Will Schmied, Author at TechGenix

Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 3 Has Arrived!

Exchange 2000, Management & Administration / By Will Schmied / July 22, 2002

It's been over seven months since the release of Exchange 2000 SP2 and in that time Exchange Admins have clamored for fixes to fix the fixes in SP2. It's no secret that SP2 was not a favorite install of many Exchange Admins, while many others installed it and have had no problems. Fortunately, I am among the group that has had no problems with SP2, but then again each situation is different depending on which of the many ways you have deployed and configured Exchange 2000 Server. Let's take a quick look at what's going in SP3.

Configuring Exchange 2000 before Installing: The path less traveled

Deployment & Migration, Exchange 2000 / By Will Schmied / July 16, 2002

Have you ever wished that you could install Exchange 2000 Server your way? Do you wish that you could have all of your Administrative Groups and Routing Groups not only planned out on paper but configured and laid out in your domain or forest before actually installing the first Exchange 2000 Server? Well…you can!

Instant Messaging in the Enterprise: Where are you going tomorrow?

Exchange 2000, Planning & Architecture / By Will Schmied / June 27, 2002

Recently I had the opportunity to see the future of Enterprise IM systems. I'm not the only one who thinks that by the way—but we'll look at that more later. In the past few years, a major shift in the way business is done has been slowly occurring. The shift from paper communications to electronic communications was one that was slow in coming…

Microsoft Certified Professional Exam 70-224: Get ready for white-knuckle ride

Exchange 2000, Planning & Architecture / By Will Schmied / June 10, 2002

You might be fooled by looking at the exam objectives for exam 70-224 into thinking that this exam is one that you can just walk right into without a good background in Exchange 2000. Nothing could be farther from the truth…

Neat Exchange 2000 Server Tricks: Yes, you really can have it your way!

Exchange 2000, Management & Administration / By Will Schmied / June 10, 2002

Exchange 2000 Server is one of those products that require a lot of love and attention when it comes to getting it up and running, but once it's there it pretty much takes care of itself. There are, however, a few things that you can tweak in Exchange to change the way it operates—on a small scale at least…

The Exchange Server 2000 Database Structure: It’s always a rainy day when you’re doing restorations

Exchange 2000, High Availability & Recovery / By Will Schmied / May 17, 2002

Understanding the underlying processes and construction of Exchange can go a long way towards increasing your happiness factor-which is, after all, the only thing that really matters in life!

The Exchange Message Tracking Center or How to Save Your A$$ in a Pinch

Exchange 2000, Management & Administration / By Will Schmied / May 16, 2002

It's bound to happen. Your boss is going to call you at the most inopportune moment ranting and raving about some super important email message that hasn't been delivered. It's times like this when you really want to know how to track messages sent in your organization. Thankfully, Microsoft has provided this ability for us.

Product Review: ReddFish Intergalactic’s Ikakura list server

Articles, MS Exchange Server, Reviews / By Will Schmied / May 16, 2002

There a more than a handful of third-party add-on applications for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2000. The available products sometimes come as single purpose application and other times come as integrated packages that are designed to meet some, if not all, needs you may have above and beyond a base installation of Exchange Server. These products cover a wide range of areas, from administration to content checking to virus scanning and list servicing. Ikakura list server, by ReddFish Intergalactic is a fairly simple list server add on that will enable your Exchange Server to act a list server. I enjoyed working with Ikakura—after I got it installed and working, which was not as easy as I had hoped for.

Product Review: GFI Software’s Mail essentials

Articles, MS Exchange Server, Reviews / By Will Schmied / May 16, 2002

Recovering Lost Mailboxes

Exchange 2000, High Availability & Recovery / By Will Schmied / May 16, 2002

Accidentally deleting a user account from the Active Directory database is never a welcome thing. Performing an authoritative restore for just one account is not really a likely event. At least you can rest easy knowing that you can reconnect the new user account with the orphaned mailbox:see, not everything is all bad. Now, back to that hard earned vacation!