You Had Me At EHLO...aka the Microsoft Exchange Team BlogHow much of your email do you read- June 26, 2008 In order to classify the different types of email users out there, we often talk about "filers" (people who file their emails away into specially-named folders) and "pilers" (people who just leave everything in the Inbox and rely on searching to find the emails that they need). I am definitely not a piler because my Inbox seldom has more than seventy messages in it, but, compared to the number of messages that I receive, the number of messages that I file away into a folder.http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/06/26/449087.aspx Sample Exchange 2007 transport agent - add the name of the group to subject line- June 25, 2008 Many people use rules to automatically sort messages from various distribution lists into folders in order to keep the volume of email traffic in their inbox to a manageable level. This work for the most part - until someone decides to BCC a list. Since the distribution list isn't visible in the list of recipients, it bypasses all rules and gets dropped in their inbox. This can cause quite a distraction for everyone on that DL because something appeared in their inbox, and it's not quite...http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/06/25/449079.aspx Anti-Spam Connection Filtering when installed on Hub servers and other AS configuration misunderstandings- June 23, 2008 Recently I came across a situation where it was reported that Connection Filtering stopped working (IPs on the Blocklist and RBLs were no longer being blocked). The solution led me to write this blog to clarify some confusion about "when" connection filtering is applied and how configuration settings are applied when the agents are installed on a Hub server. Let's begin by looking at the online documentation regarding Connection Filtering: "By default, connection filtering...http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/06/23/449070.aspx How does Outlook Anywhere work (and not work)- June 20, 2008 It's been a while since I've been thinking of writing a blog post about various aspects of Outlook Anywhere that people have been asking questions about. Somehow, I keep getting myself caught up in one thing or another, and have consequently delayed writing this blog post by almost 4 months. Ugh. Better late than never I figure. Given how long this blog post is overdue, I plan to cover a lot of topics, from frequently asked questions to common misconceptions to problems with Outlook...http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/06/20/449053.aspx To Backup or Not to Backup Yes! To backup!!- June 18, 2008 There has been a lot of discussions in the Exchange ecosystem (see comments on this post and other posts on our blog for example) about the fact that Windows Server 2008 built-in backup application (Windows Server Backup) is not Exchange-aware. Even though we have also clarified that the limitation does not apply to Windows Small Business Server 2008, we still kept getting a lot of open and honest feedback on the subject, which we greatly appreciate. Background About 2 years ago, when the...http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/06/18/449031.aspx |