Exchange Server & Administration

Poll: Edit and Save attachments

I have a new poll at Outlook Forums. As always, this highly unscientific poll is open to all; only those who want to add a comment will need an account.

Outlook has a nifty feature (or design flaw, depending on who you talk to): you can open an attachment and edit it, then save it and the changes save to the original email message. (The feature was removed from Outlook 2010.)

Do you edit and save attachment back to an email message?  

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) is now fully supported on Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and BlackBerry Technical Support Services are available.

For more information, see Blackberry support or  Exchange team

Best Practices for Archiving Email

An administrator recently asked about best practices for archiving older email. "Do you encourage employees to archive on a yearly, quarterly or some other time frame basis, or is it based upon volume of messages? Also, for notebook users, do you put the archived folders on their laptops and make a copy to a server for backup/retention purposes?"

Discuss it: http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=24819

Exchange 2007 SP2

Exchange 2007 SP2 is now available for download.

Looking to the future, you will be able to deploy Exchange Server 2010 in your organization once all of the client access servers in your organization and Active Directory sites are upgraded to Exchange Server 2007 SP2. All Exchange 2007 server will need to be at SP2 level before interoperability with Exchange 2010 is assured.

Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4c4bd2a3-5e50-42b0-8bbb-2cc9afe3216a 

Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2007 SP1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2007 SP1 customers. For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see  KB 960384  

Download Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 SP1   

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-003 - Critical

A critical security update is available for Exchange 2000, 2003 and 2007 and addresses two vulnerabilities in Exchange Server. The first vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted TNEF message is sent to an Exchange Server. The attacker could use this to take complete control of the affected system with Exchange Server service account privileges. The second vulnerability could allow denial of service if a specially crafted MAPI command is sent to Exchange Server. A successful attacker could cause the Exchange System Attendant service and other services that use the EMSMDB32 provider to stop responding.

For more information and to download the update, see
Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Could Allow Remote Code Execution (KB 959239)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-003 - Critical 

Fix for iPhone and Disappearing Appointments

There is a problem with iPhone v2 software syncing with Outlook where the events created on the device are only visible in a table view, not Day/Week/Month view.

When new appointments are entered into the iPhone they're set as repeating in Outlook but contain no data and Outlook doesn't know what to do with them. To fix, open the event on the iPhone and change it to recurring daily then end the recurrence on the date of the event before syncing.

A hotfix for Exchange server now available. See Some recurring calendar items disappear from the "Day/Week/Month" view in Outlook when a user uses Exchange ActiveSync on a mobile device to modify a recurring meeting in an Exchange 2003 environment

For more information, see iPhone, Outlook, and disappearing appointments

CDO1.2.1 for Windows 2008 and Vista

This version of CDO is compatible with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. This will install on 64-bit systems but works only with 32-bit applications.

Download: Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client and Collaboration Data Objects 1.2.1

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