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Seattle Microsoft UC User Group (SMUCUG) Meeting – 5/19
For those local UC folks, a quick note about the local UC users group. We have had a few names over the years… Pacific NW Exchange User Group, UC Doers, and now we have adopted a more uniform name Seattle Microsoft UC Users Group (SMUCUG). I have been involved in the organization of the group for around five years now and am happy to say that the momentum is increasing. We have some strong leaders with me (Chris Norman from Microsoft) has been key to the success. We are continuing to get top level speakers from the product teams, peer case studies, and have been doing a lot more sharing and collaboration on common problems that we all have. May 19th is the next user group meeting, we’re holding the meeting downtown … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exchange, Josh Maher, Messaging, Microsoft, Seattle
How email archiving makes life easier for administrators and employees
Email is an important business communications tool. Whether for business needs, to meet compliance or in the case of legal requirements, businesses need to keep a copy of work-related email. Because administrators need to set an email quota so that they do not run out of storage space on the server and performance is not negatively impacted, some employees end up having to either delete emails or save them on PST files – putting the business at risk. This can be prevented simply by implementing an email archiving solution. Why use email archiving software? PST files can become corrupted or unusable for a variety of reasons, and it can be difficult to save or move old emails from one computer to another unless you have implemented email archiving software. … Read entire article »
Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group – 7/30
Please join us next Wednesday July 30th, 4-7PM PST for the next meeting of the UCDoers – Pacific Northwest Unified Communications User Group meeting! The UCDoers will meet at the McKinstry Company located at 5005 Third Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134 (http://www.mckinstry.com/). This month Greg Taylor & Per Farney of Microsoft’s Certified Master (MCM): Messaging Program also known as the “Exchange Rangers” will join us. Greg and Per will provide an overview of the program including requirements to attend, what the training program consists of and the benefits of the Exchange Ranger program to the Messaging Community. We will also provide an update on upcoming meetings\plans for the group as we continue to grow the UCDoers User Group! Come out and join us; food and drinks will be provided! RSVP: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/923349/?ps=5 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Messaging, Microsoft, NW events, Seattle, Technology
Microsoft Online – Part 4 accessing email
Now for the good part… how do you actually use Microsoft Online to send/receive email? How to you coordinate this for all of the users in your organization? The first step is to head over to the Support tab and find the Downloads section. The first two downloads, The Microsoft Online Sign In application and The Microsoft .Net Framework 3.0 are required for all users that will be using the service. The Sign In app requires the .Net 3.0 framework, and to login, the sign in app is required. Once you have downloaded the OnlineServicesSignIn.msi, it will need to be distributed to all users who will be using the applications. At least according to Microsoft….If the goal is to just use the Exchange component, it is possible to install the tool once, capture the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Messaging, Microsoft
Microsoft Online – Part 4 Creating Users
Now that we have registered for Microsoft Online, added our SMTP domain, and are accepting inbound messages…. We might as well get some users to send and receive emails. Keep in mind, if this were a migration from an existing email system, the users would be step two (not three) and all users would be migrated to Microsoft Online and sending emails before inbound email was configured. To simply add new users, not in the midst of a migration (migrations are their own animal that we will cover later, navigate to the users tab. Notice that the beta offering only allows for 5 user licenses. Once on the Users tab, Click the “Add new user” link on the right hand side under “Actions”. After clicking the link, a new wizard pops up. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Messaging, Microsoft
Microsoft Online – Part 3
Once you have a SMTP domain configured, the next step (if you prefer) is to setup inbound messaging. As I stated in a previous post, this wouldn’t be the case if you are standing up Microsoft Online in a side-by-side configuration and are planning to migrate your in-house implementation to the server. To setup inbound messaging (begin accepting email on your implementation), Navigate to the Service tb and select the Exchange Online option. Once there highlight the domain that you would like to configure and select edit. If the domain has already been configured and Inbound messaging is the only thing that you need to configure, go straight to the Inbound Messaging tab. Before clicking “Enable”, you will need to have your current MX record modified to point to: Mail.Global.FrontBridge.com Once the MX record … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Messaging, Microsoft
Microsoft Online — Part 2
Adding an SMTP domain to play with is the first step in configuring an Exchange implementation with Microsoft Online — obviously if you are only going to use the sharepoint or livemeeting feature, this isn’t the first step… The example I am going to go with is using Joshmaher.org and am going to make it authoritive for my namespace. There is an option to use Microsoft Online as an external relay. This would be the case if you have an Exchange organization internally or hosted somewhere that is authoritive for the domain and your intention is to configure Microsoft Online for a few only a few users. If your intention is to actually migrate to Microsoft Online right now (careful it is buggy at the moment), selecting the external relay option … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Messaging, Microsoft, Technology
Microsoft Online — Part 1
I signed up for the Microsoft Online Beta (without a promo code) and had access within a day. Of course I proceeded to play with Microsoft online for the rest of the day – trying to get it up and running, getting errors every third screen or so, but certainly appreciating the ease of use for administering Exchange through this new interface…. I’ll post my thoughts and walk through the whole thing (moving over a domain, adding users, migrations, user access, etc). When you first get your admin account, logging in brings you to the admin console where the initial tasks for configuring your domains and users are front and center. Setting up the primary SMTP domain is obviously a critical task. If you want to just play around with it, I recommend … Read entire article »
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange 2007, Messaging, Microsoft, Technology
