Wednesday, July 2, 2008

More on Exchange 2007

So the saga continues on Exchange 2007. After building the first server and getting it pretty close to being finished we decided to change the holding company's name and I thought it best to do the same with the domain name and I felt better about rebuilding all the servers than changing them in AD and Exchange.

With that said, the new server is online, receiving and sending mail for test accounts and running through a Vircom ModusGate mail gateway appliance. They use their own proprietary engine (as opposed to most of the others which use the SpamAssassin open source engine. I've personally done a lot of work with hand-built Linux boxes running SpamAssassin but in this instance I wanted to go with a low-manitenance, company-supported product that just about anyone can pick up and maintain. It uses Windows Server 2003 as the OS with their proprietary mail engine. It also has the now fashionable mailboxes that quarantine the mail. This is an area that's weak in the open-source world as most system administrators who build SpamAssassin based systems unless you're willing to roll your own.

Anyhow, next thing will be to get the auto-configure for the client going, then the Outlook Anywhere as I'll probably configure most of the clients to work that way.

Good resource at this blog, BTW.... here and here.

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