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Messagerie instantannée et Outlook Web App dans Exchange 2010

Damien Caro — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:59:00 GMT

Avec Outlook Web App (OWA) de Exchange 2010, il est possible de réaliser une intégration avancée avec Office Communication Server 2007 R2.
Cette intégration permet d'afficher sa disponbilité, de voir celle de ses correspondant et de démarrer ou continuer une conversation en messagerie instantannée avec ses correspondants.
Cette vidéo montre les étapes à suivre pour activer cette intégration de Exchange 2010 avec OCS 2007 R2.

Morgan Keegan on Exchange 2010

Adam Bomb — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT

The last stop on the Exchange customer road trip was Memphis. We met with a couple guys from Morgan Keegan.
They expect to see some significant cost savings and improved uptime. They even got written up in Wall Street and Technology - you can see the write up here.

Exchange 2010 at Global Crossing

Adam Bomb — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:45:00 GMT

The second stop on the Exchange early adopter road trip was Vegas. The customer we visited with, Global Crossing, was actually just in town for a conference, but who am I to turn down a visit to Sin City?
Global Crossing is upgrading to Exchange 2010 to take advantage of the great new e-mail archiving, cheaper storage options, and as a replacement for its legacy voicemail system.
CIO Magazine also caught up with Global Crossing this week and posted this story on the cost savings the company hopes to realize by standardizing on Windows phones and EAS and moving off of BlackBerry smartphones.

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Deployment and Performance

David Tesar — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:01:00 GMT

Alexander Nikolayev joins us again to dive deep into the deployment and some performance for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange. We answer questions like:

Where should I place FPE and why?
What is the performance cost of putting FPE on Exchange? [9:27]
Increase in amount of messages processed per second over the previous verison of FPE (Forefront Server Security for Exchange)
Things to think about with deciding how many AV engines you run and how the dynamic engine option works
General Tips on capacity planning

Check out the FPE Capacity Planning Tool
Watch the FPE Anti-Spam Deep Dive video with Alex

Exchange 2010 at Lifetime Products

Adam Bomb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Road Trip!
I tagged along with the Exchange team to shoot some video of some customers who are using Exchange 2010 today.
Our first stop was Lifetime Products - manufacturer of basketball hoops, folding tables and all kinds of other cool stuff.
We talked with the CIO, President and VP of Sales and Marketing about all the new features and benefits they've gotten from Exchange 2010 - their story was even picked up by CIO magazine, you can read about it here.
More videos from our road trip to follow - keep an eye out for them!

The Power of Software-based Communication

Alan Le Marquand — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:49:00 GMT

Today, the means for communicating with one another anytime, anywhere, and from a variety of devices has become limitless with the use of Instant Messaging, VoIP, webcams, text, and email. Could an Enterprise provide these communication tools to its employees and benefit from this culture change?

Unified Communications (UC) provides the capabilities that enable employees to communicate quickly and effectively using software they are familiar with. UC integrates e-mail, telephony, instant messaging, voice mail, calendaring, and audio/video/Web conferencing, and delivers them to different clients securely. For example, employees located across offices in Europe, Asia, and the United States can communicate with one another instantly using Instant Message, video conference, or by initiating a VoIP call.

The Microsoft UC solution is cornered around Exchange Server and Office Communications Server 2007 R2 at the backend; and Office Communicator 2007 R2, Office Live Meeting, and Outlook on the front-end client. So what do these products provide?

Office Communications Server 2007 R2 provides a number of communication services for the clients, such as:

Software-based Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Audio, Video, and Web Conferencing functionality
IM and Presence
Group Chat
Public IM Connectivity
Mobility

These services can be accessed using Office Communicator 2007 R2, which can be installed on a PC and a Windows Mobile Device. Office Communicator provides a web client for use in places like airports and internet cafes, as well as an IP phone version for those who prefer the traditional handset form factor. On the PC, phone or web client, Office Communicator allows you to send an instant message within your own organization or over the public IM network; whereas, the PC client allows you to communicate in-person with VoIP calls and video conference. Communicator supports a wide range of devices for making audio and video calls, either as a one-to-one connection or as group meetings.

This communication goes beyond voice and video. With unified conferencing you can share and collaborate with people located in the next office, on a different floor, in another building, or even in other countries. By using unified conferencing, colleagues can meet and share information such as files and presentations quickly and regularly, regardless of their location.

