Exchange Server

Kasia Lorenc is back again with another video interview for today’s post. Kasia talks to Exchange MVP J. Peter Bruzzese about Exchange, Microsoft’s push for UCC, VDI ROI’s and touches a bit on his bull riding experience in Vegas at this year’s TechMentor conference.

Typically, mailbox servers are given priority to high-availability in Exchange but network admins should also provide high-availability to non-mailbox servers as well. The following article describes how to set up HA in Hub Transport, Edge Transport, Client Access and Unified Messaging Servers.

Exchange 2010 has made the process of upgrading much easier, and now includes a simple wizard to assist with moving mailboxes to your new server. SBS and Exchange expert Tom Finnis provides a guide for moving mailboxes to Exchange 2010, including step-by-step instructions for using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) to override the BadItemLimit when moving large mailboxes.

2nd installment by J. Peter Bruzzese on RBAC (Role Based Access Control), a new permissions model in Exchange Server 2010. RBAC allows you to define both a broad, as well as a more granular assignment of permissions to administrators, ensuring that they are given the appropriate permissions based on the roles they perform within your organization. The 1st installment covered broad permission settings by employing Predefined Role Groups. Part 2 addresses more specific permission settings at the granular level.

1st installment by J. Peter Bruzzese in a guide to RBAC (Role Based Access Control), a new permissions model in Exchange Server 2010. RBAC allows you to define both a broad, as well as a more granular assignment of permissions to administrators, ensuring that they are given the appropriate permissions based on the roles they perform within your organization.

In the last article of a 3 part series, Aaron Leskiw covers the final steps in setting up email coexistence for BPOS and Exchange. This segment includes activating users and then setting up the key tool that makes this all work – the Mailbox Migration tool.

In the second of a 3 part series, Aaron Leskiw continues to explain the steps in setting up email coexistence for BPOS and Exchange. This article covers verifying email traffic flow and enabling Active Directory Synchronization.

Virtually every modern email client supports the IMAP protocol. In this article, Microsoft Exchange expert Tom Finnis looks at the main reasons for implementing IMAP support on your Exchange Server and explains how to configure it with Exchange 2003 and 2007.

In part 1 of a 3 part series, Aaron Leskiw explains the first steps in setting up email coexistence for BPOS and Exchange. This article covers adding your own domain to BPOS, enabling external relay and verifying your domain.

Purchasing SSL SAN certificates from a genuine commercial certificate authority to use with Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 ensures less administrative effort in implementing and maintaining SSL for Exchange services.