We’re excited to announce the availability of the Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant at http://technet.microsoft.com/exdeploy2013 . The Exchange Deployment Assistant is a web-based tool that helps you deploy Exchange 2013 in your on-premises organization, configure a hybrid deployment between your on-premises organization and Office 365, or migrate to Office 365. It asks you a small set of simple questions and then, based on your answers, creates a customized checklist...

Yesterday we announced worldwide availability of the new Microsoft Office 365 services for businesses, including the new Exchange Online and introducing Exchange Online Protection. Since launching in 2011, Office 365 has become the fastest growing business in Microsoft history and we’re excited to be an important part of it. As we had mentioned in July , we have been hard at work building the new service to better prepare customers of all sizes for the future of communications...

Ahoy, Exchange Ninjas! It’s time to buckle up and go PST hunting again with the new PST Capture 2.0! Earlier this week, we released a brand new version of the free PST Capture tool that allows you to hunt down PST files on client computers across your network. After it finds PST files on users’ computers, the tool consolidates the PST files to a central location, and then easily injects PST data to primary or archive mailboxes on your on-premises Exchange Servers or Exchange Online...

We are pleased to be able to announce the oft-requested Hosting and Multi-Tenancy Guidance for Exchange Server 2013 document. It is available for download here . As the keen eyed reader will observe, it is very similar to the guidance for Exchange Server 2010. That’s not because all we did was a find, copy and replace, but because the strategy we decided upon for Exchange 2010 holds true for Exchange 2013. That is, you should only use the built in tools, cmdlets and interfaces...

Many of you have seen our previous blog post announcing the Exchange documentation URL changes , and have provided us with your feedback on the matter. Starting off, we want to thank you for all of it; we learned quite a bit from it, and we think it’s fantastic that we have such passionate and vocal community. First, a little bit of history. How did we get here? As an enterprise product with a long lifecycle, product documentation for multiple Exchange versions is...

Over the years Exchange Server architecture has gone through a number of changes. As a product matures over time you may see us change what is supported as we react to changes in the product architecture, the state of technology as a whole, or major support issues we see come in through our support infrastructure. Over the years a large volume of support calls have ended up being caused by communication issues between Exchange servers or between Exchange servers and domain...

Join us at our Virtual Launch Event on February 27 th as we celebrate the availability of a major new release coming to Office 365 for businesses.  If you are exploring cloud offerings, you do not want to miss this event.  You’ll hear from Kurt DelBene, President of the Microsoft Office Division, about Microsoft’s vision for productivity, enterprise social and the cloud.  We’ll demo new features in enterprise social and show how we’ve transformed the full Office...

Update 5/16/2013 : This article was updated to include an additional note about Exchange Online behavior. Since we added the Address Book Policy feature in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2, one of the questions I frequently hear (related to ABP’s that is) is, “when are you adding ABP’s to Office 365?” Well dear reader, the quick answer is, as we deploy our next round of feature upgrades to Office 365, and more specifically to Exchange Online! ...

Today the Exchange CXP team released the following update rollups to the Download Center. All three releases cover Security Bulletin MS13-012 (KB 2809279 ). Because this is a security release, the updates will also be available on Microsoft Update. Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Update Rollup 10 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2: This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues...

download what’s new release notes Earlier last year , we announced that Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 would be coming in the first half of 2013. Later, we updated the timeframe to Q1 2013. Today, we're pleased to announce the availability of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 , which is ready to download. Service Pack 3 is a fully slipstreamed version of Exchange 2010. The following new features and capabilities are included within SP3: Coexistence...