A month in Exchange: March 2007

by ucinfo, posted in Flaphead, KB Articles, MsEvents, MsExchange

Sorry, its a bit late this month :-|

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Exchange Server 2003 SDK Documentation and Samples March 2007
The Exchange Server 2003 SDK Documentation and Samples assist developers building applications for Exchange Server 2003. This release of the SDK provides new and updated information and sample code to help you develop collaborative enterprise applications with Exchange. Included in this release are updates to the SDK documentation, tasks for implementing managed store event sinks, procedures for building managed event sink DLLs, and a task for getting free/busy status over HTTP. The README file contains installation instructions and late-breaking information about the Exchange Server 2003 SDK Documentation and Samples.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09b45603-2147-424e-81e5-601fbfdfdf0d&DisplayLang=en

Exchange 2000 Server SDK Documentation and Samples March 2007
The Exchange 2000 Server SDK Documentation and Samples assist developers building applications for Exchange 2000 Server. This release of the SDK provides new and updated information and sample code to help you develop collaborative enterprise applications with Exchange. Included in this release are updates to the SDK documentation, tasks for implementing managed store event sinks, procedures for building managed event sink DLLs, and a task for getting free/busy status over HTTP. The README file contains installation instructions and late-breaking information about the Exchange 2000 Server SDK Documentation and Samples.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=71a0bb09-1cc9-4ee7-a3b8-5cbd71402eaa&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes supports the migration of Lotus Domino R5 and R6 mailboxes and associated Domino directory information to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. This tool replaces the Migration Wizard that ships with Exchange Server 2003 (including SP2), and includes improved retention of contents and Unicode characters during the migration from Domino to Exchange Server 2003.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c105b3e4-3beb-4f1e-8f52-e345af6c3e50&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Connector for Lotus Notes supports messaging and calendaring interoperability between Lotus Domino R5/R6 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. This tool replaces the Connector that ships with Exchange Server 2003 (including SP2), and includes several updates to support better message fidelity when routing email between Exchange and Domino, support of iNotes and Domino Web Access clients, enhanced Unicode support and reliability.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d9f3a35e-1046-47b5-b09b-bda9de60cd9d&DisplayLang=en

Exchange Server Stress and Performance Tool (64 bit)
Use Microsoft Exchange Server Stress and Performance (ESP), a highly scalable stress and performance tool for Exchange, to simulate large numbers of client sessions by concurrently accessing one or more protocol servers. ESP includes multiple modules that you can use to simulate a wide variety of protocols and loads. You can run modules concurrently from multiple hosts, thereby more realistically simulating physically separate client machines. There is no limit to the number of computers on your network that can host ESP modules.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b9e200d5-18b9-4734-b9d9-9e6efc48bcb6&DisplayLang=en

Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool
The Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool reads these settings from Active Directory and converts them to equivalent Windows Power Shell script (consisting of Exchange 2007 tasks) which can then be run on Edge Transport or Hub Transport roles of Exchange Server 2007.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=805eaf35-ebb3-43d4-83e4-a4ccc7d88c10&DisplayLang=en

Exchange Server Stress and Performance Tool (32 bit)
Use Microsoft Exchange Server Stress and Performance (ESP), a highly scalable stress and performance tool for Exchange, to simulate large numbers of client sessions by concurrently accessing one or more protocol servers. ESP includes multiple modules that you can use to simulate a wide variety of protocols and loads. You can run modules concurrently from multiple hosts, thereby more realistically simulating physically separate client machines. There is no limit to the number of computers on your network that can host ESP modules
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7f944850-945f-4e60-b6d6-cf7341d7f9c3&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server Management Pack Configuration Wizard
Provides a graphical user interface to configure Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 Management Pack, including test mailboxes, message tracking, and monitoring services.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=21e5a788-5993-40a9-bd35-b14d414e3e16&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (32 bit)
Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/det
ails.aspx?FamilyID=94b9810b-670e-433a-b5ef-b47054595e9c&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (64 bit)
Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=73dfe056-0900-4dbb-b14a-0932338cecac&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 VHD – 32-bit version
The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd.

