Outbound Disclaimer in Exchange 2007

This has become a very popular request for companies with Exchange server deployed, to have some kind of legal disclaimer attached to every outbound message. Fortunately the process to make this happen has gotten significantly easier in Exchange 2007. No more fooling around with registering event sinks and messy VBScript.

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VirtualCenter 2 with SQL Server 2005

VMware now officially supports running the VirtualCenter database on SQL Server 2005.  As you may have expected there are a few caveats and a handful of configuration items you need to take into consideration.  However, for the most part this is great news and will allow you to *finally* get rid of those SQL Server 2000 servers.

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Introducing TS Server Drain Mode

Terminal Services Server Drain Mode allows an administrator to prevent new logins to a terminal server. It does allow current users to stay connected and even allows disconnected sessions to re-connect and continue working. The Drain Mode feature also works with the new Terminal Services Session Broker Load Balancing.

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Messaging Records Management

Messaging Records Management (MRM) can be used to define polices for retention on specific folders.  You can also target an MRM policy to a specific group.  There is a 10 minute video that explains MRM on the Exchange Team Blog:

http://msexchangeteam.com/videos/9/general/entry442782.aspx

Front End Exchange Server Circular Logging

Essentially if you do not have any user mailboxes stores or public folder stores on an Exchange server that is operating as a front end server, then you can safely enable circular logging.  This will reduce the disk space requirements for the front end server. 

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