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• How to change spam settings on Exchange 2007 / SBS 2008 to enable some / all / more spam to be delivered to an account for analysis

  One of the settings I wanted to change in SBS 2008 was the spam filter settings – some mails that I was receiving were being deleted without any option for me to review them. Since I had to go and read the manual on this, I thought I would share the answer on this. Open the Exchange Management Console Select the Organization Configuration and then Hub Transport Select the Anti-spam and look at Content Filtering By default the “Reject messages” SCL rating is set to 7. I change this to 8, enable "Quarantining... Posted May 30 2008, 12:07 AM by David Overton with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Support and Tools, Exchange, SBSC, Microsoft, Malware, Tips, SBS Cougar, SBS 2008

• Pricing for SBS 2008 and Essential Business Server 2008 released (US FPP) and public beta for EBS, with public beta for SBS 2008 to follow

  My blog has been quiet recently – think of it as a the quiet before the storm (or I’ve been maxed around quarter and year end business, family and partner visits to the US). Anyway, this has crept up on me before I re-installed my server, so I thought I would just share the love. Microsoft Announces Public Preview and Pricing for Windows Essential Server Solutions Today Microsoft announced the following prices for the Windows Essential Server Solutions family: Windows Small Business Server 2008 Standard Edition... Posted May 14 2008, 03:40 PM by David Overton with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SBS 2003, Exchange, SBSC, Microsoft, SBS 2003 R2, Small business, Partner, SBS Cougar, SQL Server 2008, SBS 2008

• Microsoft Online Services - beta in US, international .. not for a while yet, but you get to see where Microsoft is going!

  What is it? I know Vlad is not going to like this, but even he will admit that this has been on the cards for a while. Software plus services is coming to town in a bigger and bigger way. At the moment there is a limited beta in the US and (just like Google), it has the beta tag on it . So what have we seen today, well we have seen Microsoft stand up and be counted in it's commitment to the software-plus-services strategy. We have seen existing "on premise" solutions of Exchange and SharePoint... Posted Mar 03 2008, 09:01 PM by David Overton with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Business, Community, Exchange, Hosted, Software as a Service, beta, Event, Microsoft, Office Live, Internet and Web, Partner, Licensing, Software plus Service, SharePoint, OWA, Outlook Web Access, If you only read one post today

• Small Business Server 2008 (formally known as Cougar) announcement

  Today is the start of the Server 2008 PR ramp up. I can today tell you a bit more about Cougar, as was, or SBS 2008 as it will be, the new "family" that SBS is part of and a bit more on Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (aka Centro). Hopefully there will be a couple of surprises and also confirmation of some of the rumours around there. I've sliced the press release made today into 3 sections. This blog entry is based on the SBS 2008 section of which there is an extract below of some key points... Posted Feb 20 2008, 01:59 PM by David Overton with | with 21 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Longhorn, Windows SharePoint Services, Security, SQL Server, Community, Exchange, SBSC, Microsoft, Marketing, Centro, Small business, x64, System Center Essentials, Software plus Service, If you only read one post today, SBS Cougar, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Essential Server Solution Family, SBS 2008

• Windows Essential Business Server announcement

  Today is the start of the Server 2008 PR ramp up. I can today tell you a bit more about Cougar, as was, or SBS 2008 as it will be, the new "family" that SBS is part of and a bit more on Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (aka Centro). Hopefully there will be a couple of surprises and also confirmation of some of the rumours around there. I've sliced the press release made today into 3 sections. This blog entry is based on the Essential Business Server 2008 section of which there is an extract... Posted Feb 20 2008, 01:59 PM by David Overton with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Longhorn, Windows SharePoint Services, Security, SQL Server, Community, Exchange, SBSC, Microsoft, Marketing, Centro, Small business, x64, System Center Essentials, Software plus Service, If you only read one post today, SBS Cougar, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Essential Server Solution Family

• "Windows Essential Server Solutions family of products" announcement

  Today is the start of the Server 2008 PR ramp up. I can today tell you a bit more about Cougar, as was, or SBS 2008 as it will be, the new "family" that SBS is part of and a bit more on Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (aka Centro). Hopefully there will be a couple of surprises and also confirmation of some of the rumours around there. I've sliced the press release made today into 3 sections. This blog entry is based on the "family" section of which there is an extract below of... Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:48 PM by David Overton with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Windows Longhorn, Windows SharePoint Services, Security, SQL Server, Community, Exchange, SBSC, Microsoft, Marketing, Centro, Small business, x64, System Center Essentials, Software plus Service, If you only read one post today, SBS Cougar, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Windows Essential Server Solution Family

• How to get Windows Desktop Search, SharePoint, Windows Home Server, Search Server, Exchange 2007 and SQL 2005/2008 to see Office 2007 documents in their search filters

  If you use Windows XP and need WDS to index Office 2007 files, or SharePoint, Search Server or any other product that used IFilters then this is the KB article and download for you. This obviously includes Windows Home Server which uses WDS to enable you to quickly search for a file on a file share from Vista This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack... Posted Jan 27 2008, 11:16 AM by David Overton with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server, Exchange, Windows Home Server, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint, SQL Server 2008, Search

