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In December 2007, TechNet Magazine will publish a full magazine dedicated to Exchange 2007 SP1 covering the following topics:

Exchange 2007 SP1 Overview – Tony Smith
Exchange 2007 SP1 + Windows Server 2008 – Paul Bowden
Standby Continuous Replication – Scott Schnoll
Unified Messaging Deployment Planning – Jeff Goodwin (UM Specialist, The VIA Group)

Special thanks to the hard [...]

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This recently updated topic illustrates how Microsoft met evolving business needs with the deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, such as reducing risks associated with spam, improving business agility, and lowering TCO. The 64-bit platform enables Microsoft IT to keep pace with ever-increasing performance expectations, raise mailbox quotas, lower storage costs, and eliminate tape backups [...]

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If you like using scripts to manage your Exchange servers then you are most likely aware that you can use this registry key for determining the version level of your Exchange 2003 server:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\Setup\ServicePackBuild
However, in Exchange 2007 this location and key has changed to the following:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\v8.0\<ServerRole>\ConfiguredVersion
This is a string value in the format of X.X.XXX.X (e.g., [...]

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Security and compliance are critical to a successful UC deployment. Learn how to build an efficient and scalable UC architecture that addresses IM, VoIP and other modalities. Discuss best practices and planning considerations for mobile workers, federation, information leak prevention, security and a holistic approach to compliance—from regulatory requirements and corporate governance to policy management [...]

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This session will show some key features of the extensibility capabilities of the UC platform:

Contextual Collaboration
Integration of Communications into Business Processes
Anywhere Information Access.

The session will show how easy it is to embed presence in an application, and what benefits contextual collaboration offers. Overall the session covers the product extensibility of Office Communications Server 2007, [...]

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A very interesting paper was just published by Forrester Consulting on the TEI of MS UC.
Excerpt:
“In July 2007, Microsoft Corporation commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the Total Economic Impact (TEI) and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying UC products and services (UC products). To understand the financial impact of Microsoft’s [...]

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On a recent occasion I cam across a client that was having an issue with implementing mailbox quotas.  They have by default set  mailbox quota of 250MB per user.  This works great for the average Joe…but what about the VIPs who never delete anything?  Well..as they progressed through their migration they forgot to change the [...]

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The MS Exchange Team has posted an in-depth article on moving public folder replicas from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007.  A very good article to bookmark.
Excerpt:
“In Exchange 2000 we don’t have the ability to right click on the public folder store and choose “move all replicas” as we have in the Exchange 2003 ESM. With [...]

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I had the pleasure of watching Steve Riley speak a while back and his enthusiasm is contagious and he really knows how to drive home the point.
Steve writes…
“This week, I’m attending and spoke at a cybercrime conference in Singapore. One of the presenters made a very good point, and I want to share it with [...]

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I always like to hear how other companies deployed Exchange and OCS.  Here is a great new
Overview
HP began deploying Exchange 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 in live internal and customer environments long before these products came to market. In this session you will hear about the trials, tribulations and ultimate success of implementing [...]

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