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Thursday, January 20, 2005 7:29 PM

MOM 2005 - Monitoring Active Directory across slow links

I found this useful piece of information when reading the MOM deployment guide. Chapter 7 talks about settings to apply when monitoring AD over a slow link.  Here's an extract from the guide: There are several scenarios in which you might decide
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:33 PM

Exchange 2003 RPC/HTTP Documentation

There are some great documents about RPC/HTTP so I thoughts I'd create a list of the best documents Exchange Server Tech Center Exchange 2003 client access guide RPC/HTTP Deployment scenarios How to conigure always up to date notifications Exchange Active
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:05 PM

MOM 2005 Performance and sizing White Paper

An accurate analysis of the performance and sizing of the hardware systems that support Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 is critical to the successful implementation of MOM 2005. This technical whitepaper shares some of the knowledge gained from
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:02 PM

MOM 2000 Management Pack for Terminal Server

Microsoft Windows Terminal Server MOM 2000 MP, version 2 monitors the TS services application event log. This management pack includes event rules for the Terminal Server service, Licensing Service and Session Directory service in NT4 TS Edition, Windows
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:57 AM

Configuring SQL Server Replication for an SMS 2003 Management Point

This white paper is provides guidance for configuring SQL Server replication for management points in an SMS 2003 site.  SQL Server Replication allows management points and server locator points to query the SMS data they need, and to service
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Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:07 PM

Auto accept Agent for Exchange 2003

If you want to automatically process meeting requests for resource mailboxes try the Auto Accept Agent for Exchange 2003.  It's an asynchronous event sink that processes meeting requests in a first in, first out ourder at the server. 
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:23 PM

MOM Operations and deployment planning guides now available for download

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Operations Guide – Now Available The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Operations Guide includes guidance and recommended best practices for backing up and restoring, maintaining, optimizing and monitoring Microsoft Operations
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:19 PM

Exchange consolidation and migration

We released the Solution Accelerator for Exchange Consolidation and Migration the other day.  Its a document detailing how to plan, implement and test your upgrade from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 focusing on the IT operations and business
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Monday, December 20, 2004 11:14 PM

MOM connector framework through firewalls

I found this informationn from the MOM security guide on the web and thought it was worth passing on:  The MOM Connector Framework (MCF) and MOM-to-MOM Product Connectors (MMPC) are new in MOM 2005 and provide the ability to share and synchronize
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:48 PM

Exchange RFC and standards compliance

I've been responding to a tender from a customer who wanted to know which standards and Request For Comments (RFC's) Exchange complied with.  Here is a list from the web: Its quite comprehensive but includes: SMTP o        
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:39 PM

Exchange 2003 Offline Address books (OAB) Best Practices guide

If you want to know how to deploy and manage OAB's in your organisation, then read this document.  It also has some useful tips on how to automate the deployment of OAB's when you deploy the client along with useful tips on administering
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:22 PM

Managing Free / Busy Folders and servers in Exchange 2003

I noticed that there has been an addition to the Exchange Technical Documentation library with an explanation of how free/busy data is generated.  It's quite a useful addition to your background reading as I can't find much more on the web about
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Monday, December 20, 2004 2:03 PM

Using MOM 2005 with a disjointed DNS namespace

The deployment guide for MOM 2005 has an interesting excerpt about DNS.  So if you have problems when the target machine cant find the MOM 2005 server, then try this tip:   Using MOM 2005 With a Disjointed DNS Namespace. To discover
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Monday, December 20, 2004 1:49 PM

Windows Update Services (WUS) Deployment guide

The WUS deployment guide was published a couple of weeks ago, and I've just got around to reading it.  It's useful that WUS uses BITS technology for trickle downloads and allows you to migrate from SUS to WUS by using the command line utility WUSUTIL.EXE. 
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Friday, December 17, 2004 11:47 AM

Slowing and Stopping email viruses in Exchange

As everyone is blogging like crazy about our acquisition of GIANT company the other day, the focus has really been on malware, spam and viruses.  My blog has been inundated with blogspam for a few days (but my blog is moderated, so the spam
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