This post describes an update to the Facebook provider for the Outlook Social Connector and the related policy settings that are available for Administrators. Outlook 2010 includes a feature called the Outlook Social Connector which can show social updates for the people your users email with, directly in Outlook. Earlier this year, the Outlook team made an update to enable continued access to Facebook information as Facebook has moved to a new authentication model called OAuth...

Moving mailboxes is an important part of managing an email service. Check out the latest Geek Out with Perry blog and video to gain some deep insights on our approach to moving mailboxes with Mailbox Replication Service (MRS) and get Perry’s take on this topic and how it works. This technology is also incredibly important if you want to move mailboxes to the cloud on your terms with a hybrid deployment. Want more details and info? Check out Ross’ past blog on mailbox moves and...

Since its release in 2009, the interest in Exchange 2010 has been fantastic. While working with customers to educate them and prep them for moving to Exchange 2010, we've uncovered some common misconceptions. One trend has to do with misconceptions around the Client Access Server array object, or CAS array object for short. Technical Writer and frequent blogger Scott Schnoll suggested I put pen to paper… err… keys to keyboard (?) when I was commenting on this trend...

Update 12/13/2011 : Please note that starting with today, you do not need to call Microsoft Support to get the fix to resolve this issue. All that is required now is installation of December 13, 2011 IE security update, KB 2618444 . The below blog post has been updated accordingly. We are happy to report that a fix for the Exchange Management Console (EMC) issues when Internet Explorer 9 is installed is now available. To be specific, we have talked about this in a previous...

Update 10/21/11 : There is now a fix for this issue. Please go here to learn how to get it. We wanted to write a blog post about an issue that some of you have reported to us, and has been discussed at some length in Exchange Forums also. After you install Internet Explorer 9 on a computer that has Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007 management tools installed, you might run into a situation where closing the Exchange Management Console (EMC) results in the following error: ...

A user is out of office for some reason – on vacation, sick, on a sabbatical or extended leave of absence, or traveling to a remote location on business, and forgets to set an automatic reply , also known as an Out Of Office message or OOF in Exchange/Outlook lingo. As an Exchange administrator, you get an email from the user’s manager asking you to configure an OOF for the user. In previous versions of Exchange, you would need to access the user’s mailbox to be able to...

Last year when we released Exchange 2010 SP1, we posted about the change expired password feature in Outlook Web App and how you can enable it by creating the ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled registry entry. See So you want to change your expired passwords in OWA... for details. Since then you've sent us many requests for supporting the use of User Principal Name (UPN) format in the same feature. Previously only domain\username format was supported when entering domain credentials...

You may have noticed a change in the behavior of the Safe Senders list within Outlook starting in Exchange 2010. Users can no longer add accepted domains to Outlook’s Safe Senders list. Figure 1: Adding an accepted domain to Outlook's Safe Senders list This was done as an anti-spam deterrent as we have all seen cases where Joe The Spammer spoofs the mail from your own domain. Adding your own domain to the Safe Senders list would bypass all Outlook client-side anti-spam checks...

Organizations often need to share availability (aka Free/Busy) information with other Exchange organizations. Depending on the version of Exchange Server you're on, there are different ways to do this. Let's take a look at three common scenarios and go through the exact steps required in order to achieve sharing of availability information between two on-premises Exchange organizations. Scenarios: Scenario 1: Both organizations running Exchange 2010 SP1 Scenario 2...

Some of you may have seen stories about higher than expected data usage for a very small percentage of Windows Phone 7 users being caused by an inefficiency between Windows Phone 7 client and Yahoo! Mail. You may have also seen that these stories mention that there is a separate Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) issue that is impacting a small percentage of users. Unfortunately, like a game of telephone, many of the stories I've seen are combining these two issues into one, or mentioning...