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Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Guides
Exchange Server 2003 Glossary
This glossary comprises important terms and definitions for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 product. In addition, the following terminology is in the glossary:
• Definitions of key components and processes within Exchange overall.
• Definitions of other processes and components from products that Exchange works with, such as Microsoft Active Directory directory service.
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Exchange Server 2003 Transport and Routing Guide
Microsoft® Exchange servers use Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to communicate with each other and to send messages. SMTP is part of the Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 or Windows® 2000 Server operating system. This guide discusses basic components of transport and routing, explains how SMTP works in Exchange Server 2003, provides information on configuring a routing topology, discusses deployment scenarios, suggests ways to help secure your infrastructure, and offers troubleshooting tips.
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Exchange Server 2003 Technical Reference Guide
This technical reference guide presents a system architect’s view of Exchange Server 2003. It includes a general overview of Exchange Server 2003 messaging system design, together with more specific details, such as services dependencies, Active Directory® directory service integration, Exchange System Manager architecture, routing architecture, SMTP transport architecture, X.400 architecture, Exchange store architecture, and cluster architecture. This information will help you design, maintain, and troubleshoot an Exchange organization and also develop custom solutions for administrators.
This detailed reference guide is not for beginning administrators and does not show you how to implement or maintain Exchange Server 2003. Instead, this guide is for Microsoft Certified System Engineers (MSCEs) and Exchange Server experts who want to take their knowledge about Exchange Server 2003 to the next level.
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Exchange Server 2003 Security Hardening Guide
This guide is designed to provide you with essential information about how to harden your Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 environment. In addition to practical, hands-on configuration recommendations, this guide includes strategies for combating spam, viruses, and other external threats to your Exchange 2003 messaging system. While most server administrators can benefit from reading this guide, it is designed to produce maximum benefits for administrators responsible for Exchange messaging, both at the mailbox and architect levels.
This guide is a companion to the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide . Specifically, many of the procedures in this guide are related directly to security recommendations introduced in the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide. Therefore, before you perform the procedures presented in this guide, it is recommended that you first read the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide.
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Gentoo 2004.2 released! – part 2
As I mentioned earlier Gentoo 2004.2 was released. One of the improvements they mentioned is LiveCD compatibility with Dell server-class machines. Well I finally tried it on Dell PowerEdge 4600 and 1600SC without any luck by default (Gentoo) or SMP boot. It obviously hates SCSI CD-Roms ;-).
If I will have some free time in the future I will try to resolve this problem. Definitely after my vacations in the Netherlands! 😉
Gentoo 2004.2 released!
Gentoo 2004.2 finnaly released today. One of problems that should be solved and makes me happy is definetively LiveCD compatibility with Dell server-class machines! Other, not so important for me, are:
Detailed info about 2004.2 release can be found at 2004.2 information page.
I`ll post some results later, when I`ll have some time to mess with it 😉
MS SMS 2003 Capacity Planner
The Microsoft System Management Server 2003 (SMS 2003) Tool and Guide has gone live!
This tool helps consultants, SMS administrators, and IT professionals perform scenario analysis on their existing and proposed SMS 2003 hierarchy. This download contains both the tool and a user guide. The Capacity Planner tool analyzes the input you provide and suggests SMS site topology configurations and corresponding hardware configurations for site servers and site systems. The Capacity Planner Tool User Guide describes how to use the Capacity Planner tool.
Lookout available for free download again!
Best Microsoft Outlook addin ever (IMHO) is available for free download again! This time from Microsoft Download Center!
Linspire new “commercial”
Watch this movie. Just another miserable commercial from Linspire… 😉 Another desperate strike against Microsoft? 😉
Exchange Server 2003 Disaster Recovery Operations Guide
From Microsoft Download Center:
Overview:
This guide explains how to back up and restore the critical data in your Exchange organization. It covers how to use the backup utility in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Backup), how to back up Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and how to restore Exchange Server 2003. This guide explains how to perform backup and restore procedures so that you can prepare for (back up) and recover from (restore) a failure that causes some or all of your data to become unavailable. This guide is intended for information technology (IT) professionals who perform backup and restore procedures or who write customized backup and restore procedures for their organization.
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I was amazed with MSN Search results
Today I was messing arround with “new” MSN searcher. When I searched for “erdeljanov” I got my blog as the first result, although the page has been online only for 5 days and it was on the web yesterday for the first time at vidmar.net/weblog! At google.com the first result was one old web page with data almost 2 years old!
So like I said before… The new MSN Search really amazed me. Will be google capable to stay ahead of MSN Search in future? We`ll see… 😉
I finally received my D-Link wireless access point! ;-)
Yesterday (at 11 PM ;-)) I finally received my brand new D-Link 2100AP wireless access point (AP). In spite of late hour I just had to set this thing up ;-). At first I assembled it, turned it on and configured it over wired LAN connection. I wanted to secure my WLAN immediately, especially because I live in a building with 132 apartments ;). I permitted SSID broadcast but I turned on WPA and configured RADIUS authentication for Windows Domain users for use of certificates to authenticate! Well… job done.
During the installation and configuration AP, RADIUS and WLAN Client I had just one problem. Everything started with Windows XP SP2 build 2162 which broke my Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN card drivers! Reinstallation solved the problem (later I tried to repeat this step with reinstalling the SP2 build 2162 and problem occurred again; anyone else with this problem?). Installation of my user certificate on notebook and authentication with AP (RADIUS authentication turned on) was successful 😉
Now let`s have some fun…
I first tried the range of WLAN in apartment and the signal strength was good all the time (4 rooms away from AP). It also works OK (low signal but it was working) at my neighbour`s apartment (20m away with 6 walls between).
I only get 54Mbps of transfer speed because of Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN card. At the first opportunity I would like to try it with DWL-G650 PCMCIA card and post some results. I also want to try the range with the new D-Link Omni-Directional ANT24-0400 antenna.
If there would be some interest in setting up AP, RADIUS, Certificate authentication and SNMP AP management I will blog it later…
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