Category Archives: 3Sharp

Updated 10/13: Updated the link to the blog article on configuring Squid for Exchange per the request of the author Owen Campbell. Thank you, Owen, for letting me know the location had changed! By now you should be aware that … Continue reading →

As promised, here’s part 2 of my FBA discussion, in which we’ll talk about the interaction of ISA’s forms-based authentication (FBA) feature with Exchange 2010. (See part 1 here.) Offloading FBA to ISA As I discussed in part 1, ISA … Continue reading →

I was going to write up a quick post about the release of Entourage for EWS (allowing it to work in native Exchange 2007, and, more importantly, Exchange 2010 environments) and the announcement that Office 2010 for the Mac would … Continue reading →

Seven months or so ago, IBM surprised a bunch of people by announcing that they were licensing Microsoft’s Exchange ActiveSync protocol (EAS) for use with a future version of Lotus Notes. I’m sure there were a few folks who saw … Continue reading →

It’s funny how topics tend to come in clumps. Take the current example: forms-based authentication (FBA) in Exchange. An FBA Overview FBA was introduced in Exchange Server 2003 as a new authentication method for Outlook Web Access. It requires OWA … Continue reading →

One of the biggest criticisms I’ve seen of the MCM program, even when it first was announced, was the cost – at a list price of $18,500 for the actual MCM program, discounting the travel, lodging, food, and opportunity cost … Continue reading →

If you’re tempted to think this is an April Fool’s Day joke, no worries – this is the real deal. Yesterday, Microsoft published the Exchange 2007-aware version of Exchange Server User Monitor (ExMon) for download. “ExMon?” you ask. “What’s that?” … Continue reading →

This actually happened last week, but I’ve been remiss in getting it posted (sorry, Missy!) Missy recently completed two Exchange 2007 whitepapers, both centered around the CCR story. The first one, High Availability Choices for Exchange Server 2007: Continuous Cluster … Continue reading →

Although Window Server 2008 offers an impressive built-in firewall, in some cases we Exchange administrators don’t want to have to deal with it. Maybe you are building a demo to show a customer, or a lab environment to reproduce an … Continue reading →

Microsoft has recently released a pair of Outlook 2007 updates (okay, technically, they’re updates for Outlook 2007 with SP1 applied) that you might want to look at installing sooner rather than later. These two updates are together being billed as … Continue reading →

Update (11/15/08 1240PST): Fixed the URLs in the links to point to the actual decks. Sorry! Time this year has flown! Hard to believe that I’ve just finished up my last conference for the year — Exchange Connections Fall at … Continue reading →

I have gotten a lot of email from people who wished me well and wanted to find out the status of my recent Masters rotation. I’m working on a bigger write-up, but here’s the short form: It was intense. I … Continue reading →

For the next three weeks, I’ll be squirreled away in a hidden location, having my brains surgically removed and replaced with a quantum-computing device filled with Exchange knowledge. Good times! Seriously, though, I’ll be off to the October rotation of … Continue reading →

You may have missed this interesting blog post this morning amidst all the political kerfuffle, so let me sum up: the next version of OCS will only support x64 platforms. This isn’t the big deal it would have been for … Continue reading →

Continuing from my previous post on MOS… I didn’t really mention this in the previous post, but MOS is designed to provide a hosted alternative to the server-side applications. One of the goals is to continue working with existing native … Continue reading →

I’m at an airlift here in Redmond for the new Microsoft Online Services (MOS), Microsoft’s hosted services platform. Right now, MOS offers a combination of hosted Exchange (OWA, Outlook, and even EAS!), hosted SharePoint, and Live Meeting. We’ve just gone through … Continue reading →

Everyone’s being so coy in the Windows blogosphere today. “As you may have heard…” Heck with that; this is wicked cool. Hyper-V has Released To Manufacturing … and is already available for download. As the link explains, it’ll start coming … Continue reading →

As IT professionals, we are more than often prone to fall to the perils of magical thinking. (I’m sure this is a side-effect of being human, which is a pesky and bothersome condition I will have to do something about … Continue reading →

To reinforce yesterday’s post about Exchange Web Services (EWS), I wanted to draw your attention to the Exchange Developer Roadmap posted on May 22 2008 on the Exchange API-spotting blog. There shouldn’t really be any surprises here, but there were … Continue reading →

I just got word that Independentsoft has come out with a beta version of an EWS client API for the .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework. I’ve not looked at it yet, but I’m particularly hopeful about having a good … Continue reading →

A lot of you may have missed this: Microsoft just released a new white paper for Exchange, Outlook Anywhere Scalability with Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003, and Exchange 2007. This paper should give you some detailed guidance goodness on scaling your … Continue reading →

One of the cool things about Exchange 2007 is the new Web service interface into the store. In theory, having mailboxes and contents exposed via Web services makes it a lot easier for developers and casual dabblers to use Web … Continue reading →