• Exchange 2007 Server & CAL Editions
• Henrik Walther's Exchange Server 2003 Security book -- Order Today!
• MSExchange.org Learning Zone Articles of Interest
• KB Articles of the Month
• Tip of the Month
• MSExchange Links of the Month
• Ask Henrik Walther a question

1. Exchange 2007 Server & CAL Editions

As is the case with previous versions of Exchange, Exchange Server 2007 exists in two different editions - a Standard edition and an Enterprise edition.

Standard Edition

The standard edition, like Exchange 2000/2003, has been designed to meet the messaging and collaboration requirements of small and medium corporations as well as specific messaging server roles or branch offices. The edition includes the following:

• 5 Storage Groups
• 5 databases
• No database storage limit
• Local Continuous Replication (LCR)

Note:
Now that we have become used to referring to the EDB databases as Mailbox and Public Folder Stores, the Exchange Product group thought they should change it back and call them Mailbox and Public folder databases (like in Exchange 5.5 and earlier versions).

Enterprise Edition

So what extra benefits will you get out of deploying an Exchange 2007 Enterprise edition in your environment? The Enterprise edition of Exchange Server 2007, as you probably would have guessed, has been designed for large enterprise corporations. In addition to what is included in the Standard edition, this edition includes the following:

• 50 Storage Groups
• 50 databases
• No database storage limit
• Local Continuous Replication (LCR)
• Exchange 2007 Clustering (Single Copy & CCR) using MSCS

Exchange Server 2007 Client Access Licensing

Exchange 2003 and earlier only offered one type of Exchange CAL no matter which Exchange features were used by the users in the organization, but with Exchange 2007 we now have 2 types of Exchange CALs - a Standard CAL and an Enterprise CAL.

Standard CAL

In addition to what we got with Exchange 2003 SP2, the Exchange 2007 Standard CAL provides us with the following:

• Organization-wide policy management
• Cross-org mailbox search
• Continous Replication Technologies
• Mail-flow rules (aka Transport Agents)
• Server Roles

Enterprise CAL

In addition to what we get in the Exchange 2007 Standard CAL, the Enterprise CAL provides us with the following:

• Unified Messaging
• Per-user journaling
• Exchange Hosted Services Filtering
• Forefront Security for Exchange Server

That was all for this time. Again, should you have any ideas for content in future editions of the MSExchange.org newsletter, you're more than welcome to shoot me an email at Henrik@msexchange.org.

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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:

• Installing, Configuring and Testing an Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) Based Mailbox Server (Part 3)
• Removing the First Exchange 2003 Server (Part 1)
• Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant
• Exchange 2003 Hacks
• Hardening an Exchange Server 2003 Environment (Part 2)
• Sending 'As'
• Installing, Configuring and Testing an Exchange 2007 Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) Based Mailbox Server (Part 2)
• A User Comes and a User Goes
• Migrating from Small Business Server 2003 to Exchange 2003 Standard Part 1 - Preparing your network

4. KB Articles of the Month

Here are some interesting and useful MSExchange related articles posted by Microsoft in the last month:

