I’m very happy to be able to announce we have just made available for download a guide to help those of you intending to migrate from Exchange in /Hosting mode to Exchange 2010 SP2 installed without use of the /hosting switch. Like the previous HMC to Exchange 2010 SP2 guidance , it contains a white paper and some PowerShell scripts. The white paper describes the migration process, and the scripts provide a starting point for your own migration toolkit. Of course the exact migration...

ActiveSyncReport script Download The Exchange support team relatively frequently receives cases where mobile devices using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol send too many requests to Exchange server resulting in a situation where server runs out of resources, effectively causing a ‘denial of service’ (DOS) attack. The worst outcome of such a situation is that the server also becomes unavailable to other users who may not be using EAS protocol to connect...

PST Capture Download Documentation Ask and ye shall receive, mateys! As we announced in July , we are always looking for new ways to make your work easier - especially when your work involves ending PST proliferation. Today, we are happy to announce that PST Capture is now available as a free download. PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment - all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will help reduce...

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center. Note: The post title erroneously referred to Update Rollup 3. It has been updated to reflect the correct rollup number. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU5. See KB 2608656 : Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3' for more details. We would like to specifically call...

The key takeaway from my last post on this topic was that the Resource Booking Assistant never allows double booking of a resource room calendar as a result of a recurring meeting request (please see Automatic Processing of Recurring Meeting Requests with Conflicting Instances ). Since there are times that an administrator may want to allow double-booking, we offered two workarounds that I’d like to address in a bit more depth. I'd also like to offer a third one that wasn’t mentioned...

Some of sharper readers of our documentation talking about schema changes that Exchange makes (see Exchange Server Active Directory Schema Changes Reference, November 2011 ) have noticed that in Exchange 2010 SP2, we have added several things that sound very related to what’s traditionally known as “custom attributes” in Exchange. Specifically: For object class ms-Exch-Custom-Attributes we added: ms-Exch-Extension-Attribute-16 to 45 ms-exch-extension-custom-attribute-1 to 5 There...

To follow on from the recent blog post where I covered changes to hosting scenarios in Exchange Server 2010 SP2 , we have been working on some documents to help our hosting customers migrate to SP2. The first of those is for those customers coming from the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) 4.5. We have just published a paper and a set of scripts to help you with migration. Check out Migrating Exchange from HMC 4.5 to Exchange Server 2010 SP2 . It...

On December 29th, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS11-100 to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability and three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. For details about the vulnerabilities, affected software and update information, see MS11-100 Vulnerabilities in .NET Framework Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2638420) . We have completed testing of the security updates on Exchange 2010, Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2003 servers running on the...

Happy New Year! Kick off 2012 by Geeking out with Perry! In Perry’s recent blog and latest video installment, Perry answers a frequently asked question about our service, “How can you provide large mailboxes at such a low cost?” Perry has discussed large mailbox and storage efficiencies in the past but in this recent blog, he addresses other topics including Time Averaging and Efficient Data Centers, which also help our efforts to be greener .  Haven’t had time to Geek Out...

We wanted to let you know that the Exchange Team Blog is now available in 10 languages! Selected posts are localized and published on a monthly basis. The localized versions of blogs are available here: Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional German Spanish French Italian Japanese Korean Brazilian Russian If you have any recommendations or comments, please comment to this posting. Jan Grodecki (Office International Publishing team)