to access Exchange data by using mobile devices. Exchange 2003 provides two services for mobile users: Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and Microsoft Outlook Mobile Access. This article is based on Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition (Build 3790), Exchange 2003 Enterprise RTM and the Mobile Browser Simulator / Gateway from Nokia.
Testing Mail Flow using Outlook Express: Date - Dec 04, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; Sometimes, in order to troubleshoot mail problems you can use a handy tool installed on every Windows 2000/2003 server, Outlook Express. Outlook Express is a powerful SMTP diagnostic tool. It's availability on almost all mail servers and workstations makes it easy to play Sherlock Holmes finding clues regarding mail problems.
Configuring a Spam and Attachment Filtering SMTP Relay on the ISA Server 2000 Firewall - Part 1: Installing and Configuring the SMTP Services and Remote Domains: Date - Dec 01, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Spam is a major threat to the Internet and corporate networks today. Spam clogs Internet routers and gateways, usurps bandwidth on corporate Internet links, and consumes processor cycles and disk space on corporate SMTP relays and mail servers. Criminal spammers are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to circumvent spam filtering applications. The more complex the spammer’s attack methodologies used to avoid detection, the more processor intensive the spam whacking applications must be. These processor cycles are robbed from other applications and services running on the same machine and often require that you dedicate a single box to spam filtering. This two part article shows you with detailed step by step instructions on how to make your ISA Server 2000 firewall into a front-end spam filtering SMTP relay.
Using the SMTP Connector Internally: Date - Nov 26, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Management & Administration; Although all of us Exchange administrators would like to have Exchange as the sole mail server, sometimes more SMTP mailers exist. The following article explains how to configure Exchange to relay mail for these systems.
Using Mail Relays to Enhance Exchange Security: Date - Nov 19, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Virus, Trojan and denial of service attacks are quite common these days and Exchange is a popular target for these attacks due its popularity and inherent vulnerabilities. Mail relays can be used to thwart most attacks. I'm constantly discovering that although the concept of mail relays is not new they can be used against the latest sophisticated attacks, just long as they're not the weakest link in the chain of e-mail delivery.
Customizing OWA 2000 Using Segmentation: Date - Nov 11, 2003; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; With Exchange 2000 SP2 Microsoft added a feature, known as segmentation, that allows you to quite easily make some rather major changes to the appearance and functionality of OWA.
Improvements in Exchange 2003: Date - Nov 11, 2003; Author - Jakub Synoradzki; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture; Not everyone has managed to migrate to Exchange 2000 yet, while others choose to ignore it completely, and continue using Exchange 5.5. Meanwhile, Microsoft has introduced a new upgrade – the 2003. This is related to the appearance of a new MS Windows 2003 version, the operating system to provide a really good tandem with Exchange 2003. As we will see further on, when using Exchange 2003 without combining it with Windows 2003, it loses most of its functionality.
Migrating from Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003: Date - Oct 30, 2003; Author - Markus Klein; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Many companies are still using Exchange Server 5.5 as their primary email and collaboration system. With the end of Microsoft’s support of this release within 2003 they have to decide to move to a new release of Exchange Server. Within this article you will get a detailed overview on how to migrate an Exchange 5.5 directory to a new Windows Server 2003 supported Exchange Server 2003 environment. Because an in place upgrade is not supported, it won’t be covered in this article.
Introducing the ISA Server 2000 Exchange Server 2000/2003 Deployment Kit - Getting the Most Out of The Firewall for Microsoft Exchange Server: Date - Oct 24, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; The ISA Server 2000 Exchange 2000/2003 Deployment Kit is here! Answers to all your questions regarding Exchange Server publishing and remote access to Exchange Server services via ISA Server firewalls are found in the kit. Check out this article for an intro to the kit and download links.
The Firewall for Microsoft Exchange Server - Supporting ISA Server 2000 Publishing of Exchange Server 2000/2003 with SMTP Relays Part 1: What is an SMTP Relay and Why You Should Use One: Date - Oct 16, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; SMTP relay issues are very common for Exchange Server administrators who need their mail servers to connect to the Internet. The problem is that there aren’t a lot of good descriptions of what SMTP relay is, how it works, why you want one, and what problems you might encounter with them. This series on SMTP relays will help prevent you from becoming the victim of an RBL'er and improve the performance of your Exchange Servers. Check it out!
