In Exchange 2010, we introduced Retention Tags , a Messaging Records Management (MRM) feature that allows you to manage email lifecycle. You can use retention policies to retain mailbox data for as long as it’s required to meet business or regulatory requirements, and delete items older than the...

Update 2/5/2013: We have also uploaded a sample that will work on Exchange 2010 servers, you can find it here . What is a Transport Agent? Transport agents allow Microsoft, developers in your organization and third-party vendors to hook into the Exchange transport pipeline with their code to process...

Hello Exchange Developers! We've just released updated Software Development Kits for Exchange 2010 SP1. If you develop applications for Exchange Server, grab these SDKs from the Download Center. Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 Web Services SDK October 2010 This release of the Exchange 2010 Service...

We've just finished our 6 part series of webcasts on six key topics that developers need to know about as they start planning for moving their applications to Exchange 2010.  Those webcasts are now available as on-demand webcasts below, check them out today!  If you'd like a bit more human contact than...

The management experience given by Exchange 2010 through PowerShell has been moved all the way from Local to Remote. This will mean that enterprise Admins will have to adjust their regular scripts to connect to Remote PowerShell instead of creating a local session. Here are some examples on how can this...

We are excited about the Exchange 2010 developer experience and we think you will be too. Over the next two weeks we'll be doing six webcasts filled with information to help our partners and customers understand what Exchange 2010 means for them. David, Chris and I just posted an introductory video on...

This is a part 2 of blog posts on this subject, you can read part 1 here . Within the first part of this post, I showed you had to remove the Reply-All functionality via GPO. At its core the process is relatively straight forward (obtain Outlook ADM templates, define policies, link and deploy it). However...

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...

There are tens of thousands of people out there developing applications on Microsoft Exchange, yet there is little that Microsoft knows about this developer community. For example, what applications have been developed, what other communications tools besides Exchange have been using, and most importantly...

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...

Hey folks, we're back again with another video. We've already told you about how we're building the next version of Exchange to be cloud-ready and some of the cool features you can get through Outlook Web Access or Outlook Live. Today, we're giving you an overview of some of the work we've been doing...

We noticed the following in the Wikipedia article about ESE : Well, here's your citation for you - and we added a few names: Developers who have contributed towards the success of JET Blue include Cheen Liao, Stephen Hecht, Matthew Bellew, Ian Jose, Edward "Eddie" Gilbert, Kenneth Kin Lum, Balasubramanian...

Update! The actual song is now available for download in the link below. Enjoy! So, how exactly do you encourage developers to adopt good development practices when such practices are not explicitly enforced? We thought about embroidered socks and matching hats, but that was universally frowned upon...

In Exchange Server 2007 SP1, the EWS team added a new feature called EWS Request Proxying.  It is sometimes also referred to as EWS Proxy or HTTP Proxy.  Not much has been said about this feature, but if you care about performance, it is important to understand why it is there, why you want...

M any people use rules to automatically sort messages from various distribution lists into folders in order to keep the volume of email traffic in their inbox to a manageable level. This works for the most part - until someone decides to BCC a list. Since the distribution list isn't visible in the list...

Recently we have published the updated Exchange Developer Roadmap over on Exchangedev blog . This covers Exchange Server beyond Exchange Server 2007. You can read about multiple things there, including: APIs that Will Be Removed APIs Moving To Extended Support If you are developing for...

A few customers exploring the new Outlook Web Access customization features in Exchange 2007 SP1 have asked why when they add a button to the main OWA navigation bar does it appear as a small button only, or commonly stating that the text is "missing". The answer is relatively simple: To preserve...

Based on the feedback on my original post on Cross Forest Exchange Impersonation in Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 , I wanted to provide you with some "real life" examples to help you actually implement this. To dig into cross forest Exchange Impersonation a little more, we will use two approaches...

Today Microsoft released preliminary protocol documentation for Exchange 2007 (as well as Microsoft Office 2007 and SharePoint Server) as part of Microsoft's Interoperability Principles . The Exchange protocols are now publicly available on the Open Protocol Specifications section of MSDN in preliminary...

In Exchange 2007, the Exchange Impersonation feature was introduced in Exchange Web Services to allow one account (the service account) to make web service calls on behalf of another account (the Act-As account).  Rather than the "delegate access" or "administrative" approach...

In Exchange 2007 Web Services it is very convenient to access and manage other user's mailbox accounts by using Exchange Impersonation. This feature enables a caller to impersonate a given account so that the caller can perform operations by using all the original user's permissions. But for resource...

Several members of Exchange SDK UE team have gotten together and created a blog called Microsoft Exchange Development Blog. They have made several interesting posts by now and I am sure there is more to come. Check them out here: http://blogs.msdn.com/exchangedev/ Bug them to write about what you are...

This is a question that we hear frequently since we have released Exchange 2007. And our answer has to be heard loud and clear: going forward Exchange Web Services should be the API of choice for developers. Already a year ago at TechEd 2006 we announced that the ExoleDB, WebDAV and CDOEx (APIs that...

My name is Jorge Pereira and I am a dev on the Outlook Web Access. I kept a daily log of most of my activities related to the workitem for my own purposes, and wanted to share it to show all of the details that happen behind the scenes to bring a feature to life. In this case, the feature was the calendar...

As noted in the earlier E12 Developer's Roadmap blog post, managed agents (or "Transport Agents") have replaced transport event sinks and EDK Gateways in Exchange Server 2007. Exchange 2007 transport rules are very flexible, so why bother writing a transport agent? There are still some configuration...