If you've installed Exchange Server, there's a really good ( ok , near 99.999%) chance at some point you've needed to look at the documentation to figure out how to do something. It's a big product. There's a lot of stuff you can do with it. But when...

When we introduced the Exchange Management Shell with Exchange 2007, we included a banner every time the shell opens. This is what the banner looks like: The top part of the banner includes common commands that should make your life easier if you...

This blog article is based on a wiki page that I created for our Exchange 2010 SP2 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) private wiki site. This new syntax will make it into the Modifying Multivalued Properties topic when SP2 ships. Since the syntax also...

If you're new to Exchange 2010 SP1 and need to learn how to assign permissions to your administrators or other specialist users (such as employees who perform records searches), check out Understanding Permissions . This topic walks you setting up permissions...

If you've downloaded and installed Exchange Server 2010 (if you haven't, why not? :) see my post below for information on how to get your hands on it), be sure you head on over to the Exchange 2010 forums . There, you can talk with other people like yourself...

Exchange 2010 Beta bits, get em while they're hot! Exchange 2010 is available now for download. We've worked for two and a half years to create the most advanced e-mail system available. There are dozens of new features in every area of the product...

Here’s an interesting blog post explaining how a single routing error made by a small ISP in Europe caused a world-wide “Internet meltdown” a couple of days ago. Basically a bad routing update was propagated amongst routers across the net, many routers...

I ran across a nifty little utility for my cell phone over the weekend: Live Search Mobile . It’s a small application that you can install on Windows Mobile and Blackberry devices that provides a slick front-end to the Live Search service. When you open...

OK this is exciting for me – I’ve been waiting a couple years to post something… anything …on the next version of Exchange. Finally I can :) KC Lemson and Jim Lucey from the Exchange team provided an introductory look at “Exchange 14” (E14) today in a...

If you want to learn more about Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, check out the “ How Do I?” videos that we’ve published in the Exchange TechCenter library. These videos combine narration and step-by-step procedures recorded on test servers. There are some...

Be sure to read the release notes to learn about known issues with the current beta release. In particular, be sure that you read about the issue that impacts MP3 files that are be accessed by the Windows 7 installation, either on the local computer or...

Microsoft released Windows 7 Beta today. Head on over to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx to download your copy. You can choose 32 or 64 bit in English, German, Japanese, Arabic and Hindi. You might need to try a few times ...

The Windows PowerShell and Windows Remote Management (WinRM) teams recently released updates to their products. Windows PowerShell v2.0 has many new features and improvements over v1.0. The most notable is the integrated scripting environment (ISE). The...

Oh man, did I ever do a lot of umm, 'testing' today with the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. I've spent a few hours bouncing around to many web sites seeing how Beta 2 handles the various designs, coding styles, etc. If you used Beta 1, you probably used...

The Windows Home Server team released Power Pack 1 today. It's been a long road for the Home Server team and I have to imagine, a pretty big learning experience. We always want to release the best software we can but being part of the beta audience for...

You think some things will never end...you think your parents will live forever, that a relationship will never fade, that you have all the time in the world. And then reality hits. Today that reality hit for me again when Bill Gates officially ended...

I might have to go back to Vegas again :) Harrah's in Las Vegas just launched Microsoft Surface in the iBar at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino . They've added several apps to the Surface that are really tailored for social interaction in the bar...

A few days ago we enabled community annotation on our Exchange Server 2007 documentation (Exchange Server 2003 documentation got this a few months ago). Community annotation enables you to add your own mark to our docs so that you can share things you...

I can't wait for Exchange 14 to hit the streets. The Exchange team recently held a demo day where we all got together to see all the new features being packed into the next release of Exchange. That weekend I got Exchange 14 up and running on my home...

Microsoft Research released a beta version of WorldWide Telescope last night. This is the amazing program I talked about recently that lets you explore the sky like never before. Take a look at a couple of screen shots I've taken: Binary star system Supernova...

On Thursday Microsoft and AT&T launched Microsoft Surface at five of AT&T's retail stores in four cities across the US: New York, Atlanta, San Antonio and San Francisco. The deployments at the AT&T stores enable you to view wireless coverage...

If you're new to Windows PowerShell and Exchange Server 2007, take a look at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/message/exch2007/default.mspx?mfr=true . The link goes to the Exchange Server 2007 Script Repository which contains...

It was my birthday last week (Happy Birthday to meee) and my wife got me a few things...some books, a Sirius radio setup for my car (channel 14 kicks butt) and...a little RC helicopter! Everyone who knows me knows I'm a complete gadget freak so naturally...

Ed Beck announced that we have released the English language version of the prerequisite check file for Exchange Server SP1 setup that will allow you to install Exchange 2007 SP1 in a single label Active Directory domain. You can find all the instructions...

As you know we're working on Exchange 14, the next version of Exchange Server. As part of that work we're taking a look at how we write content for all of the features of Exchange. I'm working on defining the guidelines for how we write the content for...