Introduction With the release of SP2 for Exchange 2003 we have published the support policy for Exchange Server 2003 running on hardware virtualization software KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320220 Exchange 2003 SP2 on MSVS 2005 R2 Test Summary The support policy described in the article above is a result of a team effort conducted by the Exchange CXP Solutions, MSIT, the VS product group, and Exchange SP2 Test teams: MSVS 2005 R2...

I'm one of the few Microsofties that was born and raised in Washington. I earned my B.S. in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and my Master’s degree from the University of Washington. I have been with Exchange for the last 7 years, prior to that I worked in Microsoft Mobile Information Server (MIS). I've spent time on Outlook Web Access, Outlook Mobile Access, and for the last several years Exchange Web Services. I am the...

Over the years that OWA has been developed we’ve kept our focus on improving user productivity through supporting many of the timesaving features present in Outlook and other Windows applications. Unfortunately many users don’t realize that these features are available in OWA since features like hot-keys aren’t often available in web applications. I think we need to do some work to make some of these features more discoverable, but until we do we’ll need to use postings like this...

Hello, I am Ed Hott, the Director of Business Development for Microsoft Exchange with primary responsibility for the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol licensing. There have been a few questions recently around our work with partners in licensing the ActiveSync protocol so I want to provide some information that I hope will clear things up. We license the ActiveSync protocol so that other mobile devices can interact with Exchange in the same rich and efficient way that Windows...

A solution is now available for a problem which might be encountered when moving a large number of mailboxes between Exchange servers ( Knowledge Base article 899328 ). When you move several mailboxes from one Exchange server to another there may be a delay in synching the rules on the new mailbox and the mailbox rules might not work for some time after the move. During the move the rules are moved in a server-independent format and are eventually converted (synched) to...

In September 2004 I re-joined Microsoft as the Director of Strategic Relationships for Exchange, focusing on key partners working with our Exchange ActiveSync protocol and new Exchange Server functionality in unified messaging. Previously, I was a program manager on Windows 2000 (WMI) and several versions of Microsoft Site Server (now Commerce Server). In between stints at Microsoft, I took time off to be Dad and wouldn't trade that time for anything. I'm a proud graduate of...

I am very happy to announce that Exchange Insider articles are now live on the Exchange Server TechCenter site. There are several articles that have been published, and many more are to come, so keep checking for updates! Let me also give you a bit of history behind this new content: Over 3 years ago, I started writing and compiling an internal Microsoft technical “newsletter” of sort with the idea of getting short and digestible Exchange training into people’s Inboxes...

I'm Support Escalation Engineer working with the Microsoft Enterprise Support for Latin America. I've been working for Microsoft in USA for almost 3 years. My background includes nine years of experience conducting a small consulting business in Brazil, performing both technical and executive management tasks. This company was accredited by Microsoft as a Certified Partner, thus giving me the opportunity to specialize very much on Microsoft technologies, mainly Exchange and Windows...

We are happy to announce that Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 is now available for download. The RTM version number is 7638.2. The service pack and documentation are available at www.microsoft.com/exchange . The direct download links for the different languages are: English - http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/D/A/2DA38F90-A580-46F7-8812-63DCEC999FE5/E3SP2ENG.EXE Italian - http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/2/3/D239E44A-C722-448D-9BA0-01354F048498/E3SP2ITA.EXE Japanese...

I recently worked on a few support cases where questions came up on "what exactly happens" when we use the Exchange System Manager (ESM) to pull up properties of public folders. How does the ESM find a matching public folder directory object in Active Directory, to display the public folder email addresses? In order to understand this we need to first understand how the directory object is created originally. A directory object is created in a mixed mode Exchange environment...