I recently worked on an interesting issue where certain Distribution Groups (DGs) in the Active Directory (AD) were not replicating properly with the Exchange 5.5 Directory Service (DS). After adding several members to a DG in the AD, the changes did not replicate to the 5.5 server. One particularly problematic DG, lets call it Execs, had 58 members in AD and only 23 in the 5.5 DS, even after several replication cycles. Previously, we had gone through the basics of Active Directory...

Some countries like Chile , Brazil and Israel adopt a variable Daylight Saving Time dates (DST). The initial and end dates change every year following the government decision. As a result, users in these countries experience inconvenience with their Outlook meetings and appointments being off by one hour. Every year, we receive numerous calls from customers reporting such behavior. I will explain why the issue happens as well as how to minimize the impact for Outlook...

The Exchange Solution Reviewed Program – Storage (ESRP) is a Microsoft Exchange Server program designed to facilitate third party storage testing and solution publishing for Exchange Server. The program combines a storage testing harness (Jetstress) with solution publishing guidelines. Microsoft Gold Certified or Certified Storage Partners can use the ESRP framework provided to test their storage solutions targeted for Microsoft Exchange deployment. The tested storage solution...

Currently I am a Partner Tech Lead for Latin America. I joined Microsoft in December 1998 and have acted in the following capacities, Technical Account Manager, Support Engineer and Tech Lead. Before Microsoft I worked for a certified partner in Brazil as trainer, consultant, support engineer and project manager. My experience with Microsoft message products goes back to Microsoft Mail days. Since then I have continuously worked with Microsoft message technologies assisting...

What’s a blogcast? As Eileen Brown said it : "It's a mini Webcast, typically about 5 minutes long, and shows a visual demo of the technology. Audio is embedded along with the .WMP file and you can view this on demand over and over again. It differs from a podcast in as much as a podcast is audio only, and has enclosures that means that you can subscribe to a podcast feed to receive updated audio broadcasts when they are available. Blogcasts (cast out, from a blog, typically...

David Espinoza is a Program Manager for the Exchange Technology Adoption Program (TAP). The goal of the TAP program is to work closely with a set of customers to help test, deploy, and provide the product team feedback on Exchange Server throughout the product development cycle. Outside of the TAP program Dave has review Books on Exchange for authors and has also review candidate Exchange MCP test questions prior to inclusion on the exams. Dave also works closely with the Exchange...

It seems we have some badly worded docs on some Microsoft sites that may lead you to believe that you cannot run Exchange 2003 on x64 bit systems. Also the release notes seem to be in error as well . Let me assure you that this information is incorrect and is being corrected. You can run Exchange 2003 on x64 systems just fine . You do have to run Exchange 2003 on a 32 bit Windows version but they both run without issue on x64 systems. I just wanted to post this blog...

Working in Support Services, I get to explain this subject a lot, so I thought I’d share it here too. This blog post will explain what the flow of the client access a BE server through a FE server looks like, including access to domain controllers that has to happen as part of this process. The illustration shows the steps, which are then covered in more detail further down: Step 1. The client makes a Http request to the Front End sever Http://server/exchange...

It’s been a while since we posted something about this blog site itself. We wanted to gather some direct feedback from you, our readers, on how we are doing with this blog. Be honest! What could we improve? Here are some of the areas that we are interested in hearing about: - How is the technical level of content that we publish? Too deep? Too shallow? - Do we generally cover areas that you are interested in? - Do you find the mixture of “future” content (example...

I am an Escalation Engineer in the Messaging Escalation Services team, formerly known as CPR. My team handles all Exchange and Outlook issues that require hotfixes as well as any other issues that require intimate knowledge of code to resolve. If no one else can solve your problem then you'll end up talking to someone on my team; the buck stops here. I have been with Microsoft since mid-2004. I have spent my entire career working with Exchange in one way or another, doing everything...