Archives January 25, 2009

Hi, I have recently been asked about this several times. There are great articles out there so I will not repeat only link! The size limit by default is 10MB. It is possible to override in many flexible ways! http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/exchange-2007-message-size-limits.htmlhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124345.aspxhttp://exchange-genie.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-set-message-size-limits-in.html CheersNathan

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Hi, Here are the details of our February 2009 MMMUG meeting. This event will be held in London at the MSFT offices in Cardinal Place near Victoria. This month we have a evening about managing and automating Exchange led by Jonathan Medd from Hampshire County Council and Will Rawlings from Truconsulting. We will start with…

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This is a very common request. People have internal servers which need to send email. The MSExchangeTeam blog has a great article about it here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/12/28/432013.aspx What I tend to use is the following script: New-ReceiveConnector -Name ?Internal SMTP Relay? -Usage Custom -Bindings 192.168.200.134:25, 192.168.200.134:587 -Fqdn LDN-ECA-LB.test.com -RemoteIPRanges 192.168.6.25, 172.16.1.12 -Server LDN-ECA-02 ?AuthMechanism TLS, ExternalAuthoritative…

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This is just a short post, but I thought it was worth drawing attention to the story below: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9126118&intsrc=news_ts_head It is touches on the competition between Microsoft Exchange and IBM Notes as the leader collaboration platform. It seems that Exchange is winning! Or so Gartner say. Cheers Nathan

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Recently a friend posted on the Mark Minasi forum about social networks: http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29834 Here is my take on it: I am on Facebook, Linked in and Twitter. Personally, I think you get out what you put in. So for example, I didn't really look at Facebook for a year or so, but actually then my…

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Hi, Well finally we can start talking about Exchange 14! Microsoft have released the first video here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/01/13/450397.aspx Definitely worth a look. Now I?d better start working on the book??.. Cheers Nathan

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A while ago I worked at a site where I was installing Exchange 2007. Everything was great, except occasionally, Blackberry devices would reply to a mail but the recipients the reply went to would not see any reply! Well this is some text from a Blackberry support agent: It appears the cause of this issue…

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As we all know, licensing can be a black art! Michael has written a great post which really helped me out a few times and I thought I would share it: http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/01/11/ocs-2007-licensing-more-on-the-uc-wave.aspx Cheers Nathan

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The latest UC info from Microsoft: Unified Communications News http://msexchangeteam.com/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/default.aspx http://communicationsserverteam.com Downloads Antigen & Forefront UDP Update for Forefront TMG MBE This update causes TMG MBE to use random source ports for UDP sessions created by access rules which serve hosts in networks for which Forefront TMG MBE defines a network address translation (NAT)…

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Hi, This is pretty cool! Maybe it has been out there for ages, i?m not sure, but i?ve just realised that you can sign into Live Messenger from multiple locations. The site below has more info: http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=WL_Messengerv9&querytype=keyword&query=ffo_no_popm This makes much more sense for example I could be online at home (as I leave my PC…

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