From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Forefront TMG and Exchange on the SAME Server

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With ISA, configuring protection for Exchange remote services required the use of a second servers for ISA.  More servers were required for high availability.  In a true HA environment a company would be looking at four or more servers.  ISA would only protect services such as Outlook Anywhere, OWA, POP, IMAP and so on.  SMTP [...]

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OCS 2007 R2 Group Chat Web Client

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I supposed it was only a matter of time before someone took up this challenge.  The new Group Chat service that comes with Office Communication Server 2007 R2 is a great tool however it is strictly a Windows only tool.  Clients are not available for any other platform and this can be a major roadblock [...]

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Adding Employee Photos to the GAL in Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010

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Ok, now this is very cool. Courtesy of Bharat Suneja of the MS Exchange team this article walks you through the steps of adding photos to your GAL. The process is broken down into three steps: A minor schema change Loading the picture into Active Directory Updating the Offline Address Book Instructions: Click here to [...]

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Help, Outlook has blocked my attachments

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Most of us that have worked with Outlook for some time have come across this feature.  You try to send a file to a colleague and Outlook blocks and displays a nice message for you: Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: [] Of course the kneejerk reaction is to just rename the [...]

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