• Got Lotus ... "Microsoft's ISVs Cashing In On Lotus Exodus" - CRN and VARBusiness - where are the tools

  It is always nice to see good news and SharePoint and Exchange are providing lots of it at the moment. I thought I would share this story and also some tools. Microsoft: ISVs Cashing In On Lotus Exodus Microsoft earlier this week released an updated version of its Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino, a set of tools that helps organizations migrate from IBM Lotus Notes and Domino to Microsoft products. As interest builds around unified communications, Microsoft in the last six months of 2007 saw more than 300... Posted Jan 25 2008, 08:24 AM by David Overton with | with no comments Filed under: Support and Tools, Exchange, Competition

• Exchange and Unified communication - Blogs and News

  This is an extract from the TRM blog which can be found here http://blogs.technet.com/trm/ . I have removed the KB article list and some items which I don't think are relevant to small business / ISV partners, however the full info can be found on the blog page too Unified Communications Partners Rally Around Microsoft Unified Communications Software Q&A: Microsoft partners discuss how and why they are taking advantage of the company’s unified communications platform to meet the needs of customers and... Posted Nov 05 2007, 05:42 PM by David Overton with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Exchange, Unified Communications

• Microsoft Small Business Community Blog : What is going to be in "Cougar?"

  I thought I would repost this as it is a very often asked question. Eric who posted this has said as much as can be said today. I hope to be able to break silence soon on more :) The statement for me that has the most interest as many partners don't think about it is " Embracing Live Services". I can honestly say I don't know the details here, but for all those nay sayers about online / live / Software plus Service etc, this is another loud gong that the world is changing! Also, just one of... Posted Oct 30 2007, 08:51 AM by David Overton with | with no comments Filed under: Office System, Windows Longhorn, Windows SharePoint Services, Community, Exchange, Live, beta, x64, SQL Server 2005, SBS Cougar, Windows Server 2008

• How to give a user the ability to send mail 'on behalf of' a Public Folder

  I have been asked several times how someone can have an e-mail alias, such as "support@mycompany.com" which not only receives into a public folder, but also has the ability to send e-mails. Obviously the setting up of the public folder, e-mail etc is well documented, but since I have been asked this again I thought I would share my source of knowledge - How to Give a User the Ability to Send Mail on Behalf of a Public Folder How to Give a User the Ability to Send Mail on Behalf of a Public Folder To... Posted Oct 14 2007, 11:04 PM by David Overton with | with no comments Filed under: SBS 2003, Office System, Exchange, SBS 2003 R2, Documentation, Tips

• How to change the welcome mail sent to new users on SBS 2003

  This is just a small tip that I recently saw. If you wish to change the e-mail that is sent to new users when they are set up on SBS 2003 then you need to edit the html file found in this location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Windows Small Business Server\Administration\samplemail.htm that is it :-) ttfn David Technorati Tags: SBS 2003 R2 , Tips , New User , e-mail Posted Sep 21 2007, 07:20 AM by David Overton with | with no comments Filed under: SBS 2003, Exchange, SBSC, SBS 2003 R2, Tips

• If you want to deploy Exchange 2007 with SBS 2003, how do you remove the Exchange component?

  I posted the other day on adding Exchange 2007 to an SBS 2003 environment , but for some, there is also the desire on how to remove the Exchange component on SBS 2003. Obviously there are the install / uninstall options from the SBS setup screens that can be accessed through add/remove programs, however because SBS has the 1st Exchange server in a group you need to go a bit further. More information can be found on how to remove the first server via http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;822931... Posted Sep 06 2007, 03:37 PM by David Overton with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SBS 2003, Support and Tools, Exchange, SBS 2003 R2

• Adding Exchange 2007 to an SBS 2003 / Exchange 2003 network

  This question has come up lots of times and the general statement is that it is not trivial. In fact the normal question is can Exchange 2007 be run on an SBS 2003 box. The answer to this is a resounding NO. Exchange 2007 is 64-bit and SBS 2003 is 32-bit and never the twain shall meet. The closest you can get is installing a Windows Server 2003 64-bit system and putting Exchange on it. You will have to buy a Windows Server license, Exchange 2007 license and CALs for each client that uses it. (note if you want... Posted Sep 04 2007, 11:44 PM by David Overton with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SBS 2003, Exchange, Windows Server 2003, SBS 2003 R2, Documentation, x64

• How do I take a public folder offline

  I seem to have been asked this a number of times recently, so here is the answer. To take a public folder offline, simply add it to your favourites and then enable synching of public folders. Mark the public folder as a favourite (right click on the folder and select make favourite Go into your account settings and ensure that public folders are enabled for caching Tools / Account / Properties for the Exchange Account / More Settings / Advanced - then tick the box Now, when you sync the favourite public folders... Posted Aug 15 2007, 12:23 AM by David Overton with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Exchange, Office 2007, Outlook, Tips, Office 2003