Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 Help File

Download standalone version of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Help file, an offline copy of Exchange Server TechNet in CHM format.

The Exchange Server 2007 SP2 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this information to guide you through Exchange Server 2007 SP2 features, tasks, and administration procedure.

Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=85c5ef71-6a1f-4eb0-9ff3-3feee6057e96

Transport rules with "When *XYZ* contain specific words" condition changes after UR9 or SP2

Prior to Exchange 2007 SP1 UR9 transport rule actions like “When* XYZ* Contains Specific Words” used to search the strings and matches even if it is a substring contained by any of the words.

For Example: If you define “change” as the specific word, any words that contains “change” as a substring, such as “Exchange” or “changes” considered matches.

But this behaviour is changed starting with Update Rollup 9 for Exchange 2007 SP1 and with Exchange 2007 SP2, these conditions match only actual word.

• If you have any of transport rules with these conditions to match only the actual word, no action is require and existing rules will be recompiled after Update Rollup 9 or Exchange 2007 SP2 is installed and the Exchange Transport service is restarted.
• If you have any such rule with these conditions to search for pattern then it will not work after Update Rollup 9 or Exchange 2007 SP2 are installed and you have to rebuild your transport rules with “When* XYZ* contains text patterns” instead of “When *XYZ* contains specific words”. 

So keep this in mind while updating Exchange 2007 with Update Rollup 9 of Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2!

* = where XYZ could be subject, body, from address, or header.

In coexistence with MessagingTalk.org!

As you know that I post tips and tricks related to Exchange server on this blog, now I also started contributing full content articles at MessagingTalk.org. Mr. Shaji Firoz, Exchange Server MVP and owner of MessagingTalk.org, invited me to contribute technical articles for Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 on his site and I am glad using this competent opportunity I stepped ahead writing detailed technical articles in coexistence with posting troubleshooting tips, solution of known issue or reviews here…

I have already delivered below articles on MessagingTalk.org which I am sure you would love to have a review. So stay tuned for many new articles on Exchange 2007 and 2010 there…

• Exchange 2010 RC: Quick Installation Guide
• Configuring Exchange 2007 to Accept Email for Additional Domain
• Exchange Details Templates

You can also subscribe to RSS Feed of MessagingTalk.org in your feed reader or in Outlook to receive the article alerts in real-time!

Exchange 2010: RC Available Now!

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 RC helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. And when you download the latest software, you’re automatically registered to access valuable product resources assembled in one convenient location.

Please review the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 system requirements before you proceed.

Download Here: Exchange 2010 RC

Exchange 2007: OWA Themes Selection

End-user can choose the OWA appearance from 4 different themes available by default in Exchange 2007 SP1.

Users need to go to, Options –> General Settings –> Appearance –> Select Anyone…

• Seattle Sky (Default OWA Theme)
• Carbon Black
• Xbox®
• Zune™

Q: What to do if this option is not visible in OWA?
A: This options is visible only if ThemeSelectionEnabled option enabled on OWA virtual directory. You can verify it with below cmdlet.

Get-OwaVirtualDirectory "owa (default web site)" | FL Name, ThemeSelectionEnabled

If value of ThemeSelectionEnable option shows False, you can set it to true with below cmdlet.

Set-OwaVirtualDirectory "owa (default web site)" –ThemeSelectionEnabled $True

Q: What to do if you want to force anyone of the theme globally for all users?
A: You can set the theme globally for all users with “DefaultTheme” parameter of Set-OwaVirtualDirectory cmdlet.

Question is how do we give the name of theme since powershell doesn’t support special character available in the name of themes, like Xbox® & Zune™. Instead of giving name of theme we can give the directory name of the theme where the files of a theme are located.

You can find all theme directories at “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\ClientAccess\Owa\8.1.xxx.x\themes” (where xxx.x differs based on the SP & UR installed).

Directory Name	Theme
Base	Seattle Sky
1	Carbon Black
2	Xbox®
3	Zune™

So we can pass the directory name in the “DefaultTheme” parameter of Set-OwaVirtualDirectory cmdlet to select the default theme globally. To select Xbox theme globally we can run below cmdlet and restart the IIS service to make it effective.

Set-OwaVirtualDirectory "owa (default web site)" -DefaultTheme 2 -ThemeSelectionEnabled $False
IISReset /NoForce

Q: What happens if we don’t disable Theme Selection while setting up specific theme globally?
A: You would have seen that I added a parameter “ThemeSelectionEnabled” with value $False to disable Theme Selection while setting up OWA theme globally.

If ThemeSelectionEnable option is set to $True while setting up OWA theme globally, it applies only on the users who login first time in OWA, and for the users who have already login, don’t see new theme applied and they need to choose from Options –> General Settings manually.

But ThemeSelectionEnable optionis set to $False, new theme applies to all users in the organization.

Default OWA Themes

Seattle Sky	Carbon Black	Xbox®	Zune™