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In Exchange 2000/2003, in order to generate a new or different E-Mail address for specific recipients, you had to edit or create Recipient Policies. In Exchange 2007, E-mail Address Policies are the components that generate the primary and secondary e-mail addresses for your recipients (which include users, contacts, and groups) so they can receive and… Read More

How can I configure Instant Messaging SRV records on Exchange 2000? The problem When you configure IM on your network (See Configure Instant Messaging) you must configure user accounts and IM clients. Those users must log on to the IM service by using their usernames and domain names, but not as a regular e-mail address… Read More

How do I configure some Exchange recipients to have different e-mail addresses in Exchange 2000/2003? Exchange 2000/2003 will automatically configure e-mail addresses for your recipients, based on the name of your Active Directory domain. For example, if you have an AD domain called TEST.HOME and you've installed Exchange 2000/2003 on it, each and every mailbox… Read More

How can I configure Forms-Based Authentication in Exchange Server 2003 OWA? Exchange Server 2003 has greatly improved the Outlook Web Access (or OWA for short) experience when compared to older Exchange versions. Besides the nice new GUI, spell-checking in different languages, drag-and-drop features, S/MIME support (see Configure Message Security in OWA 2003 for more info)… Read More

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Active Directory locator in Windows 2000. Active Directory clients and client tools use DNS to locate domain controllers for administration and logon. You must have a DNS server installed and configured for Active Directory and the associated client software to function correctly. This article guides you through the… Read More

System and software downtime frequently mean lost revenues, lowered employee productivity and reduced customer satisfaction. Despite the fact that companies are investing in high-availability systems and performance monitoring solutions for data centers, many are failing to follow best practice procedures to avoid human errors. Do you use any social networks? Follow ObserveIT on Facebook, Linkedin… Read More

In Part 1 of this article, we explained how access-lists work. In this article, we’ll take a sample network and explain how to create and apply an access-list. Remember that an Access-List (ACL) is used to specify network traffic. Once you specify traffic with an ACL, you can then do a variety of things with… Read More

One of the most frequent questions I see on forums and newsgroups that deal with virtualization is the age-old question of "I have used all the space inside a VHD hard disk. How do I expand the virtual hard disk to make room for additional data?". Luckily for us, with Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server… Read More

A hard drive partition can allow you to easily test out new operating systems (like Windows 7 beta) or create a simple way to separate your user data from the operating system install.  You can divide your hard drive into multiple partitions, some bootable, others not. The main reasons for having separate partitions are: to… Read More

In the previous article in this series, I talked about the importance of removing the routing group connectors prior to removing the last legacy Exchange Server from an organization. In this article, I want to conclude the series by showing you how to remove a routing group connector, and how to redirect the Recipient Update… Read More

In the past year notebooks have outsold desktop computers for the first time. If you have Outlook both on your Desktop computer and on your notebook (or netbook), then you’ll want to have the same e-mails, contacts and calendars and both machines. This article provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to do exactly that with… Read More

Alcatel SpeedTouch Tips and Tricks This page contains a collection of Alcatel SpeedTouch Home, Pro and 510 articles, tips & tricks, whitepapers, useful tools and more. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to contribute to this section . I would very much like to add Samsung, ECI and other brands to my… Read More

I decided to write this article after I bought myself a brand new, state of the art, laptop from Dell. I'm talking about 2.33 GHz Core Duo, 4 GB of fast RAM, a 7200 RPM SATA hard disk, and all the other necessary hardware. And yet, when I booted up the pre-installed Windows Vista Ultimate… Read More