An Overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

An Overview of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

This paper delivers an overview of Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 and describes how this next generation of Exchange Server helps increase user productivity and administrator efficiency.

As a messaging system that is widely used in both large corporations and small businesses, Microsoft Exchange Server has always been scalable in both directions. However, new demands on messagin such as compliance, security, and disaster recovery have created new challenges for delivering a messaging system that works great in small businesses and large enterprises alike. To rise to these new challenges, the architecture of Exchange Server 2007 has been updated to take advantage of 64-bit hardware and simplified administration and routing, and to enable an Exchange Server to host one or more server roles.

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TechNet Virtual Lab: Transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007.

TechNet Virtual Lab: Transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007.

After completing this lab, you will be better able to install Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in an existing Exchange Server 2003 single-forest environment. This lab also demonstrates how to mount the Exchange Server 2007 mailbox database as well as how to move a User from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007.

Note: By registering for this virtual lab, you will receive a one-time follow up call from a Microsoft representative to inform you of special discounts and offers related to products and services presented in the virtual lab.

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TechNet Virtual Lab: Installing Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on Window Server 2008.

TechNet Virtual Lab: Installing Exchange Server 2007 SP1 on Window Server 2008.

After completing this lab, you will learn how to pre-configure Windows Server 2008 for installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1), install Exchange Server 2007 SP1, verify installation, and explore new enhancements in Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access.

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TechNet Virtual Lab: Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging.

TechNet Virtual Lab: Configuring Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging.

After completing this lab, you will be able to configure Unified Messaging and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.

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TechNet Virtual Lab: Exchange Server 2007 Standby Continuous Replication.

TechNet Virtual Lab: Exchange Server 2007 Standby Continuous Replication.

Exchange Server 2007 includes a new feature in Service Pack 1 called Standby Continuous Replication, or SCR. SCR makes it easy to add high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to your e-mail environment. In this Virtual lab, you will learn to create SCR in Exchange Server 2007, and use SCR to recover from failure.
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Exchange Server Stress and Performance Tool.

Exchange Server Stress and Performance Tool.

Use Microsoft Exchange Server Stress and Performance (ESP), a highly scalable stress and performance tool for Exchange, to simulate large numbers of client sessions by concurrently accessing one or more protocol servers. ESP includes multiple modules that you can use to simulate a wide variety of protocols and loads. You can run modules concurrently from multiple hosts, thereby more realistically simulating physically separate client machines. There is no limit to the number of computers on your network that can host ESP modules.

Note: The ESP tool does not have the capability of creating users. Therefore, if you want to create a test that involves simulating actual individual users, and not simply client sessions, it is recommended that you use ESP in conjunction with other tools that create users (for example, Exchange Load Generator).

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Exchange Load Generator.

Exchange Load Generator.

Use Microsoft Exchange Load Generator (LoadGen) as a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, OWA, IMAP, POP and SMTP clients on Exchange servers. LoadGen allows you to test how a server running Exchange responds to e-mail loads. To simulate the delivery of these messaging requests, you run LoadGen tests on client computers. These tests send multiple messaging requests to the Exchange server, thereby causing a mail load. LoadGen is a useful tool for administrators who are sizing servers and validating a deployment plan. Specifically, LoadGen helps you determine if each of your servers can handle the load to which they are intended to carry. Another use for LoadGen is to help validate the overall solution.Important! LoadGen should be used only in laboratories that have no connection to the production environment. This tool should not be used in any way in a production environment or an environment that is mission critical or contains important information of any kind anywhere in the network.

Note: The XML configuration file schema in this release has changed from previous versions. You will need to create a new XML configuration file with the Load Generator UI. The existing topology will be marked as un-editable if there are users created by previous versions of Microsoft Exchange Load Generator. Add your remote client machines again, and then save the updated configuration XML.

Note: If you use the recipient management features of this release to create users or other recipient objects and you have one or more Exchange Server 2007 servers in your test topology, you must run the Load Generator application with user credentials that have permission to manage Exchange recipients. The directory access account specified in the application configuration will not be used for this purpose.

Note: This version includes scripted module functionality which enables load generation for OWA, IMAP, POP, SMTP.

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Exchange Server Jetstress.

Exchange Server Jetstress.

Use Jetstress to verify the performance and stability of a disk subsystem prior to putting an Exchange server into production. Jetstress helps verify disk performance by simulating Exchange disk Input/Output (I/O) load. Specifically, Jetstress simulates the Exchange database and log file loads produced by a specific number of users. You use Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, and ESEUTIL in conjunction with Jetstress to verify that your disk subsystem meets or exceeds the performance criteria you establish. After a successful completion of the Jetstress Disk Performance and Stress Tests in a non-production environment, you will have ensured that your Exchange disk subsystem is adequately sized (in terms of performance criteria you establish) for the user count and user profiles you have established. It is highly recommended that the Jetstress user read through the tool documentation before using the tool.