UC integration goes beyond Communicator with integration into Microsoft Outlook. With Exchange 2010 at the backend, you can integrate e-mail, fax, and voice mail into a single inbox. This integration goes beyond voice mail as it allows you to initiate communication from an e-mail and view presence information about the intended receiver.

Mobility is a key requirement of a truly unified communication solution. Both desktop clients, Office Communicator 2007 R2 and Outlook 2007, are completely mobile and only require an Internet connection to access the backend and thus provide the full capabilities mentioned above while away from the office. With Office Communicator Mobile 2007 R2 you get the familiar Communicator interface on your mobile device, and while not the rich experience of its desktop equivalent, you are still able access to your contact lists, see presence information and Instant Message contact over both public and private IM networks.

By implementing this simplified communications solution, an organization can realize both cost savings and environmental benefits. These resources provide additional details on these benefits:

Communication technology has advanced greatly over recent years and the organizations who have embraced these advances are now finding that they have a number of different systems to manage and maintain, and often from different interfaces. A Unified Communication solution based on OCS 2007 R2 and Exchange Server can integrate with or replace existing systems, providing a single point of management and reducing the communication complexity in your organization.

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange (FPE) Anti-Spam

David Tesar — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:02:00 GMT

Alexander Nikolayev, program manager for FPE, walks us through how all of the anti-spam features work, including the new functionality with FPE over the previous version. After a couple minutes we dive right into the whiteboard walking through the mail flow anti-spam features with connection, protocol, and content filtering.

Since this is a longer interview, here’s how it breaks down. Markers are the round circles in the Silverlight player progress bar.

[5:20 / Marker 1] - How the DNS Block list (DNSBL) feature works, exceptions of when it doesn’t apply, how you know a message was blocked by DNSBL, areas where our DNSBL is better than competitors’ solutions.

[13:47 / Marker 2] – How SMTP filtering works

[19:00 / Marker 3] – How Sender ID filtering works

[21:32 / Marker 4] – Cloudmark engine (content filtering) and performance results with MSIT, frequency of updates with engine, how it is different than competitors’ solutions.

[27:04 / Marker 5] – Estimated Percentage of Spam which is blocked at what spot in the Anti-spam mail flow process based on MSIT deployment of FPE (not including FOPE)

[29:05 / Marker 6] – What is Backscatter and how does it work

[36:40 / Marker 7] – Final tips on backscatter, content filtering, DNSBL, SMTP and sender ID, SPAM and BACON.

Watch a video on the differences between FPE, Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE), and the native capabilities for protection within Exchange 2010.

Visit the Forefront Server Security homepage

System Center Data Protection Manager 2010 and Microsoft Exchange

Dave Morehouse — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:22:00 GMT

Jason Buffington and Leslie Kitz get together for a brief parlay on what's new and exciting in the next version of System Center Data Protection Manager, due out in the spring of 2010.

After discussing how DPM 2010 stacks up, and how 2010 supports Exchange server installations, Jason goes into a demo that shows off DPM's new capabilities in protecting Exchange.

This video is the first of a series.

Forefront Secure Messaging screencast and interview

David Tesar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Cristian Mora Aguilar, Forefront Technical PM, starts off by briefly telling us about Microsoft's secure messaging solution and what business problems it resolves. He then gives us a screencast / demo of some of the cool scenarios enabled and problems solved with the secure messaging solution. Find out how Microsoft products help secure Microsoft Exchange Server.

Exchange 2010 RTM!

Adam Bomb — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT

The big news today is that Exchange 2010 is now code complete. The senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it has been sent to early adopters for a final look before its public release. This Release To Manufacturing (RTM) milestone means we are well on our way to general availability and launch at TechEd Europe in November. For those of you attending TechEd in Berlin this year, be sure to visit the Exchange booth and tell them what you think of the product. I caught some of you on video with Crystal Flores at TechEd US earlier this year…Crystal will be looking for more of you in Berlin in a few weeks. If you can’t join in person, tune in via the Web (www.thenewefficiency.com) to be part of the launch.

End Users and Rights Management Services in Exchange Server 2010

John Andrilla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:15:00 GMT

Check out the TechNet resources for more information about RMS in Windows Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162534) or more information about Exchange Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162539).

