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Tag: Exchange 2010 SP1

  • Office 365 message encryption and HABs

    Some interesting things happened in the Office 365 world this week. First, Microsoft announced that message encryption is now being rolled out to customers to fulfil their goal of providing a method to encrypt messages sent to any recipient rather than just within a bounded organization. Second, the much-awaited hierarchical…

  • Exchange Unwashed Digest for January 2013

    January seemed to go on forever, or maybe this was just because it was mostly cold, wet, and grey in Ireland (a distressingly usual state of affairs at this time of year). Nevertheless, “Exchange Unwashed” needed to be written, so here’s the digest of the January 2013 posts. Office 365…

  • Best of Show award for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out

    Following along from January’s “Distinguished Award” for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out, I received news today that the book won the “Best of Show” award for “Informational Materials” at the 2011 Puget Sound Society for Technical Communications competition. It’s obviously pleasing to hear about such an award. I think…

  • Shared mailbox or public folder

    A recent question asked to this blog as to whether I thought it a good idea to use a public folder as a repository for a shared calendar. My answer was “no” as I consider using a shared mailbox to be a much better response. That answer deserves some explanation, so…

  • Exchange 2010 Inside Out receives “Distinguished” award

    I received a note from Microsoft Press yesterday to let me know that Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out had received a technical publications award. The note said: “Every year, Microsoft Press enters our highest quality titles from the past year into the Technical Publications competition hosted by our local chapter…

  • Date range exports with New-MailboxExportRequest

    From Exchange 2010 SP1 onward, a new method is used to export and import mailbox data. Instead of forcing administrators to run Outlook on a mailbox server so as to be able to use Outlook’s ability to read and write PSTs, Exchange 2010 SP1 contains brand-new code for PST access…

  • Microsoft’s Messaging Records Management strategy still evolving

    New blog post on WindowsITPro.com. Basically sine comments about the evolution of MRM since Exchange 2007 and how the strategy changed in Exchange 2010 (with MRM 2.0) and Exchange 2010 SP1 (changes to the UI and how the Managed Folder Assistant works). Plus a reference to an EHLO post today…

  • Useful Visio stencil for Exchange 2010 SP1

    Microsoft has made an updated Microsoft Office Visio stencil for Exchange 2010 SP1 available for download. As you can see from the screen capture, a wide variety of shapes is available in the stencil including some for Windows components (Active Directory, Certificate Server, domains, etc.), people, and other parts of the…

  • Microsoft embarrassed by Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4

    On July 13, Microsoft took the decision to withdraw Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 (the fourth roll-up update for SP1). As you’re aware, a roll-up update (RU) is a regular release of the patches and other fixes that Microsoft has accumulated for a version of Exchange. RU4 was released on June 22, 2011…

  • Generating Exchange 2010 reports with PowerShell

    From time to time, someone in the Exchange community outside the Exchange development group comes up with a contribution that adds an enormous amount to many different deployments. I think that the PowerShell script posted by Steve Goodman on his blog may just be in that category. For years, I have…