Enable POP3 in Exchange 2010 and exchange 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124934.aspx

setup SBS 2008 exchang 2007 relay exceptions ... handy for backup program emailing reports

as detailed here
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=373

basically

in the server configuration ... create a received connector. in the wizard put in the ip of the email-origin.

then in permission groups tick exchange server,

in authentication, tick TLS and external-secured...

this is quite handy for 3rd' party program like backup software to send email reports.

Windows server backup wont backup exchange 2007

in the good old days, NTbackup can backup exchange 2003 to a monolithic file.

but, in windows 2008, the builtin windows server backup can't do that anymore.

configure exchange 2007 to allow relay from certain hosts

configure exchange 2007 to allow relay from certain hosts. in the server hub-transport, create a new receive-connector, put sending hosts IP in, tick sending-server auth-itself, and tick exchange server in the other pane.

is shadow protect exchange / sql server

storageCraft's shadow protect, yet to figure out whether its exchange\SQL aware. it seems its SQL2000 aware.

Time to read the manual.