• A display name that includes DBCS characters is broken in the one-off address when an e-mail message is delivered to Exchange Server 2003 through Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes
• A test version of the 2007 daylight saving time update for Exchange Server 2003 is available
• You cannot find a contact when you use a display name to query the contact when you use Outlook Web Access to access an Exchange Server 2003 mailbox
• Error message when you use a Windows Mobile 5.0 device to synchronize tasks or messages with a mailbox on Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2: "0x86000108"
• The logon process stops responding when you try to authenticate again if you use a third-party program to log on to Outlook Web Access in Exchange Server 2003
• An acceptance message may contain an incorrect date format in the message body when a Lotus Notes user accepts a meeting request that is sent by an Exchange Server 2003 SP2 user
• Error message when you use the Reconnect method that is part of WMI in Exchange Server 2003 to reconnect mailboxes that have the same LegacyExchangeDN attribute: "Unable to reconnect mailbox due to error 0xC105010F"
• Users do not receive meeting requests after you configure IPS on a SonicWALL firewall device in an Exchange Server 2003 organization
• Some domain users cannot access Exchange 2003 even though they provide the correct user name and password in Outlook or in Outlook Web Access
• The response status for a recurring meeting is cleared after Auto Accept Agent accepts a request to delete one instance of the meeting in Exchange Server 2003
• The Free/Busy system folder cannot replicate between Exchange servers after you create a new administrative group on a server that is running Exchange Server 2003
• The Compose Message form stops responding after you install Internet Explorer 7.0 and the S/MIME control on an Outlook Web Access client in Exchange Server 2003
• Recipients may receive non-delivery reports (NDRs) after you enable the envelope journaling feature in Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
• Error message when you try to install an Exchange service pack on a node that is running Exchange Server 2003 in a cluster environment: "An invalid ADSI path was passed"
• Incoming mail flow stops, or the SMTP service fails when you try to fail over a node in Exchange Server 2003 or in Exchange 2000 Server after you install McAfee VirusScan Enterprise
• An Entourage user may receive a meeting request that does not correspond to the meeting time that is specified by the meeting organizer in an Exchange Server 2003 organization

5. Tip of the Month

Did you know that, unlike Exchange Server 2000 and 2003, you have to license Exchange Server 2007 as the product, by default, has a built-in time bomb, as you will notice the first time you launch the Exchange Management Console (you will be faced with a dialog box similar to the one shown in Figure 1).

Figure 1

You do this by opening the Exchange Management Console then selecting the Server Configuration workcenter node. Here you will now get a list of the Exchange 2007 server(s) in your Exchange organization in the work pane. Now select the server you want to license and click Enter Product Key in the Action pane to the right. In the Enter Product Key wizard enter the product key you got when you bought your license, then click Enter as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2

On the Completion page click Finish (Figure 3).

Figure 3

6. MSExchange Links of the Month

How to generate SQM data with Exchange Server 2007 ExBPA

http://blogs.msexchange.org/zinman/2006/11/21/how-to-generate-sqm-data-with-exchange-server-2007-exbpa/

Motivations for the Exchange Server 2007 transport redesign

http://blogs.msexchange.org/zinman/2006/11/12/motivations-for-the-exchange-server-2007-transport-redesign/

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 VHD - 32-bit Released

http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2006/11/06/microsoft-exchange-server-2007-vhd-32-bit-released/

Gartner Report: Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 Could Set the Future of E-mail

http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2006/11/05/gartner-report-microsofts-exchange-server-2007-could-set-the-future-of-e-mail/

Recipient Permission Delegation in Exchange Server 2007

http://blogs.msexchange.org/zinman/2006/11/04/recipient-permission-delegation-in-exchange-server-2007/

Getting Started with Exchange Server 2007: Server Roles

http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2006/11/02/getting-started-with-exchange-server-2007-server-roles/

ActiveSend Personal Edition Released

http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2006/11/01/activesend-personal-edition-released/

Junk E-mail Reproting Tool for Outlook

http://blogs.msexchange.org/walther/2006/10/27/junk-e-mail-reproting-tool-for-outlook/

7. Ask Henrik Walther a question

QUESTION: Henrik

I have enjoyed reading some of your articles about Exchange. I am searching today to find someone that has expertise in using the connection filtering aspect of the IMF. I am using the IMF at several clients quite well, but I have a few emails from key people that are trapped by the filter and we cannot seem to exclude them. Am I missing something or is this just going to happen?

On the connection filtering tab, I have added the email address, the domain name and then added the IP address of the email server to the "Accept" input dialog. The emails seem to still be getting trapped by the filter.

When making changes to the IMF, do I need to restart a service? I usually restart the SMTP service. Should I restart the IS?

ANSWER: Adding the sender to the global accept list should exclude it from being blocked by the IMF. For details see the Microsoft Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter v2 Operations Guide.

I usually also restart the SMTP service, but have, on occasions, needed to restart the store as well, so you might want to see whether that makes a difference.