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  • Blog Post: Meet the New Exchange Content Expert...

    ...YOU. We've just opened up the Exchange 2007 product library to community annotation. That gives you the ability to add content to our topics that you think others might find helpful. The basic idea here is allow members of the Exchange community to share their knowledge and experience by adding...
  • Blog Post: Why all Exchange ActiveSync experiences aren’t the same… and how to know what you’re getting

    One of the most frequent questions I get as the Product Manager for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is for a list of EAS -enabled devices customers can use for mobile email and what functionality they support. This is often a difficult thing to provide since Microsoft licenses patents (which are Microsoft’s...
  • Blog Post: Exchange 2010 SP1: The Troubleshooters

    When managing an Exchange 2010 server organization in a production environment, an Exchange Administrator many times wants to keep track of things like Database Latency, Disk Space problems, search issues, user needs, and more. PowerShell was created to give us more power in our admin efforts, and many...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Online Help

    This might have gone unnoticed, but Exchange 2003 Online Help was updated for SP1 too. This update includes additional topics that were not included on the product CD. The Exchange 2003 Help is designed to assist you in day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this documentation to guide you...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server Documentation Updates - October 2008

    The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates . To see what content has changed for Exchange Server Analyzer...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server Documentation Updates - June 2008

    The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates . To see what content has changed for Exchange Server Analyzer...
  • Blog Post: Exploring Exchange 2010 RPC Client Access service

    In Exchange 2007, we introduced five server roles that performed distinct functions within the Exchange organization. One role in particular - the Client Access server role - introduced a variety of new Web services, including the Availability service, the Autodiscover service and Calendar Concierge...
  • Blog Post: More Messaging related IT Showcase papers

    In addition to the Mobile Messaging paper that we blogged about , there are two more Messaging related IT Showcase papers available that we did not mention yet: Messaging Hygiene at Microsoft: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks : http://www.microsoft.com/technet...
  • Blog Post: Updated White Paper: Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service

    Following our content update announcement - I would like to separately call out the release of new documentation related to the Exchange 2007 Autodiscover Service that was recently developed through the joint efforts of Exchange User Assistance and Customer Support Services. This refresh of the original...
  • Blog Post: Released: The new Exchange Server Deployment Assistant

    We’ve listened to your feedback for improving the on-premises and hybrid Exchange Server deployment experience, and we’re happy to announce the release of the new, consolidated Deployment Assistant! The Exchange Server Deployment Assistant now combines all the on-premises and hybrid deployment...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Scalability Limits Worksheet Available

    No matter how many lines of code it has, every software application has scalability limits. Some limits can be caused by limits that are external to the application itself, while others can be inherent within the application. As a software engineering team, it is important for us to understand the...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server and Windows Server 2008

    Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2008 The release to manufacturing (RTM) version of Exchange 2007 cannot be installed on Windows Server 2008. However, Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1 will be supported for installation on Windows Server 2008. While you cannot install Exchange 2007 RTM on...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server 2003 Technical Library Documentation Changes - July 2006

    The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following additions and changes to our content. The following topics are new: - Welcome to Exchange Server 2007 - Exchange Server Analyzer articles (102 topics) - Microsoft Exchange Server Intelligent Message Filter v2 Operations...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server Documentation Updates - July 2008

    The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce updates to the Exchange Server content. To see what content has changed for Exchange Server 2007 with Service Pack 1, take a look at Exchange Server 2007 Documentation Updates . To see what content has changed for Exchange Server Analyzer...
  • Blog Post: How the wordo list helps us bust typos in Exchange documentation

    It's amazing what we Exchange editors find in our documentation. When the XDOCS UE team was reorged in August 2000, many of us were assigned to work on the Exchange 2000 Server SDK. We inherited a mammoth HTML Help file with roughly 4,500 topics. The content, originally written in Microsoft...
  • Blog Post: Microsoft IT Showcase: Storage Design for Exchange Server 2007

    Microsoft IT just released a new IT Showcase whitepaper that you might find very interesting. Here is what the problem they were trying to solve was, and the solution: Situation: Microsoft IT ran Exchange Server 2003 mailbox servers in a clustered configuration to achieve high availability of 99...
  • Blog Post: Moving mailboxes, Exchange 2010 way

    Introduction Exchange Server 2007 used the Move-Mailbox cmdlet to move mailboxes between mailbox stores. Move-Mailbox makes a RPC connection to both the source and target mailbox databases and then starts the move process. Exchange Server 2010 uses the Mailbox Replication Service (MRS), a service that...
  • Blog Post: Under The Hood: Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Log Analysis

    Note: Part 2 of this series can be found here . One of best troubleshooting tools for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) is mailbox logging. This logging allows us to see the incoming request sent by the device and the outgoing response from the Exchange server. Exchange ActiveSync Mailbox Logging provides...
  • Blog Post: Just Released: Best Practices for Using Offline Address Books

    The Exchange team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Offline Address Book Best Practices Guide. The guide provides you with best practices for deploying, managing, and troubleshooting offline address books with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. To...
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server Documentation Updates - September 2007

    The Exchange Server documentation team is pleased to announce the following new Exchange Server 2007 content. White Paper: Deploying Exchange ActiveSync in Exchange Server 2007 White Paper: Exchange 2007 Transport Journaling White Papers for Planning, Deploying, and Managing Unified Messaging...
  • Blog Post: So you want to change your expired passwords in OWA...

    Update 10/21/11 : Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 3 and later supports using a UPN in the change password dialog. Also, please see our TechNet documentation on the subject, here . A while back, I posted What you need to know about the OWA Change Password feature of Exchange Server 2007...
  • Blog Post: Solution Accelerator for Exchange Consolidation and Migration has been released

    This solution accelerator provides detailed guidance for planning and executing upgrades, migrations, and consolidations to Exchange Server 2003 from legacy Exchange environments. It provides relevant information to help organizations migrate and consolidate their environments to Exchange Server 2003...
  • Blog Post: End-to-End Guidance for the Transporter Suite

    This is just a quick note to let everyone know that the End-to-End guidance for the Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino has gone live. You can download it here , or you can go read more about it here . Happy Reading! - Jenna Lyday
  • Blog Post: Exchange Server TechNet Library URLs updated

    We’ve heard your concerns and take them seriously. We’re looking into what we can do to improve this situation for you, nothing definitive yet but be assured we’re working on it and will post an update asap. Update 11/30/2012: Please note, ExBPA content does not have multiple versions...
  • Blog Post: Meet the Exchange UE (User Education) team!

    Greetings from the Exchange User Education (UE) team! As this is our first official team blog entry, we decided to start off with a little background about who we are and what we do. Exchange UE, a unit of the Windows Server System User Experience group, is charged with the creation and management...