Today the Exchange CXP team released the following update rollups to the Download Center. All three releases cover Security Bulletin MS12-080 . Because this is a security release, the updates will also be available on Microsoft Update. Update Rollup 5-v2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Update...

By now you have seen our interviews with both Global Crossing and Lifetime Products and you've heard what excites them most about moving to Exchange 2010. Check out the video interviews with Global Crossing and Lifetime Products . We headed down to Memphis to visit one more  customer, Morgan Keegan &...

I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce a new initiative that the Exchange Team has been working on. Exchange Tested Solutions 2010 is a joint venture between Microsoft and participating server, storage, and network partners that examines common customer scenarios and the key design decision points...

Update 4/11/11 : Please note that the E2007 SP3 RU3 will be available via Microsoft Update on 4/24/11. On March 29 th we posted an announcement to the EHLO blog about removing Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 due to an issue that could result in database corruption. The Exchange Servicing...

One of the innovations in Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013 & Lync 2013 is the integrated eDiscovery & Hold experience. In Exchange 2013, you can use the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) to perform In-Place eDiscovery searches of Exchange mailbox content, including Lync 2013 content archived in Exchange...

As we like to say here on EHLO, we’re always listening for feedback on what we're doing well and what we could be doing better for you. As more and more of you evaluate and deploy the email archiving, retention and discovery capabilities of Exchange Server 2010 and Exchange Online , we understand...

Dave Goldman, who has been working on and is coordinating a lot of the E2010 Address List Segregation documentation effort - has just posted an update on his blog that can give you an idea where things stand right now and what to expect in the future as far as transitioning between versions of Exchange...

" I wish I could let my users create and manage their own groups - provided they all follow a consistent group naming scheme! " This is an oft-mentioned comment by Exchange administrators who are constantly bombarded with group update support requests from their users. Requests could be for creating...

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of SP1. See 'KB 2608646: Description of Update Rollup 6 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack...

The Exchange team is announcing today the availability of our most recent quarterly servicing update to Exchange Server 2013. Cumulative Update 3 for Exchange Server 2013 and updated UM Language Packs are now available on the Microsoft Download Center. Cumulative Update 3 includes fixes for customer...

The Microsoft Exchange team is enhancing positioning by including additional supported scenarios regarding Exchange Server 2010 running under hardware virtualization software. As of today, the following support scenarios are being updated, for Exchange 2010 SP1, and later: The Unified Messaging...

Today, we are launching Microsoft Online Services in 19 countries worldwide. People in these countries can try Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Office Communications Online this month, and next month, these services will be available for purchase. As part of this news, we're announcing the...

The day has come… After vanishing mysteriously ten years ago, the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) makes a comeback starting today. The Exchange community has been eagerly anticipating the return of MEC, and the wait is finally over! MEC will be an event like no other – three days jam-packed with...

In the two previous posts in this series (see Part I and Part II ), we saw the two different options by which we could effectively use IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) as a reverse proxy solution for Exchange 2013. However wouldn’t it be great to know if your implementation of IIS ARR was...

EDIT 12/10/2010: Added a permissions section . As was discussed in the previous (related) blog post " Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Management Tools startup issues ", in Exchange 2010 the Management tools are dependent on IIS. As was discussed in that blog, we have seen situations where the management...

We have released Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 ( KB 968012 ) to the download center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on May 26. As in the previous rollups, we have done a mix of product improvements (aka Critical Design Change Requests) and bug...

Over the past year, we have discussed the architectural changes that have been introduced in Exchange Server 2013. I wrote about the reduction in complexity that the new server role architecture introduces, as well as, the one of the new capabilities introduced in Exchange 2013, Managed Availability...

download what’s new release notes prerequisites I had previously mentioned that Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 would be coming this year – and it’s here! I’m pleased to announce the availability of Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 which is ready to download...

Roughly a year ago, we launched the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant . It allows you to create Exchange Server 2010 on-premises deployment instructions that are customized to your environment. The Deployment Assistant asks you a small set of questions and, based on your answers, it provides...

A database availability group (DAG), together with mailbox database copies, can provide automatic recovery from a variety of server, storage, network and other hardware failures. A DAG can also provide a site resilience solution so that you can perform a datacenter switchover in the event of a site-level...

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2010 SP1 to the Download Center. The release of the rollup via Microsoft Update will happen on October 12th. This update includes new fixes for the following server roles: Client Access Mailbox Edge Server Hub Transport...

Last week we updated our Exchange TechNet articles. Within that update are two new articles that I wanted to call out: Understanding High Availability Factors - This article summarizes my US TechEd 2010 Exchange 2010 High Availability Design Considerations breakout session by discussing several design...

Exchange CXP team has released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 RTM (KB 982639) to the download center. KB 982639 lists all the fixes included in this rollup. Here are some of the product improvements and critical bug fixes we'd like to call out starting with 5 improvements we made to prevent...

You may have seen some of the press coverage today on Office 365, which brings all of Microsoft's business productivity software together into one cloud service. Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will be the engine that powers Exchange Online in Office 365, lighting up slick new features such...

Six years ago Exchange took a bold step forward in product servicing. With Exchange Server 2007 we shifted to a cumulative model to deliver customer rollup updates (RU’s) instead of a traditional hotfix model. A primary benefit to customers was a simplified delivery mechanism where many updates could...