MSExchange.org Monthly Newsletter of April 2009 Sponsored by: Intermedia

Welcome to the MSExchange.org newsletter by Henrik Walther, Exchange MVP, MCA: Messaging (Exchange Ranger) Apprentice, MCTS Windows Server 2008, MCITP Exchange 2007, MCSE 2003 Messaging/Security. Each month we will bring you interesting and helpful information on Exchange Server. We want to know what all *you* are interested in hearing about. Please send your suggestions for future newsletter content to: henrik@msexchange.org

1. The wait is over - Exchange 2010 Beta 1 is here!

Welcome to the April issue of the MSE newsletter!

Unless you have been sleeping under a rock for the last couple of weeks, I bet you already know that the first public beta version of Exchange 2010 (previously known as E14) was released on April 15th 2009. And the real Exchange geeks amongst our readers may even have deployed it in their respective test environments and are heavily testing all the new and exciting features this new Exchange version offers these days. Personally, I've been participating in the Exchange 2010 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) since April last year, so I've built up a lot of hands on experience over the last year. Since the TAP is all about testing in your lab and then deploying early Exchange builds in your production environment, I've tried most of what there is to try with this Exchange version already, and I must say Exchange 2010 by far is the greatest Exchange version I've played with during the last 12 years.

Some may think Exchange 2010 can be considered as a kind of large service pack for Exchange 2007 (just like many considered Exchange 2003 to be for Exchange 2000), but this is far from true. Exchange 2010 includes not only a great number of improvements to existing features but also a lot of complete new features. Things such as database availability groups (DAGs), the optimized store, an RBAC based permission model, archive mailboxes, mailtips and the new OWA UI are amongst my personal favorites.

I will not cover any of these in this newsletter but instead I'll suggest you first take a look at the Exchange 2010 web site. Then I suggest you read each of the blog posts in the news section of this newsletter and then finally download the beta, so you can install it in your test environment and get some hands on with the product. While installing the bits, I suggest you open your browser and hit the Exchange 2010 TechNet documentation.

If you have questions during your testing, please don't hesitate to post a question in the Exchange 2010 forum here on MSExchange.org or in the forum over at Microsoft TechNet.

Finally, I want to mention (although it shouldn't come as a surprise) that we will be publishing a lot of articles here on MSExchange.org all covering the beta 1 version of Exchange 2010.

Cheers,
Henrik Walther

Note:
Should you have any ideas for content in future editions of the MSExchange.org newsletter, you are more than welcome to shoot me an e-mail at Henrik@msexchange.org

2. Order Henrik Walther's Exchange Server 2007 book

3. MSExchange.org Learning Zone Articles of Interest

We have a great group of articles in the Learning Zone that will help you get a handle on your most difficult configuration issues. Here are just a few of the newer and more interesting articles:

• VIDEO: Registering Exchange Extensions for Security Configuration Wizard  
• A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 8)
• Office Communication Server 2007 R2 - New Features 
• Managing Outlook 2007 through Group Policies (Part 2)
• VIDEO: How to configure Outlook Anywhere to work with a wildcard certificate 
• A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 7) 
• Introduction to Exchange Online - Uncovering BPOS (Part 5) - Migrating on-premise mailboxes to Microsoft Online
• Managing Exchange Server 2007 log files (Part 3) 
• A Practical Look at Migrating From Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Part 6) 
• Managing Exchange certificates (Part 3) 

4. KB Articles of the Month

Since Exchange 2007 SP1 Rollup Update 7 (RU7) was released this month, there are a lot of new KB articles associated with bug fixes/changes in this RU in this version of the MSE Newsletter.

Exchange Server 2007

• The body of a message is shown incorrectly as an attachment if you try to use an application in an Exchange Server 2007 environment to send a message that includes attachments
• Outlook: Disabling Meeting Regeneration is not recommended as it may cause problems with your calendar
• Incorrect error message when an Exchange Server 2007 user performs a quick search in Outlook Web Access: "Search results may take a long time to appear because Microsoft Exchange Search is unavailable"
• Event 9673 with code 0xc00000fd occurs when the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes on a computer that is running Exchange Server 2007
  
• Event 9673 with code 0xc00000fd occurs when the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service crashes on a computer that is running Exchange 2007 with Service Pack 1
  
• Excuting the Update-StorageGroupCopy commandlet in Exchange Server 2007 can create a handle leak
• Unresolved sender for delivery status notifications after applying update rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1
  

Exchange Server 2003

• ActiveSync-enabled users of Exchange Server 2003 receive redundant reminders for recurring appointments when they access their mailboxes through Outlook clients
• Outlook: Disabling Meeting Regeneration is not recommended as it may cause problems with your calendar
• Meeting request items in Outlook may not be visible in OWA or in non-MAPI clients
• An Exchange MAPI application does not work correctly when MAPI Stub is bypassed
• The response text may be lost when a recipient who has a MAPI account receives a meeting request response in Outlook
• Event ID 2091 is logged when a public folder is replicated between Exchange Server 2003 servers
• An Exchange View-Only Administrator can review user mailbox contents by using an administrative application
• After you configure the font color in Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003, the font color for e-mail messages is incorrect

5. MSExchange News of the Month

• Installing E2K7 and E2K10 Management tools on the same machine
• Connecting to a remote Exchange 2010 Organization using Remote PowerShell
• Exchange 2010 Database Availability Groups
• Online Mailbox Moves with the Exchange Management Shell
• Cross-forest Mailbox Moves using the Exchange Management Console
• Sign-up addresses (aka revocable addresses) in Exchange 2010
• New Exchange Management Shell command icon in EMC
• New Certificate Wizards in the Exchange 2010 Management Console
• Diagnostic Logging is back in the EMC UI
• Accessing multiple Exchange organizations from one EMC
• Exchange 2010 MS Learning Course: Exploring New Features
• Misc. Exchange 2010 News and Reviews
• Exchange 2010 Beta step-by-step installation guide
• Exchange 2010 (aka E14) Beta Released!
• May edition of the TechNet Magazine online
• Exchange Hosted Services Filtering (EHS-F) rebranded
• Quest Demo Series: Simplify Your Migration From Notes to Microsoft
• CMT Universal now supports BPOS migrations
• Survival Strategies for 2009 - 7 Simple Steps to Email Compliance Webinar
• New MSExchange.org group on LinkedIn
• Microsoft and Gecad Technologies Announce Exchange ActiveSync Patent License Agreement

6. Ask Henrik Walther a question

QUESTION:

It is great to see that Microsoft finally have released a beta version of Exchange 2010 to the public. But I was a little surprised/disappointed seeing that a 32-bit version has not been made available. Hopefully a 32-bit version will be released later on? I mean a lot of us are still limited by x86 based hardware.

ANSWER:

Although more and more administrators have x64 based hardware at their disposal, I agree in that there are still many that are using x86 based hardware in their lab environments, on their laptops/workstations and so on. So although I feel your pain, I have to disappoint you by saying that the Exchange Product group will not release a 32-bit version of Exchange 2010. This is even the case for the RTM version, that will be released later this year.

So I guess it is time to replace your old x86 hardware...