Philadelphia Area Exchange User Group

Monthly Meeting - February 2012

Chad Manzer — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:38:47 +0000

Start: 02/14/2012 6:00 pm

End: 02/14/2012 8:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Start: 02/14/2012 6:00 pm

End: 02/14/2012 8:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

We will be discussing everyones favorite topic in Exchange 2010, Public Folder migration.

We will be meeting at Microsoft's Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor.

When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.

You can also call Bhargav's cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad's cell (610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.

If you are planning to attend remotely, please let us know and we will provide a meeting URL.

Monthly Meeting - January 2012

Bhargav Shukla — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:26:14 +0000

Start: 01/10/2012 6:00 pm

End: 01/10/2012 8:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Start: 01/10/2012 6:00 pm

End: 01/10/2012 8:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

We plan to make this open discussion and might include some Lync/OCS discussions this month. Bring your questions.

We will be meeting at Microsoft's Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor.

When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.

You can also call Bhargav's cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad's cell(610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.

December 2011 Monthly Meeting

Bhargav Shukla — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:20:12 +0000

Start: 12/13/2011 6:00 pm

End: 12/13/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Start: 12/13/2011 6:00 pm

End: 12/13/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Staying true to holiday spirit, we are planning to keep this a very fun meeting. See you at the meeting.

Monthly Meeting - November 8

Chad Manzer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:44:45 +0000

Start: 11/08/2011 6:00 pm

End: 11/08/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Start: 11/08/2011 6:00 pm

End: 11/08/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

November's meeting will be all about Exchange 2010 SP2. We will discuss what is new and changed as well as have a demo to show off.

We will be meeting at Microsoft's Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor.

When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.

You can also call Bhargav's cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad's cell(610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.

Monthly Meeting - October 11

Chad Manzer — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:43:10 +0000

Start: 10/11/2011 6:00 pm

End: 10/11/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Start: 10/11/2011 6:00 pm

End: 10/11/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

We have an exciting meeting comming up. F5 will comming to discuss their products as it relates to exchange. We will have exciting giveaways and good food. Please sign up below ASAP!

As usual we will be meeting at Microsoft's Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor at the end of the hall.

When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.

You can also call Bhargav's cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad's cell(610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.

If you will be attending virtually please reach out to us and we can provide an online meeting URL.

BinaryTree

Chad Manzer — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:38:49 +0000

BinaryTree will be comming on site at our next user group meeting. We will be discussing migration planning as well as their new E2E migration tool. We are planning on having some exciting givaways for this meeting so be sure to signup on the meeting event.

Looking fordward to seeing everyone there.

Personal Blog

Chad Manzer — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:37:11 +0000

Since I no longer keep a personal blog I may as well share my inner thoughts here on PhillyExUG. Things have been crazy busy at work which has really pulled me away from the things I love; my wife; home improvement projects; and music. Tonight I took some time to myself to finish off something I had been working on for a while now. I have off-and-on toyed with actually selling music under the band name "8 Guys From Naples" where I am the sole member. While I'm a fair ways from finishing a complete album I wanted to share the latest song which i still dont have a name for, I am calling it "test" or "sound check" on the debut album I am planning on titling "Reunion." Enjoy!

Monthly Meeting - September 13

Chad Manzer — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:19:11 +0000

Start: 09/13/2011 6:00 pm

End: 09/13/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Start: 09/13/2011 6:00 pm

End: 09/13/2011 9:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

BinaryTree will be presenting on their new E2E migration product, the meeting will cover:

1) A Brief History of Exchange Migration Tools

2) Large void created in move from Ex5.5 to Ex2000
a)Vendors (NetIQ/Bindview/Quest) focused on technical challenge of migrating data with fidelity
(i) Outlook/MAPI approaches
(ii) Agent based approaches
b) Eventually they succeeded- Companies sought to maximize investment in their method
c) Led to stagnation- Ex2007 to Ex2010 migration tools, fundamentally identical to Ex5.5 tools
d) Exchange has evolved, but legacy products have not

3) Migrating Exchange bits on a wire is a commodity
a) Fidelity is base expectation
b) Data access is taken for granted
c) Only speed of migration is somewhat seen as a differentiator

4) Binary Tree understands this new reality
a) Moving mailboxes is easy. Moving end users is hard

5) What Makes it hard?

6) What challenges face our Administrators?

7) What challenges face our Users?

8) Technical Overview of Binary Tree Approach
a) Use latest and greatest Microsoft technology
b) Product Architecture

We will have some exciting giveways for this meeting so be sure to signup below!

We will be meeting at Microsoft's Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor.
When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.

You can also call Bhargav's cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad's cell(610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.
This meeting is also available remotly at https://join.microsoft.com/meet/bshukla/RJ2LZK95

Working with Windows PFX files and other systems

Chad Manzer — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:43:46 +0000

If you have multiple servers on different platforms that need to use the same SSL certificate, such as in a load-balancer environment or UC SSL certificates, you can export the certificate from the Windows certificate store to .pfx file and then convert the file to individual certificate and private key files and use it on an Apache server or anything else which requires the public and private keys in plain text in separate files. You should take care to prevent unauthorized access to the private key, since with this file a rogue server could be set up to perform a man-in-the-middle attack or client traffic could be routed to this rogue server via a dns exploit or social engineering.

If you are looking for a good windows port of OpenSSL, I typically use Win32 OpenSSL v1.0.0d Light version from: http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

Exporting to a PFX file:

Click on the Start menu and click Run.

Type in mmc and click OK.

Click on the File menu and click Add/Remove Snap-in...

Click on the Add button. Double-click on Certificates.

Click on Computer Account and click Next.

Leave Local Computer selected and click Finish.

Click the Close button. Click OK.

Click the plus sign next to Certificates in the left pane.

Click the plus sign next to the Personal folder and click on the Certificates folder. Right-click on the certificate you would like to export and select All Tasks and then Export...

In the Certificate Export Wizard click Next

Choose "Yes, export the private key" and click Next.

Click the checkbox next to "Include all certificates in the certification path if possible" and click, Next.

Enter and confirm a password. This password will be needed whenever the certificate is imported to another server. (you will also need this password when processing this file with OpenSSL in a few more steps)

Click Browse and find a location to save the .pfx file to. Type in a name such as "myEncryptedCert.pfx" and then click Next.

Click Finish. The .pfx file containing the certificates and the private key is now saved to the location you specified.

Converting the PFX using OpenSSL:

Run the openssl command from where it was installed to from a command prompt:

openssl pkcs12 -in myEncryptedCert.pfx -out myPlaintextCert.txt –nodes

In the “myPlainTestCert.txt” file will be the public and private key. These can be copied into their own files if the public and private keys need to be in seperate files.

Private key will starts with “-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----“

Public key starts with “-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----“

August Monthly Meeting

Chad Manzer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:05:12 +0000

Start: 08/16/2011 6:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Start: 08/16/2011 6:00 pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

In August's meeting we will discuss OAB generation failures and possible causes and maybe a few fixes.

We will be meeting at Microsoft's Malvern office (45 Liberty Blvd, Malvern, PA 19355). The Microsoft office is located on second floor.

When you arrive, please inform security that you are attending the Exchange User Group event and they will grant you access to the building.

You can also call Bhargav's cell (570) 709-9046 or Chad's cell(610) 973-7123 to gain access if needed or you have any questions.

This meeting is also available remotly at https://join.microsoft.com/meet/bshukla/8F4MN3D6

Please note the date is August 16th which is a week later than typical.