Managing New Mailboxes Under Exchange Server (ES) 2007 Part 1

Microsoft has added many new features to ES with new mailboxes.  With a common user mailbox; now ES can have three more, Room, Equipment and Linked, Mailboxes for different scenarios like meeting room or projector. In first part of article we will talk of first two while Linked Mailbox will be covered in part two. Room Mailboxes: Suppose the department of your company is often having meetings and you want to schedule all those proceedings and share with each member. Now Microsoft has understood your need to offer this feature: Room...

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EXCHANGE HUB

The Hub Transport server role is responsible for all message delivery regardless of whether the message is being delivered from one mailbox to another in the same mailbox database, a Mailbox server in the same Active Directory site, a server in a remote Active Directory site, or outside of the organization. At least one Hub Transport server role is required in each Active Directory site that contains a Mailbox server Hub Transport is configured at the server and the organization workcentre area on ECM. Open Server workcentre to set Domain controller, Global Catalog, DNS both internal & external and the limit on message...

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Create a Contact of External SMTP Email Address Under Exchange Server 2007

There are situations when you (or any company user) want to send e-mail to somebody outside your company, like to an external contractor (with Google or Yahoo e-mail address). Contacts come to rescue this need; but to complete the external e-mail flow, we have to create a send connector. This will be covered in another tutorial.  Today, we will create a new contact—Vihaan Reddy—with an external Yahoo e-mail address. To perform this tutorial, the account you use must be delegated with the following:

• Exchange Recipient Administrator role and
• Account Operator...
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Amazon Relational Database Service

• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) offers a web service designed to manage a relational database in a cloud.
• It is extremely easy to set up and operate while providing enough scalability. It is also very cost-effective.
• It provides a feature to access the full capabilities of MySql database. Using this allows you to create, edit and terminate a database in cloud. Amazon RDS also creates database instance (DB instance) in the cloud which is easy to create. It is typically created using command line argument or Amazon API. Amazon RDS creates a master user which is authorized to create, edit and delete a...
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Configuring Thunderbird for Gmail IMAP/POP

These days many people are having Gmail accounts. They usually access their account by logging on to the Gmail account through a browser. But most of the people are not aware of accessing their Gmail account through a stand alone email client like Thunderbird. The advantages of using Thunderbird are as follows,

1. You can draft the message even when you are offline.
2. You can configure Thunderbird to use multiple Gmail accounts
3.  Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) allows you to download only the message headers. If you wish you may download the message after reading...
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Outlook New Message 2003

You use Microsoft Outlook for creating an e-mail message frequently. When composing or creating a new email message, you are provided with many options and configurations in order to create an email of your preference. You can create a new and unique style of message irrespective of the type of message you are creating whether business or personal. Microsoft Outlook has an editor that is based on Microsoft Word. You can press F1 for any kind of help; however, the following article illustrates the options available in MS Outlook while creating a new message. Microsoft Outlook 2003 To...

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Managing New Mailboxes Under Exchange Server (ES) 2007 Part 2

In the second part of this article we will go through Linked Mailbox under ES 2007. Normally their need arises when you want to centralize ES for two or more different forests. The forests with domain server but no ES are called account forest while those with ES are called resource forest. Resource forest is responsible for maintaining all mailboxes and users from account forest can have mailbox with resource forests’ ES through Linked Mailbox feature. For this article we have one resource and account forest each, namely technoencyclopedia1.local and...

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What is Terminal Services (TS)?

Terminal Services enables you to connect to a remote computer (server/client) from your local area network (LAN). Once connected, we can run the programs located on the remote machine. TS server in Windows 2008 Server allows user access to programs that are installed on a terminal server. Using Remote desktop connection, a user can take full desktop of the remote system. This helps a user to seamlessly connect to any computer on their LAN or the Internet. When a user interacts with a program on a terminal server, the program actually runs from the server. Why use Terminal Services? Since programs are deployed from the server, it leads to the following:

• Programs...
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Outlook Web Access 2003

Outlook Web Access is an HTTP-based web mail client. It delivers the clients and experienced more than surprisingly closer to the full version of Outlook including drag-and-drop message handling, type-ahead selection, calendar reminders, and access to public folders, rules, GAL, and many more features. Outlook Web App (OWA) has been provided this functionality in one form or another since, Exchange Server 5.0 and  each new release product has been improved its  functionality for  easy to use for  administration. The first release of the Outlook Web Access (OWA) application was in Exchange 5.0. This released was supported...

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