Long time no post! Here’s a quick one…

We’ve been testing integration between Exchange 2010, Cisco Unity Connection Server, and Cisco SpeechView. We could see the messages flowing, but were seeing a “sender format error” in the path, so messages weren’t being delivered as expected. It seems that Unity Connection cannot accept the “AUTH=<>” command (Exchange 2010 Hub, by default, uses the extended SMTP feature set, which starts conversations with an EHLO, and includes the AUTH command). If you don’t already have a dedicated send connector set up in Exchange to talk to Unity Connections Server , you’ll need to create one to resolve this. Once you have the send connector configured to talk to Unity, you need to set it so that it will send an HELO instead of EHLO when talking to Unity.

set-sendconnector “Unity” -forceHELO 1

(change the send connector’s name above as appropriate!)

And bazinga! It all works now.

Although there were serveral great books targeted at Exchange 2007 and PowerShell, the market dried up for Exchange 2010.

After writing two other and some training material on Exchange 2010, there wasn’t enough time to update our  PowerShell book, “Professional Windows PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1“ . And the other great Exchange 2007 PowerShell book “Exchange Mangement Shell: TFM” from Ilse Van Criekinge was also not updated for Exchange 2010.  So, I was very happy to see that Packt Publishing got a book on the market to fill the void in the market with “Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook“.

Serious Exchange administrators need to embrace and understand PowerShell to optimize their administrative tasks. This book covers the basics about PowerShell and also gives a number of recipies that you can use in your own environment. This is a very practical guide and will equip you to start make use of PowerShell in your daily administrative tasks.

If you are serious about getting started with PowerShell specific to Exchange 2010, you will want to take a look at this book.

I wrote these white papers a few years ago; the original content host no longer makes them available, so I thought I would post them here as I still get requests for copies. Enjoy!

Continuous Cluster Replication or Single Copy Clustering

Continuous Cluster Replication and Direct Attached Storage

After almost eight years of running the Exchange Exchange community on the various releases of software from the ASP.NET forums linage, we have moved on. The handwriting was on the wall for over a year that migration to another platform was necessary due to changes into how the software was licensed and how support was handled. During that time we’ve been waiting to determine the best platform and how to handle the migration of the years of content our community has helped build. It turned out that there really is no easy way to do to a complete migration.

For the last few weeks we’ve migrated all of the legacy blog data into the new WordPress site and have wrestled with the right way to handle the forums. We have migrated a few of the current topics and continue to work on importing more.

We are committed to supporting an open forum on this site. If we missed migrating your account, please re-register and again join the community.  If your account has been migrated you will need to choose the forgot password option to reset your password as none of the passwords were able to be migrated.

Please be patient and we will return you to your regularly scheduled Exchange content.

UPDATE: If you are having trouble finding the companion content from the O’Reilly site you can download it directly here. (Hint: Use the “Download Example Code” link in the left column of the book’s page here.)

I am happy to announce the availability of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Best Practices by Microsoft Press. This book took about 17 months to complete with the help of over 50 reviewers, contributors, and editors. As you can see from the cover we had some heavy hitters help with the book: David Espinoza, Tony Redmond, Jeffrey Rosen, Andy Schan, and the entire Exchange Server Team.

Also, since we worked so closely with the product team they allowed us to publish information about Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) before it’s public release.

The book covers the typical Exchange topics but it does so with added depth and with over 80 sidebars contributed by a varied cast of Exchange experts: product group members, MCS consultants, MCMs, MVPs, and others.

If you would like to order the book you can do so here.

If you have feedback on the book, please let us know.

 UPDATE (3/22/11)

An excerpt from this book on namespace planning has been published by Windows IT Pro magazine here.