Essential Exchange

This is turning out to be SSL certificate week here at TheEssentialExchange.... not planned that way, just the interesting items that are crossing my computer. Yesterday, I wrote ISA 2006 and SAN/UC Certificates describing how ISA 2006 requires careful configuration in order to properly use a SAN/UC...

When Exchange Server 2007 was first released (even before then, if truth be told), there was quite an outrage that in order to use a simplified configuration process for Outlook Anywhere, OWA, and AutoDiscovery, the Exchange administrator had to use a special kind of SSL certiifcate that supports multiple...

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 post I talked about licensing vs. features for Exchange Server 2007. In that article, I made the comment that Exchange licensing made my "head hurt". The licensing for other pieces of the "UC Wave" are just as convoluted. Exchange Server is just one piece of the "UC Wave"...