With Public Folders slowly, painfully making their way out from Exchange, you might find a need to replace shared calendars that traditionally you would have used a public folder for. While Sharepoint is a great option, using Shared Mailboxes isn’t a bad idea either. One of the issues with creating a Shared Mailbox for a…
This week HP have announced their Exchange-in-a-box appliance solution for building Exchange mailbox servers. I was lucky enough to see one of these back in December under NDA and find this an interesting proposition (I only saw the new hardware itself – anything in this post is from publicly available information). The HP solution takes…
As I’ve covered in previous articles, it’s possible to import contact photos into Active Directory and display them via the Exchange Global Address List in Outlook clients. This is fully supported against Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010, however I’ve covered in previous articles how to import GAL photos into Exchange 2007 and how to enable…
Mailbox access rights in Exchange are easy to assign, however managing them can be a bit of a pain, especially if they are assigned on a per-user basis, or assigned when troubleshooting issues for a user. What would be really useful is the ability to quickly generate a report against a subset of users to…
One of the interesting nuggets of information coming out from TechEd a couple of weeks ago relates to Microsoft’s changing advice on whether Windows’ Network Load Balancing should be used with Client Access Servers to balance client traffic. The new advice from Ross Smith IV’s session entitled UNC311 – How Outlook connects to Exchange 2010…