Announcing Beta 2 of the ISA Server 2000 Exchange Server 2000/2003 Deployment Kit: Date - Oct 15, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions, recommendations and enhancements to the ISA Server 2000 Exchange Server 2000/2003 Deployment Kit beta 1 release. I’ve been able to incorporate a number of changes and additions to the ISA Server 2000 Exchange Server 2000/2003 Deployment Kit documents based on your suggestions. If you haven’t seen a change based on your suggestion made yet, don’t worry. I’m still trying to catch up with your mail and will make the changes ASAP. I appreciate the input you’ve sent to me a tshinder@tacteam.net and hope to get even more.
Migrating from POP3/SMTP servers using the M Drive: Date - Oct 09, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Moving users from using an internal POP3/SMTP server can be a tricky and costly business, with many pitfalls. The Exchange IFS "M" Drive can be used to ease some of these migration scenarios.
MSExchange.org Server Based Antispam Comparison: Date - Oct 01, 2003; Author - The Editor; Section - Exchange 2007 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; With the multitude of antispam solutions for Exchange, choosing the one that's suited to your network's present and future needs is no simple task. That's why we have prepared this feature comparison in which eight of the leading vendors of antispam solutions have participated. By comparing the features of these solutions side by side, you should be able to get a clearer picture of which solution is the best overall and which one will provide you with the best value for money, ensuring that the solution that you eventually pursue turns out to be the right one.
Shared Hosting with Exchange 2003 (Part 1): Date - Sep 30, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Active Directory and Exchange allows you to provide service to more than company without the need to build a separate domain / forest for each hosted company. The following article describes a simple shared hosting scenario where multiple sister companies are shared using the same Active Directory domain and can interoperate with each other.
Providing Secure Remote Access for the Full Outlook MAPI Client using the Exchange RPC Filter: Date - Sep 26, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; You can allow remote Outlook 2000/2002/2003 clients to connect to your Exchange Server and take advantage of the full functionality provided by the Outlook MAPI client. Unlike Outlook Web Access, full Outlook MAPI client functionality allows remote users to take advantage of the entire set of mail and groupware features provided by Exchange Server. But you must do this securely. Check out this article to find out how.
Using Outlook 2003 to connect to Exchange 2003 using RPC over HTTPS: Date - Sep 23, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Using Windows 2003/XP's new RPC over HTTP feature, Outlook 2003 clients can now connect to Exchange 2003 by encapsulating regular RPC/MAPI communications in HTTPS communications.
Implementing and Configuring Blacklist Support in Exchange Server 2003: Date - Sep 17, 2003; Author - Markus Klein; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Spam filtering software based on keywords, etc. is only one brick in the wall guarding against Spam; another one is to implement black- or block-list support within your messaging and collaboration environment. With the new release of Exchange, Microsoft implemented the functionality to filter every incoming email whether the sender is on a blacklist or not. Within this article you will learn how blacklists work and how you can configure support with Exchange Server 2003.
Secure Exchange Server 2003 POP3 Publishing: Date - Aug 26, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Your users can access their corporate email via the POP3 protocol using the Exchange Server 2003 POP3 service. However, in order to secure user credentials and data moving between the email client and server, you have to use SSL/TLS security. Check out this article and find out how to use ISA Server 2000 to provide secure POP3 access.
SMTP Virtual Server Uncovered: Date - Aug 22, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; Mastering the inner workings of Exchange 2000's SMTP service can be very useful when configuring servers to deal with mail problems such SPAM attacks and virus outbreaks. This article will provide some insight into better SMTP queue management to improve your ability to cope when your queues get swamped with spam and virus outbreaks.
Exchange Server 2003 Mailbox Recovery: Date - Aug 01, 2003; Author - Markus Klein; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; Presenting his first article for MSExchange.org, we are pleased to welcome Markus Klein (MCSE & MCT) to our team of authors. With the new release of Exchange Server, Microsoft provides some more ways to easily recovery a mailbox from an online backup or if it is accidentally deleted. Within this article we will have a close look at these new features.
