This post describes an update to the Facebook provider for the Outlook Social Connector and the related policy settings that are available for Administrators.

Outlook 2010 includes a feature called the Outlook Social Connector which can show social updates for the people your users email with, directly in Outlook. Earlier this year, the Outlook team made an update to enable continued access to Facebook information as Facebook has moved to a new authentication model called OAuth. While making this change the transport has also been updated to use SSL to better secure the information transmitted between Facebook and Outlook.

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Until later,
Henrik Walther

Noida, 30^th March 2012, Lepide Software, a leading brand associated with designing and developing network management tools, has announced the release Lepide Exchange Manager 12.03.01. Developed with utmost precision, this innovative software program captures all the facilities to manage all Exchange server recovery procedures at the network with minimal resources.

Various unique features have been incorporated into Lepide Exchange Manager to serve diverse requirements of Exchange Server including Exchange disaster recovery, restoration from backup, email migration, email search and reporting. The software encapsulates a collection of stupendous features to provide one- stop solution to the network management tasks while meeting email regulatory requirements and IT security policies.

The developers at Lepide have prepared this tool with extraordinary features to deal with indefinite issues that encounter at server side of the network. It boasts of advance features to search, export and recover emails from live exchange mailboxes, exchange backups and PST files. Further, the software is endured with an effective approach to restore only selected mailboxes from backup without needing brick level backup system. The improved methodology makes this utility capable to resolve Exchange disastrous situations and recover Exchange data by converting EDB to PST.

A sample of its features:

· Easily repairs Corrupt Exchange Databases

· Capability to restore selected mailboxes from backup, thus eliminating the need for brick level backup

· Provides simultaneous support to search required emails during multiple backups

· Creates new mailboxes and transfers mails to them from PST, OST, EDB or Live Exchange Server

· Ensures quick backup of mailboxes by copying them to PST Files or other live Exchange mailboxes

· Reduces inflated mailbox sizes by deleting useless emails and moving mails from one mailbox or PST to another mailbox or PST File

· Efficient in moving or copying mails or mailboxes from un-mounted EDB files to PST or other live Exchange mailboxes

· Compatible with 32 and 64 bit Outlook and Exchange Versions

Lepide Exchange Manager or LEM can be claimed as the perfect solution to every Exchange management tasks where multiple Exchange servers are maintained and numerous user accounts are involved.

For more information on Lepide Exchange Manager, please visit www.lepide.com

Supported Versions:

It can be perfectly paired with Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 versions.

About the Company:

Since its inception in the year 2004, Lepide Software is continuously involved in delivering quality range of magnificent network management products to both corporate as well as home users. Starting off with disaster recovery tools under the name of Kernel Data Recovery, Lepide has gradually moved into the network management arena with products on Active Directory, Log Management, Server-based tools etc. To have a close look on the company and the products, please visit http://www.lepide.com

So this month George Hinterhofer (one of my European Microsoft colleagues) wrote the Exchange Queue & A for TechNet Magazine.

Go check it out, there’s some great stuff included.

Until later,
Henrik Walther

Moving mailboxes is an important part of managing an email service. Check out the latest Geek Out with Perry blog and video to gain some deep insights on our approach to moving mailboxes with Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) and get Perry’s take on this topic and how it works. This technology is also incredibly important if you want to move mailboxes to the cloud on your terms with a hybrid deployment.

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Until later,
Henrik Walther

Corona, CA – April 3, 2012

ENow, a Microsoft Certified Partner specializing in infrastructure consulting and development of software to simplify Microsoft system management, announced that Leeds Metropolitan University has selected their award-winning Mailscape tool for Microsoft Exchange Server and mobile device management. Leeds Metropolitan University is one of the largest and most popular universities in the UK, with over 29,000 students and 3,000 staff.

The University’s IT team selected Mailscape after researching an extensive list of exchange monitoring solutions. Having recently migrated to Exchange 2010 (from Exchange 2003), the University’s IT team quickly found themselves managing a much more complex environment and wanted to take proactive measures to monitor the new environment.

Steve Kilburn, Infrastructure Consultant for Leeds MET, explains, “Having made our way through a list of monitoring solutions and evaluating several products, only Mailscape ticked all the boxes. It was unique in its breadth of coverage across monitoring and reporting, and is a complete packaged solution”.

As a small team managing the ever increasing demands of IT within the University, Steve has rolled out the Mailscape dashboard to each member of the core IT team who use it daily to monitor Exchange, troubleshoot any issues, and take any preventative actions when needed.

Leeds MET uses Mailscape’s rich exchange reporting tools to present high level information to Management, and to help the IT team manage and enhance the messaging service.

Going forward, Leeds MET is planning to take advantage of Mailscape’s customized dashboard for their Helpdesk team to proactively manage mailbox quotas, a task that was difficult to handle before using Mailscape.

