Building Infrastructure

I was just reminded that the first mass email virus happened eight years ago this week….

Melissa struck my workplace on the afternoon of Friday, March 26.  Fortunately, it was late in the day when Melissa arrived and only a small subset of computers were running Word/Outlook 97.   I was the Exchange admin and this was before most people had any form of email antivirus–so it was a nasty surprise for me (although it wasn’t the end of the world–I did miss a great dinner at one of my favorite restaurants.)

The clean-up was completed overnight (I had already written some VBA scripts to crawl mailboxes for specific file attachments for a different task–and upgrading these to remove Melissa was fairly easy.) 

VBS/LoveLetter in May 2000 was a different story….

Between now and the end of April, Microsoft is holding two webcasts per week on Exchange 2007.  This is more content than what you would get in many courses.  Even if you are planning on attending TechEd or more indepth training, check these out first–if only to avoid asking dumb questions

24 Hours of Exchange Server 2007

Also available are eight “labcasts” over the same period (with each an hour and a half long.)

Exchange Server 2007 Guided Labcasts