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Exchange Spam SenderOnRecipientSafeList
8 Feb 2010In our Exchange 2010 environment (combined with forefront anti-spam) there was 1 user who kept on receiving spam. The spam originated from his own email address and got the tag SenderOnRecipientSafeList.
This was caused by the fact that our Receive Connector had the permission ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Authoritative-Domain-Sender. This right basically tells the exchange server: “accept mail from users that tell you to be from that you are authorative for”.
With a powershell command you can remove this right from the receive connector.
remove-ADPermission -Identity <connectorName> -User "NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON" -ExtendedRights ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Authoritative-Domain-Sender
note: <ConnectorName> is the name of the connector that is accepting your internet inbound mail.
Your Internet Inbound connector can be found under: Server Configuration\Hub Transport\Receive Connectors.
You can enable logging on this Connectors by opening the properties and on the general tab you can set the [Protocol Logging Level] to “Verbose”.
Off course you also want to know where you can find the log files. You can find the path by opening the properties of your Server Configuration (in the Action Pane), the tab [Log Settings] has the path to your “Send Protocol Log Path”
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From the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog.
Microsoft Online Services is now a BlackBerry® certified partner and BlackBerry Alliance Elite Member. For the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite, licenses and support are now a part of the Microsoft Online Services Hosted BlackBerry service, which customers buy directly from Microsoft. Previously, customers had to purchase and provide their own licenses and support agreement, purchased through a third party, in order to use the Hosted BlackBerry service.
The Hosted BlackBerry service from Microsoft Online Services offers the most commonly requested BlackBerry capabilities, including wireless access to e-mail, calendar, tasks and contacts with global address list (GAL) integration, and device management such as device wipe and password reset. Details about the Hosted Blackberry Service can be found in the Microsoft Online Services Mobility Solutions Description, which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center. The document includes a full solution description and service pricing.
To learn more or to request a Hosted BlackBerry service agreement, contact your Microsoft representative or a Microsoft Online Services partner. If you do not have a Microsoft partner or representative, you may request the Hosted BlackBerry service agreement through Microsoft Online Services Customer Service.
For additional details please about the Microsoft Online Services mobility offerings, visit www.microsoft.com/online/mobility.
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- Tags: BPOS, Cloud Computing
Azure going to be a LaaS platform
4 Feb 2010According to Prashant Ketkar (marketing director of Azure) the Azure Service will be adding Remote Desktop capabilities a.s.a.p., as well as the ability to load and run Virtual Machine images directly on the platform.
This would be a smart move and something I was hoping for: Azure as a direct competitor of Amazon’s EC2 platform.
The original article where I found this “rumor”can be found here and another one here.
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Rumor: BPOS Lite Cloud Service
2 Feb 2010On Mary-Jo Foley’s blog there is a blog item which states that Microsoft is working on a “BPOS Lite” productivity/collaboration suite that is aimed at small/mid-size businesses (SMBs).
This rumor is based on some Bing searches she did for ”BPOS Lite”. If you would like to find out more, you can read the article here
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MSDN subscribers can get started developing on the Windows Azure platform today. Starting January 4, 2010, subscribers in many countries (see list on the right) will benefit from compute hours, storage, data transfers, SQL Azure databases and Windows Azure platform AppFabric messages included at no extra charge as part of their subscription. The Windows Azure platform offers a simple, comprehensive, and powerful platform for the creation of web applications and services.
Available in: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
(Support for other countries will be phased in over time, many coming in 2010)
Original Source: here
Your cloud needs a Sys Admin
28 Jan 2010A really nice article written by George Reese (twitter profile here).
As I am a Systems Administrator (which also administrates some cloud instances) and am working with a software development company (amongst others), this article has some interesting quotes like:
- The cloud, however, has a nasty habit of deluding programmers into thinking they no longer need sys admins.
- A programmer and a credit card can launch a server in the cloud.
- The programmer, however, lacks a detailed understanding of ongoing infrastructure management.
- The reverse is true of the sys admins who fancy themselves programmers. They can craft Perl programs to do just about any task. Those programs, however, ultimately lack the solid architecture that programming skills provide.
- Programmers Build Bad Machine Images
- Sys admins live and breathe hardware, the OS, and the network.
You can read the full article here
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Jim Glynn demonstrates how to connect your Windows Mobile phone to Exchange Online.
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NetworkWorld published a list of SharePoint 2010 versions and what each version is suppose to include.
SharePoint Foundation 2010 — The basic SharePoint. Windows SharePoint Services is now Microsoft SharePoint Foundation. It requires Windows Server 2008 64-bit operating system with SP2 or later or Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit.
SharePoint Server 2010 – adds collaboration features to the Foundation edition that allows it tie into data repositories outside of SharePoint (including Lotus Notes). Also adds more management features and supports more users. Successful SharePoint projects require better management, experts agree.
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint –Takes SharePoint Server 2010 and adds the high-end search technology Microsoft acquired when it bought FAST Technologies for $1.23 billion in January, 2008. Features include contextual search (such as recognizing departments or geographies), ability to tag meta data to unstructured content, more scalability.
SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Standard Edition — For SMBs looking to create Internet or intranet sites using the standard features of SharePoint Server 2010. For companies who want to host the server on premises.
SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise Edition — Similar to Standard Edition, presumably with more scalability and management functions. An exact list of how this differs from the standard edition is hard to come by. (Ditto for a features list on how Internet Sites standard edition differs SharePoint Server 2010).
FAST Search Server 2010 for Internet Business — the FAST search engine is added on top of SharePoint Server 2010 for Internet Sites, Enterprise. If you don’t want to spring for the high end FAST search server, Microsoft will be releasing options for the enterprise to use Search Server 2010 andSearch Server Express 2010. I would assume that by opting for these less scalable and less sophisticated search servers you will reduce the cost of new SharePoint 2010 server licenses.
SharePoint Online — one of two cloud versions of SharePoint. Note that hosted SharePoint is already available from Microsoft via its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), which combines hosted SharePoint with hosted Exchange. Microsoft counts more than 1 million users among those using some version of hosted SharePoint.
SharePoint Online for Internet Sites – It isn’t clear how this will differ from SharePoint Online, except a good guess is that it will support more online capacity. One of these cloud versions will be under the software-plus-services model, for companies that want some SharePoint sites to be hosted on premises, with some sites available via the cloud. The other will be a fully hosted option. Microsoft says that these options will be half the price as on-premises SharePoint because Microsoft will not require CAL licenses.
original source: here
and a nice picture
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You can configure the End-User Notification whenever a new version of the Microsoft Online Sign-In application is released. This is useful if you want to control whether you want your end-users to receive a notification or not.
For example: a End-User who has no rights to install anything on his computer doesn’t want to be bothered by any new version release. You can disable this notifications by use of Group Policy’s (preferred by myself) or by editing the registry (in theory the GPO does the same off course 
).
Here is a description how to do this: Microsoft Online Services Team Blog – Disabling End-User Notifications in the Sign-In Application
kudos to the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog
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changing your Terminal Server Session
20 Jan 2010Do you ever have the problem that you take over a Windows Server with a remote desktop, you then later close the session leaving all your programs open to run for example overnight. The next time you start your remote desktop session you will enter a new session besides the one you already have running. If so, with the tscon command you can switch sessions.
First identify the session id of the session you want to control, you can do this by opening Terminal Services Manager. When you have your ID (i.e. 1) start a command prompt and enter: tscon {id} /v (i.e: tscon 1 /v) inside your current session.
You’re current session will be stopped and you will be redirected to session nr. 1
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