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We have just launched a new Software category called eDiscovery here on MSExchange.org. This category includes email archiving, indexing and management solutions etc.

Orange has announced the availability of a push email service for businesses using Windows Mobile handsets and Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2003. The service also includes access to management tools to ease the configuration of many devices in large organisations, Orange said.
The Windows Mobile Email service will be available to Orange customers from 3 April and uses the Direct Push email capability in the Messaging and Security Feature Pack update for Windows Mobile 5.0 handsets. Businesses will also need to operate a mail system based on Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 2 to get the full benefits.
Other operators offer similar services across their mobile networks, but Orange is supporting its customers with Orange Mobile Manager, a web-based administration tool that enables IT departments to set up hundreds of devices for email without having to manually configure each one.
"Users want push email now and IT managers want rapid rollout without having to recall handsets from the field," said Orange’s Shaun Orpen. A range of pre-set configurations can also be applied to match the needs of different groups of users within a company.
Orange said its push email service will be offered in three bundles covering light to heavy users and will also be available as an optional extra on top of existing data-only and voice and data contracts.
The carrier said its system also cuts costs to users by reducing the frequency of open connection "heartbeat" signals sent between the handset and server from once every three minutes to just once per hour.
Source: http://www.c

This TechNet Webcast should be worth attending if you’re planning to migrate one or more Notes customers to an Exchange platform.

Description: A development group at Microsoft is devoted to providing tools and utilities to assist Lotus Notes customers with migrating to or co-existing with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft .NET. If you currently work with Lotus Notes, check out this webcast to find out what tools are available now and what is planned for the future. Never before has there been this much emphasis on helping Lotus Notes customers embrace the Microsoft platform. It is worth your time to stay up-to-date on the latest developments, because things are changing fast.

Presenter: Erik Ashby, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, and Gary Devendorf, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation

Erik Ashby has been working in electronic messaging since 1991, focusing on Microsoft Exchange Server since he joined the company in 1997. Erik helps create solutions for migrating from non-Microsoft messaging systems to Exchange, and he directs the development of many tools that are available for this purpose. These include the current set of IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino tools. He is also knowledgeable about deploying and configuring Exchange, and integrating it with Microsoft Active Directory.

As a technical evangelist for Microsoft collaboration products, Gary Devendorf works to integrate Microsoft .NET with IBM Lotus Notes and IBM Lotus Domino. Before he came to Microsoft, Gary was a product manager at Lotus for Java, XML, Web services, the COM toolkit, Lo

Exchange Group Calendar is a nifty little application which provides easy collaboration.
. Nothing to install on the workstations.. Automatic instant processing of new, changed or deleted items in users personal calendars.. Real time processing without synchronisation problems.. Works with calendars from Outlook / Web Access / Entourage / BES / PDA …. Native Exchange Server and Active Directory integration using only the power of Exchange server.. Safe server processing control (com+). Full native Outlook / Exchange resync when disconnected laptop users reconnect.  . 3 years of free phone/email support and free updates. No yearly fees.. Reschedule appointments in the groupcalendars and the changes replicate back to the owner of the item.
3 steps, that’s all you need to use your sophisticated Exchange 2000 or 2003 server for what it was designed to do: Easy Collaboration. Some or all appointments created by the users in their personal calendars will instantly become visible in one or more Exchange Public Calendar folders. Fully automatic in real time! Exchange GroupCalendar enables you to create a large number of public GroupCalendars. They will display only the type of calendar information you need, formatted the way you want, with the exact user permissions your users need. Ever wanted to see all resources (meeting rooms, equipment) in one calendar? .. Now you can! Why Exchange GroupCalendar ?The program is none intrusive, doesn’t require another server  – as many other group calendar softwares require a SQL server, and it’s very small.&n

REDMOND, Wash. – March 30, 2006 – Microsoft Corp. today announced new branding, a new licensing model and the road map for Microsoft® Exchange Hosted Services (EHS), formerly known as FrontBridge Technologies Inc. EHS is composed of four distinct services including Hosted Filtering, Hosted Archive, Hosted Continuity and Hosted Encryption. These services offer cost-effective hosted solutions to help ensure the security and high availability of an organization’s messaging environment while satisfying internal policy and regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, Microsoft today unveiled a new per-user licensing model for all the services as well as road map details, including information about the upcoming EHS 5.3 release and the 6.x series of releases that will align with Exchange “12” availability. EHS is the latest addition to the Exchange Server solution portfolio and a key offering in Microsoft’s software as a service strategy.
“We’re driving to deliver world-class software any way customers choose,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft. “Exchange Hosted Services will give customers more flexibility in how they deploy, manage and maintain technology.”
EHS Offerings
EHS helps reduce large upfront capital investment and free up IT resources, empowering companies to concentrate on areas most critical to their business. Operating over the Internet as a service without any hardware or software to install on premise, EHS enables organizations to better protect against e-mail-borne malware, satisfy retention requirements for compliance, encrypt data to

