We’re happy to announce updates to the Exchange Server 2013 Deployment Assistant ! We’ve updated the Deployment Assistant to include the following new scenarios: Upgrading from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 Upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 Configuring an Exchange 2013-based hybrid deployment...

We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server 2010 Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) now includes updates for supporting hybrid deployments with Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) organizations and the latest release of Office 365. Important information to know about the SP3 update for the Exchange...

In previous posts, we have discussed certificate based authentication (CBA) for Outlook Web App, and Greg Taylor has covered publishing Outlook Web App and Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) with certificate based authentication using ForeFront TMG in this whitepaper . Certificate based authentication for OWA...

Earlier today we re-released the following Rollup Updates. These updates address an issue in which digital signatures on files produced and signed by Microsoft will expire prematurely, as described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2749655 . Also see Security Advisory 2749655 and timestamping on the Security...

Windows Server 2012 RTM became available a few days ago. Many of you have been busy downloading and testing this latest and greatest version of Windows Server and now you're waiting to find out when you can install Exchange on it. If you’re testing or planning to test Exchange Server 2013 Preview, it...

On August 13th 2012, the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues. See KB 2734323 Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. In particular...

On August 13th 2012, the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 to the Download Center. This update contains fixes for a number of customer reported and internally found issues. See KB 2706690 Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 for...

We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) now includes full checklist support for configuring hybrid deployments for Exchange 2010 SP2 organizations. This newly added scenario is for Exchange 2010 SP2 organizations interested in maintaining some users on-premises...

We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) now includes support for configuring hybrid deployments using Exchange 2010 SP2 and Exchange 2007 on-premises organizations. This newly added scenario is for Exchange 2007 organizations interested in maintaining some...

In Exchange 2010, we built the Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) integration functionality introduced in Exchange 2007 into a suite of information protection features known as Information Rights Management (IRM). IRM requires that you have an AD RMS server deployed in your on-premises...

Welcome back! In Demystifying the CAS Array Object - Part 1 we covered these three items to begin demystifying the CAS array object in Exchange Server 2010. A CAS array object does not load balance your traffic A CAS array object does not service OWA, ECP, EWS, Autodiscover, IMAP, SMTP, or POP...

We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant (ExDeploy) has been enhanced to include support for configuring hybrid deployments using Exchange 2010 SP2 and the Hybrid Configuration Wizard . The first in several upcoming scenario additions for configuring hybrid deployments when...

Update 04/23/12 : we have updated this blog post to indicate that fixes for this issue have been released. Please see below table or our announcements for release of Exchange 2010 SP2 RU2 and Exchange 2007 SP3 RU7 We wanted to give you a heads up regarding a change in CAS to CAS proxy behavior between...

To follow on from the recent blog post where I covered changes to hosting scenarios in Exchange Server 2010 SP2 , we have been working on some documents to help our hosting customers migrate to SP2. The first of those is for those customers coming from the Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and...

It’s been a few months since we announced some major changes to our virtualization support statements for Exchange 2010 (see Announcing Enhanced Hardware Virtualization Support for Exchange 2010 ). Over that time, I’ve received quite a few excellent questions about particular deployment scenarios and...

Accepting inbound mail for a DNS domain and relaying it to responsible mail hosts outside your Exchange organization was a simple process in Exchange 2003, albeit one that required some explanation, which was discussed in the following articles: KB 321721 How to share an SMTP address space in Exchange...

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer-reported and internally found issues since the release of RU3. For a list of changes included in this rollup, see KBA 2509911 Description of Update...

We're happy to announce that we've enhanced Exchange Server Deployment Assistant to include support for configuring rich coexistence (also known as “ hybrid deployment ”) for organizations interested in maintaining some users on-premises with Exchange 2010 and some users hosted in the cloud by Microsoft...

We're happy to announce that the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant has been enhanced to include support for configuring rich coexistence for organizations interested in maintaining some users on-premises with Exchange 2007 and some users hosted by Microsoft Office 365 Beta for enterprises in the cloud...

Overview Robert's Rules of Exchange is a series of blog posts in which we take a fictitious company, describe their existing Exchange implementation, and then walk you through the design, installation, and configuration of their Exchange 2010 environment. See Robert's Rules of Exchange: Table of...

This post discusses the considerations for coexistence and migration of public folders from your Exchange Server 2003 environment to Exchange 2007/2010 organization. IORepl (also known as Exchsync or Inter-Org Replication tool) is a MAPI -based application that allows for the replication of public folder...

Now that you might have seen the announcement for general availability of Windows 2008 R2 SP1 , we wanted to get ahead of the inevitable question: "Is Exchange supported running on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1?" We wanted to let you know that we've completed testing with Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and the following...

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...

Overview Robert's Rules of Exchange is a series of blog posts in which we take a fictitious company, describe their existing Exchange implementation, and then walk you through the design, installation, and configuration of their Exchange 2010 environment. See Robert's Rules of Exchange: Table of Blogs...

NOTE: The Exchange IPD Guide was updated to version 1.1 on July 11, 2011. The updates include content bug fixes, and updates related to the Exchange virtualization support changes . The download links are the same as Exchange IPD 1.0, so simply re-download the file to obtain the updated version. The...