Microsoft released the October 2008 version of the standalone Exchange Server 2007 SP1 help file.

Brief Description
This download contains a standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help.

Overview
The Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this information to guide you through Exchange Server 2007 SP1 features, tasks, and administration procedures.

The latest Unified Communications technical rollup covers the following topics:

• News/Blogs
• Downloads
• Events/Webcasts
• New KB’s

As usual, this information is posted every month at the Technical Rollup blog.

Well, by this time I guess nobody doubts that the online revolution is already happening. Wether you prefer to stick with the “old” on-premise servers, or wether you’re a huge fan of the cloud services, you’ll probably enjoy reading this document recently released by Microsoft: Migrate to Microsoft Online Services.

Brief Description
This document describes how to migrate your on-premise Exchange Server mailboxes and POP3 and IMAP4 mailboxes to Exchange Online.

Related Links:

• Microsoft Online Services
• Microsoft Online TechCenter
• Microsoft Online Services Sign In Tool (RC2)

Microsoft released today these technical documentation sets:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol Documentation (v1.03) - The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol technical documentation set provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft protocols and extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 to interoperate or communicate natively with Microsoft Office client and other server products.
  The documentation set includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standards Documentation - The Exchange Server Standards Documents provide information about Exchange 2007 support for industry messaging standards and Requests for Comments (RFCs) related to iCalendar, IMAP4, and POP3.

The following trial software is available to download from the Microsoft site:

• Microsoft Antigen for SMTP Gateways with Antigen Spam Manager with SP1 (v9.1.1097.0) - The Messaging Security Suite includes Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager, and provides server-level protection against the latest e-mail threats.
• Microsoft Antigen for Exchange with Antigen Spam Manager with SP1 Trial Software (v10.0.1097.0) - The Messaging Security Suite includes Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, and Antigen Spam Manager, and provides server-level protection against the latest e-mail threats.

And don’t forget to read the latest Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation!

Risk Mitigation Strategies for CIOs Implementing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a Live Webcast that will occur on October 1, 2008, 12:00 PM ET / 9:00 AM PT / 4:00 PM GMT (free registration required).

“Where would your business be if your staff loses the ability to send and receive emails, or check calendars and contacts? The criticality of email is irrefutable and if you don’t have a strategy to ensure continuity of your email system you could be putting your business at risk.

Knowing how Microsoft^® Exchange Server 2007 addresses high availability, archiving, recovery, compliance, e-Discovery and the growing costs of storage management is essential to managing risk on behalf of your organization. With most companies considering the transition to Exchange 2007, failure to adequately plan your Exchange environment can result in exposure to email downtime, loss of messages and the potential for legal and market risks.

Join TechRepublic and Dell MessageOne^TM for this live one-hour webcast, moderated by James Hilliard and featuring guest speaker, Samy Aboel-Nil Director, Product Management Dell MessageOne as they review potential email challenges with Exchange 2007.“

Best Practices for Migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint is a technical whitepaper available at the Redmond Magazine site (registration required).

“Many organizations are migrating from IBM Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint because of the rich feature set of the Microsoft solutions, the strategic value of partnering with Microsoft and the high availability of IT staff trained on Microsoft technology.
However, migrations are long, complex, and expensive projects that must be carefully planned and executed. Reliable automated tools from Quest Software can play a key role in keeping a migration on-schedule and error-free. And after migration is complete, Quest’s maintenance solutions complement the native Microsoft tools to ensure high performance and reliability.

Contents include:

• Best Practices for Migrating from Notes to Microsoft Solutions
• Gathering Requirements for Migration
• Project Planning
• Project Execution.
• Migrating Mailbox and Calendar Data
• Migrating Application Content and Design
• Administering the Target Microsoft Environment“

The Microsoft Office Outlook Connector 12.1 Beta 2 is now available to download.

Brief Description
With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!

Overview
With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector, you can use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to access and manage your Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail or Microsoft Office Live Mail accounts, including e-mail messages, contacts and calendars for free!
Outlook Connector enables you to use your Live Hotmail accounts within Outlook:

• Read and send your Office Live Mail/Windows Live Hotmail e-mail messages.
• Manage your contacts in Windows Live Hotmail.
• Use advanced options for blocking junk e-mail messages.
• Manage multiple e-mail accounts in one place.
• Manage, and synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Windows Live Calendar from Outlook.

Note to Premium Subscribers: The Outlook Connector will automatically upgrade your MSN Calendar to the new Windows Live Calendar beta. Once upgraded to Windows Live Calendar, you will be able to synchronize multiple calendars, including shared calendars to Outlook! You will no longer be able to access MSN Calendar.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

• This download works with the following Office programs:
  • 2007 Microsoft Office system
  • Microsoft Office 2003
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

Related links:

• Microsoft Office Outlook Connector version 12.1 Beta 2 now available!

Microsoft has just released the September update (although they call it August) for the Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter.

“Install this update for Windows Mail to revise the definition files used to detect e-mail messages that should be considered junk e-mail or that may contain phishing content.”

The update is available through Microsoft Update or you can click the following links, according to your OS architecture:

• Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter (x32)
• Update for Windows Mail Junk E-mail Filter (x64)

As usual the update comes with the corresponding Knowledge Base article:

• Description of the definition updates for Windows Mail (KB905866)

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There are 2 presentations about Lotus Notes migration available at the Microsoft site (registration required):

• Quest Software - Lotus Notes Transition to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint - Free Yourself from Notes with Tools for Seamless Messaging and Application Migration.
• Unify - Successfully Migrating Lotus Notes Applications to Microsoft Platform - Unify is a global provider of application modernization, application development and data management solutions.