This download enables you evaluate how Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 together can help create an optimized messaging system for your organization. Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is designed to reduce the growing cost and complexity of managing a corporate messaging system by providing more control for IT administrators, more value and expanded inbox access for end users, and increased security and compliance for the organization as a whole.
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 provides built-in protection technologies to help keep the e-mail system up and running and better protected from outside threats while allowing employees to work from wherever they are using a variety of clients including Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and mobile devices. Exchange Server 2007 makes it easier for IT to deliver these new capabilities to their organizations by making the messaging environment easier to manage and more cost efficient. Please see www.microsoft.com/exchange/preview for additional information.
Live Communications Server 2005 provides a standards-based platform, allowing developers the ability to presence-enable existing applications and create next-generation solutions with real-time capabilities. Please see www.microsoft.com/lcs for additional information.

This fully functional pre-configured VHD provides you a trial software will automatically expire after 30 days.
This is a preconfigured virtual machine contained within the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. A virtualization product that supports the VHD format is required to use this virtual machine. Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server are provided for free and can be used with these VHD based virtual machines. Please refer to the system requirements section for more details.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=692a6e3c-81c9-4d8a-93fa-266d651735dc&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Calendar Update Tool
Before you run the Exchange Calendar Update tool, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article 930879, “How to address daylight saving time by using the Exchange Calendar Update Tool,” for complete information about potential effects on your IT environment and user base.

After installing the Windows and Exchange daylight saving time (DST) updates, all old appointments (both recurring and single instance) that occur during the extended DST period will be incorrectly displayed as having moved back one hour. These appointments will need to be updated so that they display correctly in Outlook, Outlook Web Access, and CDO-based applications. The Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool enables end-users to update their own calendars. (For Outlook 2007 the time zone update feature is built into the application.)

The Exchange Calendar Update Tool enables administrators to avoid the challenges involved with broadly deploying the Outlook tool to all users and ensuring that each user runs the tool correctly.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a9336886-4b28-4010-9416-36d38429438d&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging PBX Configuration Note for Cisco Call Manager 5.1
This PBX configuration note contains information about deploying Exchange 2007 UM with a Cisco Call Manager 5.1 using direct SIP connection. You can use it to help decide if Exchange 2007 UM is the appropriate solution for your organization.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=68b43d3c-7c84-4c2f-bfd7-98754970d70e&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging (UM) Specialists
The companies listed in this document are Systems Integrators who have attended technical training on Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging conducted by Microsoft Exchange Engineering Team. Non-Microsoft providers are listed here for your convenience only. Microsoft makes no warranties or representations with regard to their products or services.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=853ca2e4-2da6-4dac-80fc-9bb66df64d09&DisplayLang=en

Multiple Calendars Get Started
Office Outlook 2007 helps you manage your time by separating your personal and business calendars and enabling you to view them at the same time.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=415c42b7-4df5-4a91-8518-6c3684dd9cb4&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Help
The Exchange Server 2007 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this information to guide you through Exchange Server 2007 features, tasks, and administration procedures.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=555f5974-9258-475a-b150-0399b133fede&DisplayLang=en

Everyday Productivity Education Zip File
Navigate through the Microsoft Everyday Productivity Education (EPE) intranet site with this self-guided demonstration and review content that includes Get Started, Learn More, Best Practices, Selection and Reference guides.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf57670c-b0ba-4075-b8c9-47
cccb711a08&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Technical Demo: Settings and Configurations
This flash demo shows how to setup and configure the Microsoft Transporter Tool suite for Directory Synchronization, SMTP Mail Routing for Messaging Coexistence, Free/Busy Connector for Calendaring Coexistence, and migrating user accounts and mailboxes from Lotus Domino to Active Directory and Exchange for a complete User/Mailbox Migration.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=825a87b7-d778-467a-ab38-612bbf5fb75e&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino Demo: Messaging/Calendaring Coexistence and Migration
This flash demo shows the pre-existing configurations in the Transporter Tool Suite for Lotus Domino messaging/calendaring coexistence and migration. The demo shows the coexistence capabilities by sending messages and calendar requests between a Domino user and an Exchange user within an organization. It also demonstrates the user/mailbox migration of an existing Domino user to Active Directory and the Exchange platform.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ded084f9-5df4-444d-804b-553d3fe6f524&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Release Notes
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Release Notes contain late-breaking information for Exchange Server 2007.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5770bd59-376e-42ec-b940-be6225cd97ff&DisplayLang=en

EVENTS / WEBCASTS

24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007
24 x 1 Hour sessions on Exchange 2007. Click here for more details 

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 21 of 24): Monitoring (Level 200)
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 : This is the first of four webcasts in the series in which we look at monitoring and troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. In this session, we describe how monitoring an Exchange Server 2007 environment breaks down into two areas, server and client computers. We cover Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM), describe the management pack concept used by MOM to monitor servers, and look closely at the management pack for Exchange Server 2007. We also explain how to use MOM to manage client computer connectivity. To complete the homework that is associated with this webcast series, you can register and attend the live Labcast Series, or you can register for a self-paced Virtual Lab.