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005.

The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack includes rules and scripts to monitor and report on performance, availability, and reliability of all Exchange 2007 server roles including Mailbox, Client Access, Hub Transport, Edge Transport and Unified Messaging.The Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for MOM 2005 topics explain how to monitor and maintain messaging resources. To download click here.

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Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool.

Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool.

Use the Exchange Server Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)-based Administration tool (PFDAVAdmin) to perform various management tasks related to public folders and mailboxes. The tool checks the permissions status of each public and mailbox folder and corrects any problems found. The ability to bulk export/import the permissions and replica lists make this tool invaluable in achieving greater productivity in managing public folders. The program can also reports content information of each public folder and mailbox folder such as the number of items in each folder, size of folder and most recent modification date of any item in the folder.

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Note: PFDAVAdmin is supported when running with Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2007.

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Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool.

Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool.

The Exchange 2007 Anti Spam Migration Tool reads these settings from Active Directory and converts them to equivalent Windows Power Shell script (consisting of Exchange 2007 tasks) which can then be run on Edge Transport or Hub Transport roles of Exchange Server 2007. To download click here.

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Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant v1.1.

Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant v1.1.

The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant programmatically executes a set of troubleshooting steps to identify the root cause of performance, mail flow, and database mounting issues. The tool automatically determines what set of data is required to troubleshoot the identified symptoms and collects configuration data, performance counters, event logs and live tracing information from an Exchange server and other appropriate sources. The tool analyzes each subsystem to determine individual bottlenecks and component failures, then aggregates the information to provide root cause analysis. To download click here.

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1. .

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system. Exchange Server 2007 SP1 is a mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to be more productive and access their information anywhere and anytime while providing a messaging system that enables rich, efficient access to e-mail, calendar items, voice mail, and contacts. For the administrator, Exchange Server 2007 SP1 provides advanced protection options against e-mail security threats, such as spam and viruses, as well as the tools to help manage internal compliance and high availability needs.In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, several new features and improvements will extend the Anywhere Access capabilities of Exchange Server 2007 to help make employees more productive on whatever device they’re using, provide additional Operational Efficiency tools for administrators seeking a streamlined management and deployment experience, and enable advanced Built-in Protection for more robust high availability and compliance scenarios. To download click here.

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Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8.

Exchange Best Practices Analyzer v2.8.

The Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Exchange servers and topology. The tool scans Exchange servers and identifies items that do not conform to Microsoft best practices. To download click here. Download the latest versions of the Microsoft Exchange Analyzer Tools and start to identify and help resolve potential configuration, performance, and disaster recovery problems in an Exchange Server messaging topology.

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How to Fix the Link-State Suppression Error.

How to Fix the Link-State Suppression Error.

Its a very good practice to run the Exchange Best Practices Analyzer (ExBPA) before you start installing your Exchange 2007 domain. This tool checks the prerequites for installing the Exchange 2007. But a common problem that the ExBPA shows during Exchange 2007 Readiness Check is the "Link State Suppression is not enabled" error. If you have Exchange 2003 in the existing organisation which is having more than one routing group then suppress the link state information. This paramemeter is essential if you plan to create multiple connectors to the dedicated Exchange 2007 routing group.

In earlier versions of Exchange, when a target server was unreachable, the down connector state was propagated throughout the Exchange organization by link state updates, and an alternative route was calculated. In Exchange 2007, when a message can't be relayed directly to the target server because of network problems, no alternative route is calculated. The message queues on a Hub Transport server in the closest reachable site to the point of failure. The purpose of this procedure is to make sure that routing loops cannot occur. So that’s why we need to set it to value 1 in the registry.

Inorder to set the registry follow the below step:

1. Open Registry Editor.

2. Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet

\Services\RESvc\Parameters.

3. Right-click Parameters and select New DWORD value. Name the new DWORD value SuppressStateChanges.

4. Double-click SuppressStateChanges.

5. In the Value data field, enter 1.

6. Close Registry Editor and then restart the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service, the Microsoft Exchange Routing Engine service, and the Microsoft Exchange MTA Stacks services for the change to take effect.

Note: You have to do it on each exchange 2000\2003 server if you have more than one routing group connector.

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Exchange Connections 2008.

Exchange Connections 2008.

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There will more than 150 Microsoft Architects and Experts at the conference. Get to know the latest on Exchange, cutting edge announcements, executive keynotes and 250 in-depth no hype sessions. Explore the expo hall for new products and services, and network at the reception. Meet the authors of the books and articles you depend on to bring up your Exchange Forest. Register now for the conference and reserve a room at the award winning host hotel on the Vegas strip, Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Well this is it. If you want to know more, go ahead and click here. To register click here.

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