Like many of the product groups within Microsoft, Exchange relies heavily on a fairly small but dedicated set of our customers who make up the Technology Adoption Program (or TAP). TAPs exist in varying sizes and flavors, but the basic idea is that they replace the former array of early-adopter, joint...

Many Exchange team folks were at Microsoft TechEd North America 2011 in Atlanta last week. Thanks to all of you who attended the breakout sessions, chalk talks, Birds of a Feather (BOF) discussions and Hands-On Labs. All of you who stopped by the Exchange booths to ask us questions about Exchange 2010...

I have learned (via William ) that there is a limited time offer of a free Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging course that you can take online if interested. From the course page : Title: Clinic 5091: Introduction to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging Course Type: Self-paced Course Available...

Finally, we have the results of our comics contest . We know that the suspense has been killing you. Without further ado, here are our favorites. We got many great submissions, choosing was a bit tricky. The overall winner is Danny Mills: The following 4 winners will also be getting Exchange...

The Office for Mac team has started posting more details about Entourage 2008 on the Mac Mojo blog . If you are an Entourage user, check it out ! Additionally, you can find the official Office 2008 for Mac site here: http://www.macoffice2008.com - Nino Bilic

In August we blogged about the release of our recruiting website , http://www.exchangeyourcareer.com . I wanted to let you know that we've made several updates to http://www.exchangeyourcareer.com . First off is the addition of a bi-weekly comic called (what else?) "Squeaky Lobster". You can see the...

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...

Note 6/3/2011: we have now fixed the survey link; sorry for the disruption, you can now take the survey. We wanted to reach out to you again to help us think and plan about evolution of Exchange in the future. This time, we wanted to get a better understanding on how you use Exchange management tools...

EDIT: The poster actually comes in December 2007 issue, not November 2007. You might be interested in this: December 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine comes with a 30" x 20.5" poster called Exchange Server 2007 Component Architecture. Here is a preview (click on the thumbnail to open larger version...

Office Communications Server 2007: Learn how to take advantage of the enhanced e-learning collection on enterprise capabilities provided by Office Communications Server 2007, and get a richer experience using virtual labs designed for the final product version. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7667746...

As a follow-up to our Exchange 2007 SP1 announcement , I wanted to let you know that we have finished preparing two additional ways in which you can experience Exchange 2007 SP1 Beta 2: SP1 Hosted demo: please visit https://signmeup.exchange2007demo.com/exchange2007demo/ to register for an online trial...

If you haven't heard the buzz yet about what is new with our Exchange 2010 developer story then head over to the Exchange Developer Center and start digging in to the Exchange Web Services Managed API Beta and our other new features. Download the first fully managed API from the Exchange team that enables...

The "Centro" Product team is looking to you to help test the Beta of "Centro". "Centro" is the code name for a new Microsoft infrastructure solution that will help midsize businesses with less than 250 PCs in their environment. Centro will bring together key server products for midsize businesses, including...

I wanted to reach out to you to help me (and my team) understand how you manage your Exchange discovery mailboxes. What we learn here will be used to help us narrow down our plans around future management of this feature. To help narrow down what I'd like to lean about, I prepared some questions: 1....

At Tech-Ed, we gave away about a bajillion (give or take a few) of buttons with various phrases on them, like "OWA ROX" or "I GOT UM": If you'd like to buy any of your own, they're up on our cafepress store , in both button and magnet form. At Tech-Ed, ten lucky customers walked away with...

Happy New Year! Kick off 2012 by Geeking out with Perry! In Perry’s recent blog and latest video installment, Perry answers a frequently asked question about our service, “How can you provide large mailboxes at such a low cost?” Perry has discussed large mailbox and storage efficiencies in the past but...

Hi Everyone, I headed down to the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans earlier this month where I got a chance to speak with some of our partners. It's clear from their reactions that they are excited about Exchange 2010. In this video, our partners highlight some of the great new features they...

Few weeks ago, we had something quite interesting happen: On 12/4/04 we went over 1,000,000 hits on the Exchange Team blog site. Those are cumulative hits, since the first post back in February 2004 when KC boldly broke the ice after creating the Exchange blog site. Because of that and the total number...

I'm delighted to share the news - Exchange Server 2010 has won InfoWorld's Technology of the Year award for the best mail server! From InfoWorld: Microsoft Exchange 2010 continues Redmond's longstanding market leadership in mail servers and related software. This release shows why the company's once...

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...

As our Limerick contest ended close to 2 weeks now, we figured we should announce our winners. Without further ado, here they are! 1 st prize winner (will receive an Exchange branded Zune) There once was a gal with FiveFive Her mail system was barely alive She sat at her...

Exchange MVPs will be on hand to answer your questions about Exchange Server, Outlook and Exchange for Small Business Server. So if you are thinking of upgrading to Exchange Server 2007 or have questions about Exchange Server 2003 we hope you can join us for this informative online chat! Chat 1: ...

Just recently I was speaking to a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer (PFE) who had just returned home from a rather arduous onsite dispatch. While onsite he was tasked with unwinding a phenomenon commonly referred to as a "Reply-All" storm (defined below). This task had been so tedious that he half-jokingly...

In his keynote at INTERACT2008 , Terry Myerson will be addressing some of the top questions and issues that we hear from customers around Exchange Server 2007. If you could ask Terry anything, what would it be? Please post your questions here by Friday, April 4th. - The Exchange Team

We've just redesigned the homepage of the Exchange TechCenter to give Exchange administrators a single place to start when they're looking for information about Exchange. We're pretty confident that you're going to find it easier to get where you want to go by beginning at this redesigned homepage. That...