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On the continuing thread of "Email is broken" is the latest saga in my continued attempt to keep my sbradcpa-at-pacbell.net email address. I used to have sbradley-at-ix.netcom.com (yes I'm that old on the Internet) and then when Pacific...
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http://www.arlingtondev.com/thoughts/?p=38 Interesting post. Should Microsoft make hosted Exchange free so that it keeps people "tied to Microsoft". Or should Microsoft provide a cloud filtering service to ensure that small businesses aren't...
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Moonwatcher: SMB Exchange Administration Nightmare: http://www.globelogger.com/2008/03/smb-exchange-ad.html So who needs Exchange on their SBS anymore in this day and age of Live this and Google that? (btw before I get into the reason why SOME small businesses...
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My ISP uses deprecated settings. Or rather..the protocols it wants me to use have been deprecated for a few years... lately SBCGlobal/Yahoo/AT&T/Pacbell/Whatever has been requiring the use of SMTPS and SecuredPOP in their connections. They will tell...
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SBS 2003 open relay... - microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs | Google Groups: http://groups.google.co.nz/group/microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs/msg/119ac4800213708c So that I remember where this is... a reminder of how SBS is not an open relay and...
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Report: 95 percent of all e-mail has that spammy smell: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071212-report-95-percent-of-all-e-mail-has-that-spammy-smell.html Easy fix..sign up for the Dog . And to make him happy, put the blog in your RSS reader. What...
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http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/06/15/427966.aspx Born - Fri Sep 26 11:15:00 1997
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So you got the notice from SBCglobal that you need to use SSL... and you are using popconnector and Smarthost. http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/05/31/using-pop-connector-with-at-amp-t-yahoo.aspx Well on the inbound we can get around that with...
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SANS Internet Storm Center; Cooperative Network Security Community - Internet Security - isc: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3312 Has email lost it's value? Is it a good communication tool these days? Or is it a quagmire of junk that it's...
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http://msmvps.com/blogs/kwsupport/archive/2007/07/24/multiple-imf-updates-showing-up.aspx Multiple IMF Updates showing up? On my SBS 2003 R2 server I recently started getting the yellow ballon popup on my server telling me I have updates to approve. But...
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You've probably seen the reports of the " Email Spam Storms " that primarily are brought about my people getting tricked into installing some piece of malware on their systems that turns their machines into a spam engine. To me that just...
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Follow up to http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2007/08/12/a-little-more-spam-filtering.aspx Someone asks if there was a price for this and I'm still checking.. the calculator does have a "less than 100" category but then says: ......
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Les Connor uses spamhaus.org to add a bit more spam filtering to his clients http://www.spamblogging.com/archives/000138.html Go to the Connection filtering tab, and enter zen.spamhaus.org as the provider, and OK/apply. Ensure connection filtering is...
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http://www.shackelfordconsulting.com/2007/03/using-exchange-calendar-update-tool-for.html Dave Shackelford gives his Exchange rebasing tool how to guide for the var/vap world (Thanks Dave!)
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http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2006/11/04/more-on-spam-analyst-performance.aspx So why do we think we can handle the spam problem? And why don't we start looking to ensure that something it placed in front of our Exchange servers? And remember...
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Taking a lunch break (and what else had a blog thought) ... I was at a client's the other day and as I walk in the door they have about three business cards all representing what they do and the firms they are. And it reminded me about how Outlook...
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When someone can't get to the right level of support... you get this post and this wiki entry https://lateralis.imr-net.com/wiki/jms/Microsoft/ExchangeSucks2006 I think debugging and trying to figure out what a piece of software is doing is one of...
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Dear Exchange team: In your KB http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924334 you state the following: Restart requirement You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this hotfix. Uhhh.....wanna make a bet? 3: Source:E:\Exchange...
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If you are running OWA and you just installed IE7, you may need to ensure that you have this hotfix installed on your server http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5bc06e8a-08eb-4976-bc68-a03ebe3a2552&displaylang=en In the upcoming...
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How to set size limits for messages in Exchange Server: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=322679 Exchange 2000 Server and Exchange Server 2003 Message Restrictions: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2003/insider/Message_Restrictions...
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