This great blog post by the Forefront team about Backscatter protection and how to deal with it using Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. In essence, backscatter is a DSN (Delivery Status Notification) delivered to a recipient who never sent the original mail in the first place. While the DSN itself is perfectly legitimate and valid notification initiated by a reputable MTA, it has been sent to a user who never initiated the original mail …
Good news – the OCS service provider for Exchange is now released. The OCS service provider will enable IM connectivity to OCS 2007 R2 from Exchange 2010 Outlook Web App (OWA). With Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Service Provider, administrators can implement basic instant messaging and presence functionality for Microsoft Office Outlook®-Live users. Download it here.
The Exchange team has release the Exchange 2010 Mailbox Server Role requirements calculator. This is a very useful tool for designing Exchange 2010 environments. Read Ross Smith’s very impressive blog post about Exchange design and the new calculator here. Download the calculator here.
The IIS Team has released a new version on the URL Rewrite Module, ver. 2.0 is now released as Release Candidate and available for download. Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1, and adds support for outbound response headers and content rewriting. More specifically, it can be used to: Replace the URLs generated by a web application in the response HTML with …
Exchange Server 2010 is as of Nov. 9th available to everyone worldwide. Exchange Server 2010 – 120 day download (can be activated with your license keys) Main Exchange 2010 information portal Licensing and pricing (this includes CAL differences) Can also be downloaded from TechNet, MSDN or Licensing. Reference: msexchangeteam.com