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Meeting Notes for May 5, 2005

 Announcements
  • VMWare – Phoenix User Group had first meeting on 05/05/05. Scott Worthington will send out details/info about group.
  • If interested in participating in possible half day workshop on imaging please contact Karra Lawrence
Feature Presentation
  • Exchange Update
    By Nate Wilken

    • Exchange Environment Growth
      • 25% more mailboxes
      • 500% larger quota (250MB)
      • 400% larger mailbox size (65MB)
    • Infrastructure Improvements
      • www.asu.edu/mailbox/experformance.htm
      • Increase storage system performance, capacity, reliability
      • Increase & upgrade Exchange servers
      • Secondary storage email archiving
      • Microsoft Product Support Services Health Checks
      • Mirroring & clustering enabled
    • Customer Best Practices – see www.asu.edu/mailbox/experformance.htm
      • Use Outlook 2003 SP1 on Windows XP SP2 system
      • Keep Outlook updated (office.microsoft.com/officeupdate)
      • Publish less free/busy data & don’t retrieve calendar data in planner
      • Use Exchange Cached mode (only available in Office 2003 & is the default)
      • Use auto-archiving
      • Delegates & Owners should use the same Outlook version
      • Home VPN/Outlook users should change router IP address
    • Email Archiving
      • Automated nightly process, policy-controlled archiving to online secondary storage
      • Archived items will appear as shortcut but seamless access
      • Reduce mailbox size
    • Exchange 2003 Features
      • Improved Outlook 2003 and Outlook Web Access
      • RPC/HTTP reduces VPN need
    • Exchange 2003 Pilot
      • Email group will identify pilot members
      • Hope to begin upgrade to 2003 by end of summer

  • AntiVirus Update
    By Rick Bogan

    • VirusScan Version 8
      • Will be available next week
      • Additional protection – port blocking, buffer overflow, unwanted programs
      • No support for NT
      • Installation Designer – allows you to modify/create config files. When version 8 is made available on ASU web page it will be configured for ASU
      • Uninstall old version first, although Rick has installed over old version with no problem


   
  Updated May 10th, 2005