Exchange SErver Documentation has new updates, as follows:

The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content.

To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates.

To see what content has changed for Exchange Server Analyzer, take a look at Exchange Server Analyzer Topic Updates.

In particular, we would like to highlight the following new or updated topics:

• White Paper: Continuous Replication Deep Dive: Continuous replication is a key feature of Exchange Server 2007. Read about the technical details and inner workings of continuous replication technology in this white paper.
• White Paper: Planning for Large Mailboxes with Exchange 2007: Learn how to deploy large mailboxes in your environment while also achieving high performance, high availability, and rapid recovery-all at a lower cost than with Exchange 2003.

You can see these articles and other Exchange Server documentation content in the Microsoft Exchange Server TechCenter.

The following downloads are also available for SP1 content:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Help
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Shell Help

BTW, all our topics in the Exchange Library have a “Topic Last Modified” date at the top of the topic. And, if you wonder which topics apply to Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, we now have an “Applies to” tag for Exchange 2007 content.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/07/16/449273.aspx

Another white paper that was published by MSExchangeTeam this week. This one is about large mailboxes with Exchange Server 2007.

Read it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/cc6711...8.aspx

It was released a white paper about the Continuous Replications in the Exchange Server documentation site. If you like to understand how the Exchange replication really works this document is totally worth it.

This white paper provides the technical details for a technology in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 called continuous replication.

Read it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc53502...).aspx

The MSExchangeTeam released three new documents about Exchange Server 2007, one of them explains how to monitor exchange Server 2007 without using SCOM, as follows:

Ensuring that servers running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 are operating reliably is a key objective for daily messaging operations. Therefore, ensuring server reliability should be systematically approached based on the principles outlined in Microsoft Operations Framework. For more information about Microsoft Operations Framework, see Microsoft Operations Framework.

A significant aspect of Exchange 2007 daily operations is monitoring the health of the Exchange components to achieve the following goals:

• Generate alerts when operational failures and performance problems are about to occur or do occur.
  
• Represent the health state of servers and server roles.
  
• Generate reports of operational health over time so that you can estimate future demands based on usage patterns and other performance data.
  

For administrators who do not use System Center Operations Manager to monitor their Exchange 2007 environment, a thorough understanding of the most important performance counters and their thresholds is critical to establishing a performance baseline and monitoring plan to proactively monitor your Exchange 2007 environment and troubleshoot and resolve issues when they arise.

Read it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/bb2017...0.aspx

Although Exchange Management tools are invaluable for managing, monitoring and administer networks, computers, services, and other system components it does not provide a graphical view of user mailbox details. Administrators have to sift through a tree view to view the members of the Distribution Group in an organizational unit and use embedded data to figure out the details.

See the power of Data Visualization at work with this Visio Add-in For Visio 2007 Pro

Get it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...ang=en

In this post the MSExchangeTeam.com guys are demonstrating how to add a group name into the subject line of a message using a Transport Agent.

Many people use rules to automatically sort messages from various distribution lists into folders in order to keep the volume of email traffic in their inbox to a manageable level. This work for the most part - until someone decides to BCC a list. Since the distribution list isn’t visible in the list of recipients, it bypasses all rules and gets dropped in their inbox. This can cause quite a distraction for everyone on that DL because something appeared in their inbox, and it’s not quite apparent why they received that message.

Mailman and Majordomo have had this problem solved for a while now. It’s actually a very simple solution: make sure the name of the mailing list is included in the subject of the email. Then users can set up filters based on words in the subject and they never encounter the problem when someone BCC’s the list.

Exchange 2007 can do the same thing; it just needs a little help from a custom transport agent. I have written a very basic agent to add the name of the DL into the subject. You can use it as a starting point and add your own features.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/06/25/449079.aspx

An interisting post about IRM and Outlook 2007. This is only the first part as soon they release the second part I will be posting the update here.

This post is the first in a multi-part series dedicated to Information Rights Management (IRM) in Outlook 2007. While IRM has been a part of Microsoft Office and Outlook since the 2003 release, we often receive questions regarding the deployment of the system and its practical uses.

To address these questions we will be writing an IRM specific blog series that will cover the following topics:

• What is IRM in Outlook?
• What IRM infrastructure do I need?
• What are IRM Templates and how do I use them?
• How does Microsoft use IRM?
• How can I use IRM at my company?
• The IRM Resource index

A substantial amount of documentation for IRM is available on the Internet. It is, however, often difficult for people to get a good end-to-end overview of how to configure and use IRM in the Office 2007 system. As part of this series, we will be providing a list of resources that we think will help you in further understanding IRM.

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/06/17/i...7.aspx

How to troubleshoot Connection Filtering on a Hub Transport role of the Exchange Server 2007.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/06/23/449070.aspx

The first article of a OCS 2007 series about Voice and OCS 2007.

The first part in this series on Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 showed how OCS was built on the strengths of Live Communication Server (LCS) 2005 to deliverenhanced enterprise-class instant messaging (IM) and presence capabilities, as well as advanced media and phone functionality (see the February 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine at technet.microsoft.com/magazine/cc194409). This article continues with a deeper dive into the Voice over IP (VoIP) aspect of the story. I will explain how simple voice calls are made in the OCS system and discuss the technology layer by layer, so each component is added along with the corresponding functionality.

Read more at source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc6450...).aspx

Microsoft KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937052 tracks all Service Packs and Rollup Updates for Exchange Server 2007. It’s a useful resource to find out what is the latest update available.

This article describes how to obtain the latest update rollup for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. Update rollups are a common way to distribute Exchange 2007 fixes and Exchange 2007 modifications. You can install the latest update rollup to help keep the product up-to-date.