Essential Exchange

Regardless of whether a server is for Exchange, for SQL, or for any other use; a key component of the server's configuration is the set of IP addresses assigned to it. Many organizations apply all addresses (even server addresses) using DHCP. For servers, this is often based on reservations of the...

Paul Robichaux, a personal friend and another Exchange MVP is a regular writer for WindowsITPro . While performing research for an upcoming article, he found out some interesting factoids about Microsoft Exchange 2010 licensing. I and other MVPs found these pieces of information interesting as well....

In December of 2007, I made two posts: File Level Antivirus for Exchange and Information Store Antivirus for Exchange . Since that time, there is no question that with Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 (and the ongoing advancement of various Internet-based threats and malware), that the focus has moved...

Yesterday I was notified that my MVP was renewed for another year (MVPs are awarded for one-year at a time, and there is a quarterly cycle of Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct). This is my sixth MVP award and part of it is due to you, my loyal readers! Officially, my MVP award is for "Windows Server System - Exchange...

So, yesterday I wrote an opinion-piece about Vista , and it appears that Bob Cringely did too . Completely unrelated, and I didn't read his piece before I wrote mine. Of course, his readership is more than mine. :-) His piece has generated lots of commentary - but I just flat out think he's wrong...

Next week, in Redmond/Seattle, Washington, those of us who Microsoft calls "Most Valuable Professionals" congregate in an annual event where Microsoft wines us, dines us, asks our opinions, and tells us theirs. Which, shockingly (not), often disagree! :-) If you aren't aware of the MVP...

In a move that was likely a surprise to no-one, last week Microsoft announced its offering for hosted Exchange 2007, hosted SharePoint (MOSS 2007, not WSS 3.0), and hosted LiveMeeting. This was the next logical progression from the Microsoft Office Live Small Business offering (where Microsoft offers...

In this article I reported on the fact (then) that single level domains were not supported in Exchange Server 2007 sp1. Microsoft, as of today (February 15, 2008) has changed their position on single-level domains and Exchange Server 2007. This is the Microsoft Exchange Team blog post on the topic. It's...

On January 31, in this post I reported that I had loaded 64-bit Vista on my laptop and that things were going well. As I reported then, I expected it to take several weeks to re-install all my applications, but that my main applications were already running and I didn't anticipate any issues. As...

In this post , I began talking about licensing of the various Unified Communications (UC) products, starting with Exchange Server. I followed that with this post discussing licensing for the next of the UC products - Office Communication Server. As part of that second post, I promised that if people...