Publishing Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access (OWA) with ISA Server 2000 - Table of Contents: Date - Jul 17, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; I recently finished a five part series on how to publish the Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access Web site using ISA Server 2000. The inspiration behind this series was the realization that ISA Server 2000 provides an absolutely unique ability to protect my OWA 2003 Web sites in a way that no other firewall in its class can do. Check out this series *before* you publish that OWA 2003 site!
Publishing Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access (OWA) with ISA Server 2000 - Part 3: SSL Bridging Drill Down and Requesting a Web Site Certificate: Date - Jul 11, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; We continue our series on publishing Exchange 2003 OWA sites with a drill down on SSL to SSL bridging and the importance of Web site certificate configuration. Then the steps by steps for obtaining the Web site certificate and exporting it are discussed. Come on in if your wresting with OWA publishing and certificate assignment!
Publishing Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access (OWA) with ISA Server 2000 Part 2: Understanding SSL Bridging and Installing an Enterprise CA: Date - Jul 09, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; In the first part of this series on how to publish the Exchange 2003 OWA site using ISA Server 2000, we went over some of the advantages the Exchange 2003 OWA site has over previous versions and a high level overview of the steps required to make the internal Exchange 2003 OWA available to external network users via ISA Server 2000 Web Publishing Rules. In this article we'll look at how the ISA Server firewall uses SSL bridging to provide a unique level of protection for your Exchange 2003 OWA site
Publishing Exchange 2003 Outlook Web Access (OWA) with ISA Server 2000: Date - Jul 08, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; ISA Server 2000 is the firewall of choice when publishing Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 services. If you are running, or plan to run, Exchange 2000 or 2003 services and want to make those services available to external network users, then it behooves you replace any existing firewall setup you current have in place and use an ISA Server 2000-based firewall offering. Check out this series on OWA 2003 publishing to get off to a good start.
Exchange 2000 Postmaster@IP And Abuse@IP Mailboxes: Date - Jul 07, 2003; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; If you ever need to add Postmaster@IP And Abuse@IP addresses to your Exchange 2000 server, you will not be able to do so with ADUC. This article describes a way in which it can be done with ADSI Edit.
Exchange 2003 Active Directory Connector Wizardry: Date - Jun 23, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Migration & Deployment; Migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 was a bit of a headache for those who tried it, especially using the early versions of ADC, the component used to synchronize Exchange 5.5 and Active Directory. Microsoft will soon release Exchange 2003, which is not a great leap in design as Exchange 2000 but basically, the same product with some additional capabilities, improved web interface and Windows 2003 operating system support. The Exchange 2003 ADC has evolved to make basic migration scenarios more easy using automated and wizard based mechanisms. Let's look at some of the changes.
Changing the Display Order in the Exchange 2000 Address List: Date - May 30, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; In this article we will look at how we can modify the DisplayName field in Active Directory to use the LastName, FirstName format, this will then ensure that the Address Lists used by your users will be sorted by LastName.
Product Review: GFI MailEssentials 8 - Anti-Spam and Mail Monitoring: Date - May 18, 2003; Author - Dan DiNicolo; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; Out of the box, most email server products provide limited monitoring, security, and anti-spam functions. In those that do, the feature set tends to be weak and seemingly implemented as an afterthought. However, the new GFI MailEssentials 8 product from GFI Software not only provides the most comprehensive anti-spam capabilities currently available, but also industrial-strength mail monitoring, the ability to add disclaimers to all outgoing messages, and more. Impressively, GFI provides many of the product's best features as freeware, making GFI MailEssentials 8 a must-evaluate product for administrators of both large and small networks alike.
Product Review: eXclaimer for MS Exchange 2000: Date - May 16, 2003; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; The need for email disclaimer messages is now fairly well established, yet there is still no built-in facility for configuring them in Exchange 2000. For this review, I have chosen to look at eXclaimer, a product that receives regular mention in the Exchange Usenet newsgroups.
