I have a bunch of swag and I'd like to find it a good home. Some of it is fun new stuff (Exchange Communities "Road Warrior" kits (including mini-USB mouse etc) and a nifty one-handed stapler/tape dispenser), the rest is mainly legacy gear [oops I mean...

To try help local Exchange User Groups, we'll have a few posts related to the subject. We want to help build stronger Exchange community! You are invited to attend the first ever Austin Exchange User Group Meeting! Are you interested in learning more...

Someone asked the following, so I thought I would try and address the issue as I think it is one that is commonly misunderstood: Could you enlighten us on what happens when an Outlook user uses the permissions tab on a folder to grant access to other...

CALL TO ACTION A change in Exchange permissioning behavior may impact mobile communications and other add-on applications for Exchange. Shared and resource mailboxes may also be affected. By evaluating in advance whether this change will impact your environment...

With Beta 2 approaching, Exchange "12" needed a name. I know the suspense has been killing everyone. Well the wait is finally over: Exchange Server 2007 If you keep hearing the team talk about "E12" , "12", or "Exchange 12" - please understand - it's...

Seems like yesterday that Exchange 4.0 hit the market. In March of 1996 Exchange 4.0 was released. I thought I would give you a link for the geeks among you that have been along for the ride and for those that go even further back to ALL-IN-ONE, MailWorks...

We've seen a few issues recently where members of DGs (Distribution Groups) in mixed-mode Exchange 200x and 5.5 seem to randomly and mysteriously disappear. We thought we'd share one known root-cause and also show you how to prevent the problem while...

Here is a great opportunity for few "right" customers. If you might be interested, please respond to "michael DOT liu AT microsoft DOT com" and I will set up a call with you to go through details. The Exchange team is currently recruiting our best global...

Recently we have been seeing several issues in Support Services where Event ID 623 is being logged on the server. The symptoms include "Users unable to access their inbox", "Email backing up in the local delivery queue" and "Email awaiting directory lookup...

Recently MSIT wanted to make some global changes to the retention time of public folders. In the past we had a global limit of 3 years retention on items in public folders. The plan was to change the default limit to 1 year, and then exempt folders as...

This is my 4 th blog post on the subject of Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent. If you want to see previous posts, you can see them here: one , two and three . The listings of Mailboxes that are registered on any given server are currently homed in the SystemMailbox...

Hi All, I thought I would introduce myself to the BLOG-O-Sphere, my name is Scott Roberts and I'm a Software Developer in Test for the Exchange Sustained Engineering team. One of my responsibilities on the Exchange team includes being part of a team that...

If you are following Eileen's blog - you already know about this, but for you that don't... A few more Exchange 12 WebCasts are coming up. Mark your calendars! Here are the subjects: TechNet Webcast: Improvements to Calendaring in Exchange "12" (Level...

Introduction This is the first of a four part Web log where I will focus on the different server roles in Exchange 12 and their disk I/O characteristics. Over the next few months I'll be addressing other Exchange 12 storage concerns in three upcoming...

Be the first to know about upcoming Microsoft Betas! Register to receive updates on the Exchange "12" public beta via a customized Microsoft TechNet Flash Newsletter! Find out more here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/beta/preregister.mspx...

A while ago, I blogged about Exchange Server Profile Analyzer tool here . We now have some updates! We are pleased to announce the availability of the Exchange Server Profile Analyzer WR2.5. The new version can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download...

This release of ExPTA includes the following: 1. Perfmon data collection: C ollect performance data to log file or analyze previously collected logs. ExPTA can collect for durations between 5 minutes to 8 hours. Collection works remotely. Data is analyzed...

We wanted to announce the new major build of ExBPA that we released today: v2.6 (U.S. English). We did a lot of work to improve usability of the tool in this release. Here are the major differences and improvements that we have made since ExBPA v2.5:...

Background Exchange 2003 introduced the Always Up To Date notification feature (AUTD) that kept devices up to date by sending SMS triggers to the device. The triggers were sent from the enterprise as SMTP messages to the SMTP front end at the mobile operator...

I just posted instructions on how to create this OWA theme on my blog: In addition to the cow look, it also has a moooooooooooo for a new mail sound, and a cowbell for the reminder. Have fun! - KC Lemson

We are happy to announce a new per user licensing model, branding and roadmap for Exchange Hosted Services (EHS) - formerly FrontBridge Technologies. Exchange Hosted Services provides a fully managed hosted service solution for email archiving, filtering...

Seeing that the Exchange 12 CTP build has been available for some time now, we have learned that some of our customers that are not on Exchange 12 TAP program have been installing Exchange 12 into their production environment. Unfortunately, those experiments...

With the development of OAB version 4 in Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP2 you may want to verify your Outlook clients are using OAB version 4. If your clients are still using OAB version 3 they cannot take advantage of all the new features offered...

Lately I've seen a lot of questions regarding the use of homeMDB in policy filters. I want to use this post to explain the reason that ExBPA warns about this, and hopefully clear up the confusion about how to address this. Linked Value Replication is...

As mentioned before - we now have CTP build of Exchange 12 those of you that have MSDN and TechNet subscriptions can install it. One issue that seems to come up frequently for those of you that have tried installing this build is the following error at...