Here's a rare "non-technical" post...

 

Casting call for Certification Video

Payment: No Pay

Description: Production Coordinator is looking for well-spoken real Microsoft Certified Individuals (MCP & MCT) —aged 21 or older, all ethnicities and types - to appear as Microsoft testimonials. Most testimonial days last between 2-4 hours and are filmed in the greater Seattle, WA area. Accepted applicants for shooting will be provided with lunch. Pre-Interview is required. (Pre-Interview will take place Week of October 27^th) Testimonial applicants will have had a positive experience with Microsoft Certifications. They will then tell us why they chose to get certified and how being certified impacted their career journey.

Send picture, current job position and a brief description of your Microsoft Certification experience to:Regines@microsoft.com Electronic submissions only.

For the past few months, I've been getting requests from customers about their emails getting bounced from various SMTP servers out on the Internet. Looking at their servers, most of them were issuing outbound SMTP sessions by using the local server FQDN, and not the server name used in MX/SPF records. I instructed a couple of customers t change the FQDN in the properties of the Send Connector, but remembered that another setting had to be change. You also need to change the permissions assigned to the Anonymous Logon by using the following EMS command, if your Mailbox and HT servers are on the same box: Get-SendConnector "NameOfSendConnector" | Remove-ADPermission -User "NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON" -ExtendedRights "Ms-Exch-Send-Headers-Routing"

 

We have all grown to love and enjoy OWA with Forms-Based Authentication. Gives us great security, cookie timeouts, forces us to do SSL--- Wait a sec. What? No. Actually I can do Forms-based authentication WITHOUT SSL. The GUI (in this case the Exchange System Manager) will not let you run it without SSL, unless you modify a reg key. Add a reg dword (value of 1) under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeWeb. This will allow you to run FBA without SSL (disclaimer: only meant to be used in a test environment)

So I've been busy working on so many different projects that I find I'm not learning a lot of new stuff about Exchange 2003 or 2007 these days. I need to get excited, amazed, bewildered, bemused about some new and interesting Exchange topics. Therefore, I decided to start a new series on my blog that will force me to add a new interesting thing about Exchange (any version currently supported) that you may not know. Hopefully we'll keep those OUTSIDE of the pure "trivia" category. Next post will be there first!