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IPv6 may make IP Blacklists unusable

2011-03-18

With the approach of World IPv6 day, I started thinking about things that moving to IPv6 will affect, and IP Blacklists are definitely one of them. In my post over at AllSpammedUp.com, I discuss this and propose a few alternatives to consider. If this seems relevant to your interests, I bet you know what to [...]

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howto://email enable your scripts

2011-03-11

This week over at TheEmailAdmin, I talk about an old friend of mine; blat. If you need to add some kind of email functionality to a script or scheduled task, this little tool is just the ticket. Read all about it by clicking the pretty picture below, and if you find it useful, feel free [...]

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Build it bigger

2011-03-04

Whether you are building a new email infrastructure, or just getting ready to upgrade your existing one, take my word for one thing if nothing else…build for BIG-ARSE mailboxes. Think gigabytes (lots of them) per user. If you aren’t willing to take it on faith, then click the pretty picture below and read five reasons [...]

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howto://configure Exchange 2010 as an SMTP relay

2011-02-28

Need a simple SMPT relay for your internal network, and want to use your Exchange infrastructure? Here’s how to set up a Hub Transport server to relay SMTP mail for your printers, scanners, reports, etc.

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What are Bayesian filters anyway?

2011-02-25

It sounds really cool to talk about Bayesian filters…kind of like Dilithium crystals, but without the nerd baggage that comes along with knowing what those are. Of course, many an email admin can probably talk more about the critical component of warp engines than they can about the critical component of spam filters. I wanted [...]

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howto://troubleshoot edge subscriptions

2011-02-18

This week over at TheEmailAdmin, I share some tips for troubleshooting edge subscriptions in Exchange 2010. If this is of interest to you, click the pretty picture below, read all about it over at TheEmailAdmin, and feel free to retweet it from their page, or leave a comment. Thanks! Once you are done reading about [...]

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What do you use?

2011-02-16

Over at the AllSpammedUp blog, I wrote a small article about Hotmail’s new alias service, which several other websites are touting as a ‘disposable’ email service. Guess what. It’s not. Having aliases is a great add-on if you use Hotmail, but for folks looking for a truly disposable email address, there are more and better [...]

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howto://pump up the volume without spamming

2011-02-07

When Marketing takes it upon themselves to email stuff out to a 2000 user contact list, here’s how you can make sure your Exchange environment doesn’t wind up on an RDNSBL.

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howto://create user mailboxes with powershell

2011-01-21

If you have ever found yourself wanting to create a new mailbox at the cmd line using the Exchange Management Shell, then my latest post at TheEmailAdmin is for you. How to create user accounts and mailboxes with PowerShell cover the new-mailbox cmdlet in the EMS, and provides some examples for using it. If you [...]

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Block ActiveSync? Inconceivable!

2011-01-12

The other day someone asked me if we should block users from connecting their personal devices to Exchange. It seems a VP connected their personal iPhone (we’re a Crackberry shop until Verizon gets the iPhone…so come on Verizon, get with it!!!) and the boss was concerned about security. I don’t blame him, I am concerned [...]

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Problems using the Out of Office assistant with MSO

2011-01-10

At work, we’re on the Microsoft Online Services Hosted Exchange solution for email, and I ran into a problem with a user today that I’ve never seen before, and Google didn’t have a ready answer in the first page of search results, so another short post comes to be. The problem is this: a user [...]

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PSA: PSTs are evil

2011-01-05

Here’s a news flash for the handful of Exchange admins out there that missed the memo; PSTs are evil, evil pure and simple from the eighth dimension. They should be hunted down and destroyed wherever they may hide. Feel free to read more by clicking the picture below. If you found this post useful, please [...]

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