Articles Archive for February 2011
While there are other options for connecting Exchange to the Internet, most companies will probably go with placing an Exchange server in the DMZ and deploying the Edge Transport role. When you do this, you …
We’ve all heard it about a hundred times already: “Don’t open attachments from unknown senders.” And yet there will always be someone who either has forgotten the last time their system locked up and stopped …
User Account Control (UAC) is a mechanism in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 7, and Windows Vista that provides interactive notification of administrative tasks that may be called by various programs. Microsoft …
Microsoft is famous for saying it’s "all in" with cloud computing, and for developers, there’s been a lot of information, code and features to sink their teeth into. But as an IT administrator, the cloud …
Microsoft has released a tool mitigating the issue behind a new vulnerability that impacts all supported versions of Windows, aside from Server 2008 installations using the Server Core option. While concept code to leverage attacks …
Beginning with SQL Server 2005, column-level encryption and decryption capabilities where made available within the database. This provides a compelling solution for situations where one-off types of data need to be secured beyond your existing …
I started working on a simple migration of Oracle data to SQL Server and had a hard time finding a single document explaining the entire process. Having almost no experience with Oracle, any steps that …
Exchange 2010 is quite a massive product that includes many facets of messaging included in a single product. It includes a sophisticated messaging routing engine that is capable of processing very large volumes of e-mail …
As I’ve been working through some of the new Exchange 2010 material recently, I came across the Exchange 2010 Deployment Assistant. This tool is also called ExDeploy, which if you remember working with Exchange 2003 …
When Exchange Server 2007 was released, mobile messaging was at best in its adolescence. Most mobile messaging users at that time were signed up with the BlackBerry service as the only viable option for enterprise …
