New Exchange 2010 webcasts has been made available, they are recorded during the UK TechDays event.
Microsoft has released an interesting whitepaper about large mailboxes on Exchange 2010.
Giving your users the ability to store more e-mail has many advantages. Large mailboxes keep e-mail on the Exchange Server instead of allowing it to be scattered in Outlook Data Files (.PST files). That helps reduce the risk of data loss, improve regulatory compliance, and increase productivity among both workers and IT staff. The main barrier to implementing large mailboxes is the perceived cost and complexity of storing large amounts of e-mail data. Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 is specifically designed to overcome these barriers. This paper discusses how Exchange 2010 enables you to give users large mailboxes without breaking your budget.
Download and read the Whitepaper here.
The Exchange team has released an announcement of the improvements in Exchange 2010 SP1. The headlines of a few of the improvements are the following subjects:
- Archiving and Discovery Enhancements
- Outlook Web App
- Mobility (Exchange ActiveSync)
- Management UI
A full list of what’s coming in SP1 will be on TechNet soon.
One of the mostly awaited improvements is properly the possibility of changing location of the Personal Archive Mailbox to another database. This is great news, now the Personal Archive starts to get interesting.
Read more about the Personal Archive improvements in Henrik’s blog post.
Read the full blog post from the Exchange team about the SP1 improvements.
The Exchange team has released the ExLogAnalyzer, it’s an enhancement of a bunch of VB scripts released earlier for creating reports based on the message tracking logs. It looks like a cool tool, which can come handy in a lot of scenarios.
The main shift in this model, compared to the previous script, is that ExLogAnalyzer is built as a framework that can be used to analyze Exchange as well as possibly any other log format.
ExLogAnalyzer is now released to the community and here’s a few examples of what it can analyze/report:
- Generates the top 1000 senders based on mailbox deliveries. Messages to the internet are not counted.
- Provides an understanding of the message size distribution.
- Discover and summarize recipients for which "Recipient Not Found" error was generated.
- Generates a directed graph showing the server being analyzed and all the inbound / outbound mail flow paths.
- Analyzes the latencies of the different components and determines the latencies experienced by the specified percentiles of messages.
- Analyzes the SMTP receive work load over time while tracking tarpitting, client time outs, etc.
- An analyzer that samples the connections over time. This analyzer generates a CSV file per source (e.g. SMTP or MAPI).
- An analyzer that provides the frequency of sessions, failed and DNS failures per source + destination combination.
Just to name a few, read more at the Exchange team blog and download here.
HP has released their sizing tool for Exchange 2010. This successor to the Exchange 2007 Sizing tool does recommendations for deployment and sizing of servers and storage and includes a (HP) bill of materials. The tool supports multi-site deployments, Database Availability Groups (DAG), DAS or or SAN-based storage and high availability and client options.
As with the 2007 version it uses a combination of technical and business requirements and projects best practices for high available Exchange configurations (when applicable). The tool can update itself and the product information it uses.
This tool can be used as a good guideline together with Microsoft’s own Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator.
You can download the HP Sizer for Exchange Server 2010 here.
The Exchange Team has made a blog post about ISA 2006 SP1 configuration with Exchange 2010.
While ISA 2006 SP1 includes a Client Access Web Publishing Wizard for both Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007, the wizard does not have any knowledge of Exchange 2010.
Read it here.
I just got the news, I’m now officially qualified as a MCM: Exchange 2007. This is the best Christmas present ever! Well it wasn’t actually a present, but really tough work and a final exam. 
I attended the MCM: Exchange 2007 Rotation 3 in May 2009. I enjoyed the tough 3 weeks of training in Redmond, it was an incredible learning experience and also great opportunity network with fellow Exchange specialists. I can only recommend this experience and very dedicated training to everyone who specializes within one of the MCM areas.
The Microsoft Certified Master: Exchange Server 2007 program provides the most in-depth and comprehensive training that is available today for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Meet more Masters here.
I’ll not write about the program and the training, a lot of fellow Masters has already done this and there’s The Masters Blog.
This might be old news to some
But PFDAVADmin is still a great utility and it works perfect for Exchange 2007 (from a client, see my last post). Besides using it to handle folder permissions, it can also recover public folders or public folder items, that have been accidentally deleted, as long as it’s within the retention time.
This article describes how to recover deleted public folders or items that are deleted from public folders in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. You can use the Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration (PFDAVAdmin) tool to recover public folders or items. You can use the methods that are described in this article when you cannot recover folders or items by using the Recover deleted items command in Microsoft Outlook.
Read more in the MS article.
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