Read the full case study here.

Used by Exchange administrators in over 33 countries, Mailscape is an innovative systems management tool that combines all the key elements for Exchange reporting and monitoring in a single solution. Mailscape has received numerous awards including being named the Best Exchange Reporting Tool of the MSExchange.org’s Readers’ Choice Awards.

About ENow
ENow is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner focused on helping companies implement the latest Microsoft technologies and developing software tools to simplify the job of an IT administrator. The company’s flagship product, Mailscape, is an award winning Exchange monitoring and reporting tool that provides a dashboard view of the messaging environment. For more information, call 1-877-TRY-ENOW, email us at info@enowinc.com, or visit us at www.enowinc.com.

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As many of you know with Exchange 2010, load balancing has become a critical piece of your overall Exchange 2010 solution. Since MSExchange.org is all about Exchange, we thought it would make perfect sense to also have a specific load balancer section here on the site. So we created one!

You can check it out here:
http://www.msexchange.org/hardware/Load-Balancers/

Until later,
Henrik Walther

Yes the title says it all. I have accepted a position as FTE (aka Blue Badge) at Microsoft. More specifically, I will be joining Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) here in Denmark beginning March 15th, 2012. My main working areas will be Office 365 (primarily Exchange Online) and Exchange on-premise solutions.

Some of you know, I’m been working as a vendor (aka v-dash) for Microsoft Corp. for some years now and since I love to combine the consultant role with internal Microsoft projects my plan is to hold on to the internal project stuff. I surely enjoyed working for Microsoft as a vendor, but I also think the years to come will be quite exciting as an FTE.

Hey Henrik does that mean you’re saying goodbye to the external Exchange community now?

Well, as you can’t both be an FTE and MVP at the same time, I’ll say goodbye to my Exchange MVP title (after 8 years as an MVP – thanks to Melissa Travers for spotting me back then!) and although some folks contribute to the communities primarily in order to hold on to or get the MVP title, I‘m really not one of them. I’ve always been hanging out in and contributing to the communities because of my passion for helping out fellow peers whether that be via books, TechNet documentation, Wiki’s, online articles, magazine columns, newsletters, forums, blog posts and speaking engagements. So although it’s been great to be part of this community (it really has!), I’m not crying tears now that I exit the gate of the MVP realm. It’s been fun but it’s time for me to move on and you can’t have it all right?

Oh and to answer the question, no I’ll not say screw the external community from now on. Not at all! I’ll still be writing articles/newsletters/blog posts for MSExchange.org and do the Exchange Queue & A column for TechNet Magazine. In addition, since I’m still responsible for the content on the public Exchange TechNet Wiki, you will also see me hang out there.

When it comes to contacting me, you will still be able to reach me via:

• henrik AT msexchange.org
• henrik AT exchange-faq.dk
• henwal AT microsoft.com (my current vendor address minus “v-“)

And of course via my social network profiles:

• Twitter: http://bit.ly/z3nNC7
• LinkedIn: http://linkd.in/wU3Ezy
• FaceBook: http://on.fb.me/zpwB5q

See you out there!

Until later,
Henrik Walther

In the late 90’s and first years of the 21st century, our team along with many of you were part of one of the most valuable technical education and community events in the industry. This event, focused entirely on Microsoft Exchange Server, brought together thousands of Exchange administrators, architects, consultants and partners with an abundance of the Exchange product group itself, hunkered down in a conference center to do nothing but soak in the goodness of Exchange.

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Until later,

Henrik Walther
Technology Architect/Writer/MS Vendor
MCM: Exchange Server | MVP: Exchange Architecture

Thought I would share a little tidbit revolving around running Kemp LoadMaster devices in one-armed configurations and having Outlook clients on dedicated client subnets (different subnets than those the Exchange Client Access server and KEMP Load Master devices are located on).

I’ve seen customers and peers in the different communities running into an issue where the Outlook client was capable of reaching the Kemp LoadMaster on port 135 (TCP endpoint mapper) but the LoadMaster never responded back to the client resulting in Outlook not being able to connect to the mailbox.

So when using the above mentioned scenario, it’s important to disable “L7 Transparency” on the respective virtual services since this isn’t supported with one armed configurations where clients are located on a separate subnet than the LoadMasters and Exchange servers.

In Microsoft terms this scenario is also known as SNAT (thanks to Dave Stork for mentioning this. I was in the load balancer world when I wrote this ).

Until later,

Henrik Walther
Technology Architect/Writer/MS Vendor
MCM: Exchange Server | MVP: Exchange Architecture

If you shouldn’t have noticed

You can find it here.

Until later,

Henrik Walther
Technology Architect/Writer/MS Vendor
MCM: Exchange Server | MVP: Exchange Architecture