Rights Management Services Infrastructure in Exchange Server 2010

John Andrilla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:39:00 GMT

Transport and Journal Decryption in Exchange Server 2010 Rights Management Services

John Andrilla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:38:00 GMT

Integration Overview for Exchange Server 2010 and Rights Management Services

John Andrilla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:36:00 GMT

Ed Banti, a Microsoft Program Manager, presents an overview of new features with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 and Rights Management Services. In this video he presents an overview of integrating Exchange Server 2010 and Rights Management Services.

Server Pre-licensing in Exchange Server 2010 Rights Management Services

John Andrilla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:35:00 GMT

Ed Banti, a Microsoft Program Manager, presents an overview of new features with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 and Rights Management Services integration. In this video he presents information about Server Pre-licensing with Rights Management Services in Exchange Server 2010.

Check out the TechNet resources for more information about RMS in Windows Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162534) or more information about Exchange Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162539).

Setting Up Rights Management Services in Exchange Server 2010

John Andrilla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:34:00 GMT

Ed Banti, Program Manager with Microsoft Exchange presents an overview of new features with Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010 and Rights Management Services integration. In this video he presents "Setting up Rights Management Services on Exchange Server 2010."

Check out the TechNet resources for more information about RMS in Windows Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162534) or more information about Exchange Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=162539).

New Features in Exchange Server 2010 Rights Management Services

John Andrilla — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:33:00 GMT

FPE vs FOPE and Exchange 2010

David Tesar — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Mike Chan, PM for the Forefront team, breaks down the differences between security protection for Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE) and Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE). We start out with a brief history of the messaging products and then dig into the details of differences between FPE and FOPE and how it plugs into Exchange 2010 on the whiteboard at [4:22]. Should you run FPE alone or FPE and FOPE? Watch and decide.

Download the RC for FPE
Visit the FPE homepage

Exchange 2010 Release Candidate

Adam Bomb — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:00:00 GMT

The Exchange 2010 Release Candidate is available today.
In this video, Crystal sits down with Michael Atalla to talk about the scope of the Exchange 2010 beta, and some of the advances Exchange has made over the last 14 years.
Michael and Crystal also talk about some of their favorite features in Exchange 2010
There are already over 10 Million users on Outlook Live today beta testing this release.
Download the RC from the download center.

Exchange 2010 updates for Windows Mobile

David Tesar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:01:00 GMT

Adam Glick shows us the newest Exchange 2010 features for Windows Mobile 6.1/6.5 and explains the goals the team had for the client mobile experience. On his WM 6.5 device, he walks us through conversation view, ignore/move conversation, voice mail preview, voice to text, and get free/busy. Additionally, he tells us about the new allow/block/quarantine phone list and reporting built in to Exchange 2010.

Download the 360-day free beta version of Exchange 2010

Visit the Exchange 2010 TechCenter

Exchange 2010 new Management Features with Astrid McClean

Adam Bomb — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:01:00 GMT

In this visit to Astrid, she showed me a few of the new management features in Exchange 2010. There are many administrative tasks that can now be done via a browser - no management console install required.
There are several things users can now do for themselves, like creating and managing distribution groups, again, via a browser interface.

Snippet of Exchange 2010 High Availability Workshop led by Becky Benfield

Harold Wong — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:37:00 GMT

During Tech Ed 2009, the Exchange team led "informal" Workshop sessions that allowed more intimate interaction between attendees and the presenter / speaker. I was able to capture the last 4 minutes of the Exchange 2010 High Availability Workshop led by Becky Benfield on Friday, May 15th.

Interview with Becky Benfield on Exchange 2010 Site Resiliency at Tech Ed 2009

Harold Wong — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:37:00 GMT

Becky Benfield talks about some of the changes in Exchange Server 2010 that provides a better solution for Site Resiliency compared to Exchange Server 2007.

Interview with Scott Schnoll on Backup Strategy in Exchange 2010

Harold Wong — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:36:00 GMT

Scott Schnoll discusses possible backup strategies for Exchange 2010 considering all the architectural changes made for high availability (DAGs).

Interview with Scott Schnoll on Exchange 2010 High Availability

Harold Wong — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:36:00 GMT

Scott Schnoll shares insights on the new High Availability option in Exchange Server 2010 that provides for better availability of Exchange databases using DAGs.