Now that Windows 2003 SP1 is out , I wanted to mention a tool that has shipped as part of Windows 2003 SP1. While the tool itself is not installed by SP1, the shortcut to the Help file is placed on the server desktop when SP1 is installed. What does that have to do with Exchange? About the tool: ...

In Exchange 5.5, when you emailed a MIME message to a public folder, it would be delivered to the public folder as an email message (message class IPM.Note). In Exchange 2000/2003, this behavior changed, a byproduct of the new support for native MIME content. In Exchange 5.5, all messages were converted...

System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Beta 2 is now available for download! DPM 2007 Beta 2 is designed to provide a best-of-breed protection and the most robust, reliable recovery experience for Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint. Try out the new standard for Windows backup and recovery...

Summary A cumulative security update has been recently released for Internet Explorer 6 for Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1. This update changes the way in which Internet Explorer handles some Web pages that use ActiveX controls and Java applets. As...

So for many weeks I've debated about what to post here. My colleagues and I have worked pretty hard since the release of Exchange 2000 to document the SMTP Transport stack. So I figured by now everyone knew everything there was to know about setting up SMTP domains for inbound and relay. We covered the...

This goes somewhat hand in hand with my previous entry where I talked a little about how the backfill process works. You’ve set up a new public store, or changed the replica list for a specific folder. In either case, there’s a dance the server participates in to get everything caught up...

In Exchange 2003 some of the default settings were changed to tighten security. One of these settings is the sending and receiving message size settings. In Exchange 2000, no default size was set, but in Exchange 2003 the Sending message size and Receiving message size settings for the Exchange organization...

(or, The Design of Exchange Direct Push in Exchange 2003 SP2) Background I bought my first cell phone in the summer of 2000 – the venerable Nokia 5160. With the attendant giddy excitement of a new consumer electronics purchase, I started adding names and numbers to the addressbook on the phone...

One of the new features in Exchange 2003 is Exchange ActiveSync. Exchange ActiveSync allows you to synchronize your Windows Mobile 2003 Device with your Exchange mailbox over a wireless network without having to cradle the device . The Up-to-date (UTD) feature notifies the device if there is a new item...

Last week, we released an updated version of Microsoft Exchange Server Public Folder DAV-based Administration Tool (aka PFDAVAdmin) Version 2.6 (Build 7830) to the web. You can download it from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=635BE792-D8AD-49E3-ADA4-E2422C0AB424&displaylang...

We wanted to follow up on the survey post that we ran not so long ago and give you an idea of what some results told us. Although 44% of you tagged yourselves as lurkers, we had an overwhelming amount of participation in the "Community and Help Experience" survey. We want to thank all of you for taking...

As most people know, back in the days of Exchange 5.5, Exchange servers were grouped into sites, representing groups of well-connected servers. In Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 we introduced the idea of routing groups, which represented well-connected servers, and administrative groups, which represented...

NOTE: This article has also been published in the official Exchange 2007 documentation - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310768.aspx . We recommend that you check the documentation for the most up-to-date version. Overview Previous versions of Exchange did not rely on the usage of...

We've made some changes to http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/community/default.mspx in the last few months: added the meet the MVPs page, rearranged and added to the related communities page, and added a page for Exchange & SBS user groups among miscellaneous other small changes. Do you have any...

This is a part 2 of my 3 part series on Mailbox Manager, please go here to read the part 1! There is a task (CMBCleanTask) within MAD.EXE that runs every 15 minutes and figures out if the schedule information says it is now time to run. The schedule is controlled by the attributes msExchMailboxManagerActivationStyle...

Exchange 2007 provides a rich set of PowerShell tasks for administering Exchange objects and Public Folders are no exception. The tasks let you perform basic public folder operations – i.e. Create a Public Folder, Modify a Public Folder, Delete a Public Folder – however, the real power comes from piping...

We recently posted details on how to use Log Parser to parse out Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) information to produce helpful reports that can give you a better idea of the usage load of your EAS deployment. In that blog we relied solely on LogParser using the IISW3C input format and your IIS Logs. ...

Hi all, Referrer logs are one good way of finding out who's reading the blog, but we're always looking to know more about our customers and how you use Exchange, particularly those of you reading this blog. I'd like to put together a little report about “Who are our readers“ for the Exchange...

Note: the following applies to “streaming” backups, not to the VSS backups. Exchange transaction logs track all the changes to a database. If a database crashes, no harm done, because the transaction logs always secure changes before the crash. When you start the database again, the logs have everything...

Windows Server Performance Team started a blog not so long ago... and one of subjects they talked about is issues that they are seeing when customers start keeping PST files on network shares. While this is not supported since Exchange 4.0 times , it seems like it is still done. To read more about why...

There's a webcast on Tuesday about deploying Exchange: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=25723 Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 Time: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada) By attending this webcast you can enter to win a free conference pass to Tech-Ed 2004. This promotion is...

Migrating mailboxes from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2007 directly is not supported. Using native tools, administrators will have to perform this kind of migration as a two-step process which includes: Migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migrating from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 Typically...

NOTE: The content of this article has been published in the official Exchange 2007 documentation. We recommend that you check the documentation for the must up-to-date version. Please go here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738141.aspx Introduction This blog post focuses on the...

No doubt many of you are familiar with the event commonly seen in application logs of Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers, MSExchangeIS event 9548, indicating that the information store came across a disabled user who is missing the msExchMasterAccountSid attribute while processing some various task. There...

If you're part of an organization of any kind, that organization probably has records. These records can exist in a variety of forms, from paper to Word documents to e-mail. And if you have records, you probably have some way of managing them. They may be in a pile on a desk, in a file cabinet, or stored...