Configuring outgoing email in SharePoint 2010 with Exchange 2010 – Step by Step Guide
In my last article I provided you with a guide in setting up your SharePoint 2010 farm providing it with the capabilities in receiving incoming email which can then be delivered directly to your SharePoint libraries and or lists. Today we wrap up our 2 part series on email flow in SharePoint 2010 in which I will provide you with another step by step guide in configuring your SharePoint Farm in order for it to send outgoing emails through your Microsoft Exchange server. The environment This article builds on the SharePoint Farm setup that I have documented here. It consists of the following...
Read MoreiPhone 3.1 breaks Exchange ActiveSync – The fix
After yesterday’s announcement made by Apple with regards to the latest iTunes version 9 and iPhone OS 3.1, I decided to update both and take advantage of the new features. After updating iTunes to version 9, I docked my iPhone which then detected that an update was available in which it then proceeded and installed successfully. However! When I decided to look at my work Exchange ActiveSync Account I received the following popup as per the below screen shot. “The account “” requires encryption which is not supported on this iPhone” My iPhone is the 3G model which apparently does...
Read MoreIntegrating Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management with SharePoint Document Libraries – Part 2
Welcome back to the final post in this 2 part series, Integrating Exchange 2007 MRM with SharePoint Document Libraries. Today’s post will wrap things up by going through the process of mail enabling an existing SharePoint document library and creating a new managed content setting in Exchange 2007 providing us with the ability to journal a copy of all messages moved into our “Project XYZ” managed folder located in Outlook, into our Shared collaborative Document Library under our Project Team Site. Recall from part 1, that the objective of integrating Exchange MRM with SharePoint is to...
Read MoreIntegrating Exchange 2007 Messaging Records Management with SharePoint Document Libraries – Part 1/2
There are two technologies in my IT Pro life that I am very passionate about, SharePoint and Exchange, so why not incorporate both passions in a single blog post. In this two part series I will be discussing how we can manage email records from our Exchange mailboxes and archive them in SharePoint Document Libraries for compliance or collaboration reasons. Exchange 2007 introduced a great new feature set in the name of “Messaging Records Management” or commonly referred to as MRM. Managed Default Folders is a key component of MRM which will assist us in achieving our archiving...
Read MoreOutlook Web Access redirection via Microsoft ISA 2006
We all know from experience that advising end users to browse to https://mail.yourdomain.com/OWA if you are running Exchange 2007 or /exchange if you are running Exchange 2003 is usually problematic . Oh! and did I forget to mention that it’s HTTPS and not http! We must admit that not all end users are likely going to remember this URL and at times even struggle to distinguish the difference between secure and non secure sites. Well if you are running ISA 2006 as an edge or secondary application layer firewall then we can easily simplify the URL that we will publish to our end users...
Read MoreExchange.. Thou shall not forward
I came across a minor situation today when setting up a forwarding rule against an Exchange Public folder. Having done this many times in the past, I knew I would get this accomplished in a matter of minutes. So I began by creating the Public Folder, mail enabling it and then when into the properties of the public folder itself to create a rule which would forward the items as they arrive to multiple recipients both internal and external to the organisation. The forwarding was behaving as expected for internal recipients but none of the external recipients were receiving the emails that...
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