Rui Silva

Exchange Server 2003 Virtual Labs for Free

Step into the Exchange Server 2003 Virtual Labs for Free. It's simple: no complex setup or installation is required to try out Exchange Server 2003 running in the full-featured TechNet Virtual Lab. You get a downloadable manual and a 90-minute block of time for each module.
Available modules:

Virtual Lab Express: Microsoft Exchange Server 2003-Distribution
Migrating From Exchange Server 5.5 Windows NT Server to Exchange Server Windows Server Part 1
Migrating From Exchange Server 5.5 Windows NT Server to Exchange Server Windows Server Part 2
Implementing Mobile Solutions with Exchange Server 2003 SP2-NEW!
Publishing an Exchange Server with ISA
Managing Exchange and Active Directory with MOM 2005
SMTP Security Features in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003
Disaster Recovery with Exchange Server

Updated Exchange tools

Microsoft updated recently some of its Tools for Exchange 2003: Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress Tool (06.05.7821)Microsoft Exchange Server Profile Analyzer (06.05.7821)Microsoft Exchange Server SMTPDiag Tool (06.05.7821)Microsoft Exchange Server Disaster Recovery Analyzer Tool v1.0 (06.05.7821)Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool v2.6 (2.6.7812.3)Microsoft Exchange Server Performance Troubleshooting Analyzer Tool v1.1 (1.1.7812.3)

Ehlo World!

Forgive me for using this cliché for salutation, but I really think it fits like a glove to the kind of content I'll be posting here.
I'm an author here at MSExchange.org for some time now, so this is my latest "adventure". To be honest, it's hardly an adventure, since I already have 2 other blogs – http://msmvps.com/ehlo, http://ehlo.blogspot.com -, which I'll keep. But the content I'll provide here will be 100% original, exclusive and I'll do my best efforts to make it interesting.
Once again, ehlo World, ehlo readers, ehlo Exchange and everything that surrounds it.

[STICKY] EHLO, experiences with Microsoft Exchange Server written by MVP Rui Silva.

The EHLO blog is born out of almost 10 years of personal experience with Exchange Server, since version 5.0.

Contained here is inside information about Microsoft Exchange and messaging, news, technical articles and details about the new trends: mobility, unified messaging, and PowerShell. Exchange server is the top email messaging solution around with new features, tools, and scripts created every week, so make sure to check here often!

Architecture application manager

Exchange on NAS: Proved and Approved

With the release of Windows Storage Server Feature Pack, putting the Exchange databases on a NAS device started to be a supported configuration, provided that the storage devices are Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) certified (i.e. with the “Designed for Windows” logo). I did some tests using an HP NAS device that proved to be a valid option for some particular configurations. This article is a short description of my experience.

Architecture application manager

The Art and Science of Sizing Exchange 2003 (Part 2)

Storage is the most critical component of an Exchange back-end server and it’s usually the cause of performance degradation. If your users are complaining about frequent Outlook messages saying that it’s trying to retrieve data from the Exchange Server, that’s probably a storage bottleneck. Good Exchange planning with proper disk sizing can prevent these kind of problems from happening.

Architecture application manager

The Art and Science of Sizing Exchange 2003 (Part 1)

I’m pretty sure that it’s, at least, arguable that you can call it art. I don’t know either if it’s deep enough to be called a science. One thing I can assure you is that sizing an Exchange server can be a complex task and it requires not only the knowledge, but also a dose of sensibility and some previous experience with the Microsoft Server family of products. Although there are some pretty good documents from Microsoft about this subject, I’ll try to condense them all and include the main guidelines in this three-part article.

Disclaimer Fun

These days almost every corporate e-mail has a disclaimer. Companies use them because of legal issues, as an advertising means or maybe because they think messages look nicer with a disclaimer. Since Exchange Server 5.5 Microsoft has provided a way of adding basic disclaimers to outgoing messages. Let’s see how things have evolved since then and what we can do to extend the provided capabilities.

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