From the End-user’s perspective, you see the same graphical interface and it is easy to assume, that you are dealing with the same plain old Dumpster and Recover Deleted Items in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Web App. Moreover, the enhanced Dumpster functionality is not enabled out of the box, and nothing in Exchange Management Console suggests about its availability.

In reality, the whole concept about the dumpster has been updated and in Exchange 2010 we get a totally redesigned Dumpster version 2.

In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to enable, configure and use Single Item recovery in Exchange 2010. As you will see, once the Purges and Versions subfolders come into play, we get the so called Immutability in Exchange 2010:
- When the end-user purges an item, it is not removed from the mailbox but simply placed in the Purges subfolder, where it is kept for the specified by us retention period.
- When an item is modified, Copy-on-write protection takes place and a copy of the original item is placed in the Versions subfolder.
- Dumpster content (Recoverable Items Folder) is indexable and we can use Multi-mailbox search to find items based on predefined criteria.

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It is important to know, that even though Search Service is automatically installed with SharePoint 2010 Foundation, out of the box the Search Service is not started and configured.

In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to start and configure SharePoint Foundation Search.

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In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to plan the sites and subsites in your SharePoint site collection. You will see how to create and customize a subsite, so it fits better your team needs. In addition, you will learn how to import new site templates to the existing set of SharePoint site templates, and how to save and export an existing SharePoint site as a template.

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Some people prefer the graphical user interface – Exchange Management Console, while other specialists favor the command line – Exchange Management Shell. We address both approaches in our Screencasts, when generating the CSR (Certificate Signing Request).
First, we will show you how to generate a renewal CSR in Exchange Management Console, by using the Renew Exchange Certificate option. Most Exchange administrators hit a problem when using this option and we discuss in details how to generate the CSR with the correct encoding.
Another way to generate a CSR, when renewing Exchange 2010 trusted SSL certificate, is using Exchange Management Shell, and we demonstrate this approach too.

At the end of our Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to export an SSL certificate to a PFX (Personal Information Exchange) file, which can be used later to restore the certificate or install it on a different server.

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In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to add a domain to Office 365 – Plan P, when using partial redelegation. Effectively, you keep your existing Web Site and DNS zone at your current DNS hosting provider.

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As you will see, the process of adding a domain to Office 365 E plan is more complex. On the first place, there is no way to fully redelegate your DNS zone and you need to create the required DNS records manually.

In addition, you have to be careful when specifying Domain services for the domain which you have added, as your root domain cannot be assigned to SharePoint Online together with any other service – Exchange or Lync. Instead, you need to add a third level domain and assign it specifically to your SharePoint Public Website.

As usual, we are following our Step-by-Step approach and at the end we demonstrate the new domain in action: creating a new Global Administrator, configuring Outlook Anywhere and setting a mobile iPad client.

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In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to add a Domain to Office 365 in plan P3. There are two methods to verify your domain – adding a TXT record and adding an MX record, and we demonstrate both of them. As you will see, P plans provide the option to point the Name Servers of your domain to Microsoft’s DNS servers and use the so called Fully Redelegated DNS zone. Effectively, this means that you are switching the administration of the DNS zone to Microsoft, and the required DNS records will be created automatically for you. In addition, if in the future new services are added to your plan, the required DNS records will be created again, automatically.

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Using http redirection for the Default Web Site and forwarding all requests to the OWA directory might seem as an easy approach but it brings up two problems. First, changes in the root directory settings are propagated automatically to all subfolders and affect all Exchange virtual directories. Cleaning up the mess and restoring the default settings of the subdirectories should be done manually. Second, the permissions of the web.config file, generated under the OAB directory prevent local Outlook users as well as remote Outlook Anywhere users from downloading the Offline Address Book – adjusting the security settings of this file is required.

In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate how to configure OWA in Exchange 2010 CAS server as the default web page. The Exchange 2010 server is running on Windows Server 2008 R2, and we are dealing with IIS7.5.

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An organization can choose to not have an EDGE server and still have a fully functional messaging environment. As we demonstrate in our Screencast Exchange Server 2010 Initial Configuration, you can configure an Exchange 2010 Hub Transport server to receive directly messages from the Internet.
However, a standard Exchange server is an attractive target. In case of a security breach it might allow an attacker access to mailboxes and Active Directory data. Here comes into play the Edge server as a lean, locked-down standalone version of Exchange server. The data, synchronized one way – from the internal AD into the local instance of AD LDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service) is hashed, which makes it of little use to an attacker. In addition, the EDGE server is running a truncated version of Exchange Management tools. As you will see, the EMC (Exchange Management Console) is showing data just for the local Edge server and has quite a limited functionality. The same way EMS (Exchange Management Shell) supports a limited set of cmdlets.

In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, we demonstrate the installation and initial synchronization of Exchange 2010 SP1 Edge Transport server on Windows 2008 R2 OS.

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In the following Step-by-Step video tutorial, you will see how to configure Smart Host in Small Business Server 2011.

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