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It looks like there will be 3 separate Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exams for Exchange 2007; MS is revamping their exams as part of the move from the MCSE to the new Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) certification. However, they don’t seem to have released any more details on the exams, which is a little disappointing given how close we are to the product’s launch. Hopefully they’ll publish the exam syllabus fairly soon so we can all start studying 🙂

In my experience, Exchange’s message tracking functionality is pretty darn useful. I don’t use it often, but when I do, it’s a great timesaver. However, the existing Exchange 2003 GUI is a little clunky; sometimes it would be nice to be able to quickly get the status of a message directly from the command line.

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Nice to see IBM getting with the program; they’ve just relaunched the Domino team blog. I hope it focuses on substantive technical information (like the Microsoft Exchange team blog) instead of marketing argumentation; we have enough of that already.

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Back in May, an attendee at one of my webcasts asked if I could point her to a script for querying mailbox sizes on a set of Exchange servers. I flagged her message to remind me to answer it and (drum roll) am just now getting to that folder of flagged items.
So, the answer is: you can start with this script from Michael B. Smith; it will give you the mailbox size information without touching the last login date on the mailbox. It doesn’t constrain output to a range of dates, but that should be a fairly simple addition.

As promised, here’s my TechNet Radio segment. I hope you find it as much fun to listen to as I did to record!

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I’m a big fan of Microsoft’s “IT Showcase” series, which highlights how Microsoft uses its own technologies (aka “eats its own dog food”, or just “dogfoods”) to solve business problems. I didn’t know they’d expanded the showcase to include podcasts, though. This episode covers some of the key points of Microsoft’s spam, virus, and e-mail security infrastructure. Pretty interesting stuff, including a discussion of how they’re using Exchange 2007’s Edge Transport role as their primary perimeter system.

Microsoft’s Walter Stiers posted this on his blog last week, and I’m just now getting around to it. The bottom line: you can get some Microsoft-led online Exchange 2007 training for free by hitting the Exchange learning portal. This is a great deal for IT folks and a good move for MS– it’s often difficult to get training into a budget this late in the year.

I just got off the phone with Chris Avis of Microsoft’s TechNet Radio podcast series; we chatted about Exchange 2007, PowerShell, unified messaging, and my lame Xbox 360 skills. The podcast will go live next Tuesday; I’ll post a link to it when it’s up.