Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange

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Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange provides high-performance, integrated mail protection against viruses, spam and security risks while enforcing company policies on Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 servers. By purchasing a license key, a Symantec Premium AntiSpam subscription can be integrated to provide best-of-breed spam detection without additional administration, installation, or hardware.

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Checklist: Top 10 best practices for securing e-mail clients

This tip originally appeared on SearchExchange.com.

The SANS Institute publishes a Top 20 list of security vulnerabilities. Ranking as the ninth largest vulnerability for Microsoft is its mail client.

To protect Microsoft Outlook, SearchExchange.com resident spam and security expert, Richard Luckett, offers this Top 10 list of things you should do to make your e-mail clients more secure.

This advice is not only for Exchange administrators, but for end users as well. Pass this checklist along to them so they know how to protect themselves.

Top 10 best practices for securing e-mail clients

Home: Introduction
#1: Patch your clients
#2: Configure antivirus software to scan your e-mail clients
#3: Use anti-malware software
#4: Quarantine attachments
#5: Don't be a sucker
#6: Disable unsigned macros
#7: Use Outlook's Junk E-mail filter or install spam-filtering software
#8: Just be plain
#9: Learn to read (e-mail headers, that is)
#10: Digitally sign and encrypt e-mails

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MSD2D Webinar: What You Need to Know About Exchange 2007 High Availability

What You Need to Know About Exchange 2007 High Availability

Microsoft has put a great deal of thought and effort into designing new high availability features for Exchange 2007 - but what can they do for you? This webinar will present the major new HA features in Exchange 2007 and describe where they do, and don't, help solve difficult availability requirements. It'll explore the migration path from Exchange 2003 HA to Exchange 2007 HA and look at areas where investing effort now will pay off when you move up.

The Webcast is hosted by:
Paul Robichaux, Principal Engineer - 3SHARP
Paul Robichaux is an MCSE, and an Exchange MVP. Paul is the author of several books, including Secure Messaging with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (Microsoft Press), and creator of the http://partners.msd2d.com/t?ctl=49742:63B5FC57036D01BAE04C9E58B3A13AAF0CD83620A56156C8

The Webcast is co-hosted by:
David Aschmann, Product Manager - CA XOsoft
David Aschmann brings 10 years of technical industry experience to CA XOsoft.
Prior to CA XOsoft, David spent three and a half years with Microsoft Corporation's Premier Product Support Services organization. In that role, he provided both technical and architectural support to Microsoft's largest customers, with expertise focused on Active Directory, Security, Networking and UNIX/Windows Integration technologies. David's other industry experience includes several years
supporting SMB level customers in a consulting role, architecting and supporting Novell and Microsoft based solutions. He dedicated 2+ years on project teams performing migrations to NT4 for the airline industry.

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http://partners.msd2d.com/t?ctl=49740:63B5FC57036D01BAE04C9E58B3A13AAF0CD83620A56156C8 Web site.

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Outlook 2007 Sample: Ribbon Extensibility Add-In

A new Outlook 2007 sample Add-in: Ribbon Extensibility Add-In.
Brief DescriptionThe Outlook 2007 Ribbon Extensibility Add-In, available in both Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET versions, is a learning tool that will help you understand how to customize the Ribbon for Outlook Inspector windows.
OverviewThe Outlook 2007 Ribbon Extensibility Add-In is a learning tool that will help you understand how to customize the Ribbon for Outlook Inspector windows. It provides coverage of the following important new areas:
How legacy command bar customizations appear in an Outlook Inspector window
How to implement the Office.IRibbonExtensibility interface in an Outlook add-in
Providing Ribbon markup for Ribbon customization depending on the RibbonID string passed in the GetCustomUI callback
Using the IRibbonControl.Context object to find an instance of an Inspector object
Changing the state of Ribbon controls depending on the PropertyChange event for an Outlook item.
For more information, see the article Customizing the Ribbon in Outlook 2007.

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PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista

As you probably know, Exchange Server 2007 is the first Microsoft product to take full advantage of Windows PowerShell. Exchange 2007 includes the Exchange Management Shell, an extended version of PowerShell and every action available through the GUI is also available through the Exchange Management Shell.
With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft released also the installation packages for the new operating system:
Windows PowerShell 1.0 Installation Package for Windows Vista (KB928439)
Windows PowerShell 1.0 Installation Package for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB928439)
Brief DescriptionMicrosoft Windows PowerShell is a new command-line shell and scripting language designed for system administration and automation. Built on the .NET Framework, Windows PowerShell allows IT professionals to manage computers via commands or scripts, improving productivity through system automation.
OverviewWindows PowerShell includes:
One hundred and twenty-nine command-line tools (called “cmdlets”) for performing common system administration tasks, such as managing services, processes, event logs, certificates, the registry, and using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Command-line tools are easy to learn and easy to use with standard naming conventions and common parameters, and simple tools for sorting, filtering, and formatting data and objects.
Support for existing scripting languages and existing command-line tools, and multiple versions of Windows, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server code name “Longhorn”.
Feature that allows users to navigate data stores, like the registry and certificate stores, as if they were a file system.
Standard utilities for managing Windows data in different stores and formats, including Active Directory (ADSI), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Component Object Model (COM) objects, Active X Data Objects (ADO), HTML and XML.
Sophisticated expression parsing and .NET object manipulation at the command line, including pipelining of objects, make IT professionals more efficient and productive.
Extensible interface that allows independent software vendors and enterprise developers to build custom cmdlets to meet their unique application and system administration requirements.

Article by: Rui J.M. Silva

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