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 22 of 24): Using the Toolbox (Level 200)
Friday, April 6, 2007: In this session, we look at the tools in Microsoft Exchange Server 20007 that you can use to maintain an Exchange Server messaging environment. Learn how you can check the health of your Exchange Server environment by using the Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer, a tool that remotely collects configuration data from each server in the topology and automatically analyzes the data. We also introduce the Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant, a tool that helps you troubleshoot performance, manage database recovery, and troubleshoot mail-flow issues. We demonstrate how to use the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant, and we explain the tool in more detail in the subsequent two sessions. We also cover Performance Monitor, a tool you can configure to collect information about the performance of your messaging system, and we describe how to use the counters in Performance Monitor for monitoring Exchange Server 2007. To complete the homework that is associated with this webcast series, you can register and attend the live Labcast Series, or you can register for a self-paced Virtual Lab.

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 23 of 24): Troubleshooting MAPI and Client Access Server Clients (Level 200)
Wednesday, April 11, 2007: Keep the lines of communication open. We cover troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 MAPI and Client Access Server client computers in the last two webcasts of this 24-part series. Attend this session to learn how to identify the causes for MAPI and remote client computer connectivity issues and what you can do to resolve these issues. To complete the homework that is associated with this webcast series, you can register and attend the live TechNet Labcast series, or you can register for a self-paced TechNet Virtual Lab.

TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007 (Part 24 of 24): Troubleshooting E-Mail Flow (Level 200)
Friday, April 13, 2007: Keep messages flowing. We cover troubleshooting Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 e-mail flow in this last webcast of the series. Learn how you can troubleshoot internal mail flow, external mail flow, message queue bottlenecks, undelivered e-mail messages, and problems with mailbox servers. To complete the homework that is associated with this webcast series, you can register and attend the live TechNet Labcast series, or you can register for a self-paced TechNet Virtual Lab.

TechNet Webcast: Exchange Server 2007 Overview (Level 200)
Wednesday, April 18, 2007: Join this webcast to find out how Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 gives you more control, enables anywhere access to your e-mail inbox, and provides built-in security and protection mechanisms. We cover the new Exchange Management Console and describe how the improved management interface is simpler for you to use and quicker for you to navigate. We also explore Windows PowerShell, the new administrative interface that provides a rich command-line experience. Attend this session for a look at the significant client improvements and transport rules in Exchange Server 2007.

TechNet Webcast: Key Exchange Server 2007 Scenarios (Level 300)
Monday, April 23, 2007: In this webcast, we cover three critical areas you should consider when using Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: security, accessibility, and management. Learn how Exchange Server 2007 provides built-in protection within your Exchange Server organization. We show you how to establish an ethical firewall using transport rules and how to establish and test local continuous replication (LCR) to provide continuous availability of Exchange Server. Next, we discuss and demonstrate how Exchange Server enables users to access their e-mail from anywhere. In the third part of this session, we look at how easy Exchange Server is to manage. By the end of the presentation, you should have a greater understanding of how to perform many of the administrative tasks that Exchange Server 2007 makes possible.

TechNet Webcast: Troubleshooting Exchange Server Mail Flow Issues Using the Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant 1.1 (Level 300)
Monday, April 30, 2007: In this webcast, we explore the Microsoft Exchange Server Mail Flow Analyzer, which is part of Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant. We describe how the Microsoft Exchange Server Mail Flow Analyzer is a diagnostic tool that walks you through the correct path for troubleshooting problems with e-mail flow, from analyzing symptoms to implementing solutions. Providing easy access to key data sources, this tool automatically diagnoses retrieved data, presents an analysis of the possible root causes, and suggests corrective actions. The Exchange Server Mail Flow Analyzer also helps you manually diagnose data when automation is not possible. Join this session to learn how this tool empowers you to isolate your own issues and to take remedial action to solve them.

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