Brien Posey

Of all the features included in Microsoft Outlook, my favorite has to be cached mode.  In case you’re not familiar with cached mode, it is a mechanism that copies the contents of a user’s mailbox, calendar, etc. into an offline file called an “OST” file.  This allows the user to have full access to anything…

If you have done much work with Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange 2000 Server, then you are probably familiar with the concept of recipient policies. Recipient policies still exist in Exchange Server 2007, but they have been broken into two different components; accepted domains (which I covered in Defining an Exchange 2007 E-Mail Address Policy,…

Need to keep AD running in top shape with Windows Server 2008? Brien Posey shows you how.

So far in this article series, I have talked about the new printer management utilities included in Windows Server 2008, and shown you how to consolidate network print servers.  In this article, I want to conclude the series by showing you how to use group policies to deploy the network printers to network clients. Client…

In the previous article, I showed you how to install the Print Management console. In this article, I will continue the discussion by showing you how to migrate other network print servers to the  network print server that you’ve created. Network Printer Migration Now that you have an enterprise print management server in place, you…

E-mail has become a mission critical application within most organizations, so it has become common for upper level management to mandate a specific Service Level Agreement (SLA) for Exchange Server administrators. In case you are not familiar with the concept of an SLA, a SLA mandates the percentage of time that an application is available….

As we all know, Exchange Server 2007 is a lot different from previous versions of Exchange.  One of the changes that Microsoft made in creating Exchange Server 2007 was to get rid of the Recipient Update Service.  In case you’re not familiar with the Recipient Update Service, it was the mechanism responsible for stamping e-mail…

One of the things that always seems weird about wireless networking is that companies typically go to great lengths to make sure that their wireless networks are secure, but often times do nothing to ensure that employees are actually connecting to the correct network. In fact, I recently received an e-mail from someone who had…

The majority of the anti spam mechanisms that are built into Exchange Server 2007 have been around for years. However, Microsoft has included a new anti spam feature called Sender Reputation Filtering. In this article, I will explain what sender reputation filtering is, and how it works. The basic concept behind sender reputation filtering is…

The Exchange Server 2003 Setup program was designed from the very beginning to allow you to uninstall Exchange server should you have the need. Even so, removing Exchange Server 2003 from and Exchange Server 2007 organization requires a little bit more work than what you might initially expect. In this article, I’ll show you the…