Secure Exchange 2000 IMAP4 Service Publishing with ISA Server 2000 - Part 2: Understanding the Co-located SMTP Servers: Date - Apr 22, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; In the first part of this article on publishing the Exchange 2000 IMAP4 service, we went over the procedures required to make the IMAP4 service available to users on the Internet via ISA Server 2000 (ISA Server) Server Publishing Rules. In this, part 2, of our secure IMAP4 publishing series, we’ll go over the high level details required to understand the Co-located SMTP server scenario we’re building
Put Your Exchange 2000 Mailbox On The Web With ADO: Date - Apr 20, 2003; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Tools; This article explains one way of displaying your E2K mailbox on the Web. It's not a replacement for OWA by any means, but at least you can say you Did It Yourself.
Secure Exchange 2000 IMAP4 Service Publishing with ISA Server 2000 - Part 1: Securing Publishing of the IMAP4 Service: Date - Apr 20, 2003; Author - Thomas Shinder; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Security & Message Hygiene; Everyone knows that Exchange 2000 is the perfect mail server if you need to support thousands of users, but its also great if you have fewer than a hundred users. If you're running a small shop, you might want to save on bandwidth costs by using ISA Server and IMAP4 publishing. Publishing IMAP4 is great, but you need to do it securely. Check inside for all the details you need to make it work!
Connecting Outlook Web Access 5.5 To Exchange 2000: Date - Mar 25, 2003; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; Why on earth would anyone want to try to connect MS Exchange 5.5 Outlook Web Access (OWA for short) to an Exchange 2000 server? Well, quite a few people have tried and failed, so here's an experiment describing one possible solution.
Put your mailbox on the Web with CDO v1.21: Date - Mar 08, 2003; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Mobility & Client Access; MS Exchange already comes with a nice Webmail facility called Outlook Web Access, so why would you want to make your own? Well, some people like to do these things just for the fun of it, and you may also learn something useful and interesting in the process.
Exchange 2003 Beta 2 – Improvements and Questions: Date - Jan 24, 2003; Author - Amit Zinman; Section - Exchange 2003 Articles / Planning & Architecture; Exchange 2003 is supposed to be a minor upgrade of Exchange 2000, mainly delivering improvements based on customer feedback. Exchange 2000, a major leap from Exchange 5.5 had some incomplete features and stability issues. Some features have been added through services packs (STM files virus checking, fault tolerant domain controller access, and more) and some have been saved for the new code named Titanium version. Some of the new features are only available when installed on the Windows 2003 platform, some only when used with the upcoming Outlook 11 client, also in its beta cycle.
Deleted Item Recovery and Deleted Mailbox Recovery: Date - Jan 22, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / High Availability & Recovery; This article describes how to use the Deleted Item Retension and Deleted Mailbox Retension feature in Exchange 2000.
Using a Public Folder as a Mailbox: Date - Jan 21, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; In this article we will look at how to use a Public Folder in Exchange 2000 to collect mail that can then be accessed by multiple users, this could be used for a Sales Department or Customer Service mailbox for example.
Backing up Exchange 2000 using Windows 2000 Backup: Date - Jan 20, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Monitoring & Operations; This article explains the steps taken to backup your Exchange 2000 Information Store using the built-in Windows 2000 Backup program on your Exchange 2000 Server. It also explains the other information that should be backed up to ensure you can recover from a disaster.
Creating Resource Mailboxes in Exchange 2000: Date - Jan 17, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; This article describes the steps you need to take to create a Resource Mailbox in Exchange 2000, it also explains what your users need to do in order to utilize the Resource Mailbox correctly.
PowerControls v1.1 Exchange Restoration And Admin: Date - Jan 12, 2003; Author - Lee Derbyshire; Section - Articles & Tutorials / Product Reviews; Those of you who already use Ontrack PowerControls v1.0 will know what a powerful utility it is, but just how useful has this power been to you? With the release of v1.1, Ontrack has added a feature that greatly increases both it’s power and it’s usefulness in one go.
Using Public Folders to Hold Company Contacts: Date - Jan 05, 2003; Author - Mark Fugatt; Section - Exchange 2000 Articles / Management & Administration; This article describes how you can setup a Public Folder in Exchange 2000 to hold company contacts, it also explains how to set the permissions on the folder and how to allow users to access the folder like an address book.