The Exchange Team Blog has an excellent article on how to setup the standalone device emulators that are able to run both Windows Mobile 5 + MSFP and Windows Mobile 6 images. This emulator can be very helpful when implementing or troubleshooting Windows Mobile devices or Exchange ActiveSync.
This is a nice feature if you don’t have plans to deploy an Edge Transport server or some other product to eliminate SPAM. The Anti-Spam features are very similar to the IMF in previous versions of Exchange.
There is a wealth of information to be gained from taking a browse through some of the Microsoft Team Blogs. One thing you will find is that some teams are more active in their writings. In particular You Had Me at EHLO (The Microsoft Exchange Team Blog) has lots of active participation and excellent technical information.
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/pages/microsoft-blogs.aspx
The Exchange_Genie has written an excellent article on the configuration of the Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service. No Exchange 2007 deployment is complete without this service as it automates the configuration of Outlook 2007 clients.
http://exchange-genie.blogspot.com/2007/07/autodiscover-ad-attribute.html
This has become a very popular request for companies with Exchange server deployed, to have some kind of legal disclaimer attached to every outbound message. Fortunately the process to make this happen has gotten significantly easier in Exchange 2007. No more fooling around with registering event sinks and messy VBScript.
The HP MSA is a fairly popular storage device with a good feature set for small to medium sized organizations. It makes use of the familiar HP Array Configuration Utility for configuration but its front panel leaves something to be desired. I was able to obtain a document from HP support the details exactly what all of those blinking indicators really mean.
I used this to upgrade an ESX host from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2. It is likely that the same procedure can be used with future releases. Use caution when upgrading production servers as this procedure DOES take the host offline.
There are some new features on the horizon for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure in the latest releases of ESX 3.1 and VirtualCenter 2.1. Although we haven’t officially seen anything on these releases the buzz is that we can expect to see some if not all of the following.
VMware now officially supports running the VirtualCenter database on SQL Server 2005. As you may have expected there are a few caveats and a handful of configuration items you need to take into consideration. However, for the most part this is great news and will allow you to *finally* get rid of those SQL Server 2000 servers.
Terminal Services Server Drain Mode allows an administrator to prevent new logins to a terminal server. It does allow current users to stay connected and even allows disconnected sessions to re-connect and continue working. The Drain Mode feature also works with the new Terminal Services Session Broker Load Balancing.