From time to time, you need to allow an application server to relay off of your Exchange server. You might need to do this if you have a SharePoint , a CRM application like Dynamics , or a web site that sends emails to your employees or customers. You...

There might be times when an Exchange Administrator will need to export the contents of individual mailboxes to offline files in order to present specific users with a format that is easily portable and ready to consume using Outlook clients. To fulfill...

Although they are very similar, because the Edge Transport and Hub Transport servers were designed specifically for the role that they play, they have different default settings. For example, the Edge Transport role is configured by default to accept...

EDIT: This post has been updated on 5/24/2013 for the new version of calculator. For the list of latest major changes, please see THIS . Overview The Exchange Mailbox Server role is arguably one of the most important roles within an Exchange deployment...

Update 10/4/2007: Since this post has been published, we've updated the Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service whitepaper to include this information. Please consult the whitepaper for most up-to-date information. In Exchange 2007, we introduce the idea...

EDIT 10/01/2008: To read the updated (and more comprehensive) guidance for troubleshooting errors 0x8004010f, please go here . There are a multiple reasons for why an Outlook client can receive the 0x8004010f sync error. Unfortunately, 0x8004010f is just...

EDIT: This post has been updated on 5/6/10 for the new version of storage calculator. For the list of latest major changes, please see THIS . In order to assist customers in designing their storage layout for Exchange 2007, we have put together a calculator...

Over the years, displaying recipient photographs in the Global Address List (GAL) has been a frequently-requested feature, high on the wish lists of many Exchange folks. Particularly in large organizations or geographically dispersed teams, it's great...

Update 4/16/2009: We have corrected an incorrect permissions entry in this blog post. Heard of the term calendar concierge ? Look up http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/07/24/428390.aspx . In this post I'm going to talk about what happened to the...

EDIT 12/7/2010: For additional help resolving those issues, please see our newer blog post Resolving WinRM errors and Exchange 2010 Management tools startup failures . In this blog post, we will be highlighting some of the most common errors that may...

As I developed the documentation for the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Domain Security feature set, I used the self-signed certificates that are generated by the New-ExchangeCertificate cmdlet. For the import function, I used existing PFX (PKCS#12) certs...

Note: Please see this blog post for the most updated recommendations on this subject. EDIT: On 3/12/2008, we have posted a new blog post that talks about the hotfix that we have released for this problem: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2008/03/12...

This seems to be one of most favorite questions ever: "How come that Exchange Store.exe keeps on grabbing more and more memory, even on the server that is not very busy? Is there a memory leak?". This is many times followed by "I am rebooting my server...

NOTE: The content of this article has been published in the official Exchange 2007 documentation. We recommend that you check the documentation for the most up-to-date version. Please go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb885041.aspx EDIT...

As discussed in this earlier blog post on OPATH Filters , Exchange 2007 uses a new style of filter syntax to replace the LDAP filters of previous versions. This blog post will talk about the steps you can take to upgrade your legacy LDAP filters to the...

Many times I've been asked to give a guideline on how large a mailbox can be before performance degrades, or on the recommended size for a mailbox. Unfortunately, this question is like asking "How many cookies are enough?" There may be a lot of implied...

Last week we released Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1. It has received some great feedback and reviews from customers, experts, analysts, and the Exchange community. The starting point for SP1 setup/upgrade should be the What's New in SP1 ,...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008 The release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Exchange 2007 cannot be installed on Windows Server 2008. However, Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 will be supported for installation on Windows Server 2008...

A few days ago, we posted blog The new Exchange 2007 Management Console overview and Recipient Management in Exchange 2007 - Overview giving an overview of the completely updated GUI management console and recipient management in Exchange 2007. This...

One way of telling how long a Microsoft employee has been working here is their reaction to the phrase “Bedlam DL3”. Just for grins, I was at lunch in the cafeteria with a bunch of co-workers and I blurted out, totally out of context: “Bedlam...

On a recent project I had to consider how to implement meeting rooms in Exchange 2007 SP1. I read all of the available TechNet articles and posts and then I realized that it was not necessarily easy to set up meeting rooms with correct policies on the...

NOTE: This article has been updated to correct the MSAS URLs mentioned in this article. By now most of you have heard about the release of Exchange 2010.  Those of you that are upgrading from Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or a mixture of the two, are...

The Out of Office (OOF) feature is commonly used by end-users to let other people know when they are not available to respond to e-mail. Exchange 2007 Out of Office capabilities such as scheduled OOF, different external and internal OOF messages and the...

Hi. I'm DJ Schwend, a product designer working on the OWA team here in Exchange. I've put together this overview of the best new features in our Beta 1 release. We've made huge strides to improve the online experience and our goal is to keep being the...

Here's an interesting historical question - when we say Out of Office, why does it sometimes get shortened to ‘OOF’? Shouldn’t it be ‘OOO’? Inside Microsoft, ‘OOF’ means not just the message which says you’re...