How to fight SPAM

Guys,

Good day. Fighting SPAM is always the task for every administrators. Is Technology the part that needed to be enhance all the time? How about People and Process??

Read an interesting article from Microsoft. Perhaps have to educate your users in the company.

Read this:

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/email/spam.mspx

MVP for Exchange

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Guys,

Good day. We got an e-mail from Microsoft - a good news.

We are recognised as MVP for Exchange (Most Valuable Professional). We would like to extend this honor to all of you.

To the thousands of wonderful people reading, giving comments on this blog over these many years, thank you for your time. Your support is greatly appreciated and is not taken for granted.

Hope you all continuing support. Salute the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success everyday.

Thanks!

Disclaimer in Exchange 2000 and 2003

Guys, one of our peers asking if you can add disclaimer for Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 using native tool?

There is a work around for the event sink, yes, it is FREE... however, you will need to register the event sink.

An MS KB article that explain on adding or removing disclaimers:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317327

For Exchange 2007, things become easier... using Transport Rules.

Finding unused computers in the AD

Guys,

Recently, one of our customer is asking, how can we managed the computer accounts in AD? We want to delete the account that is not active.

This can be hard if:

1) You are still using Windows NT4, 2000 domain
2) Your Windows 2003 domain is not in Windows 2003 domain functional level

You can run the query:

dsquery computer forestroot -inactive (NoOfWeek)


What if i am not using Windows 2003 AD?

You can find more information using joeware utility - OldCmp

get it from http://www.joeware.net/freetools/

Exchange 2007 with other directory services

The fact of today enterprise environment, we will have multiple directory services - we are working on with one customer which would like to integrate with OpenLDAP.

Both AD and the OpenLDAP has its own defination of "identity", eg: Name, title, department, password +++ Thus, managing those become complex - users need to remember multiple logons with multiple passwords.

In response to this problem, Microsoft developed Microsoft Metadirectory Services to previde the syncronization. Now, it is called MIIS - Microsoft Identity Integration Server.

To further clarify, MIIS has two versions. IIFP (Identity Integration Feature Pack) is free for Windows 2003 Enterprise edition. It can integrate between multiple Active Directory forest.

The other one will need license and SQL. It provide metadirectory function that enable to synchronize, provision, deprovision identity information across a wide variety of directory services, include Novell E-directory, LDAP, Exchange 5.5, Samba, SAP and more...