HOW EXCHANGE WORKS

I wish all my readers the very best in 2010. Happy New Year! I will be more active online in the new year and hence I urge all my readers to check my blog everyday for new articles…

I have read in a number of blog posts & forums that you can have a resilient & redundant 2010 messaging system with just two servers, making use of the new DAG functionality and the option to install CAS & HUB roles on the DAG members as well. This becomes a big driving factor for [...]

I have written in one of my previous article that Exchange 2010 provides the fully featured, premium version of Outlook Web App (OWA) for all major browsers including Firefox, Chrome and Safari. Though it is true, accessing OWA 2010 from a Windows machine with Safari only gives the light version. I have tried this in [...]

Microsoft’s hosted messaging solution is still running on Exchange 2007 and it will be upgraded to 2010 only towards the end of 2010. Microsoft website states that hosting on Exchange 2010 will only be supported approximately twelve months after the release of Exchange 2010. Exchange Product Manager confirms the same here The only cloud solution [...]

I am sure only very few companies will be going for the federated sharing feature introduced in Exchange 2010. It makes sense to deploy it in acquisitions/mergers situation or when the company wants to run the acquired company as a separate entity, but still be able to share free/busy, calendar and contacts information. This feature [...]

From December 11 2009, users using Office 2003 will not be able to open or save Office 2003 documents protected with the Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS) or Rights Management Services (RMS). The error below comes up while trying to open a protected document. "Unexpected error occurred. Please try again later or contact [...]

Exchange 2010 provides an easier way of sharing free/busy, calendar and contacts with recipients in another forest with the implementation of federated sharing. Federated Sharing uses Microsoft Federation Gateway, an identity service that runs in the cloud as the trusted middle man. Organizations wanting to use federation need to establish a federation trust with the [...]

The external postmaster address is used as the sender for system generated messages that are sent to users outside the organization. All domains which are not in the accepted domains list are treated as external domains. Check one of my previous articles to know more about setting the postmaster address in exchange 2007, which can [...]

As the first update rollup for Exchange 2010 server has been released, admins are not that sure of the steps to follow for installing update rollup on DAG servers. First things first, the update rollup 1 doesn’t come as part of windows update on a DAG server. Hence, download the rollup from here Let me [...]