Paul has a nice post about the latest Exchange technical content updates. He covers the following topics:

• Downloads
• Events/Webcasts
• Content Updates
• New KB Articles

If you’re only interested about the documentation updates from the previous month, then read Exchange Server Documentation Updates - September 2008 at the Microsoft Exchange Team blog:

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

• Microsoft Support Policies and Recommendations for Exchange Servers in Hardware Virtualization Environments: This topic provides the Microsoft support policies for running currently supported versions of Microsoft Exchange Server in production in a hardware virtualization environment. This topic also provides recommendations for running Exchange Server in production in a hardware virtualization environment.
• Common Criteria Evaluation of Exchange 2007 SP1: This document and the downloads that are associated with it contain important information about the evaluation and certification of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Enterprise Edition according to the Common Criteria (CC) for information technology security and the ISO 15408 Toolkit.”

Show #73 from RunAs Radio, a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products, is about Unified Communications: Jeff Goodwin Rings Us Into Unified Communications!

Richard and Greg talk to Jeff Goodwin about Microsoft Unified Communications. Jeff lays out the relationship between Exchange, Office Communicator and Unified Messaging Server to combine email, telephone and instant messaging. Check out Jeff’s TechNet articles at http://www.shrinkster.com/11mj and http://www.shrinkster.com/11mk.

Jeff Goodwin is the Senior Technologist and Microsoft Practice Lead for The VIA Group. He specializes in Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Unified Communications. Jeff has been involved in the development and implementation of Unified Communications solutions for over 10 years. He has been a presenter at various Microsoft Conferences including TechEd and TechReady. He recently wrote articles for TechNet Magazine on Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging regarding deployment and migration strategies. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Stephen F. Austin State University.

Microsoft released the September 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.

Remember the webcast series 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007? Well, Harold Wong has gathered most of the recordings (WMV format) on his blog.

About a year and a half ago, I delivered a 24 Part Webcast Series on Exchange Server 2007 (minus part 8 which Bryan Von Axelson delivered while I was stuck in the Albuquerque airport).  I have received requests from quite a few people to make the recordings (WMV files) available for download somewhere.  I just wanted to let everyone out there know that I have finally found a way to do this.  I went ahead and downloaded all 24 parts and stored them on skydrive.live.com and am embedding the links for the ZIP files in this post.  I wish I could have made these available a lot sooner, but like they say, better late than never.  Enjoy.

Harold Wong

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol Documentation has been updated to version 1.02.

Overview
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.

Additional Information
Audience
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Protocol technical documentation set is intended for use in conjunction with publicly available standard specifications, network programming art, and Windows distributed systems concepts. It assumes that the reader either is familiar with this material or has immediate access to it.
The technical documentation set provides the information useful to the following audiences:

• Implementers: Sufficient conceptual and reference information for a successful implementation of one or more protocol specifications for a given task or scenario.
• Reviewers: A definitive resource for readers who want to evaluate or understand one or more protocols.

Besides all the great technical content, TechEd also provides us some cool videos. Here’s a short list that may interest you:

• Video - Technical Introduction of DPM2007 … from Tech-Ed 2008 US
• Tech Ed 2008 Interview with Brent Alinger (Exchange)
• Tech Ed 2008 Interview with Becky Benfield (Exchange)
• Tech Ed 2008 Interview with Caroline Chung (Unified Communications)
• Tech Ed 2008 Interview with Joe Schurman (MVP)

Enjoy

Microsoft released recently the updated documentation for their antivirus products:

• Microsoft Antigen SP1 Documentation - 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 Forefront Security for Exchange Server with SP1 Documentation - Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1 integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms into a comprehensive, layered solution, helping protect your Microsoft Exchange Server messaging environments from viruses, worms, spam, and inappropriate content.
  This new release provides support for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 and Windows Server 2008, as well as content filtering and manageability enhancements. These enhancements include:
• Seamless support for organizations running IPv6.
• Improved content filtering with installable keyword lists that can be used to eliminate email containing profanity in eleven supported languages.
• Improved integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager through new management packs that allow administrators to proactively monitor the state of their Exchange 2007 protection.
• Increased flexibility for scanning or blocking high compression zip files and RAR archives.

Note: Forefront Security for Exchange users who are running Exchange 2007 RTM and wish to upgrade to Exchange 2007 SP1 must first upgrade to Forefront Security for Exchange SP1.

Microsoft released recently 2 PBX configuration notes for Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging:

• Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging PBX Configuration Note for Cisco Call Manager 5.1 - This PBX configuration note contains information about deploying Exchange 2007 UM with a Cisco Call Manager 5.1 using direct SIP connection. You can use it to help decide if Exchange 2007 UM is the appropriate solution for your organization.

This download contains the PBX configuration note (preview) for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging with:

• PBX Vendor: Cisco
• PBX model: Call Manager 5.1
• PBX software: 5.1.0.9921-12
• Protocol: Direct SIP Connection
• Also applicable to Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.0

• Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging PBX Configuration Note for Avaya Communication Manager 5.0 - This PBX configuration note contains information about deploying Exchange 2007 UM with Avaya Communication Manager and SIP Enablement Services using direct SIP connection. You can use it to help decide if Exchange 2007 UM is the appropriate solution for your organization.

This download contains the PBX configuration note (preview) for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging with:

• PBX Vendor: Avaya
• PBX model: Communication Manager 5.0
• PBX software: Build 731.2 (R014x.00.1.731.2)
• Protocol: Direct SIP Connection

The Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1 has been updated to version 6.5.8039.0.

(At the time of this post, the link to download isn’t ready yet, please be patient).

Brief Description
Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 provide access to these APIs

Overview
The Messaging API is a COM-like API that provides access to the contents of messaging stores. CDO 1.2.1 (Collaboration Data Objects, version 1.2.1) is a package providing access to Outlook-compatible objects through a COM-based API. Using either CDO or MAPI, a program can connect to a MAPI store, and then perform operations against that store. Starting with Exchange 2007, Microsoft will distribute the MAPI client libraries and CDO 1.2.1 as a Web download.

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) SDK August 2008 is now available for download.

Brief Description
This release of the Exchange 2007 SP1 Software Development Kit (SDK) Documentation and Samples provides new and updated documentation and samples for building applications that use Exchange 2007 SP1. Use this SDK to help you develop collaborative enterprise applications for Exchange 2007 SP1.

Overview
The Exchange 2007 SP1 SDK August 2008 Documentation and Samples assists developers who are building applications for Exchange 2007 SP1. This release of the SDK provides new and updated information and sample code to help you develop collaborative enterprise applications for Exchange 2007 SP1.
The README file contains installation instructions for and late-breaking information about the Exchange 2007 SP1 SDK August 2008 Documentation and Samples.