All those of you who already subscribe to our MSExchange.org newsletter can ignore this post. To the rest of you I wanted to let you know the March edition just have been sent out to the approximately 45.000 Exchange admin’s who subscribe.
The MSExchange.org newsletter is a relatively new initiative we launched back in January 2006, and it’s very similar to the newsletter which some of you might know from our sister site – ISAServer.org, but instead covers the hottest news and tips on Exchange.
If you think this sounds interesting and want to check out the two previous editions until the March edition is archived too (which should be tomorrow), please see the archives page.
 

Another great post on the MS team blog…Lately I’ve seen a lot of questions regarding the use of homeMDB in policy filters. I want to use this post to explain the reason that ExBPA warns about this, and hopefully clear up the confusion about how to address this.

Linked Value Replication is a feature that was added to Active Directory in Windows 2003. The point of LVR is that when a DN-linked attribute is changed, only the changes need to be replicated. For instance, instead of replicating a list of all members every time group membership is changed, it can replicate only the DNs that are added or deleted. LVR is also used for certain single-valued attributes, including homeMDB.
A quirk of LVR is that a replication packet contains two separate lists of changes – one list of regular attributes and then a separate list of linked attributes. When a DC receives such a replication packet, the non-linked attributes are applied first, with all non-linked attributes on the same object being applied in the same transaction. Once all non-linked attributes for all objects in the packet have been applied, it moves on to processing the linked attributes. This means that in a large replication packet, there can be a delay between the time the non-linked values are updated and the time the linked values are updated for the same object. This delay is what causes unexpected RUS behavior for the system policies and, possibly, recipient policies.

Let’s cover the system policies first. The point of the system policies are to stamp certain required attributes, such as homeMDB, on

Here’s the Q&A from the webcast Exchange Server 2003 – Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts presented by Kevin Remde the other day.
Questions and Answers:
“Does all this apply to the Exchange Server included in my Small Business Version of Exchange?”
Yes.
“I hear how we can use Windows SharePoint and/Or SharedPortal server to replace Public Folder. However, I can’t seem to find good resources to how we’re supposed to do this or get more information. So my question is where can I get more information about using SharePoint for replacing Public folder? Thanks.”
You make a very good point here. The reason you don’t see much documentation on this is because the majority of this is going to be exposed in SharePoint with Office System 12 (now named 2007 Office System) and not really in the current release of WSS / SPS.
“In regards to using Share Point to replace Public folders, ANY information you can point me to would be appreciated; I’m just planning the use of both SharePoint services and public folders (exclusively), it would be nice to perhaps utilize these features with 2k3 if possible.”
We don’t really have specific documents (that I’m aware of) that specifically talk about how to "replace" Exchange Public Folders with WSS / SPS. The thing to do is look at the features of WSS / SPS such as Discussion Lists, Shared Contacts, etc. Remember that even with the next release of SPS, there is not an exact 1 to 1 "replacement" feature for PF usage – depending on what you are doing in PFs. Here’s a link to the

Alright so you have already deployed Windows Mobile devices in your Exchange Server 2003 mobile messaging environment, and now you have one user after the other contacting the IT department with all sorts of device related issues (who said certificates ) If you can say yes to this you might want to have a closer look a Pocket Controller-Enterprise from SOTI inc. This brilliant product makes it, among many other things, possible to remote the Windows Mobile devices in your organization from a desktop PC (even over GPRS!). Is that cool or what?

Are you experiencing problems installing the Exchange "12" CTP release? More specifically are you getting the below error message during setup?
"Exchange Server ’12’ requires Microsoft Management Console 3.0."
Then chances are you have installed the RTM version of the MMC 3.0 instead of the MMC RC1 release.In order to fix this problem see this post by Nino Bilic over at the MS Exchange team blog.