HA in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 webcast part 2 will be presented by Scott Schnool.

Are you prepared for outages that affect e-mail service or data availability? Have you defined recovery strategies and procedures for disasters big and small?

This Webcast will cover the recommended strategies for protecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 messaging service and data, with an emphasis on the ultimate disaster: a full site failure. Join Scott Schnoll this Friday (August 15, 2008) from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM PST as he dives deep into standby continuous replication (SCR), which was designed with these disasters in mind. This is a 300-400 level Webcast that covers disaster recovery options and strategies for Exchange 2007 SP1, standby continuous replication, and site resilience.

You can register for this free Webcast at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032381322&Culture=en-US .

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/13/449570.aspx

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:

• Server Installation and Automation Guides: This section of content provides guidance on how to formally document your organization’s Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 build process, take steps to automate the build process to improve consistency, and reduce the possibility of operator error during server build and deployment. Installation guide templates cover both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003.
• Managing Public Folders with the Exchange Management Shell: This article gives tips and tricks for the day-to-day management of public folders by using the Exchange Management Shell.
• 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.

Read more at source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/08/13/449576.aspx

If you already have Exchange Server 2007 powerpack you can use this powerpack to manage Public Folders through PowerGUI.

This power pack will allow you to add/remove client permissions from Exchange 2007 public folders

On the Remove client you will have to populate the same fields above to remove the desired client permissions.

Read more at source: http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=1959...yID=21

OCS 2007 has a PowerPack which enables an administrator to manage a lot of features of the product using PowerGUI. Here it goes..

The OCS 2007 PowerPack provides access to major OCS 2007 Global, User, and Server objects and settings. This includes Users, Edge and Federation, Servers and Global settings. Some objects add links and actions to view further information and to provision and help administer OCS.

This PowerPack was partially based on the OCS Powershell Scripts found in the companion CD of the “Office Communication 2007 Resource Kit” book (http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/10482.aspx).

Note: Edge functionality may not work remotely because of a WMI cross-domain security issue.

Read more at source: http://powergui.org/entry.jspa?externalID=1926&categoryID=21

Harold Wong blogged about a document explaining how to use a cisco load balancer with OCS 2007 in the cisco website.

Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/haroldwong/archive/2008/0...7.aspx

An interesting post was blogged in the PowerShell Team Blog (https://blogs.msdn.com) and they explained that running the script below you can increase the speed to open your PowerShell Console, as follows:

Set-Alias ngen @(
dir (join-path ${env:\windir} “Microsoft.NET\Framework”) ngen.exe -recurse |
sort -descending lastwritetime
)[0].fullName
[appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() | %{ngen $_.location}

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/default.aspx

If you updated your server to Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Rollup Update 3 then you will be able to remove the text “Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007″ using the following cmdlet:

Set-TransportConfig WritingBrandingInDSNEnabled $false

More information at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;...=10926

In this post the MS Outlook team explains how to create a backup of the signatures using Outlook 2007.

Read more at source: http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2008/07/11/h...s.aspx

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