You might want to change from using availability service to classic public folder usage for accessing and storing free/busy information.
What you have to consider if using free/busy information with public folders in a pure Exchange 2010 environment after installing Exchange without a public folder store?
Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 7:: Free Busy with Exchange 2010
From customers using GALsync in a high secure environmnt we received this request:
" . . . please forward me any documentation you have which details the cryptographic mechanisms used by GALSync, specifically I'd like details of:
Which algorithms are used (I believe you said AES and RSA), Key lengths, key generation and key management, Details of the MS .Net components used.. . "
Find answers below:e
Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 6:: Encryption
Free/busy information are provided in Exchange in a special system folder of a public folder store. This article describes how you can check if free/busy information regarding special users are present. The article is related to Exchange 2000, 2003, 2007 and 2010 (if public folders are present).
Continue reading How to check free/busy information in Exchange
Due to a company take-over we had to modify the primary proxyaddress of users and public folders.
Unfortunatly all tests using ADModify which is a great tool didn't work. A modification with recipient policies and RUS seemed to be too critical, because most addresses had been modified different times and some tests did not have the expected result. So we decided to write some code using Powershell. We used Quest Power GUI with Active Roles Management Shell for Active Directory (free download) and installed .NET 3.1 and Powershell 1.0 on an Exchange 2003 SP2 Server / German language.
In 3 code snippets we delete a given secondary proxyaddress from users in a given group. Then we add a new primary proxyaddress and in third step we change the old primary address into a secondary address.
Continue reading Dealing with SMTP proxyaddresses of users - Powershell Script
Continue reading Modify the primary SMTP address of a Public Folder - Powershell Script
Continue reading Delete a SMTP address of a Public Folder - Powershell Script
Continue reading Setup Exchange 2010 mit Windows 2008 R2
GALsync version 4 provides an important and heavily requested new feature: synchronization of free/busy information.
Aditionally it has a new Look & Feel following Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. Unless we spent a lot of time in developing this feature, this version is a no chargeable upgrade.
see upgrade instructions here . . .
Continue reading Upgrade instructions
You might want to install GALsync v4 on a Windows 2008 R2 member server or Windows 7.
Continue reading GALsync v4, Exchange 2010 and Windows 2008 R2
A lot of administrators are looking for scripts to create test accounts in bulk. NETsec now offers a freeware tool which creates users, groups, contacts, distribution groups. As special feature you can create free/busy information for testing purposes.
The tool works fine with Active Directory and Exchange 200x and makes creation of large numbers of Active Directory objects easy. Great for Exchange consultants and test lab needs.
Download BulkEx for free.
Continue reading Freeware: NETsec publishes Test Data Tool (BulkEx) for test labs
