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...

You may already know that Exchange 2003 SP2 includes a new feature for SenderID support. SenderID ( http://www.microsoft.com/senderid ) is the e-mail authentication framework that targets one of the most common security issues in the world of SMTP message transfer, which is spoofing. In short Sender ID allows administrators of an e-mail domain to protect the identity of this e-mail domain by registering the special DNS record, also called SPF record, that lists the hosts (IP addresses...

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...

We have a few openings on the E12 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) for some small and medium companies (less than 500 employees/users). The E12 TAP program is designed to validate Exchange 12 by having customers test and deploy pre-release builds of the next version of Exchange. This gives participants the opportunity to provide design feedback to the Exchange product development team. During the program you are provided free support from Microsoft Product Support Services for...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

The Entourage team has blogged recently about the release of Entourage 2004 SP2: What's new in Entourage 2004 SP2 SP2 details: Enforcing Exchange Permissions within Entourage Entourage 2004 SP2: Common GAL issues - KC Lemson